Housing market affordability is so stretched that Amazon is selling $30,000 tiny homes

ResiClub ^ | October 15, 2024 | Lance Lambert

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Back in the spring, ResiClub reported that in response to the growing strain on housing affordability, Home Depot is selling tiny homes.

It turns out Amazon is doing the same, continuing to expand its offerings of tiny homes and Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on its e-commerce website.

Among the Amazon offerings is this 40-foot luxury portable shipping container home. Dubbed the 'Modern Prefab Modular House with Glass Walls,' it’s priced at $28,865. The description highlights its two-story design with “fast and easy setup and a customizable layout, making it ideal for tiny homes, guest houses, or modern offices."

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[desertsolitaire]

How would that flat roof fair in the snow belt?
How many communities zone against erecting such housing as this on a vacant lot?

[Tell It Right]

Perfect dwelling place for the Dim-voting longshoremen when they strike again in January.

[alternatives?]

The land is the expensive part. It is getting more so in cheaper communities with the Feds moving in more alien Democrat voters.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Yes, and a number of these are made in China and need to be shipped to the U.S., at least the ones selling on Amazon. (Yes, I have looked!)

(What is the fascination with living in a fish bowl glass wall home?? No privacy, and not somewhere to be in a Tornado! )

[TexasGator]

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[Organic Panic]

Still can’t find property or the infrastructure.

[ducttape45]

Good luck with that. I’ve seen articles and videos where owners of tiny homes are being harassed by local officials to the point where they can’t actually live in them unless they comply with their local laws. In other words, they’re trying to legislate tiny homes out of business.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Once upon a time (prior to WWII), Sears sold houses in its mail order catalog. Those were pretty good houses. Many are still standing today (and sell for exponentially higher prices than they cost when new).

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Amazon sure ain’t Sears, is it.

[TheThirdRuffian]

I came home as a baby to a Sears home.

[MayflowerMadam]

The mail-order Sears houses were cuter. I think my sister lived in one in upstate NY. High quality.

[Bubba_Leroy]

The land is the expensive part.

The second most expensive part is utilities (water, sewer and electric). It is sort of like if you were to buy a new car and when you go to pick it up it is a shell of a car parked on cinder blocks. "Oh, would you also like to buy an engine and tires with that car? Those are extra."

We built a house a couple of years ago on vacant land we owned for over 20 years. The city's tap fees for water and sewer, the electric company's fees to install a transformer and run an electric line to our property, plus the cost of running sewer, water and electric lines from the street to our new house cost more than I paid for my first house.

[MayflowerMadam]

I came home as a baby to a quonset hut. It was the Baptist parsonage.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

What is the cost of labor to get it assembled? Not a minor consideration. The cost of a new house from Home Depot could be $200,000, if you don’t take into consideration the “other” $200,000 labor cost.

[SharpRightTurn]

How much would it cost to heat and cool that glass house?

[Chickensoup]

Now that there are federal state and local changes to zoning laws to add in accessory apartments nationally these mini houses will be added in nationally and hooku fees will be minimal

[Fledermaus]

Sears used to sell homes.

[johniegrad]

Something like that might make a nice cabin on some acreage or a lake.