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This Three-Story Tiny House Fits In The Footprint Of A Parking Space
FastCompany.com ^
| 10/23/2017
| Adele Peters
Posted on 11/01/2017 4:52:08 AM PDT by simpson96
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posted on
11/01/2017 4:52:08 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
Well, $40K + you need to by a lot + taxes + utility hook ups + delivery...
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posted on
11/01/2017 4:56:52 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: simpson96
Id rather live in a treehouse with a little land and no noisy neighbors.
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posted on
11/01/2017 4:57:20 AM PDT
by
tflabo
To: simpson96
I like the concept but it needs running water. Im not showering at the YMCA!
To: 2banana
$40,000? You’d be getting off cheaply.
In Houston they are trying to pawn off 400 square foot microapartments for $125k+. And that probably does NOT include the parking spot at $10+ a day.
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posted on
11/01/2017 4:59:49 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: simpson96
The gubermint will find a method of vertical square air footage to calculate their property taxes.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:03:38 AM PDT
by
tflabo
To: simpson96
That’s lots of stair climbing. There needs to have a bathroom on every floor.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:05:40 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
To: simpson96
It misses the biggest advantage of the Tiny House housing sector.
The best tiny houses are really very upscale mobile dwellings. You can get a log cabin built on a trailer that is insulated and durable like standard housing, but which can be moved across the country to follow the job market.
If you work on pipelines, you can move your house from Texas to South Dakota for the or four years, then to where the jobs are after that. But the house has to meet highway standards so one story plus a loft is about it.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:05:49 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: simpson96
The first prototype doesnt have space for a kitchen or running water, based on the reasoning that someone living in the middle of an urban neighborhood could get food elsewhere and shower at a gym ...They could sleep in their car, too.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:08:11 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The bigger the problem, the less likely a solution can be politically feasible.)
To: simpson96
On the plus side, it has lots of skylights.
And, all that up and down on the stairs has to be a fitness plus (unless your knees and hips are shot).
To: simpson96
Looks nice, but needs running water.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:11:02 AM PDT
by
iowamark
To: simpson96
The first prototype doesnt have space for a kitchen or running water, based on the reasoning that someone living in the middle of an urban neighborhood could get food elsewhere and shower at a gym (it does have a composting toilet).
They could've built another story to accommodate a kitchen. And another story for a guest bedroom. And another story for a REAL full bathroom.
The phoniest part of the "tiny" label, is that they're calling it tiny because of the space it occupies on the ground floor. They could build it up to 20 floors high and still call it "tiny".
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:12:43 AM PDT
by
adorno
To: simpson96
The Tiny House fad is just another example of how Gen X and Millennials have never grown up and in fact is still playing ‘house.’
These things are a blight and many municipalities are enacting ordinances against them—as they should imho.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:15:56 AM PDT
by
WeWaWes
(When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:18:37 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:19:55 AM PDT
by
fulltlt
To: WeWaWes
Agree. I don’t know why anyone would spend $40K on a tiny house when they could buy a very nice travel trailer for half the cost. Tiny houses are not made to be hauled around on highways; they certainly aren’t aerodynamic.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:20:36 AM PDT
by
KMG365
To: WeWaWes
Millenials around here like fresh eggs. Where is the chicken coop on this mini mansion?
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:24:38 AM PDT
by
fishnuts2
(Not rich enough to be a democrat)
To: Tax-chick
LOL...We used to get empty refrigerator boxes from behind Sears and tape them together with duct tape to make forts. Put them under a bridge and you basically have the same thing.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:25:39 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: adorno
They could build it up to 20 floors high and still call it "tiny".
Just think of that, a 20-story "tiny" house, with a ground footprint of a parking space.
Hmmm ... well, cow-tipping has always been popular out here in the sticks. Maybe "house-tipping" may become a popular team sport for the yutes there in the city.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:25:54 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
To: simpson96
Looks like it would tip over in a high wind IMO.
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posted on
11/01/2017 5:27:02 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
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