Global News tells MHProNews how her tiny house has changed Lydia Holden’s way of life. With just a little over 100 square feet to live in, the 24 year-old has found an affordable way to become a home-owner. Lydia paid “only” $30,000 for her 136 square foot home.
The tiny house movement allows millennials seeking to live modestly and others who want to down size, stop accumulating and focus on the essentials of life.
Home for these tiny house dwellers may be focused on what is purely essential, while creating freedom to relocate with more easy.
City of Saskatoon Planning and Development Director Alan Wallace said Holden’s way of living is legal, but emphasized there has been “enforcement issues with people living in trailers, and there’s a real fine line between trailers and mobile homes, like a camper trailer.” A conventional house on a foundation can be of any size, including a tiny house size, Wallace explained.
Manufactured Home (MH) professionals ought to compare the value modern MH offers to the increasingly ‘trendy’ tiny houses like Holden’s.
An entry level 14×70, with some 900 square feet of living space sells in some U.S. markets at prices that start at that same $30,000 she paid. While some may want a smaller unit, which can be provided with a park model HUD, the 14×70 is about six times more space than Holden’s tiny house, for roughly the same price. No doubt that 6 times more space in a manufactured home could appeal to a wider audience. ##
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(Daily Business News article submitted by Lucine Colignon)
