Facts, and you can probably get better one, and convert it to tiny house, better, and cheaper, in person yourself, just going to home depot or building supply😂
yeah you can, the sheds where i live i believe arent plastic at my home depot, it feels like its almost tin or metal, their quite small tho, smaller then this house@@illyph9963
@@illyph9963 Literally! They have optional porches for the customizable ones (that come with a disclaimer saying you pinky promise not to use it as a dwelling). Like $4-8k for a WAY more stable building.
@@andrewrobinson1634A lot of those houses were really nice and still stand today though. Houses bought and built from catalogues in the early-mid 1900s actually go for a good bit of money nowadays. There was one in my old town that I knew of that was super cute and looked almost brand new
@@andrewrobinson1634 that’s not even comparable to buying a house on amazon. The only similarity they have is they are “ordered”. Those houses were Actual houses.
@@andrewrobinson1634 Craftsman houses were so much better. They were already assembled and came with land. This is different. It's almost like ordering a mobile home that's a lot harder to transport.
you MAY need a permit for a shed depending on area, but it is just illegal in general, regardless of state or province. It is illegal because In this sense, the purchaser is using what should be a shed as a dwelling. You are not legally allowed to have an accessory shed as a livable/rentable house (because it is not taxed and treated as such). It is against zoning laws, safety standards, applicable boards for housing standards. It is against many many federal, state, and bylaws and very illegal. You can try to do this, but if people find out and complain, you can get in some trouble. A shed MAY qualify as a home but it must face very strict building code standards which most sheds aren't designed for at all and would need a complete retrofit. A lot of those tiny homes videos you may have watched are different because they are either designated as mobile homes, or mini homes, which again have different standards and rules. A shed would NOT fit into any of these categories and unfortunately is not a legal, livable home.
@@mythcrafts the first and most obvious logistical problem is where to put it, pretty much every area of land you encounter is going to be owned by someone and obviously they won't like having a random small house appear one day. But then, as the guy above said, there are general requirements to make a house legally something you can live in. These requirements are often surprisingly strict. In many places bedrooms have to have windows, for instance. Obviously insulation and running water are also big problems.
This is not revolutionary or amazing. This is dystopian. Amazon is selling slightly oversized Walmart garden sheds as houses here. This is some sort of next level trailer park living.
the problem aint that it is dystopian, that dont mean shit the problem is that it aint work if it works it works, but it has problems that makes it not work
no. this is a shittier version of trailer park living. for the amount of money this dude spent he could have gotten a doublewide trailer and gotten twice as much space.
you can buy a literal 4 bedroom house with a pretty big yatd for 70k in finland where im from, in smaller cities you can buy an 2 bedroom apartment for 20k and not even one in a bad shape but in decent, well to be fair after 2020 its a bit more expensive but notmmuch. I bought a duplex house that had 2x 2 bedroom apartments and both had big kitchens etc lots of space an attic storage and 2 rooms down stairs for storage since they at the time had onlu concrete walls and floors and a big sauna and a big garage etc it has around 30 yards of a beach line in a lake in the corner of back yard, i re did all the floors , ceilings and floors we did new electricity and fuseboxes etc new tiles snd everything but believe it or not the house cost 76k and my gather managed to negotiate it down to 68k and we would empty everything they did not want becouse they wanted to get rid of it, their father had passed away and it was his house. Deals like this all the time. But the houde is less than 2 miles from city central but is in a family oriented part of town with lots of forrest etc and 5 lakes to go swimming in a 1,5 mile radius and ocean like a mile away etc in a beatifull 500 year old city.
"I will make someone pay me to live in a plastic improvise temporary house and make it their problem." This is a really a step on become a weird billionaire without having the money.
Are you fuckers living in Airbnb’s or something? You’re only supposed to use those for like a week at most. Why is everyone acting like he’s forcing people to live in the shack by offering to set people live in the shack. Lol
One time I had to find a new place on short notice and I ended up relying on AirBnB. I'd say roughly 100% of the places I stayed fit this description. One of them was a bedroom next to this lady's illegal grow operation (literally, between that room and the bathroom).
You get what you pay for. Not hard to msg the seller and ask for a scale video of it when opened up. I mean if you are spending more than 1000 and not using due diligence on the item and making sure its correct, then you deserve to be taught why you should. Its like buying a car. You don't go do it alone or unguided if you have no idea about the market and issues you can have. Size of the item is the first thing you check when buying anything online thats cheaper than it should be in your head.
@@drunkpaulocosta9301 that's not what they were saying? m8, the guy in the video didn't ask for an upgrade, he GOT one once amazon heard that he would be making a video about it, probably assuming it would be a review. considering the fact that it is a PLASTIC, UNFOLDABLE HOUSE, they likely wanted to make sure he'd be more inclined to say good things about the product, even if it sucks
You could just buy a steel barn for the same price and its bigger and has room for a 2nd floor. And yes, some companies will build it for you, no extra cost.
I'm a civil engineer who has worked with prefab houses so let me tell you this. These houses are essentially containers with holes and minimal insulation, so they're pretty small in general. You have to pay extra to have outlets and all the electricity stuff. You need to build a minimal foundation since they're so small but I wouldn't recommend them for areas with earthquakes and other extreme climate conditions or you'll end up like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz.
From the 1900s-1940s, Sears (then Sears-Roebuck) used to sell homes through their mail catalogue, they ranged from small to big ranch style homes, and basically you would receive pre-cut wood pieces that you (and I guess neighbors or friends) could assemble together, over the course of several weeks to a month, and the end products looked pretty good! (as long as you knew what you were doing) Back then, people could forego bank loans and mortgages and purchase their homes through Sears-Roebuck's loan program, which almost always resulted in the buyer getting a loan (so they could buy from Sears-Roebuck) but when the Great Depression hit, Sears also took a massive hit and ended up having to foreclose on a LOT of those homes. Think about a house you built with you own hands being taken away by the company you bought it from... Anyways, a lot of those homes are actually still around and as long as they haven't been too renovated you can often tell which homes are from the catalogue! Just thought it was interesting that history was repeating itself
From 1900? You mean to tell me that part of Red Dead Redemption 2 where you do literally buy a house out of a catalogue to build yourself was historically accurate?! I guess I shouldn't be that surprised but wow...
@@shwahgamer Sears was founded in 1892. The westward expansion of the railroad made it possible for basically anyone in the US to order anything by mail and have it delivered near enough to them that they could pick it up in an afternoon. They had MASSIVE warehouses dedicated to catalogue and mail order shopping until the late 80s/early 90s Right when the internet started picking up they decided the way of "the future" was brick and mortar stores so they closed their mail order business. If they had moved their catalogues to the internet instead they would be bigger than Amazon.
The fact that he'd buy a house without having the land to purchase it on, tells us that he has a much bigger problem than ugly couches. He needs therapy.
Why because you want to stay at the ritz for £50? It's a perfectly fine place to stay, they have hotels like this in France called Premiere Classe, Paris is expensive I'm not gonna spend £200 a night on a hotel, so I stayed at premiere classe, I'm only sleeping there what difference does it make?
The reason so many people are suggesting renting to salon workers is due to the nature of the industry. Most people don't realize that many hair stylists usually have to go through a process called booth renting. If a stylist can't afford to run their own salon they usually have to rent a space inside an existing salon to serve clients.
Much respect to Danny Gonzalez for actually bringing up how wrong it is to make an AirBnB out of one of these tiny houses that the guy who bought it himself wouldn't even live in.
I was all ready to be sympathetic to the guy because this being the only path to homeownership for a lot of people is absolutely depressing and then he hit us with the “I’ll just turn it into an Airbnb” and those feelings quickly turned into rage lmao
Crossover between the lady that's digging a mineshaft under her neighborhood and a broke person that has been tricked into living in a 6 ft tall origami
Tiny home enthusiast here. Pre fab tiny homes are becoming more and more common. I’ve seen them from Home Depot, Lowes etc. but I’ve seen taller ceilings in all of them. All of them need the drywall, electrical and plumbing it seems. I think all of that would still be less expensive than buying a custom tiny home from a tiny home builder.
or here me out here. just buy a trailer and save yourself literal 10s of thousands in permits and extra work( ellectrical , insulation, ect.) for a home with no resell value.
At least when he's buying some random product from a new brand there's a tiny chance he's directly supporting a product by some real person trying to make a honest living. If he just starts testing Amazon products it'll be a boring advertisement of possibly the worst place to work.
ah yes, the solution to the housing crisis: uninsulated boxes that are probably even more expensive to upkeep. definitely not just increasing regular ass housing.
@@safetyscissors9281 idk id say its because ppl selling them want to make money off the barest amount of work but maybe im cynical. i dont think the solution to desperation should have to be settling for crumbs.
It's because capitalism breeds ingenuity. It totally doesn't just motivate people to try and make money any way they can, even under the guise of solving a problem.
Yall, if you really want affordable housing. The usda has 0 down loans you can spend on actual land and a real proper manufactured home. I've seen basic models go for 30-40k but you can get rather nice ones still cheaper than stick and brick. Just has to be in an area officially marked as rural. (Some cities are slow and suburban areas are still marked rural) Another option for those who just cant do country life is condos. Like apartments but it's cheaper than rent and has a much more doable down payment. Just make sure you double check those hoa fees and what they go to.
Ever since Danny stopped saying whats up greg I've become clinically depressed. My bones have become squishier, my butthole tighter. Pls bring back the la croix 😔
aren't they just essentially recreating trailer homes? Like, the housing market is so bad that people are willing to buy prefab trailer houses on Amazon lmao
Right 😢😢 like my down payment was actually $20,000 and this guy had $6,000 more than me; he probably could've gotten a better one tbh 😅 but he's just a scum bag landlord
And then be stuck paying it off for thirty years where you are one bad day from losing your house? nope. I'd buy one of these and land for in a heart beat if it meant owning free and clear. Not everyone wants an investment, some people just want a home.
@@functionatthejunctionThen you'd still have to get a mortgage to hook it up properly with indoor plumbing and everything. Just a septic system and well would cost you at least $30k. Not to mention the foundation (another $15-25k) and electric ($10k) and everything else. And you'd have to buy the land. But it wouldn't matter since they are not going to be code compliant anywhere and the local government could condemn it and prevent you from living there or allowing anyone else to live there. You'd also have no resale value and miss out on all the capital gains of owning a real house.
This guy bought a 26k house without a second thought when he doesn't even have a place for it.. How are people so bad with their money, he would be better off gambling it.
yeah this is kinda driving me insane, i cant even imagine being in a position where i am able to impulsively spend 26 THOUSAND dollars on a plastic house and its just a silly haha "take the card away" moment. but oh hey theyre turning it into an air bnb, landlords are all just universally stupid as fuck i guess
Now I'm an impulsive buyer and VERY bad with my money, but even I would think very hard about dropping this much money on something. And I also wouldn't buy this
These houses are mainly meant for places that don't really suffer from severe weather and these are also meant as relatively cheap cottages and so on if you don"t really have money or regular cottage at your hand.
I really dislike the article suggesting tiny homes are an affordable option, the expensive part of the home is the land it has to go on. Prefabs allow you to assemble a neighbourhood quickly but they don’t actually do much of anything to reduce the price of housing. Prefab homes have been around for a long time and they haven’t prevented housing markets from exploding.
@@pastaboiii3324 so do many actual offices. these are just the basic rooms that go into most buildings. houses have safety features and have to abide by building codes that these glorified sheds don't.
That was my thought too. My thoughts kept going to what about things like water rights that actual houses have. If you are going to buy a plot of land plus a house there are options if you really are going this far. I can get a house in Haxtun Colorado for 100 something thousand if I am that desperate
@@pastaboiii3324 At my job, they were doing renovations so they plopped one of these outside and we spent a few months working in there. My job has a kitchen and bathrooms inside, so it made sense to have those in the temporary trailer too
I like how they’re tricking us into bringing trailer parks back. “It’s a tiny house! Need somewhere to put your tiny house? Welcome to our Tiny House Village 😉”
Danny, you are 100% correct that increasing the housing supply with higher density housing would make it generally more affordable, but two main factors prevent it from going forward: zoning/politics and developer interest. 1) in most places in the US at least, in order to build higher density housing, the real estate has to be zoned for it, and a lot of current home-owners in those areas don't want to risk their home values to decrease as a result of the new development (aka NIMBYs) 2) there are far fewer housing developers than there used to be as a result of both the 2008 financial crisis and more recently as a result of mortgage interest rates rising, so if the development project isn't profitable enough, and generally "affordable" housing isn't as profitable as "luxury" housing is to build and sell (unless it is subsidized by the local or state gov... also not usually popular with local residents, because it costs addtl tax money), there won't be a lot of interest in developing these projects. This is why you continue to see more and more "luxury" condos and apartments still being built, but almost no affordable housing. Side-note: these luxury apartments often just get sold and flipped back into Airbnbs... so it is a self-perpetuating problem.
the main thing for me is, there needs to be an option in this price point. i am a 31 yr old. married for 5 years. my wife is disabled and cant work. we are a single income house hold. we have been stuck in a cycle of renting because we will probably never be able to own a house or be able to move. we are literally stuck where we are. there needs to be a livable option where someone can own a place at this price point, and not have to rent it, have the chance to and save up. i think that this is a viable option. if not, there needs to be a focus on making more options like in this price range.
here in austria it's normal for people living in cities rent gardens in the outskirts of town or around a lake. a lot of people have little hits just like in the video so they can soend the summer in their garden
seems awfully convenient to me that an amazon employee just happened to see his video, “loved it”?? & hooked him up with a bigger “house” plus some very random furniture… when he clearly was never planning on living in it… it screams undisclosed ad/partnership to me, but maybe I’m too skeptical lol
I agree, but I’m so baffled by it-who is sponsoring it?! Amazon?! They’re not the ones producing and selling the houses, but maybe. The tiny house companies?? Who is going to be influenced by this TikTok, realistically?
And then he proceeds to talk mad shit about the FREE furniture he was given. Not even a thank you or "I'll just reupholster it because I don't like pink."
@@banditnosey honestly, though. I know tiktok is the prime location for getting people to impulse buy stuff they “need” from amazon, but who is the target audience for impulse buying a house?!😅 other than the guy who actually bought one, never in my life have I heard someone buy a house impulsively. I don’t even think mega rich people do that😂
Also cosmetologists/estheticions can’t legally work out of their own houses (in most states anyway) so this could work as a studio space for that. Still wouldn’t recommend it cause there’s no weather proofing or anything though
Umm no. There are many states you can work from home. Usually you just need a detached or separate bathroom for the clients. I've live(d) in 2 of them. So 🤷♀️ is possible
Danny a lot of like black hairstylist actually do use sheds and smaller rooms to braid in the same as nail techs and etc it’s actually really popular 😭
@@nyancat8828 House refers to a building in which someone lives. In contrast, a home can refer either to a building or to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. So no, not exactly.
@@nyancat8828 it's not a solution, or at least, not a good one. just a thought I had when the video showed the article about how millennials are supposedly beating the housing crisis by buying these so-called "tiny homes" that are really just glorified sheds. esp bc danny was correct abt missing middle housing in the US - most places are zoned for either massive apartment complexes or single-dwelling units in an endless suburban sprawl.
Man i was so excited to see this guy learn homesteading on his own land free from the confinements of the city but turns out he's a lvl 1 landlord on the slumlord class tree.
If you want to see a proper off-grid homestead build, check out the channel Bombadil Hill on youtube. It's this Aussie guy and his dad, they bought a piece of land in a rural area and installed a military bunker on it. Lovely guys and super chill videos.
If I'm not mistaken, they may be using the same material for the walls that are used for stand-alone "cold rooms" pretty much a pre insulated panel. A lot of motels in regional areas have units made of the same stuff as a cheaper option, usually for workers. They work pretty well.
Hey Danny, licensed structural engineer here. Depending on your local jurisdiction will affect the legality of this house and also whether you need a foundation, anchorage, additional bracing, and a whole slew of other potential problems. The trick here is that because it can be disassembled you can claim that it is not a permanent structure and therefore is not intended for the structural capacity actual houses are built for. Not does that mean this won't blow over in a storm or fall apart in an earthquake? No. It just means statistically this thing has a low chance (in theory) of being erected in a "100-year wind/seismic event" that traditional homes are build for.
In resume, this shouldn't be used to live or sleep-in, just be used as a extra space to storage something that should suffer outsiders condition, like rain, snow, etc...
I'd like to believe these amazon homes would serve a better purpose as emergency/temporary housing for those who have lost homes in natural disasters. I found the appeal of these houses being able to be shipped and assembled so quickly fitting for that. That's my idea, anyway, I could be wrong.
If youre spending $30,000+ on a "house" from amazon, just buy a trailer home or some shit, theyre actually insulated and come properly set up for a human being to live in
That’s what I’m saying. There are even a lot of tiny house companies that sell much more livable houses (with higher ceilings) for similar prices. Why this?
Here’s the thing they’re not gonna tell you 1. You still have to obtain land to place the house on 2. You have to get your land zoned and have the city ALLOW YOU to place that house where THEY tell you to put it on your own yard 3. Running utility lines along with digging out areas for them (plumbing and electrical) is going to be a huge expense 4. With all the other points in mind along with other things I didn’t mention???? You’re looking at approximately well over $500k just to obtain land and place that house there with full electrical capabilities you would add in yourself which also costs insane amounts of money you’re spending ON TOP of the fact that you spent a good $26k on a house alone
13:47 i live in a small college town and, according to airbnb, there are over 900 airbnbs in my town. meanwhile the college students are constantly struggling to find places to live that we can afford-i think there are maybe 10 places available to rent right now. i hate airbnbs so much, we’re being pushed out of our own town by tourists 😭
Yeah, I grew up in West Virginia, so when I graduated high school many of my friends went to WVU in Morgantown, which is very much a college town. I went to school out of state but I would visit friends at the WVU campus, and see the same issue there. Also, the places these landlords would try to pass off as livable housing to rent out to students were absurd, like literal garages.
Let’s focus on who the actual problem people are, the landlords. It’s not people’s fault that they wanna go on vacation, but that’s what hotels or motels are for. Airbnbs are fucking destroying the housing market.
I've actually been in a Sears log cabin in canada, where we have pretty cold winters. It's actually decently built and stays warm with the wood stove. Considering it was built like 40 years ago by my mom's friend and his dad it's kept up pretty well
Sears, Roebuck & CO has been around forever, late late 1800s. It's decline was caused by the owner's love for Ayn Rand and invisible hand of the free market and that style of capitalism/objectivism. He implemented these procedures around 2005ish and started to drastically lose money. But he kept going, trying other things in that same vein. That's what ultimately decimated the company. 20 years of Eddie Lampert caused the internal company collapse while the external was impacted by online shopping (but not destroyed, still salvageable, if it weren't for Lampert.) As of January 2024, there are 13 Sears stores in total remaining, 1 in Puerto Rico and 12 in the US. It's actually a really interesting story if you google it. There are tons of articles about it. It's not recent, but it's still very relevant in terms of capitalism and consumerism, or if you just dislike Ayn Rand (me).
Last Airbnb I stayed in was in Peoria Illinois. I payed $12 a night for a room in a farmhouse that was being occupied by a family of 5, a husband and wife along with their 3 children. They had farm fresh milk and eggs with homemade bread one could use whenever, and if you wanted a hot breakfast all you had to do was let them know and they would make it and have it ready for you when you woke up. The room was very basic with no TV or anything and access to a private bathroom. It was absolutely one of the best Airbnb experiences I’ve ever had. You just have to do a little searching and read reviews and you can find some rad places.
Yeah its almost like he is inadvertantly advertising for amazon. People will forget and realize they are not getting the same house or stuff he is getting.
Just a note on the folding part it would not fold down on you when put up properly I have seen how they go together and they weight of the roof keeps the walls locked in and if I'm not mistaken they are secured some how bolts I think. Also they all fold out of that higher middle bit so easy to transfer but the hight of the middle is the max highest and the sides need to taper at 5% for water too flow off
survived an earthquake that made prefab wooden or container houses and buildings a necessity. most of my school education was spent inside prefab container buildings and they are not optimal especially when its very hot or cold outside, its pretty baffling to see them paddled as a “livable and affordable option” so they can avoid fixing the housing market
that just pisses me off how that guy talked about how unlivable it was then immediately jumped to signing it up for airbnb... i hate this era of having to resort to making scummy money for a quick buck especially with scams and whatnot
@@gabbyb9939FORREAL like 30k is nothing to scoff at... not to mention the aftermath of adding improvements to the shed which is extra $$$. wtf does bro do for a living
Ive never seen a motel room that was liveable. Yet they are rented out daily. Do you not understand Air BnBs arent purchases? They are short rentals? Gimmicks? Derpty derp…Common sense.
@@bradkirchhoff5703Exactly. I wouldnt mind staying there, I'm assuming it would be more affordable compared to other options.. With airbnbs, I'm only looking for a place to stay and park my car short term.
i think the reason he can airbnb it is because some people like staying in odd places, like how people will pay to sleep in a supposedly haunted room or in a barbie dreamhouse that’s all pink, i’m sure they’ll be people who wanna stay there.
I haven’t been on this channel but the video title caught my eye. I love watching videos about tiny homes so i thought that was what this was going to be about. Mobile homes/ trailers and tiny homes are becoming more possible and feasible for families and have their own set of perks. I guess that’s not what he was looking for, but it’s an option for some! Tiny houses being purchased and shipped online isn’t as recent as it seems and it’s getting better and better.
Actually hearing someone saying they spent $26,000 on a house without even a second thought is so crazy to me. Like I can’t even buy a pack of gum without having to think twice. 🤦🏻♂️
The whole plumbing and electrical thing is that you have to hook up your home’s plumbing to the utility company’s hookups and the same with electrical. You also have to have a proper foundation to sit the home on.
@@NotUnique_ Yeah like there is a massive audition process like Americas got talent. *Foghorn Leghorn Voice* "Now i say boy, thems the best lasso spins i've gone done seen in all of tarnation"
love how the warning where "people could get hurt" happens when he's trying to rent out his horrible home to other people on AirBnb, which makes me just imagine all the people who rent his airbnb are gonna be so mad about how they were ripped off that they beat the crap outta him
Yes the thing with these houses is you obviously need land, a level foundation (ideally a concrete slab), you will need an electrician to run the electrical, and then finally you'll need a plumber and somewhere for your waste to go whether that is connecting to city sewer (monthly bill required) or to a septic field on your property. So you aren't paying $20,000+ for a move in ready house and you could probably build your own for less.
Tiny houses have annoying laws... You can't just plop one of these wherever you want. Also are we just ignoring the fact this guy has a single credit card with at least $28k limit on it?? I don't think he's hurting for money and would need to live in this place 😂
Yeah I didn't really think about that part. He said was 23? And he has a credit card with a limit of at least 25K (im rounding cause I feel like CC limits are often an even number). I think when I was his age, my one and only credit card had a 8K limit.
You don't need money to have a credit card with a high limit. I'm in debt up to my eyeballs but boy will they give me a credit card with a 15k limit because I know how to game my credit score. That being said, he sounds like a dropshipper (with the "I'mma make this an airbnb" bs) so I'm not surprised at this point.
@@ThroatzillaaaI'm 29 and still never have had a credit card. I only have used a debit card and cash. And I've never seen more than $14,000 in my bank account... Some people have no idea how good they have it...
All things considered, this structure is probably an ideal airbnb scenario. It’s not like he is taking prime real estate in a coveted location. A shanty house on the outskirts of a city sounds perfect for temporary accommodations
Mobile homes, tiny houses, guest homes, even small boats are all available and reasonably priced on Airbnb. I don’t see why not this if someone wishes to travel on a budget? Unless I’m at a resort or want to be luxurious, when I travel I’m spending most of my time exploring the area and just need a safe place to sleep at night. This could fit the bill 🤷🏽♀️
The salon suggestion is a really good idea. People who have their own clients need a private space to do their business. It's way more expensive to rent a space in a salon.
he said he was having the electricity & plumbing taken care of anyway, so it's safe to assume both are things that can be relatively easily added. instead of making it into an air b&b tho, rent it as salon space @@ZombixMix
The only thing I was thinking throughout most of this is that Amazon just keeps regurgitating ideas from other people and calling them original. These houses are just worse kit homes. Kit homes were popularized in the 20th century, and you could literally order one from a Sears catalogue, (or whatever your preferred catalogue of choice was, I just know about the Sears ones.) Which is nearly the exact same thing amazon is doing except that kit houses were made with better materials, and you can tell because it didn't take them eight hours to put up. With a skilled carpenter, you could have them up in a few weeks, or months if you wanted to DIY it. And the fact that most of them are still standing and fully functional as homes. Considering most were built anywhere from 1910 to 1950, that's pretty impressive to me. Then again, I am also biased. Literally the only reason I know about the Sears houses is because that's how my childhood home was built. My grandparents bought it from a Sears catalogue in 1934. Fucking just mail-ordered a home. (Still a fantastic house. We have had to update the plumbing because ceramic pipes are the devil, but that's pretty much the only really intense renovation we've had to do.) There sadly aren't any of the original companies still selling kit houses, and we can put that blame on tract house subdivisions and WW2. tl;dr fuck air bnb and amazon
Kit houses were just raw materials and you had to do the building. Container homes, what we’re seeing in the video, became popular after the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
I word for a company that makes offices out of shipping containers and theyre actually pretty comfy. They do put insulation in the walls so it keeps it pretty cool in the summer and warm in winter. Idk about these houses, but we definitely insulate.
There are manufacture home companies that sell 1 bedroom homes for like 30k and you can actually pick out different floor plans and tiles and all that AND they actually work as a livable space like with electrical and stuff
i'm more pissed at the comment section than i am at that dude. like why do they act like scamming people and potentially putting them in danger is a "smart move"?
When I lived with my parents, my room was the only one in the house without proper insulation and it was TERRIBLE. Looking at those prefab houses on Amazon just gives me flashbacks to those days. I can just imagine you'll be freezing during the winter and boiling in the summer unless you're located in *just* the right area.
People also don’t realize that these things you have to put in all the lines for water and gas yourself. Especially if you’re plopping it on a piece of property that’s never seen a building. That cost a lot of money
I just realize eventually Cody and Danny are gonna be having play dates with their baby boys and they are gonna be best friends with the best sense of humor
It's a shed. You're buying a shed.
Facts, and you can probably get better one, and convert it to tiny house, better, and cheaper, in person yourself, just going to home depot or building supply😂
Was just about to comment this. You can get the same experience from home depot for 1000
yeah you can, the sheds where i live i believe arent plastic at my home depot, it feels like its almost tin or metal, their quite small tho, smaller then this house@@illyph9963
@@broccolycowboy3016something about you calling it an “experience” is so funny 😂
@@illyph9963 Literally! They have optional porches for the customizable ones (that come with a disclaimer saying you pinky promise not to use it as a dwelling). Like $4-8k for a WAY more stable building.
Bro bought an awful house and the spirit of all landlords immediately surged through him 💀
@@andrewrobinson1634A lot of those houses were really nice and still stand today though. Houses bought and built from catalogues in the early-mid 1900s actually go for a good bit of money nowadays. There was one in my old town that I knew of that was super cute and looked almost brand new
@@andrewrobinson1634 that’s not even comparable to buying a house on amazon. The only similarity they have is they are “ordered”. Those houses were Actual houses.
@@andrewrobinson1634 A quick glance at em shows that you had to like, actually build those though - couldn't just unfold em and be done with it
@@andrewrobinson1634 Craftsman houses were so much better. They were already assembled and came with land. This is different. It's almost like ordering a mobile home that's a lot harder to transport.
@@tessaelto1472like that scene in RDR2?
NO plumbing, NO electrical, No insulation, No permit. Be prepared to spend tens of thousands more.
dumb question, what's the permit for? the land?
you MAY need a permit for a shed depending on area, but it is just illegal in general, regardless of state or province. It is illegal because In this sense, the purchaser is using what should be a shed as a dwelling. You are not legally allowed to have an accessory shed as a livable/rentable house (because it is not taxed and treated as such). It is against zoning laws, safety standards, applicable boards for housing standards. It is against many many federal, state, and bylaws and very illegal.
You can try to do this, but if people find out and complain, you can get in some trouble. A shed MAY qualify as a home but it must face very strict building code standards which most sheds aren't designed for at all and would need a complete retrofit. A lot of those tiny homes videos you may have watched are different because they are either designated as mobile homes, or mini homes, which again have different standards and rules. A shed would NOT fit into any of these categories and unfortunately is not a legal, livable home.
@@mythcrafts the first and most obvious logistical problem is where to put it, pretty much every area of land you encounter is going to be owned by someone and obviously they won't like having a random small house appear one day. But then, as the guy above said, there are general requirements to make a house legally something you can live in. These requirements are often surprisingly strict. In many places bedrooms have to have windows, for instance. Obviously insulation and running water are also big problems.
That’s why you learn and do it yourself🙂 I could set that all up in a 400sq ft basically shed for about 2-3000
@andrewg5672 that is only dependent on what state you live in. In GA it is completely leagl.
This is not revolutionary or amazing. This is dystopian. Amazon is selling slightly oversized Walmart garden sheds as houses here. This is some sort of next level trailer park living.
+++this
the problem aint that it is dystopian, that dont mean shit
the problem is that it aint work
if it works it works, but it has problems that makes it not work
no. this is a shittier version of trailer park living. for the amount of money this dude spent he could have gotten a doublewide trailer and gotten twice as much space.
Right
you can buy a literal 4 bedroom house with a pretty big yatd for 70k in finland where im from, in smaller cities you can buy an 2 bedroom apartment for 20k and not even one in a bad shape but in decent, well to be fair after 2020 its a bit more expensive but notmmuch. I bought a duplex house that had 2x 2 bedroom apartments and both had big kitchens etc lots of space an attic storage and 2 rooms down stairs for storage since they at the time had onlu concrete walls and floors and a big sauna and a big garage etc it has around 30 yards of a beach line in a lake in the corner of back yard, i re did all the floors , ceilings and floors we did new electricity and fuseboxes etc new tiles snd everything but believe it or not the house cost 76k and my gather managed to negotiate it down to 68k and we would empty everything they did not want becouse they wanted to get rid of it, their father had passed away and it was his house. Deals like this all the time. But the houde is less than 2 miles from city central but is in a family oriented part of town with lots of forrest etc and 5 lakes to go swimming in a 1,5 mile radius and ocean like a mile away etc in a beatifull 500 year old city.
Gotta love the mindset. “It’s not good enough for me to live in so I’m going to turn this into a shitty rental to make it someone else’s problem”
"I will make someone pay me to live in a plastic improvise temporary house and make it their problem." This is a really a step on become a weird billionaire without having the money.
this is the mindset of most landlords tbh
Are you fuckers living in Airbnb’s or something? You’re only supposed to use those for like a week at most. Why is everyone acting like he’s forcing people to live in the shack by offering to set people live in the shack. Lol
And you know they'll be charging $900+ to stay there too. PLUS utilities
One time I had to find a new place on short notice and I ended up relying on AirBnB. I'd say roughly 100% of the places I stayed fit this description. One of them was a bedroom next to this lady's illegal grow operation (literally, between that room and the bathroom).
The fact that this is the house they UPGRADED him to AFTER finding out he was going to make a video on it is not a good sign...
sus💀
Oof.
Was literally just about to comment the same thing😆
You get what you pay for. Not hard to msg the seller and ask for a scale video of it when opened up.
I mean if you are spending more than 1000 and not using due diligence on the item and making sure its correct, then you deserve to be taught why you should.
Its like buying a car. You don't go do it alone or unguided if you have no idea about the market and issues you can have.
Size of the item is the first thing you check when buying anything online thats cheaper than it should be in your head.
@@drunkpaulocosta9301 that's not what they were saying? m8, the guy in the video didn't ask for an upgrade, he GOT one once amazon heard that he would be making a video about it, probably assuming it would be a review. considering the fact that it is a PLASTIC, UNFOLDABLE HOUSE, they likely wanted to make sure he'd be more inclined to say good things about the product, even if it sucks
The house folding in on you won’t be a problem for your squishy bones
“Oh No MY HOUSE IS FOLDING IN”!
*squish*
GUYS MY BONES ARE GETTING SQUISHY-
my heart sank when he said he was gonna use it as an airbnb lmao
Hearing someone say they didn’t even think twice before making a $26,000 purchase is wild to me
It kinda makes me mad that he’s just being like silly haha “take away my card”
For REAL. I'm 23 too and I think twice making a 20 dollar purchase like damn 💀
For real take away the card and give it to someone who needs to feed their kids or something
@@alili1152true like why is he doing girl maths over a 26k “house” 😭
I mean he likely planned on doing it well in advance, and decided to go ahead with it to make content out of it.
danny blasting out those second channel videos like nobody's business
Frfr💀💀💀🤣
it’s my business. 😣 i’m sorry you had to find out this way snorble
Remember when he forgot this channel existed? This is him making up for that
2 Danny way 2 furious? 😂
Ha has some bills to pay now that he is a father
You could just buy a steel barn for the same price and its bigger and has room for a 2nd floor. And yes, some companies will build it for you, no extra cost.
Right like my sister bought a 14x38 two story barn/shed and finished it for a total of like 25k and it has 9ft ceilings so…..
@@Alfredobearington3rd Thats the way to go
For $26,000 you can buy a 4 bedroom house in flint, mi. 😂
@@QueenJellyBean307but then you’d have to live in flint Michigan ya know
@@QueenJellyBean307 The shed might be a lil more livable
I'm a civil engineer who has worked with prefab houses so let me tell you this. These houses are essentially containers with holes and minimal insulation, so they're pretty small in general. You have to pay extra to have outlets and all the electricity stuff. You need to build a minimal foundation since they're so small but I wouldn't recommend them for areas with earthquakes and other extreme climate conditions or you'll end up like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz.
Idk if this is weird to say but u literally look like so simalar to my mom as a teen
@@coastalshenanigans4413 You don't have to wonder, it's weird.
@@ergerg2 ?
@@coastalshenanigans4413 Comments maybe aren't the best medium for my joke reply.
@@ergerg2 i just didn't understand what u meant
danny casually referencing his child still baffles me, i'll never get used to danny being a father
In my mind Danny is still 19
Lol my brain went straight into denial, like "yeah no, I didn't just hear that"
constantly gaslighting myself into thinking danny's still fresh off vine even though i've been a regular viewer for years now
He's like 13 himself wdym child
I’m sorry but the big 4 (Cody, Danny, Kurtis & Drew) being married and having babies still seems weird 💀I forget they’re grown men
Danny casually saying “my son” still makes me do a comical spit take
5 months old almost an adult
oh my talk about small world LMAOOO !!!! i hope youre doing well psygod !
Bro same 😭 I actually can’t believe that he has a child
I just picture an identical copy of Danny, but small
Danny had sex. That's still crazy for me to think about. No idea why. Not like he can't do it.
From the 1900s-1940s, Sears (then Sears-Roebuck) used to sell homes through their mail catalogue, they ranged from small to big ranch style homes, and basically you would receive pre-cut wood pieces that you (and I guess neighbors or friends) could assemble together, over the course of several weeks to a month, and the end products looked pretty good! (as long as you knew what you were doing) Back then, people could forego bank loans and mortgages and purchase their homes through Sears-Roebuck's loan program, which almost always resulted in the buyer getting a loan (so they could buy from Sears-Roebuck) but when the Great Depression hit, Sears also took a massive hit and ended up having to foreclose on a LOT of those homes. Think about a house you built with you own hands being taken away by the company you bought it from... Anyways, a lot of those homes are actually still around and as long as they haven't been too renovated you can often tell which homes are from the catalogue! Just thought it was interesting that history was repeating itself
I love comments like these
I actually grew up in a Sears Prefab house!
It's a pretty interesting part of history to grow up in.
From 1900? You mean to tell me that part of Red Dead Redemption 2 where you do literally buy a house out of a catalogue to build yourself was historically accurate?! I guess I shouldn't be that surprised but wow...
@Bbqbbq13 me too😊
@@shwahgamer Sears was founded in 1892. The westward expansion of the railroad made it possible for basically anyone in the US to order anything by mail and have it delivered near enough to them that they could pick it up in an afternoon. They had MASSIVE warehouses dedicated to catalogue and mail order shopping until the late 80s/early 90s Right when the internet started picking up they decided the way of "the future" was brick and mortar stores so they closed their mail order business. If they had moved their catalogues to the internet instead they would be bigger than Amazon.
The fact that he'd buy a house without having the land to purchase it on, tells us that he has a much bigger problem than ugly couches. He needs therapy.
So true! 😂
This video is the best anti-AirBNB ad I've ever seen.
You're fast; 5 min after the video went up? :p
watched it on x2 speed
@awdsqe123 maybe they have seen the original tiktoks 💀
a listing like this wil most likely have shit reviews. it's not hard to use the search filters to look for actual decent listing with good ratings.
Why because you want to stay at the ritz for £50? It's a perfectly fine place to stay, they have hotels like this in France called Premiere Classe, Paris is expensive I'm not gonna spend £200 a night on a hotel, so I stayed at premiere classe, I'm only sleeping there what difference does it make?
this is so sims coded im crying
as someone who sucked at building my own custom shit and just plopped down preexisting houses from the clipboard onto empty lots, youre not wrong 😂
I been playing sims a lot like a lot these days and oh god I thought i was hallucinating the words sims
@@clixhe😭😭 me too
@@xiaraskai helpp i remember the obsession getting so bad that I used to see green things above ppl heads it's really bad
@@clixheIM CRYING
The reason so many people are suggesting renting to salon workers is due to the nature of the industry. Most people don't realize that many hair stylists usually have to go through a process called booth renting. If a stylist can't afford to run their own salon they usually have to rent a space inside an existing salon to serve clients.
Much respect to Danny Gonzalez for actually bringing up how wrong it is to make an AirBnB out of one of these tiny houses that the guy who bought it himself wouldn't even live in.
I was all ready to be sympathetic to the guy because this being the only path to homeownership for a lot of people is absolutely depressing and then he hit us with the “I’ll just turn it into an Airbnb” and those feelings quickly turned into rage lmao
REAL that was my exact trajectory too
I wanted to b slap him since he said he didn't even think about where he should put the house, with those dead, empty eyes.
Same here because what 😭 I really don't understand why he got it in the first place based on where this went
I'm never gonna be sympathetic to someone who made a $25k purchase without any thought
Righttt same
Crossover between the lady that's digging a mineshaft under her neighborhood and a broke person that has been tricked into living in a 6 ft tall origami
next video: tunnel lady airbnbs her dungeon
honestly please yes
@@pellaw8011 😂😂😂 people would go to make tiktoks or "I Spent 24 Hours In The Haunted Tiktok Tunnel!!!" RUclips videos
Mine shaft lady terrifies me
id stay in her mine bnb tho
Wait until the kids find out their grandparents probably ordered their homes from a Sears catalog and called someone to send the house to them.
But those were actual homes
Tiny home enthusiast here. Pre fab tiny homes are becoming more and more common. I’ve seen them from Home Depot, Lowes etc. but I’ve seen taller ceilings in all of them. All of them need the drywall, electrical and plumbing it seems. I think all of that would still be less expensive than buying a custom tiny home from a tiny home builder.
or here me out here. just buy a trailer and save yourself literal 10s of thousands in permits and extra work( ellectrical , insulation, ect.) for a home with no resell value.
Well, I guess now we need these Amazon houses to target advertise at Drew Gooden so he buys it to test.
@drewgooden please 😂
Hope scope was saying she’s tempted to buy one lol
YESSSS THISSSSS^^^
Yk I was waiting for Danny to buy and review it but then I realised he's not Drew
At least when he's buying some random product from a new brand there's a tiny chance he's directly supporting a product by some real person trying to make a honest living. If he just starts testing Amazon products it'll be a boring advertisement of possibly the worst place to work.
ah yes, the solution to the housing crisis: uninsulated boxes that are probably even more expensive to upkeep. definitely not just increasing regular ass housing.
tbh i think these solutions are presented bc ppl are desperate
@@safetyscissors9281 idk id say its because ppl selling them want to make money off the barest amount of work but maybe im cynical. i dont think the solution to desperation should have to be settling for crumbs.
@@safetyscissors9281 yes, unfortunately
It's because capitalism breeds ingenuity. It totally doesn't just motivate people to try and make money any way they can, even under the guise of solving a problem.
@@sarahbarabe4990capitalism as opposed to what
Yall, if you really want affordable housing. The usda has 0 down loans you can spend on actual land and a real proper manufactured home. I've seen basic models go for 30-40k but you can get rather nice ones still cheaper than stick and brick. Just has to be in an area officially marked as rural. (Some cities are slow and suburban areas are still marked rural)
Another option for those who just cant do country life is condos. Like apartments but it's cheaper than rent and has a much more doable down payment. Just make sure you double check those hoa fees and what they go to.
Please tell me more about this😭
Condos can be payed for and then owned right?
Bro, I had no idea about the usda rural loan. I did digging and I absolutely qualify and it's a dream come true. THANK YOU
The fact like every single "house" shown was noting it was good for, essentially, temporary spaces not meant to be lived in says a Lot...
Ever since Danny stopped saying whats up greg I've become clinically depressed. My bones have become squishier, my butthole tighter. Pls bring back the la croix 😔
w-wha
…What.
drinking tight-ass flavored la croix in sorrow rn
Omg?? I thought it was only me lmao. I'm really glad it isn't. So relatable
fr :(
aren't they just essentially recreating trailer homes? Like, the housing market is so bad that people are willing to buy prefab trailer houses on Amazon lmao
But even worse than a trailer because they’re plastic and have no electrical/ plumbing/ ac/ furnace
@@emelizabxth well damn might as well get an RV
Exactly what I was thinking
@@emelizabxth He shows you right there they do have hook ups for plumbing and electrical.
@@functionatthejunction the plumbing and electrical are still going to be exposed...and mounted to a plastic and metal wall
These people are gonna lose their minds when they realize you used to be able to buy prefab houses with a sears catalog.
I love that they tagged Austin McBroom of all people. The internet never forgets
what happened?
@@cryingchild4209 I could be way off but from what I've seen, he lost his $10 million home in 2021
@@BritishRepublicsn ohh thank you for explaining
Pro finance tip: if you have 20 - 30k to spend on a shitty pre-fab house, just make a down payment on a regular ass house.
seriously thats down payment money right there!
Right 😢😢 like my down payment was actually $20,000 and this guy had $6,000 more than me; he probably could've gotten a better one tbh 😅 but he's just a scum bag landlord
And then be stuck paying it off for thirty years where you are one bad day from losing your house? nope. I'd buy one of these and land for in a heart beat if it meant owning free and clear. Not everyone wants an investment, some people just want a home.
@@functionatthejunctionactually a mortgage company will work with you. Plus the house that can be bought on Amazon will be destroyed with a fart 😂😂😂😂
@@functionatthejunctionThen you'd still have to get a mortgage to hook it up properly with indoor plumbing and everything. Just a septic system and well would cost you at least $30k. Not to mention the foundation (another $15-25k) and electric ($10k) and everything else. And you'd have to buy the land. But it wouldn't matter since they are not going to be code compliant anywhere and the local government could condemn it and prevent you from living there or allowing anyone else to live there. You'd also have no resale value and miss out on all the capital gains of owning a real house.
This guy bought a 26k house without a second thought when he doesn't even have a place for it.. How are people so bad with their money, he would be better off gambling it.
right?
yeah this is kinda driving me insane, i cant even imagine being in a position where i am able to impulsively spend 26 THOUSAND dollars on a plastic house and its just a silly haha "take the card away" moment. but oh hey theyre turning it into an air bnb, landlords are all just universally stupid as fuck i guess
Fr he treated it as a casual drunk Amazon purchase
@@Random-sk6hm seriously. my sister in law was drunk and bought a $300 pool on amazon and totally freaked out abt it. 😭 yet hes all jokey abt this omg
Now I'm an impulsive buyer and VERY bad with my money, but even I would think very hard about dropping this much money on something. And I also wouldn't buy this
These houses are mainly meant for places that don't really suffer from severe weather and these are also meant as relatively cheap cottages and so on if you don"t really have money or regular cottage at your hand.
I really dislike the article suggesting tiny homes are an affordable option, the expensive part of the home is the land it has to go on. Prefabs allow you to assemble a neighbourhood quickly but they don’t actually do much of anything to reduce the price of housing. Prefab homes have been around for a long time and they haven’t prevented housing markets from exploding.
These aren't houses, these are sheds. They say home office because its meant to be an additional building to go outside your normal house.
I mean it does have a kitchen bathroom and a living room, almost sound like a house to me
@@pastaboiii3324
so do many actual offices. these are just the basic rooms that go into most buildings. houses have safety features and have to abide by building codes that these glorified sheds don't.
That was my thought too. My thoughts kept going to what about things like water rights that actual houses have. If you are going to buy a plot of land plus a house there are options if you really are going this far. I can get a house in Haxtun Colorado for 100 something thousand if I am that desperate
@@ericlivingston8027100 something thousand is beyond the prices of these Amazon listings
@@pastaboiii3324 At my job, they were doing renovations so they plopped one of these outside and we spent a few months working in there. My job has a kitchen and bathrooms inside, so it made sense to have those in the temporary trailer too
Can’t wait for the Temu houses to roll in
And with the slightest gust of wind, they’ll roll out
they’ll melt in the rain
im picturing one of those lil plastic toddler houses
these are already all over AliExpress since forever 😂
I'm wheezing. Lmfao, not Temu.
I like how they’re tricking us into bringing trailer parks back. “It’s a tiny house! Need somewhere to put your tiny house? Welcome to our Tiny House Village 😉”
While being even harder to move than trailers, RVs, and mobile homes (in case the trailer park closes down/raises rent too high).
That would’ve been a down payment on a nice actual house
Wow this guys bad financial decision sent him down an entire villain arc.
I think he was probably a villain to start with.
That might qualify as a super-villain arc.
he is just a sociopath or something
bruh the entitlement from the jump was so clockable, the landlord trajectory was natch.
@@bluevioletandlilac Walter White type beat
airbnb yuppies are the unholy union of landlords and dropshippers
Oh no 😂
Damn 😂 you're not wrong
So contentious, and so correct
SO TRUE.Holy shit
honestly horrifying 😭
Danny, you are 100% correct that increasing the housing supply with higher density housing would make it generally more affordable, but two main factors prevent it from going forward: zoning/politics and developer interest.
1) in most places in the US at least, in order to build higher density housing, the real estate has to be zoned for it, and a lot of current home-owners in those areas don't want to risk their home values to decrease as a result of the new development (aka NIMBYs)
2) there are far fewer housing developers than there used to be as a result of both the 2008 financial crisis and more recently as a result of mortgage interest rates rising, so if the development project isn't profitable enough, and generally "affordable" housing isn't as profitable as "luxury" housing is to build and sell (unless it is subsidized by the local or state gov... also not usually popular with local residents, because it costs addtl tax money), there won't be a lot of interest in developing these projects.
This is why you continue to see more and more "luxury" condos and apartments still being built, but almost no affordable housing. Side-note: these luxury apartments often just get sold and flipped back into Airbnbs... so it is a self-perpetuating problem.
the main thing for me is, there needs to be an option in this price point. i am a 31 yr old. married for 5 years. my wife is disabled and cant work. we are a single income house hold. we have been stuck in a cycle of renting because we will probably never be able to own a house or be able to move. we are literally stuck where we are. there needs to be a livable option where someone can own a place at this price point, and not have to rent it, have the chance to and save up. i think that this is a viable option. if not, there needs to be a focus on making more options like in this price range.
The amazon houses lowkey look like something an eight year old could build in minecraft
down to the shortass ceilings 😭😭
bro fr
@@captainofthelosercruiser7355the ceilings made of full blocks lol
Laughs in *MineCraft Player*
Cries in *35 year old who still builds like that*
@@drunkpaulocosta9301 But it's functional, isn't it?
I feel like these are just fancy overpriced sheds
You have observed correctly
That's exactly what I was thinking! Reminds me of a larger and more waterproof plastic garden shed.
It’s a pre-fab. It’s basically a mobile home that wasn’t built on a trailer.
you can actually get a decent shed from some place like home depot for half the price (or less).
Exactly
16:20 not me growing up watching UnspeakableGaming knowing that man would rupture my eardrums each time I clicked a video
I think these are the kind of containers people sometimes put on their land and live in while they're waiting for their actual house to be built
here in austria it's normal for people living in cities rent gardens in the outskirts of town or around a lake. a lot of people have little hits just like in the video so they can soend the summer in their garden
@@sauleiwanderapfelstrudel aww that's so cute
seems awfully convenient to me that an amazon employee just happened to see his video, “loved it”?? & hooked him up with a bigger “house” plus some very random furniture… when he clearly was never planning on living in it… it screams undisclosed ad/partnership to me, but maybe I’m too skeptical lol
You're not wrong to be skeptical lol. These people will do anything to go viral and get some attention (and money of course)
I agree, but I’m so baffled by it-who is sponsoring it?! Amazon?! They’re not the ones producing and selling the houses, but maybe. The tiny house companies?? Who is going to be influenced by this TikTok, realistically?
And then he proceeds to talk mad shit about the FREE furniture he was given. Not even a thank you or "I'll just reupholster it because I don't like pink."
@@banditnosey honestly, though. I know tiktok is the prime location for getting people to impulse buy stuff they “need” from amazon, but who is the target audience for impulse buying a house?!😅 other than the guy who actually bought one, never in my life have I heard someone buy a house impulsively. I don’t even think mega rich people do that😂
assholes who wanna make a quikc buck, cleary@@sarah.1230 god, the kids are not alright
people were suggesting making it a salon bc they know it’s unliveable and were like trying to save people from getting it as an airbnb
i think it's because they're mostly sitting/laying down. standing is usually when the person is coming or going
@@adeadmarshmallow9493 For once I’m actually kind of glad I’m 4’10. lol
Also cosmetologists/estheticions can’t legally work out of their own houses (in most states anyway) so this could work as a studio space for that. Still wouldn’t recommend it cause there’s no weather proofing or anything though
@@katereagon4299 or ventilation tbh for nail techs... very unwise decision safety-speaking
Umm no. There are many states you can work from home. Usually you just need a detached or separate bathroom for the clients. I've live(d) in 2 of them. So 🤷♀️ is possible
Danny in his Dad era is the most wholesome thing ever
Danny a lot of like black hairstylist actually do use sheds and smaller rooms to braid in the same as nail techs and etc it’s actually really popular 😭
this reminds me of that one woman who wrote an article like "how I'm beating homelessness by living in my car" Yeah, that's called Being Homeless
It's homeless, not houseless. If she considers her car home then who are we to judge
@@nyancat8828 House refers to a building in which someone lives. In contrast, a home can refer either to a building or to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. So no, not exactly.
@@nyancat8828"without a home" is the etymology. Actual homelessness includes living in a vehicle, that's the definition
@@nyancat8828 it's not a solution, or at least, not a good one. just a thought I had when the video showed the article about how millennials are supposedly beating the housing crisis by buying these so-called "tiny homes" that are really just glorified sheds. esp bc danny was correct abt missing middle housing in the US - most places are zoned for either massive apartment complexes or single-dwelling units in an endless suburban sprawl.
Gen Z think they're secret geniuses
Man i was so excited to see this guy learn homesteading on his own land free from the confinements of the city but turns out he's a lvl 1 landlord on the slumlord class tree.
I think he’s higher level if he’s got 30k to sling around on a goof 😂
There was a pretty big hint it wouldn’t be the first one
If you want to see a proper off-grid homestead build, check out the channel Bombadil Hill on youtube. It's this Aussie guy and his dad, they bought a piece of land in a rural area and installed a military bunker on it. Lovely guys and super chill videos.
@@madaoisblooming705"Off grid youtube channels".... something don't add up....
@@nignamedmutt7270 off grid just means you arent on the government power grid thats the point of the term
I'm 6'3.
I'd have a permanent hunch if I walked in this
If I'm not mistaken, they may be using the same material for the walls that are used for stand-alone "cold rooms" pretty much a pre insulated panel. A lot of motels in regional areas have units made of the same stuff as a cheaper option, usually for workers. They work pretty well.
Hey Danny, licensed structural engineer here. Depending on your local jurisdiction will affect the legality of this house and also whether you need a foundation, anchorage, additional bracing, and a whole slew of other potential problems. The trick here is that because it can be disassembled you can claim that it is not a permanent structure and therefore is not intended for the structural capacity actual houses are built for. Not does that mean this won't blow over in a storm or fall apart in an earthquake? No. It just means statistically this thing has a low chance (in theory) of being erected in a "100-year wind/seismic event" that traditional homes are build for.
In resume, this shouldn't be used to live or sleep-in, just be used as a extra space to storage something that should suffer outsiders condition, like rain, snow, etc...
@@erreyakendo8290 exactly, it clearly says storage on it😂.
So, you're saying to hire the tunnel girl to dig the foundation?
@@AndromedaDthe crossover event of the century
@@AndromedaD Tunnel Girl is frothing at the mouth rn
I'd like to believe these amazon homes would serve a better purpose as emergency/temporary housing for those who have lost homes in natural disasters. I found the appeal of these houses being able to be shipped and assembled so quickly fitting for that. That's my idea, anyway, I could be wrong.
Yeah, they could definitely be very useful in crisis situations
They aren’t made or sold by Amazon,just on Amazon
@@queen-of-hearts89they do look like they belong on a construction site, like a break room or something
@@queen-of-hearts89considering the listing refers to it as a security shack and a shop in the title, I'd say you're spot-on!
Wait this is actually an amazing idea.
12:15 why does he care about the couches when he’s not gonna live there? 😂
Drunk Amazon ordering nightmare.
My house don't jiggle, jiggle, it FOLDS.
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definetely an underrated comment lol
I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂😂
Looool
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If youre spending $30,000+ on a "house" from amazon, just buy a trailer home or some shit, theyre actually insulated and come properly set up for a human being to live in
Or down-payment for an actual house 😂
Bro how cheap do you think trailers are? 😂 They cost like 200-400k
LOL a trailer home cost the same as a regular house except you can't get a regular home loan (it's more like a car loan) unless you buy with land.
@@fauna5328 the tiny ones thooo
That’s what I’m saying. There are even a lot of tiny house companies that sell much more livable houses (with higher ceilings) for similar prices. Why this?
I would recommend doing a little research on how Japan builds houses and spaces for people to live. This is honestly not unheard of or a bad idea.
"I hope you buy a house on Amazon" sounds like a passive-aggressive way to say you hate someone.
"I wish you nothing but financial setbacks and just enough money to get yourself a treat before that shed collapses."
@@ravennalovecraft421just had a kidney removed and that shit bout killed me be aware of the power of laughter you almost took me out 😆😆😆
@@ravennalovecraft421damn dying over here 😂😂😂😂
Thanks I will need it
Im just imagining our dystopian reality where everyone has plastic amazon houses and they all blow away immediately during a hurricane.
Don't forget, all of them is a rent plastic house.
black mirror: **furiously taking notes**
Some of us live in places that don't have much in the way of extreme weather, people in the UK live in static caravans or shipping containers.
@@thedarkness111that’s true!
Which happens routinely bc that's "just a normal storm!" And they continue to ignore global warming
Here’s the thing they’re not gonna tell you
1. You still have to obtain land to place the house on
2. You have to get your land zoned and have the city ALLOW YOU to place that house where THEY tell you to put it on your own yard
3. Running utility lines along with digging out areas for them (plumbing and electrical) is going to be a huge expense
4. With all the other points in mind along with other things I didn’t mention???? You’re looking at approximately well over $500k just to obtain land and place that house there with full electrical capabilities you would add in yourself which also costs insane amounts of money you’re spending ON TOP of the fact that you spent a good $26k on a house alone
The videos end was epic 😂😂😂😂 good watch bro just landed a nice sub
13:47 i live in a small college town and, according to airbnb, there are over 900 airbnbs in my town. meanwhile the college students are constantly struggling to find places to live that we can afford-i think there are maybe 10 places available to rent right now. i hate airbnbs so much, we’re being pushed out of our own town by tourists 😭
Yeah, I grew up in West Virginia, so when I graduated high school many of my friends went to WVU in Morgantown, which is very much a college town. I went to school out of state but I would visit friends at the WVU campus, and see the same issue there. Also, the places these landlords would try to pass off as livable housing to rent out to students were absurd, like literal garages.
Let’s focus on who the actual problem people are, the landlords. It’s not people’s fault that they wanna go on vacation, but that’s what hotels or motels are for. Airbnbs are fucking destroying the housing market.
this is how it still is! fairmonts getting like that now too. (':@@Throatzillaaa
Nah, but this guy is adding to the housing supply, not taking away a home that someone else could have bought.
the subreddit for my city is full of people asking "Student coming for 2 semesters, can I air bnb while I find a sharehouse to live?"
NO
The people yearn for the return of Sears kit homes
I've actually been in a Sears log cabin in canada, where we have pretty cold winters. It's actually decently built and stays warm with the wood stove. Considering it was built like 40 years ago by my mom's friend and his dad it's kept up pretty well
yeah we want them back
Sears, Roebuck & CO has been around forever, late late 1800s. It's decline was caused by the owner's love for Ayn Rand and invisible hand of the free market and that style of capitalism/objectivism. He implemented these procedures around 2005ish and started to drastically lose money. But he kept going, trying other things in that same vein. That's what ultimately decimated the company. 20 years of Eddie Lampert caused the internal company collapse while the external was impacted by online shopping (but not destroyed, still salvageable, if it weren't for Lampert.) As of January 2024, there are 13 Sears stores in total remaining, 1 in Puerto Rico and 12 in the US. It's actually a really interesting story if you google it. There are tons of articles about it. It's not recent, but it's still very relevant in terms of capitalism and consumerism, or if you just dislike Ayn Rand (me).
the sear’s home kits were my first thought as well!
some of those looked so beautiful and like genuinely good homes. i do, in fact, yearn.
Nah you got me on the subscription, had me 😂😂😂1st few minutes
Last Airbnb I stayed in was in Peoria Illinois. I payed $12 a night for a room in a farmhouse that was being occupied by a family of 5, a husband and wife along with their 3 children. They had farm fresh milk and eggs with homemade bread one could use whenever, and if you wanted a hot breakfast all you had to do was let them know and they would make it and have it ready for you when you woke up. The room was very basic with no TV or anything and access to a private bathroom. It was absolutely one of the best Airbnb experiences I’ve ever had. You just have to do a little searching and read reviews and you can find some rad places.
Honestly with rent being so expensive, I’d use an Amazon BOX to live in at this point
That’s so sad and dystopian 😭😭 has society really come to this point 😢
@@cherie..cherryShort answer: yes. Long answer: sadly, yes.
@@TChericei love this lmao
would you spend every dollar at the liquor shop?
@@spimuru5040 don’t tempt me
i love that the premise is amazon saw his tiktok about how he had nowhere to put his unfolding house, loved it, and gave him a bigger unfolding house
Yeah its almost like he is inadvertantly advertising for amazon. People will forget and realize they are not getting the same house or stuff he is getting.
@@lunova6165the fact that its worse than this lmao
Just a note on the folding part it would not fold down on you when put up properly I have seen how they go together and they weight of the roof keeps the walls locked in and if I'm not mistaken they are secured some how bolts I think. Also they all fold out of that higher middle bit so easy to transfer but the hight of the middle is the max highest and the sides need to taper at 5% for water too flow off
survived an earthquake that made prefab wooden or container houses and buildings a necessity. most of my school education was spent inside prefab container buildings and they are not optimal especially when its very hot or cold outside, its pretty baffling to see them paddled as a “livable and affordable option” so they can avoid fixing the housing market
that just pisses me off how that guy talked about how unlivable it was then immediately jumped to signing it up for airbnb... i hate this era of having to resort to making scummy money for a quick buck especially with scams and whatnot
Right!? I completely agree. It's so shady and disgusting. It's your basic Slumlord mentality.
He wouldn’t have even needed the sleazy money if he hadn’t impulse purchased a house from bezos 😭
@@gabbyb9939FORREAL like 30k is nothing to scoff at... not to mention the aftermath of adding improvements to the shed which is extra $$$. wtf does bro do for a living
Ive never seen a motel room that was liveable. Yet they are rented out daily. Do you not understand Air BnBs arent purchases? They are short rentals? Gimmicks? Derpty derp…Common sense.
@@bradkirchhoff5703Exactly. I wouldnt mind staying there, I'm assuming it would be more affordable compared to other options.. With airbnbs, I'm only looking for a place to stay and park my car short term.
i think the reason he can airbnb it is because some people like staying in odd places, like how people will pay to sleep in a supposedly haunted room or in a barbie dreamhouse that’s all pink, i’m sure they’ll be people who wanna stay there.
I haven’t been on this channel but the video title caught my eye. I love watching videos about tiny homes so i thought that was what this was going to be about. Mobile homes/ trailers and tiny homes are becoming more possible and feasible for families and have their own set of perks. I guess that’s not what he was looking for, but it’s an option for some! Tiny houses being purchased and shipped online isn’t as recent as it seems and it’s getting better and better.
As long as you have land to put it on. There's a "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" segment about mobile homes that I recommend watching.
I knew I liked Danny but hearing him get angry at Airbnb's and landlords confirms it.
Based bro
Actually hearing someone saying they spent $26,000 on a house without even a second thought is so crazy to me. Like I can’t even buy a pack of gum without having to think twice. 🤦🏻♂️
Ikr. Not me out here passing by a Little Ceasars and having to think really fuckin hard about if I can afford a fucking $5 hot n ready
I can’t even make a single $4 purchase without doing extensive research and think twice before clicking the button to buy
Y'know, i feel like being short is really looking great for me right now.
The whole plumbing and electrical thing is that you have to hook up your home’s plumbing to the utility company’s hookups and the same with electrical. You also have to have a proper foundation to sit the home on.
i thought the title said "bought a horse on amazon" and i thought you were gonna be bullying aspiring cowboys
Giddyup Daddy was foreshadowing
Aspiring cowboys is so hilarious to for some reason idk what it is but can’t stop laughing
@@NotUnique_ Yeah like there is a massive audition process like Americas got talent.
*Foghorn Leghorn Voice* "Now i say boy, thems the best lasso spins i've gone done seen in all of tarnation"
@@drunkpaulocosta9301 😂😂😂I'm crying
I love the phrase "aspiring cowboy" I feel like I should be calling all 8 year olds with a wild west phase that
love how the warning where "people could get hurt" happens when he's trying to rent out his horrible home to other people on AirBnb, which makes me just imagine all the people who rent his airbnb are gonna be so mad about how they were ripped off that they beat the crap outta him
Already happen, this only will be a new category of "How you wanted to be screw by AirBnB?".
this is just the modern version of ordering your house from the Sears & Roebuck catalog
Yes the thing with these houses is you obviously need land, a level foundation (ideally a concrete slab), you will need an electrician to run the electrical, and then finally you'll need a plumber and somewhere for your waste to go whether that is connecting to city sewer (monthly bill required) or to a septic field on your property. So you aren't paying $20,000+ for a move in ready house and you could probably build your own for less.
Tiny houses have annoying laws... You can't just plop one of these wherever you want. Also are we just ignoring the fact this guy has a single credit card with at least $28k limit on it?? I don't think he's hurting for money and would need to live in this place 😂
Yeah I didn't really think about that part. He said was 23? And he has a credit card with a limit of at least 25K (im rounding cause I feel like CC limits are often an even number). I think when I was his age, my one and only credit card had a 8K limit.
You don't need money to have a credit card with a high limit. I'm in debt up to my eyeballs but boy will they give me a credit card with a 15k limit because I know how to game my credit score. That being said, he sounds like a dropshipper (with the "I'mma make this an airbnb" bs) so I'm not surprised at this point.
Could it not be a debit card?
@@ThroatzillaaaI'm 29 and still never have had a credit card. I only have used a debit card and cash. And I've never seen more than $14,000 in my bank account...
Some people have no idea how good they have it...
@@shiannafoxxthis isn't a typical housing transaction lol he could buy it however he pleases
the groan i let out when he said he was gonna turn it into an airbnb was monstrous lmao
All things considered, this structure is probably an ideal airbnb scenario. It’s not like he is taking prime real estate in a coveted location. A shanty house on the outskirts of a city sounds perfect for temporary accommodations
Mobile homes, tiny houses, guest homes, even small boats are all available and reasonably priced on Airbnb. I don’t see why not this if someone wishes to travel on a budget? Unless I’m at a resort or want to be luxurious, when I travel I’m spending most of my time exploring the area and just need a safe place to sleep at night. This could fit the bill 🤷🏽♀️
2:09 “for only the small price of 35 thousand dollars” is absolutely absurd
The salon suggestion is a really good idea. People who have their own clients need a private space to do their business. It's way more expensive to rent a space in a salon.
I agree.
But there’s no electricity OR running water
@@ZombixMixRight! Which a salon needs both of those things.
he said he was having the electricity & plumbing taken care of anyway, so it's safe to assume both are things that can be relatively easily added. instead of making it into an air b&b tho, rent it as salon space @@ZombixMix
@@LoveK1I thought the dude said he got the plumbing and electricity done in one of the videos
The only thing I was thinking throughout most of this is that Amazon just keeps regurgitating ideas from other people and calling them original. These houses are just worse kit homes. Kit homes were popularized in the 20th century, and you could literally order one from a Sears catalogue, (or whatever your preferred catalogue of choice was, I just know about the Sears ones.) Which is nearly the exact same thing amazon is doing except that kit houses were made with better materials, and you can tell because it didn't take them eight hours to put up. With a skilled carpenter, you could have them up in a few weeks, or months if you wanted to DIY it. And the fact that most of them are still standing and fully functional as homes. Considering most were built anywhere from 1910 to 1950, that's pretty impressive to me.
Then again, I am also biased. Literally the only reason I know about the Sears houses is because that's how my childhood home was built. My grandparents bought it from a Sears catalogue in 1934. Fucking just mail-ordered a home. (Still a fantastic house. We have had to update the plumbing because ceramic pipes are the devil, but that's pretty much the only really intense renovation we've had to do.)
There sadly aren't any of the original companies still selling kit houses, and we can put that blame on tract house subdivisions and WW2.
tl;dr
fuck air bnb
and amazon
Thank you, you're spot on
Kit houses were exactly what I thought of!!
I don't think Amazon is running around claiming to have invented this, though
These aren't even compareable to kit homes, frankly. These are basically jsut trailers.
Kit houses were just raw materials and you had to do the building. Container homes, what we’re seeing in the video, became popular after the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
I word for a company that makes offices out of shipping containers and theyre actually pretty comfy. They do put insulation in the walls so it keeps it pretty cool in the summer and warm in winter. Idk about these houses, but we definitely insulate.
There are manufacture home companies that sell 1 bedroom homes for like 30k and you can actually pick out different floor plans and tiles and all that AND they actually work as a livable space like with electrical and stuff
Imagine renting an air bnb and showing up to see a plastic Amazon house
I honestly expect this to happen
i'm more pissed at the comment section than i am at that dude. like why do they act like scamming people and potentially putting them in danger is a "smart move"?
Literally. Its the people buying houses just for them to sit empty most of time that are ruining the housing market.
other people's wellbeing dont matter till someone croaks. something something all laws were written with blood.
because people aspire to oppress.
Daddy Gonzalez need to put up smth too remind us that we are Greg. The throw pillows, the letters, or just a huge picture of our king, Danny.
Thanks for making me laugh so much I woke my entire family up!
When I lived with my parents, my room was the only one in the house without proper insulation and it was TERRIBLE. Looking at those prefab houses on Amazon just gives me flashbacks to those days. I can just imagine you'll be freezing during the winter and boiling in the summer unless you're located in *just* the right area.
They're unfinished. It's like buying a shed. You're supposed to put all that in
I would take having to spend a couple grand on installing insulation over the average house price of 700k
People also don’t realize that these things you have to put in all the lines for water and gas yourself. Especially if you’re plopping it on a piece of property that’s never seen a building. That cost a lot of money
alot less than 700k+ im sure@@tjistheb13
I had the same when i lived at my parents of course as soon as i moved out they insulated it..
My house don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds 😮
😂
im sure it will also jiggle in light breeze
if it takes 8 hours for one person to unfold it, the force weight must be something significant, yes?
I just realize eventually Cody and Danny are gonna be having play dates with their baby boys and they are gonna be best friends with the best sense of humor