Mean people! Be nicer! You can tell she lost a LOT from the divorce. She made a mistake with the Craigslist person at 45K and the other builder essentially charged her full price of a new tiny to finish everything and they didn't fix the water problem and they should have. Trust me, divorce and loss of lifestyle is not fun as a single parent with kids. I'm glad she is happy. She is making the best of a tough situation. Good Luck!
If choosing to live in a tiny home is a “tough choice “ for some then that’s fair enough but I’ve been homeless before and I don’t want children so I’d be happy to own a tiny home rather than a “normal” home…. It’s like saying “normal” people…
The title is misleading. A $90k loan over 15 years would be $500/mo payment and that's interest-free! It's disingenuous to exclude the loan from her monthly housing/rent payment. If there's no loan repayment plan then the $90k was a gift. I think the negative comments are more directed at the intentional misdirection than the lady who is clearly happy and doing her best.
@@Whackpacky Tiny houses have gotten overpriced. But they also added more luxuries. Honestly, except for the stigma, it's cheaper to get a used RV. Cheaper, more room, easier to get quickly. Used RVs often have low-resell value so you can get them cheaper. They can be moved around and often have more living space. But people are more negative about RVS. But even places that allow tiny houses don't always allow RVS as they don't fit the 'look' of the community or there is zoning against it.
That sounds like a rip off … in Florida it’s 100$ a sqft new construction price so you could have built a 1000 sqft new home with land for the same price
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not a comment about her (tho someone clearly took advantage of her) people with no concept of negotiating, costs, researching, etc have been driving the cost of a built tiny home thru the roof with marketing words to make you swoon.... luxury, high end, etc. anything to make people mentally open their wallet. the focus really needs to be changing regulations to permit tiny homes everywhere foundation homes are permitted. housing is housing!
What truly blows my mind is that God gave us the earth for free and mankind has managed to charge for everything. Beautiful home. But it always surprises me to find out how much these lovely tiny homes cost. The whole concept of Tiny homes is supposed to be affordable living.
Off the bat this title is a lie. It's $725/month PLUS the $175000 to build it, which is INSANE. You can get a house WITH LAND or a condo for less than $100000 in many parts of the country. & she admits she has trouble getting RUNNING WATER...FOR $175000 PLUS PERPETUAL RENT COST...NO RUNNING WATER! Fully deluded. Huge mistake. & oh yeah, these things have zero resale value.
Her life and family are in Boulder County where property values for a 2± bed are near the millions. If you can get access to land and have the upfront capital it is always cheaper to build your own home.
There is nowhere in Colorado to get a home at that cost. Only way she's getting a home for $175k in this economy is to move to the middle of nowhere and be isolated from her family.
People are defending her because she was in a tough spot with her divorce. We understand that her divorce pressured her to find a place to live quickly on a budget, but that only explains the insane 175k.
Jenn's story is truly remarkable and serves as a profound source of inspiration. The sincerity in her voice as she shares her journey through divorce, grappling with the urgent need to establish security for herself and her family, is palpable. What she has accomplished in the face of adversity is nothing short of extraordinary, a testament to her resilience and resourcefulness. From the depths of her experience, Jenn has crafted a beautiful outcome that speaks to the human capacity for growth and transformation.
My gosh, loved her honesty, courage & most important her beautiful new home! The thought that she can take that home wherever she wants when and if she's ready just amazes me. Very happy for her. 🙂👍👍👍
Awhile ago I saw a tour of your tiny online. Your home is stunning! I live on the Oregon Coast in my tiny house at Tiny Tranquility Park. We rarely get sub-freezing temperatures in the winter, but this winter we've had a handful of nights below freezing, so I swapped out my original unheated hose for a heated one from CAMCO, a 12 ft. long model (they offer other sizes) with water line freeze protection down to -40°F. The hose comes with two ~8-inch long insulating rubber sleeves to slide over each end of the hose. It works great. Wishing you much happiness in your tiny.🥰
💓 Thank You for the Support & Advise!!! Some People have no Idea!!! She was Strong,Brave, & just kept Moving Forward!!!! This World Seems to be Full of 🐺 & Snakes
Oops! My GOD Bless You! I So Admire your Strength and 💞! The 🌎 is also Full of folks like the one who lent U the $. Remember U have done it!! Do your research and reach out to the RU-vid community because there's have many many people have had issues that you are dealing with with leak, & or roofing issues or whatever comes up next,. Lots of things people don't realize that where you live, how and what direction your home is pointing, will so determine and effect so many issues you will encounter. So ask & research before you move again, Others have eventually found solutions all of those and many other issues. In ARIZONA your house better be facing North _&_south or your house is just going to litterly burn up With High cost to Cool . North side of a Mountain homes won't get much Sun & Could experience many wet, damp issues in their homes . So sorry for all the input but so many people think they know everything and we are so stupid!!!! But Girl YOU DID IT! YOU will be just fine! Reach out and ask. Look at homes that have endeavored 0ver 50 yrs in a location what helped them what would they have done differently!!! These Builders can't always be blamed as they usually build for their area. Is Remember We Love You so much !💞 Char
its cool she did this but arguing that it is "affordable" is misleading. for instance, no one I know can give me a loan of 90K. If you do not already own a home you can't split the cost of the sale with your husband... most Americans COULD not afford this.
She should look into buying some land, but looking at Boulder Co. rental prices I'd rather pay $725 a month than $2000-3000 towards someone else's mortgage.
Yes because she doesn't own the land she is parked on, if she owned land then it would be all hers, I think land is more important than just a building.
Sure, it seems a bit pricy, but it is also so pleasing to the eye and her and her kids seem to have found joy from it so go them! Plus, it's brand new, the kids are older so it'll likely last longer, and I'm sure her new bae will love it too when he comes into the picture. I am both inspired and motivated by this woman!
I LOVE this house! The kitchen is fantastic. This is the first tiny kitchen I've seen with enough counter space to leave out your Kitchen Aid stand mixer!! Wishing you many more happy years with the house.........and LIFE!!!
As a single mom with a son. I understand how hard it is and I think her place is amazing. I hope they will have more of great things come to their life!! ✨✨
I saw a different tour of her house online. It’s STUNNING 🤩 by far my favorite tiny house design. I love it. She has a high quality home for s fraction of the price I. Her area ! So much better than an apartment.
This is supposed to be a good thing? $175K for what should of been a starter home if America took housing affordability seriously. Not to mention $175k and no land to go with it. crazy.
I am amazed how you came through this. Thank you for being so open concerning everything that happen to you. I have thought about a tiny house myself and your story is a guideline or better yet a Bible (meaning so much truth). I really appreciate your story. ❤❤❤
WAIT, so $725 doesn't even account for any of the 175k spent to build that? Geeez, so basically if you had to pay that 175k over time you'd be paying: $2,000 (725 + just over 1,200), and that 725 number is not fixed and could go up at any time. This does not sound like a good deal to me.
It really is a beautiful tiny house but $175k. At the end of the day it's classified like a car so a depreciating asset. I used to think $90k was a lot for tiny houses.
Oh no please don't move to the state of California. It's way to expensive living there. And it's not a good place to raise your beautiful intelligent daughter there due to the crime rate. Please consider moving to a much safer environment for your daughter and yourself. Just looking out for you both cause you seem to be a very sweet person and I don't want anything bad to happen to you or your daughter.
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I love it and I was a single parent too and I thank God my kids are resilient. Thanks to good grades in school they had their scholarships to college and we now have a teacher and a construction mgr in the family. I would love to get into one of these eventually since they are now grown, married, starting families and own their own homes ❤️ you are right it’s never too late 🥰 it’s beautiful!
I’ve seen people living in regular houses and their neighborhood is the definition of trailer trash. Not everyone can afford to live in that are for that amount.
You could have built a house in any normal neighborhood for what you paid for building that out. I mean you could have built a very nice log cabin kit home Ali private piece of property for that amount of money. A friend of mine bought acreage on a little river in the middle of nowhere upper Michigan built a beautiful A-frame log cabin it's like a storybook village and they paid about 120 including perking the septic. They're only monthly cost is taxes and internet in Texas on sold state land is absolutely nothing out there
Keyword is Texas in the middle of nowhere. Not everyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere specially in Texas. She lives in one of the most desirable and beautiful places in the country and she has every modern convenience close by.
Being that I'm a graduate of CU-Boulder and lived there years ago, I can tell that A LOT commenters have NO idea of the cost to live there! Heck, even HGTV's House Hunters had to acknowledge that cost of housing out there. Nice tiny house and lot rent at a cheaper prices than the current regular Boulder SFH prices. BK
It’s actually bigger than my Manhattan apartment! However, ultimately it seems pretty ridiculous to put so much money into a depreciating asset that you still have to pay rent on the land for.
On the other hand.... It becomes a math calculation for many. Pumping money today into a mortgage, with current rates, years of interest payments, and in a single-family housing market mostly in decline, at 51 this lady probably did the right thing for herself. As an 'asset', you're correct, will probably never appreciate. So like a car, that type of home is a 'tool', and that's how it should be seen. There are many other categories of asset investments available that, at this stage in her life, she can indeed explore and choose from. (Words from a Gen-X person.)
Let’s be realistic , even if she owned the land, she would still have to pay property taxes. 🙄🤷🏾♀️ So if she is paying for renting the lot, it’s the same equivalent of paying property taxes, which by the way increases , also utilities and property upkeep. No matter what you own, there will always be some type of expense you would need to pay for owning that residence.’ It sounds like Colorado is expensive to own property, so I’m sure the property taxes are also high to pay too. I live in New York (Long Island suburbs) & property taxes can range from $6,000 (school & general taxes) to $20,000 and up depending on the community. As long as you live in this world you will be paying for some type of expenses to survive and make ends meet.
Love your story and of course your "tiny" which looks huge. I really love the kitchen area. Well done. When you get ready to check out Oregon, we have a spot for you in wine country outside Eugene. 🙂
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Love the house and the movement, but the video is misleading af - its like saying "I paid $1M for this house and spend $0 per month living in it - video title Living in a million dollar house for $0 a month unlocked"
175k is not expensive. Think for a second before reacting! An average sized house with an equal level of detail, cabinetry, in every corner and on every wall would cost at least $300-400/sqft to build. This house includes the main expensive items: a bathroom, kitchen, and millwork; It's just packed more densely. One can easily imagine spreading all that expensive detail across a 1500sqft home, and still be luxurious.
Look I'm happy for her but a 175,000 dollars you can build a very nice home anywhere for that if you spend $175 on a single-family home in a normal run-of-the-mill neighborhood you could sell it for $300,000 easily I have friends of the family that just built a home on 20 acres in upper Michigan on the Manistee River it's so beautiful it's breathtaking and they'd spent 120 on the entire building cluding the perking the land for septic. And it's a beautiful glass front A-frame log cabin with everything and it's not small by any means. I think 175,000 is absurd. Yes I'm happy for her and if I could meet her I would gladly move in with her she's gorgeous LOL wow I can't believe I let that slip but no 170 $5,000 and then to have a $750 monthly bill on top of it too much
@@ClownWhisper you absolutely could not “build a very nice home anywhere” for that price, especially not Boulder. Apples to oranges trying to compare building a home in Boulder, where land alone is MINIMUM $1 mil, to building one in Manistee Michigan
175k is not expensive if you are rich. But for someone with an average income, 175k is expensive, especially for a 1-person house on wheels. Tiny houses are cool, but the whole point is that they are affordable for people with lower income.
You can pay 175k for a real house though. And most of us don't have friends to loan us 90k. I thought a point of tiny homes was supposed to be affordability.
It is very affordable for her area. Please tell me though, where you can get a house that is not a total fixer upper for $175,000. Those start at $500,000 & up in my area.
@@Whackpacky I'm not saying it's right. However, some can afford a $200,000 house (if they can find one) or some can afford a million dollar house. Everyone has differenct income streams. I just don't think it's right to judge. It's her choice and her money.
Have two ideas to solve the water pipe issue during cold weather. 1 - Add insulations around the pipe and the space. 2 - Wrap low wattage heating wires around the pipes exposed to the element.
Living in a small house, a choice. The way the economy is going, this will be the future how most people will live, like it or not. Housing prices will eventually become non-affordable.
Pretty incredible result for the money. I'm glad that she mentioned her challenges as well. The first builder she bought the home from disappearing on her, the issues with her water/plumbing which then begs the question, is this something that was not done properly by the second builder, and, before any of that, not being able to get a bank loan thereby needing to rely on a friend for the money. What if this friend did not exist, then what? That's why it's always important to check your finances first as well as check with a lender to see what you'd qualify for before beginning any kind of home purchase. Often these videos make everything seem so rosy and simple. So I'm glad she was honest. Good for her. She turned out to be very resilient but also had a little luck on her side. I wish her well.
I CANT BELIEVE THAT I HAVE LIVED IN PARADISE ON 100 hectares of protected land , with people in the property that became best friends ; FREE OF RENT . OUR OWN SATELITE INTERNET BEFORE STARLINK CAME OUT . NO NEED FOR RENT . 1 hectare for all ; COMMUNITY GARDEN . JUST FREEDOM
My husband of 30 years asked for a divorce to go back to his ex-wife who he was married to for less than a year in 1986-87 time frame. I am devastated. 😢. Hopefully I can land on my feet. God has a plan for me I’m sure. This was inspiring. Blessings and Peace ✝️❤️
Small by American standards but for the rest of the world that house is huge but I don't mean it wrong. Is beautiful and I would love to have one like that
Thank you so much for sharing your tiny home! This is exactly what I was looking for on utube! You’ve given me lots of great info. And I love your tiny home also. Best investment. 👏
You need to seriously INSULATE YOUR HOSE, I also believe there's a way to run a small electrical wire to keep it from freezing but you'll have to find an old school "OG", homesteader for that one or maybe check or ask homesteading websites, there's also a guy in RU-vid who can heat his house (small areas) with terracotta planter pots etc...
Good for you and may God bless. God BLESS your “friend” who loaned you $90,000!!! 🙏🏻🙌The bank loan is THE only thing that is stopping me from building the THOW I spent 8 years designing. Prayers for someone to help me. My husband died. I work but bank denied my loan🥺😭
Terminator TSW please accept my sincerest condolences for the loss of your beloved husband. I know it’s tough losing you partner and trying to transition from a dual income to a single income. Praying that you are able to rebound emotionally and financially, and will find a solution for your living arrangements & expenses. Unsure what your age is, but if your able to stay with a parent for a year or two to get your finances in order perhaps that will help you save $$ to buy a condo at least , so it may be another affordable option vs getting a single home (and loan ). Just a suggestion. Hoping that everything works out in the long run. Best wishes.
The developers made really good use of the space! Doesn’t seem crowded. I really like her home I agree with lots of other commenters $175k to build +$750 rent seems high. But I bet this is still a huge step down from what she had.
Especially because the headline is living in a tiny home for $725 a month, with no loan repayment factored in. It's a beautiful home for sure, but $200k for 340 sf home (that depreciates, so it's not an asset) is pretty high.
$750 rent is pocket change in comparison to most major city rents across the country. That's less than a bargain. I know people who pay more just to rent property land for a trailer house.
