I was raised in Texas, and I agree wholeheartedly with you. Plus, tornado is *the worst* place to live in a tiny home. I've posted on this channel about this before. It's down right life-threateningly dangerous, which is *precisely* why Kansas requires people to place their tiny home on a foundation, so an F1 tornado doesn't scoop it up from underneath that open space and flip it like a toddler flips a Tonka truck.
@@orborn3580 Duh, how about the right to have an abortion? Or the right to have access to LGBTG reading materials in schools? Or the right to medical care for transgender individuals? And we know that Paxton and Abbott are just waiting for the Supreme Court to overturn the right to same sex marriage, so they can ban it in Texas.And they already fighting to ban access to contraceptives through the mail.
So, I was raised in D/FW Texas, which is northeast Texas, a couple of hours away from the Texarkana border and I also bought a condo in Wichita, KS back in early 2021. It is a terrible, life-threatening idea to live in a tiny home in Tornado Alley (and Dixie Alley, but we aren't discussing that in this video). If you've ever seen what a tornado does to a large, double wide mobile home you understand *exactly* why Kansas says the tiny home must be on a foundation. In Tornado Alley (and Dixie Alley), your tiny home will be lifted up and tossed the way a toddler picks up a Matchbox car and throws it across the room. This is *not* hyperbole, even though I'm sure it sounds like that. You *must* have your tiny home not only ON a foundation...to help prevent the tornadic winds from getting underneath it and causing "lift"...similar to (but not the same) the way an airplane takes off, but it also must have what are called "hurricane straps" to secure it down to the foundation. Here is what's going to happen if a tornado hits your tiny home. It is going to lift it up and fling it....and every single thing you have inside it is going to to smash around....the way dice do in your hands when you shake them before you roll them out for a board game....and it is going to kill any living thing in there, like your pets...or you...or your renters...and smash everything else inside, then it's going to deposit your tiny home somewhere else, maybe even on top of someone else. In one instance, I know of specifically, an Incredible Tiny Homes Freedom line tiny home was picked up and flung into the Mississippi River where it FLOATED. If memory serves me (it's been over a year since it happened), the vacationers inside did survive, but mostly because the owner of the vacation rental happened to be on sight the night the tornado hit, and IMMEDIATELY sprang into action in time to rescue the two people and their elderly dog inside. Here is the salient point. This tornado...in Iowa...was *the smallest tornado possible* aka an EF1. Here is the link where the administrator at ICT is reading the email she received from the vacation property owner who put their tiny homes on his land. One home had it's roof detached and it was flipped onto it's side and the other was...and I quote, "tossed into the river". The good news for the people inside those vacation rental tiny homes survived (as did their dog) and all were treated for minor injuries BECAUSE the owner just happened to be on the property the night the tornado hit and he used a 50 foot garden hose to secure himself as he swam out into the Mississippi River to help them climb out of a hole that had broken in the loft space of the tiny home. Again, this was *the smallest tornado they record* and EF1. Here is the link for you to listen to the YT video itself and see the photos the owner of the tiny homes sent to ICT. ruclips.net/video/ihDTYxjrvPc/видео.html Believe it or not, the owner ordered 2 more ICT homes because he wanted that rental income. smh I guess he didn't care that this was the tiniest tornado (EF1) there is and didn't care to think about what will happen to his rental guests when he is NOT there on property the next time a larger tornado hits. Those ladies and little dog were very fortunate that the tiny home landed in the Mississippi River with the hole in the loft UP in the air instead of down in the water because it was *the only way they could get out of the home* one it was in the water, and it could have very easily ended up being their coffin as it filled with water and sank into the Mississippi Mud had it landed any other way. Be sure to look at the *inside photos* of the TV, chairs, and everything else that was mangled in the one that just fell over. It would have CRUSHED anyone inside, if not severely injured inside them. People living in these homes NEED tornado shelters they can flee to during a tornado warning, and if that tornado comes in the night when you are asleep and you don't hear the sirens in time, you are going to be caught off guard. If you get a tiny home, you MUST be prudent about it and place it on a foundation. These ladies in the tiny home were renting it for a vacation, they weren't even living in it, and look way happened to them. The reason they weren't crushed by the furniture inside as the house was tossed is because it was the smallest tornado EF1. The other house that was flipped had no one inside, thank goodness. You *must* secure everything in these homes, or the entire contents of the home will become projectiles (just like in a car crash) that injure or kill you. The two most expensive items when building a home are the foundation and the roof, and if you have to pour a foundation, the price of that tiny home is going to increase by about $20-$30K depending on how large of a foundation you need. I love tiny homes, and have been looking into this since 2010. I've even looked into purchasing land where I can place one. It is difficult to find a place outside of Tornado or Dixie alleys. If you don't know how long and wide tornado alley is, I recommend you do a search on Google for a map of both Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley. You *really* need to see the footage of the aftermath of an F3, F4, and then land stripped of it's grass, trees, and the trees stripped of their bark after an F5 tornado. It is HALTING. That is not hyperbole. Anyone who was raised in Tornado Alley knows this. Now, there is a Dixie Alley, which wasn't even in existence when I was growing up. This is how much the weather patterns have gotten worse in the central US states. Occasionally, we get an F1 tornado in California where I've lived the past 27 years, but it's rare. Yet, Cali is not tiny home friendly, except for mobile home or RV parks with exorbitant monthly lot rental rates that are over $2K per month where I live. If you don't believe me, just go to zillow and look at the lot rental rates for the tiny homes for sale in Pacifica, CA just south of San Francisco. It's insane.
Thanks for sharing that information. More recently, Hurricanes Helene and Milton spawned tornadoes that caused damage, and deaths, in areas of the SE -particularly the FL East coast-that was as bad or worse than the damage caused by the winds and storm surges from the hurricanes themselves.
I would rather have a tiny home on a foundation. I never planed on using a tiny home to move around. The problem is most towns & cities have a minimum square footage to build. I was going to build on a lot my mother deeded to me only to find out the home had to be at least 1200 sq foot. I just wanted a small one, maybe 2 bedroom. It’s just me that’s all I needed. But due to requirements I had to give up my dream!
Thanks for thinking outside the box - I would love to live in a tiny. #1 prices have gone through the roof and now targeted to Trust Fund Kids to be hip and cool. I am looking for retirement one level in a safe neighborhood with medical care. I would also love to purchase with my OWN land so a greedy landlord can threaten me with rental increases or some big developer doesn't buy out the space to build a skyscraper. This happened to Mobile home parks in the Seattle area. Thank you
Hey! Thanks for watching and commenting. I hear your points about the rising prices, who the industry might be targeting, and the potential for rent increases in a mobile home or tiny home community. Where are you hoping to buy land?
I was gonna mention a couple things: 1- someone already mentioned. Adding a foundation adds $20-$30,000 more to your build. Also you don’t get antsy certified or whatever it is. I think it has to built to the housing code adding more cost. I know in some countries/states people have moved into a friends or family yard with one on wheels. I live in Texas though and it isn’t anywhere by me. 2- one of the main things I like is the mobility. You lose that entirely. I don’t want to pay to move it a lot or maybe ever, but I know for a couple thousand if I wanted to, I could! 3- there is a 3rd option. Must be other places like this somewhere, but there is a town called Spur, Tx. I don’t remember how I came across this. Wait, I bet is was one of those websites wherei searched for rural land in Texas. Well Spur is a lil whole in the wall. I found a couple acres for sell that I could move a tiny home or several. Turns out you could buy a city lot there and put whatever type home you wanted. Their town needs population so bad. I’d have to look up the population and no telling how far you have to drive for stuff. I think that’s why I dropped it.
Hey! Thanks for watching and commenting. You bring up some really great points. I think it really does boil down to want to/being able to move, and finding a location that works for you. It's a lot to consider! In general I hope more cities become tiny house friendly or have more clear laws for supporting people who want to go tiny.
COULDNT PAY ME TO LIVE IN NO RIGHTS TEXAS SORRY
I was raised in Texas, and I agree wholeheartedly with you. Plus, tornado is *the worst* place to live in a tiny home. I've posted on this channel about this before. It's down right life-threateningly dangerous, which is *precisely* why Kansas requires people to place their tiny home on a foundation, so an F1 tornado doesn't scoop it up from underneath that open space and flip it like a toddler flips a Tonka truck.
Same here.
Exactly what rights do you not have?
@@orborn3580 Duh, how about the right to have an abortion? Or the right to have access to LGBTG reading materials in schools? Or the right to medical care for transgender individuals? And we know that Paxton and Abbott are just waiting for the Supreme Court to overturn the right to same sex marriage, so they can ban it in Texas.And they already fighting to ban access to contraceptives through the mail.
Excellent info Mic .. thank you !!
Glad it was helpful!
So, I was raised in D/FW Texas, which is northeast Texas, a couple of hours away from the Texarkana border and I also bought a condo in Wichita, KS back in early 2021. It is a terrible, life-threatening idea to live in a tiny home in Tornado Alley (and Dixie Alley, but we aren't discussing that in this video). If you've ever seen what a tornado does to a large, double wide mobile home you understand *exactly* why Kansas says the tiny home must be on a foundation.
In Tornado Alley (and Dixie Alley), your tiny home will be lifted up and tossed the way a toddler picks up a Matchbox car and throws it across the room. This is *not* hyperbole, even though I'm sure it sounds like that.
You *must* have your tiny home not only ON a foundation...to help prevent the tornadic winds from getting underneath it and causing "lift"...similar to (but not the same) the way an airplane takes off, but it also must have what are called "hurricane straps" to secure it down to the foundation.
Here is what's going to happen if a tornado hits your tiny home. It is going to lift it up and fling it....and every single thing you have inside it is going to to smash around....the way dice do in your hands when you shake them before you roll them out for a board game....and it is going to kill any living thing in there, like your pets...or you...or your renters...and smash everything else inside, then it's going to deposit your tiny home somewhere else, maybe even on top of someone else.
In one instance, I know of specifically, an Incredible Tiny Homes Freedom line tiny home was picked up and flung into the Mississippi River where it FLOATED. If memory serves me (it's been over a year since it happened), the vacationers inside did survive, but mostly because the owner of the vacation rental happened to be on sight the night the tornado hit, and IMMEDIATELY sprang into action in time to rescue the two people and their elderly dog inside. Here is the salient point. This tornado...in Iowa...was *the smallest tornado possible* aka an EF1.
Here is the link where the administrator at ICT is reading the email she received from the vacation property owner who put their tiny homes on his land. One home had it's roof detached and it was flipped onto it's side and the other was...and I quote, "tossed into the river". The good news for the people inside those vacation rental tiny homes survived (as did their dog) and all were treated for minor injuries BECAUSE the owner just happened to be on the property the night the tornado hit and he used a 50 foot garden hose to secure himself as he swam out into the Mississippi River to help them climb out of a hole that had broken in the loft space of the tiny home. Again, this was *the smallest tornado they record* and EF1. Here is the link for you to listen to the YT video itself and see the photos the owner of the tiny homes sent to ICT. ruclips.net/video/ihDTYxjrvPc/видео.html
Believe it or not, the owner ordered 2 more ICT homes because he wanted that rental income. smh I guess he didn't care that this was the tiniest tornado (EF1) there is and didn't care to think about what will happen to his rental guests when he is NOT there on property the next time a larger tornado hits.
Those ladies and little dog were very fortunate that the tiny home landed in the Mississippi River with the hole in the loft UP in the air instead of down in the water because it was *the only way they could get out of the home* one it was in the water, and it could have very easily ended up being their coffin as it filled with water and sank into the Mississippi Mud had it landed any other way. Be sure to look at the *inside photos* of the TV, chairs, and everything else that was mangled in the one that just fell over. It would have CRUSHED anyone inside, if not severely injured inside them. People living in these homes NEED tornado shelters they can flee to during a tornado warning, and if that tornado comes in the night when you are asleep and you don't hear the sirens in time, you are going to be caught off guard.
If you get a tiny home, you MUST be prudent about it and place it on a foundation. These ladies in the tiny home were renting it for a vacation, they weren't even living in it, and look way happened to them. The reason they weren't crushed by the furniture inside as the house was tossed is because it was the smallest tornado EF1. The other house that was flipped had no one inside, thank goodness.
You *must* secure everything in these homes, or the entire contents of the home will become projectiles (just like in a car crash) that injure or kill you.
The two most expensive items when building a home are the foundation and the roof, and if you have to pour a foundation, the price of that tiny home is going to increase by about $20-$30K depending on how large of a foundation you need.
I love tiny homes, and have been looking into this since 2010. I've even looked into purchasing land where I can place one. It is difficult to find a place outside of Tornado or Dixie alleys. If you don't know how long and wide tornado alley is, I recommend you do a search on Google for a map of both Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley.
You *really* need to see the footage of the aftermath of an F3, F4, and then land stripped of it's grass, trees, and the trees stripped of their bark after an F5 tornado. It is HALTING. That is not hyperbole.
Anyone who was raised in Tornado Alley knows this. Now, there is a Dixie Alley, which wasn't even in existence when I was growing up. This is how much the weather patterns have gotten worse in the central US states. Occasionally, we get an F1 tornado in California where I've lived the past 27 years, but it's rare. Yet, Cali is not tiny home friendly, except for mobile home or RV parks with exorbitant monthly lot rental rates that are over $2K per month where I live. If you don't believe me, just go to zillow and look at the lot rental rates for the tiny homes for sale in Pacifica, CA just south of San Francisco. It's insane.
Thanks for sharing that information. More recently, Hurricanes Helene and Milton spawned tornadoes that caused damage, and deaths, in areas of the SE -particularly the FL East coast-that was as bad or worse than the damage caused by the winds and storm surges from the hurricanes themselves.
I would rather have a tiny home on a foundation. I never planed on using a tiny home to move around. The problem is most towns & cities have a minimum square footage to build. I was going to build on a lot my mother deeded to me only to find out the home had to be at least 1200 sq foot. I just wanted a small one, maybe 2 bedroom. It’s just me that’s all I needed. But due to requirements I had to give up my dream!
Thanks for thinking outside the box - I would love to live in a tiny. #1 prices have gone through the roof and now targeted to Trust Fund Kids to be hip and cool. I am looking for retirement one level in a safe neighborhood with medical care. I would also love to purchase with my OWN land so a greedy landlord can threaten me with rental increases or some big developer doesn't buy out the space to build a skyscraper. This happened to Mobile home parks in the Seattle area. Thank you
Hey! Thanks for watching and commenting. I hear your points about the rising prices, who the industry might be targeting, and the potential for rent increases in a mobile home or tiny home community.
Where are you hoping to buy land?
I think with all the stipulations it wouldn't even be worth it. And like you said it would increase your stress rather than decrease it😢😢
Hi! Yes, it really does depend on what someone is looking to do. The main issue in general is not having enough simple options for people to go tiny.
I was gonna mention a couple things:
1- someone already mentioned. Adding a foundation adds $20-$30,000 more to your build. Also you don’t get antsy certified or whatever it is. I think it has to built to the housing code adding more cost. I know in some countries/states people have moved into a friends or family yard with one on wheels. I live in Texas though and it isn’t anywhere by me.
2- one of the main things I like is the mobility. You lose that entirely. I don’t want to pay to move it a lot or maybe ever, but I know for a couple thousand if I wanted to, I could!
3- there is a 3rd option. Must be other places like this somewhere, but there is a town called Spur, Tx. I don’t remember how I came across this. Wait, I bet is was one of those websites wherei searched for rural land in Texas. Well Spur is a lil whole in the wall. I found a couple acres for sell that I could move a tiny home or several. Turns out you could buy a city lot there and put whatever type home you wanted. Their town needs population so bad. I’d have to look up the population and no telling how far you have to drive for stuff. I think that’s why I dropped it.
Hey! Thanks for watching and commenting. You bring up some really great points. I think it really does boil down to want to/being able to move, and finding a location that works for you. It's a lot to consider! In general I hope more cities become tiny house friendly or have more clear laws for supporting people who want to go tiny.
@@MicThinksTiny I agree!