Sounds like it should be easy, right? I'm a longtime apartment dweller who prefers the simpleness of smaller spaces (my apartment is large by my standards at about 750 square feet--yep, I'm in the US) but dislikes the fact that I'll never own this place. I'm put off by the size and complexity of owning a traditional house, and I have no interest in dropping $75-100K on a 30-year mortgage for a place that requires much dollars/time in upkeep. But I would be interested in a small/tiny house. Unfortunately, it sounds like in many places buying a tiny house is a pipe dream, for several reasons.
I've of course heard of nontraditional living situations; for example, living out of a shipping container and other unique concepts. But I live in the Midwest US, and I have a good job that I don't want to live too far away from. I need practical inexpensive housing in a city that is around $25K. Again, a tiny house sounds perfect, but I don't think that zoning allows it.
Am I overlooking something obvious? I don't want a mobile home, because I like traditional indoor plumbing. Condos have all sorts of weird creepy things going on with their contracts, plus you can't get away from people.
What do you all do?
Submitted December 24, 2018 at 07:39PM by cadillaceldorado http://bit.ly/2CxNwtY
