I like this one, don't know where I would put TV. Remember the old commercial with the Native American tearing up about the trash. Don't throw your trash out people. 😊😊
Y'all crack me up. I can't believe I've not gotten the chance to see y'alls last 5 videos. Don't worry, I'm catching up now. Thanks for the videos and humor 😂
Originally, camper folks were great & respectful. Now, we have lots of trashy people who respect no one. They've ruined campsites the same way they've ruined more affordable neighborhoods. You have to pay more money to get a strong HOA area or you'll be miserable & possibly not safe.
It’s the same for all things, a few “ bad apples “ ruin stuff for the rest of us. It’s sad. Some people just don’t understand how to respect themselves let alone respect others. I’m over 50 and wish my husband and I would have known this was coming. I would love a tiny home but not for over 100k! That to me is nuts. The movement was originally made for reasonable housing. That does not seem to be the case nowadays. You two are so cute, keep looking for me. lol 😊
Human nature is a wicked thing - it is what it always was. For several years after WWII there was a housing shortage as returning soldiers started families - and many people embraced inexpensive trailer homes. Trailer parks sprung up - but each succeeding year they just became trashier and trashier. This became so widespread and common that these once beautiful trailer parks became known for the trailer trash that they attracted. In more recent decades R.V.ers became a popular way for suburbanites to have fun and enjoy traveling. What we now have are large numbers of people living in vans and R.V.’s out of necessity - and unfortunately the average person is more of a pig than the active outdoors enthusiasts that started the R.V. craze. This is why HOA’s have become so popular even with all their own unique problems, people are tired of trashy people
As expressed in the video, the necessity of cheaper housing encompasses lower income folks quite a bit, or middle income folks looking to cut expenses and save for the future, but the 'trashier' folks give the ones who aren't a bad name and make it difficult with regulations and requirements popping up everywhere.
Tiny homes generate less tax revenue than even small homes located in towns and cities. Far less. That is THE number one reason they generally aren't allowed. As for what is destroying the tiny home movement? Prices. What started as a way to lower costs and make life more affordable has become ludicrous when it comes to prices. Period. Tiny homes that cost 6 figures, or mid to high 5 figures ARE the biggest drawback. Why would ANY sane person pay $80,000 to $120,000 for less than 400 square feet?!?!? Why would any sane person sell most of their belongings and downsize to less than 400 square feet that carries a higher mortgage than the home they just sold?!? Knocking shed to home conversions? You're a tiny home snob ~ and not trying to hide it. Maybe you should take a look at some of the absolutely beautiful shed to home conversions right here on yt. There are beautiful tiny homes that people have built themselves, paid off in full in cash/mortgage free, many with BETTER floor plans, BETTER storage built in, BETTER insulated, and ALL are the epitome of what the tiny house movement started out as, embracing all of the reasons, and truly allowing their owners a much better cost of living ratio! Most of them don't come with huge windows (aka energy waste/lack of wall space). Most of them aren't designated as 'RVs'. Most of them cost between $20-40,000 to finish and are paid in full. You apparently have issues with people who are independent and capable enough to build their own home OR take a shed and turn it into a home. Given that many of the nicest are on private property, far away from nasty cities or outside of small towns in farm country, your little rant about them driving down property values is moot. There are a LOT of people in this country that would never set foot/purchase a home/townhouse in a city or town and run from HOAs because they feel the government already intrudes on their lives and property ... they absolutely don't want to subject themselves to an entire neighborhood of Karens telling them what to do/what not to do/demanding money/threatening fines and/or confiscation. They don't want high cost still mostly cheap materials and barely meeting code built-ins. They don't want what you're selling ... and I suspect that is actually your biggest gripe with them. Speaking as someone that took two sheds and set them in an L shape, added a corner room to join them, retrofitted them to code ourselves, plumbed and wired them, insulated them, built a deck in the front with a fish pond/fountain built in, and another across the back with a full hand-built bbq/rocket stove/pizza oven (with a dragon on top for the chimney)/smoker and a sunken hot tub ~ and finished the exterior and interior to look like a log cabin ... you are free to shove your rant.
We're not selling anything (read the disclaimer in the video description). We are just on an adventure as we are considering downsizing. We are touring tiny type living arrangements of all styles as we decide what's best for us. We're comparing quality of various builds and living arrangements as our situation would allow us around significant equity to purchase what we can and want without being in debt. We have toured many shed companies as an option for conversion and we are actually privately discussing doing something similar to you - two sheds joined via a sunroom or atrium in between. We have several videos about shed conversions. Feel free to check those out. We don't discriminate. We've toured RV's and Vans as well. Third, if you listen closely to the rant, we weren't knocking shed conversions per se - we were discussing "trashy" folks who give these living arrangements a bad name to the community and community leaders - all of whom you have to work with to promote tiny living options and communities. Depending on where people live, 80-100k fir 400 square feet may be an economical choice. In some parts of the country a 1200 square foot home is 300k. So, do the math. The house is done and ready to live in. Many of our viewers cannot build out a shed on their own to save money. Our audience consists mainly of 55+ females. They either don't have the skills or the physical ability. We have flipped many sticks and bricks in our lifetime and are tired of construction work ourselves. If that's snobbery, then so be it. In truth, it's just our situation. Then, you have the equity angle. Do folks want to build equity in real property, or not? If so, a shed, mobile home, RV or RV park model is probably not the way to go. Agreed that tax base issues, the costs escalating, and the "movement" has gotten away from its roots as it has become the "cool" thing to do are all important issues. Yes we are free to share / shove our rant. After all, it's still the USA and it's still our channel! LOL Appreciate your comments and appreciate you watching our video. Your place sounds very nice. If you live in the southern US, and would be willing, we would gladly feature what you've done in a video. Just email us. Our email is on the main channel page and in video descriptions.
@@50pluslife360 Fair enough on most points, and I'll admit that this is the first of your videos that I've watched (and I fall in the 55+ female bracket). My husband and I have built several of our own small/tiny homes over the years. We're both retired with physical disabilities, and live on a disabled/retired military pension. We can do the work ... just slowly at times. My thoughts went immediately to those who do not have equity to spend and are barely scraping by as it is, and are looking for a way to keep a roof over their heads, some food on their table, etc. Technically we fall into that category although we made a conscious choice to live below our means decades ago and aren't completely scraping the bottom of the barrel. Because we are both familiar with all phases of building, we have had an advantage many don't ~ but that was also a conscious choice on our part. Neither the military or my vet tech days gave us a leg up on any of that. My point is that there are people who have never and will never see an 80-100k home as anything more than a pipe dream ~ but they also wish for a home of their own. What may seem trashy to you may well be their little piece of that American dream. I just don't have it in me to knock those less fortunate unless they are openly engaged in willful stupidity on a daily basis; I also firmly believe in working for what you dream of and want. We lived in SC (where my husband retired) for almost 30 years, but we're back up north now helping his Mom out. The town we're in doesn't allow either tiny or shed homes ... at least they didn't until we got here lol. We have a full variance, tore down the falling down home on a one acre lot, but definitely want to move when we can. Whether or not we'll be able to build again is up for grabs ... the years and the aches are both adding up. We'll see. I absolutely apologize for the assumptions and my cranky attitude. I need to stay away from yt one bad SLE days, and I've had a week of them. The one piece of advice I'd give you and your wife is to take a hard look at your hobbies, your lifestyle, etc. and make sure you don't go too tiny!! I cook from scratch, have a garden, can and dehydrate most of our food ... and I've yet to find a tiny home that has a kitchen/pantry that can handle that ... hence the two sheds with the corner room built in! I managed a full galley kitchen/full size appliances in a 12x24, along with a full bathroom, but that doesn't leave much room for anything else but a bed and a double computer desk. After two years I was ready to tear my hair out, so we added the second shed and built in a connecting room, but one of those sheds is kitchen/dining/pantry/laundry/1/2 bath. We turned the corner room into a dedicated gaming/computer room, and the second shed is our bedroom/bath. We have the quarter round deck/porch in the front, and the rear deck is half a screen porch and half deck. We're at about 720 sq ft as far as indoor living space, and have a lot more outside, although our 'yard' is just garden and orchard. It's taken us 22 years and three tiny homes/cabins to reach a size that 'works' for us although part of that is due to both changing hobbies and drastically changing locations. But definitely consider the things you love doing, not just aesthetics when it comes to going tiny.
I’m not in my 50’s but I enjoyed your video. I agree with you. People should have respect for others and stop ruining it. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching!
Love these home tours, good job👍
Glad you like them! Thanks so much!
I like this one, don't know where I would put TV. Remember the old commercial with the Native American tearing up about the trash. Don't throw your trash out people. 😊😊
Yes we remember!
I liked it alot especially that shower☺ I can't do a tub anymore.
Yes we can, but who does anymore?
Y'all crack me up. I can't believe I've not gotten the chance to see y'alls last 5 videos. Don't worry, I'm catching up now. Thanks for the videos and humor 😂
Enjoy!
Originally, camper folks were great & respectful. Now, we have lots of trashy people who respect no one. They've ruined campsites the same way they've ruined more affordable neighborhoods. You have to pay more money to get a strong HOA area or you'll be miserable & possibly not safe.
I would put the square footage from the living room into the bedroom and bedroom closet. It looks like a good quality model. Thank you for sharing!
Great idea! Thanks for watching!
Now,some cities won't allow over night parking at cracker barrel.
It's getting harder and harder to find decent places!
Rant away ! Everyone should leave a place better than found it.
Absolutely!
It’s the same for all things, a few “ bad apples “ ruin stuff for the rest of us. It’s sad.
Some people just don’t understand how to respect themselves let alone respect others. I’m over 50 and wish my husband and I would have known this was coming. I would love a tiny home but not for over 100k! That to me is nuts. The movement was originally made for reasonable housing. That does not seem to be the case nowadays.
You two are so cute, keep looking for me. lol 😊
The cost of a rental lot now make the tiny house unaffordable.
I’m on unrestricted land!
Betcha those van people smoking so thick had a dog in there too. So the poor dog had to breathe it. 😢
Maybe so!
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Human nature is a wicked thing - it is what it always was. For several years after WWII there was a housing shortage as returning soldiers started families - and many people embraced inexpensive trailer homes. Trailer parks sprung up - but each succeeding year they just became trashier and trashier. This became so widespread and common that these once beautiful trailer parks became known for the trailer trash that they attracted. In more recent decades R.V.ers became a popular way for suburbanites to have fun and enjoy traveling. What we now have are large numbers of people living in vans and R.V.’s out of necessity - and unfortunately the average person is more of a pig than the active outdoors enthusiasts that started the R.V. craze. This is why HOA’s have become so popular even with all their own unique problems, people are tired of trashy people
As expressed in the video, the necessity of cheaper housing encompasses lower income folks quite a bit, or middle income folks looking to cut expenses and save for the future, but the 'trashier' folks give the ones who aren't a bad name and make it difficult with regulations and requirements popping up everywhere.
Maybe you both need a Cup of Meed. lol
Tiny homes generate less tax revenue than even small homes located in towns and cities. Far less. That is THE number one reason they generally aren't allowed.
As for what is destroying the tiny home movement? Prices. What started as a way to lower costs and make life more affordable has become ludicrous when it comes to prices. Period.
Tiny homes that cost 6 figures, or mid to high 5 figures ARE the biggest drawback. Why would ANY sane person pay $80,000 to $120,000 for less than 400 square feet?!?!?
Why would any sane person sell most of their belongings and downsize to less than 400 square feet that carries a higher mortgage than the home they just sold?!?
Knocking shed to home conversions? You're a tiny home snob ~ and not trying to hide it. Maybe you should take a look at some of the absolutely beautiful shed to home conversions right here on yt. There are beautiful tiny homes that people have built themselves, paid off in full in cash/mortgage free, many with BETTER floor plans, BETTER storage built in, BETTER insulated, and ALL are the epitome of what the tiny house movement started out as, embracing all of the reasons, and truly allowing their owners a much better cost of living ratio!
Most of them don't come with huge windows (aka energy waste/lack of wall space). Most of them aren't designated as 'RVs'. Most of them cost between $20-40,000 to finish and are paid in full. You apparently have issues with people who are independent and capable enough to build their own home OR take a shed and turn it into a home. Given that many of the nicest are on private property, far away from nasty cities or outside of small towns in farm country, your little rant about them driving down property values is moot. There are a LOT of people in this country that would never set foot/purchase a home/townhouse in a city or town and run from HOAs because they feel the government already intrudes on their lives and property ... they absolutely don't want to subject themselves to an entire neighborhood of Karens telling them what to do/what not to do/demanding money/threatening fines and/or confiscation. They don't want high cost still mostly cheap materials and barely meeting code built-ins. They don't want what you're selling ... and I suspect that is actually your biggest gripe with them.
Speaking as someone that took two sheds and set them in an L shape, added a corner room to join them, retrofitted them to code ourselves, plumbed and wired them, insulated them, built a deck in the front with a fish pond/fountain built in, and another across the back with a full hand-built bbq/rocket stove/pizza oven (with a dragon on top for the chimney)/smoker and a sunken hot tub ~ and finished the exterior and interior to look like a log cabin ... you are free to shove your rant.
We're not selling anything (read the disclaimer in the video description). We are just on an adventure as we are considering downsizing. We are touring tiny type living arrangements of all styles as we decide what's best for us. We're comparing quality of various builds and living arrangements as our situation would allow us around significant equity to purchase what we can and want without being in debt.
We have toured many shed companies as an option for conversion and we are actually privately discussing doing something similar to you - two sheds joined via a sunroom or atrium in between. We have several videos about shed conversions. Feel free to check those out. We don't discriminate. We've toured RV's and Vans as well.
Third, if you listen closely to the rant, we weren't knocking shed conversions per se - we were discussing "trashy" folks who give these living arrangements a bad name to the community and community leaders - all of whom you have to work with to promote tiny living options and communities.
Depending on where people live, 80-100k fir 400 square feet may be an economical choice. In some parts of the country a 1200 square foot home is 300k. So, do the math. The house is done and ready to live in. Many of our viewers cannot build out a shed on their own to save money. Our audience consists mainly of 55+ females. They either don't have the skills or the physical ability. We have flipped many sticks and bricks in our lifetime and are tired of construction work ourselves. If that's snobbery, then so be it. In truth, it's just our situation.
Then, you have the equity angle. Do folks want to build equity in real property, or not? If so, a shed, mobile home, RV or RV park model is probably not the way to go.
Agreed that tax base issues, the costs escalating, and the "movement" has gotten away from its roots as it has become the "cool" thing to do are all important issues.
Yes we are free to share / shove our rant. After all, it's still the USA and it's still our channel! LOL
Appreciate your comments and appreciate you watching our video. Your place sounds very nice. If you live in the southern US, and would be willing, we would gladly feature what you've done in a video. Just email us. Our email is on the main channel page and in video descriptions.
@@50pluslife360 Fair enough on most points, and I'll admit that this is the first of your videos that I've watched (and I fall in the 55+ female bracket). My husband and I have built several of our own small/tiny homes over the years. We're both retired with physical disabilities, and live on a disabled/retired military pension. We can do the work ... just slowly at times.
My thoughts went immediately to those who do not have equity to spend and are barely scraping by as it is, and are looking for a way to keep a roof over their heads, some food on their table, etc. Technically we fall into that category although we made a conscious choice to live below our means decades ago and aren't completely scraping the bottom of the barrel. Because we are both familiar with all phases of building, we have had an advantage many don't ~ but that was also a conscious choice on our part. Neither the military or my vet tech days gave us a leg up on any of that.
My point is that there are people who have never and will never see an 80-100k home as anything more than a pipe dream ~ but they also wish for a home of their own. What may seem trashy to you may well be their little piece of that American dream. I just don't have it in me to knock those less fortunate unless they are openly engaged in willful stupidity on a daily basis; I also firmly believe in working for what you dream of and want.
We lived in SC (where my husband retired) for almost 30 years, but we're back up north now helping his Mom out. The town we're in doesn't allow either tiny or shed homes ... at least they didn't until we got here lol. We have a full variance, tore down the falling down home on a one acre lot, but definitely want to move when we can. Whether or not we'll be able to build again is up for grabs ... the years and the aches are both adding up. We'll see. I absolutely apologize for the assumptions and my cranky attitude. I need to stay away from yt one bad SLE days, and I've had a week of them.
The one piece of advice I'd give you and your wife is to take a hard look at your hobbies, your lifestyle, etc. and make sure you don't go too tiny!! I cook from scratch, have a garden, can and dehydrate most of our food ... and I've yet to find a tiny home that has a kitchen/pantry that can handle that ... hence the two sheds with the corner room built in! I managed a full galley kitchen/full size appliances in a 12x24, along with a full bathroom, but that doesn't leave much room for anything else but a bed and a double computer desk. After two years I was ready to tear my hair out, so we added the second shed and built in a connecting room, but one of those sheds is kitchen/dining/pantry/laundry/1/2 bath. We turned the corner room into a dedicated gaming/computer room, and the second shed is our bedroom/bath. We have the quarter round deck/porch in the front, and the rear deck is half a screen porch and half deck. We're at about 720 sq ft as far as indoor living space, and have a lot more outside, although our 'yard' is just garden and orchard. It's taken us 22 years and three tiny homes/cabins to reach a size that 'works' for us although part of that is due to both changing hobbies and drastically changing locations. But definitely consider the things you love doing, not just aesthetics when it comes to going tiny.