Is the girl saying she bought one for 23K?
I so want one!
Though one needs LAND + the land has to set up somehow so you can have electricity, plumbing, etc.
Wouldn’t know how to get it all set up though even if I had a plot of land…
There’s many options in Asia for these, and I assume they help you set up the water, electricity, plumbing for you if you live there. They will ship to America it seems, but how come I’ve never heard of these capsule homes? I’ve heard of Tiny Homes here in the USA/AUS/etc. I imagine it’ll cost a shitload just to SHIP the container house over. I looked at shipping some of my stuff to Ecuador once and it was like 12k just to ship like a small pallet over, something like that.
I need LAND + someone to help install whatever is necessary for one.
This is one of those things that I know nothing about- about how to build stuff on land, how to get plumbing lines, electric lines, etc etc. Shit, I don’t even know how to change a tire (lived in cities all my life so I never really drove).
And I bet there’s all kinds of hoops about not allowing stuff like this – they’ve been trying to make Tiny Homes incredibly difficult for years now, otherwise more ppl would buy one. Basically, the rule in the USA is, no Tiny Home can be built on it’s own, it must be next to an actual house to comply with local city/state ordinances, blah blah. They’ve gotten rid of mobile home lots over the past few decades so you can’t even buy a lot anymore in many places where you can just park it and plug a trailer/tiny home in.
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It depends a lot on the state, county and city. TBH, city regs aren’t worth the trouble, the closest I’ve found that is is a semi incorperated area, essentially a city with much lower regulation and tax burden
You either need to do the research yourself or get a good property lawyer. The way people do it so cheap is they comb through the regulations themselves. I ran into someone that did a sloppy job, they didn’t realize that local regs meant they had to have a well and septic, and you’re looking at some serious money for those.
I don’t want to discourage, this is part of my personal dream so I know a lot about the potential pitfalls. For someone in your situation a prebuilt structure is ideal, probably semi rural like at the edge of a suburb would be close enough you can get to services.
I still long for the isolation, 30 minutes minimum from the nearest population center.
Also depending on location extreme weather can be more challenging. I wouldn’t look at anywhere with tornados or flooding, Also check that the structure is properly set up for HVAC whereever you are, most of those sort of things are set up for average scenario, extreme heat or cold can require additional modifications. I’m looking at extreme cold, which tends to require a non grid tie heat option, so I’m going for a wood stove.
well these *are* prebuilt- as are all the tiny homes- but the land has to have all the appropriate connections (plumbing, electricity, etc) and THAT is the shit i have no idea about. so yes, i am already discouraged bc none of that shit is easy.
so for tiny homes, they have a plug you can plug in if you have an outlet. most tiny homes are right by a normal home and plug in. i assume same for water though idk what gets plugged or hooked in.
sigh, i wish i knew about all this shit. i wish i learned USEFUL things in life rather than all the bullshit they told us to learn. Which is all useless AF as soon as the electricity goes out and there’s an actual global plandemic.
well, even with what I know, I’d still have to call someone to do my hookups; electric, water and sewage. Well, unless I went off grid, then I’d just need the plumbing bit done. The first thing you have to do is have a perc test run on the land, that’ll tell you what kind of septic system you need. Then you get a well drilled and septic installed. Sometimes you need additional filtering, it depends on the quality of your ground water
as far as the electric goes, you’re either going to need someone to set your electric meter or hook up to off grid options. You can get a bifuel generator that runs on propane or gas for under $2k, for as little as $400 you can get a half decent solar set up, at least enough for small appliances. If you live in an area a wood stove is practical, I’m certain you can have one installed. There are also propane heaters, apparently it has a lot to do with how expensive propane is
it’s almost all math and tool use. Most people would hire someone just because it’s cheaper in the long run. You’re going to need a well drilled and septic installed what? Once, maybe twice in your whole life. Lots of “raw” land comes with those two already on them, so you might not ever need to do it. Hooking up the connecctions is a few hours with a plumber, a few hundred dollars.
I know all of this handyman bs skills and it’s only been helpful for two jobs, out of dozens, and neither of those were going to work out long term. I could be a top notch redneck though
heck, I invested in coding, which is now turns out to be much less of a career than was promised.
“Most people would hire someone just because it’s cheaper in the long run.”
>Yeah, except one has to know some amount to even know who to call and what to install. Like all that you mentioned above- foreign language to me lol.
I wish I had a bunch of “bs” handyman skills. I wish I knew how to build shit or fix stuff. But I know economics and finance, which is useless.
sigh, i wish i knew all these things like you do. all i know is that i know i don’t know this shit -_-. was thinking how i would install it and get ir running last night and i’m like fuck, no one taught me a thing about anything. Grew up in the city and they have never taught us anything useful.