Here’s a story about some small houses being built in Fort Collins going for $300K! Pretty awesome… NOT. (The facts are a bit sketchy because the reporter says that 1,200 s.f. qualifies as a small or tiny house – that may be small, but certainly not in the context of the small-house movement – they’re more like 400 to 1,000 s.f., tops.) The comments are appropriately damning:
Here’s a link from one of the comments that lays out the problem:
Anyone inspect a tiny or small house yet? Should we write an inspection course for them?
Someone in San Diego is trying to develop a Tiny House community, but they are seeing much resistance from neighboring properties. There is concern about the negative impact on property values. I don’t know how realistic this concept is. Might be pie in the sky. http://www.habitatstinyhomes.com/build/
Having watched an episode of the show I did think the concept was pretty neat, I thought there was a definite creative use of space, but assumed it was more about entertainment, as I couldn’t possibly imagine that local building and safety/planning departments etc would allow such a thing (lofts built without adequate railing etc etc). I thought the Tiny Houses would be more an RV / Trailer type of thing, but other areas of the country or even California may allow it, not sure.
I would love for you to write an inspection course! I’m finding more and more people are contacting me about them recently- and I’d live to know more so I can pick up the extra business