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Owner of mobile home seeks JP backyard
By adamg on Wed, 11/20/2013 - 2:40pm
Somebody posted an ad on Craigslist and, yes, that is what the mobile home actually looks like:
Hi, I have a tiny home that I would like to either put in a vacant lot or a backyard. It is tiny. 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. I will be moving it in Fall and looking for a place to bring it to!
If JP doesn't work out (you know how pesky our zoning codes can be), there's always Boston's only mobile-home park - the Boston Trailer Park on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury.
H/t Freddie Francis.
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Seriously JP is turning into
Seriously JP is turning into our local version of Portlandia.
Did you say Portlandia?
Check out this place: http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/travel-and-outdo...
This is a "motel" made up entirely of tiny houses. https://tinyhousehotel.com/
You would need a bike to go visit the goat herd, however, as that is about 3 miles away. However, they have rentals for $15 a day.
Did you say
Off topic and irrelevant
Are you clueless?
Or just stupid.
How is an inn/motel made up of tinyhouses irrelevant?
How to use the internet
Click the links. Very on-topic, very relevant.
Lots of pictures of tinyhouse interiors, too.
Not having kids, I'm
Not having kids, I'm intrigued by these as a way of getting off the grid...less is more. But besides the obvious cramped quarters, I wonder what are the drawbacks?
Zoning
You can't live in that outside of the trailer park as noted in the original post unless you get a permit. He'd be better off getting a houseboat.
Generally....
Tornadoes, Really Hungry Beavers, and Limited space for cotillions.
Try cooking shrimp scampi
Try cooking shrimp scampi with a few large cloves of garlic in one of those huts. Or owning a mutt. Or not doing your laundry for a while. For anything that generates odor, the stench will be amplified.
Tiny Houses
I'd live in one of them, if there was a place to put it.
A house like this was
A house like this was featured in a Globe article about a woman (college student) living in a house just like this. I wonder if it's the same house and how it worked out for her.
Hey, compared to micro apartments, I'd take a single dwelling any day. Unless you've got connections (Think statie parking his RV on public property), it may prove to be tricky finding a spot to park it.
where I grew up
It wasn't and still isn't uncommon for a family to get a travel trailer or RV and park it in the driveway to create extra space for teens or for a young adult or even an elder relative.
I've been following one such trailer over Facebook, that has changed hands three times as the young adult kids of my high school classmates have needed it just as the kids of others have moved on.
My grandparents had a small RV and they would sometimes come and stay in the driveway for a month at a time! On the flip side, I could go visit my great uncle and great aunt and they would hook up the power and water for the 5th Wheel Trailer in the driveway as a guest quarters.
I can't quite see why the Northeast is so rabidly prohibitive of such family traditions.
Well, I don't know where you
Well, I don't know where you grew up, but I grew up in Massachusetts, and our neighbor down the street did that years ago for his teenage son. Come to think of it, the son was a big loser and I think I think he's STILL living in the trailer next to his parents' house.
What's his Uhub handle?
Couldn't resist.
Always Park on the Sunny Side of the Street
Street cleaning is about to be done and there are no permits required to park in the Brookside area of JP, so why not drop anchor there and see how long it takes the police to bother you? I have seen cars with flat tires there for months - you need a note though: "I have no money but am coming back for this any day now - I swear".
Tumbleweed Tiny Houses
And there are a few others--Oregon Cottage Company etc. Crazy that zoning is an issue--why is it so easy to build a 5000 square foot monstrosity with seven bathrooms but so hard to get a permit for a cottage?
Not really sure how Portlandia factors in though--these are awesome. Not that Portlandia isn't--"BICYCLE RIGHTS!!! BICYCLE RIGHTS!!"
Yep
This is a Tumbleweed.
I totally want to build a Loring: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/products/loring
Love the Tumbleweed houses
My baby sister and her brood have a couple of the smaller designs on their land in the Texas Hill Country. Each of the teenaged girls has a space of her own, acoustically isolated from their parents, their younger siblings, and polite human society.
Even better, each of the teenaged girls has her own bathroom.
oooh, the loring
I was considering getting a small plot of land for my aunt and building one for her when I sold my parents' house.
Even priced one out with a contractor friend. They are sweet, but there are hidden expenses if you want to heat it with something other than a fireplace and have certain code requirements on the sewer placement.
(totally awesome on the Teenspace in Texas idea, too!)
Why live in JP? Doesn't he
Why live in JP? Doesn't he realize he could have a micro-condo of comparable size in the Seaport for a mere $4,000/month?!
JP's
Not much cheaper!
Fucking. gorgeous. unit.
Swoon.
I have a yard in Somerville.
I have a yard in Somerville. Somerville is bettah than JP!
Meffuh, with a view?
Meffuh is hot and I have an underused back yard, but there would be one small issue: you'd need a crane to get it up there.
Back to the Loring dreams ...
How would he hook up?
I mean water and sewer....
Cool looking unit but good luck with the zoning. Besides, the city has no idea how to tax it, and if they can't tax it, you can't do it.
Kind of reminds me of a Cricket - http://www.crickettrailer.com/index-v2.php
I think that those things are so cool!
Very intriguing!