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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Houseboats: Trying to save money, not waste it!
 
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Trillian
Sep 14, 2003

Nail Rat posted:

They're not all like that. http://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/

Obviously the nicer ones are more expensive, but being 1/10th to 1/4th the size of a typical house, with needing less land, means it does cost a lot less. And it won't sink into the frozen sea, leaving only bubbles from the bubblers in its wake.

That article has a house that is 1375 sqft, which seems to me like a perfectly normal house, and then 196 sqft with three people and a Great Dane in it.

My house is 790 sqft (albeit with a full basement, so the useable space is a lot more than any of those) so apparently I qualify as a tiny house owner. The only reason it was affordable is because it had a tiny lot, though, and no municipality is zoning lots this small anymore.

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Trillian
Sep 14, 2003

Nail Rat posted:

OP just buy a cheap boat for a few grand and make your own, the American way. http://shantyboatliving.com/2016/shantyboat-2/

This guy is great.

shantyboat posted:

Part of my concern is that there is NOTHING crudely built about these boats.
Anything that looks too much like it could stay afloat is totally not cool.

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