If you do, your older than the dirt your buried in! The last ones were sold in 1940. That would mean you’re at least in your late 80’s or into your 90’s or more. If you are still alive and cantankerous!
My grandparents house was a Sears house. Two story nice farm house. The neighbor had the same house except a door in the back where my grands had a pantry.
@@americanrambler4972 My father pointed out one to me about 50 years ago. I'm 71. Any one interested in history of old house knows about Sears catalog homes.
After WW2 there were a lot of homeless people in the UK and the Gov built prefabricated homes to house them, there still are some left and people still live in them, and that's nearly 80 years of continuous occupation!
384 sq ft. So many people would appreciate this home! Thank you for a wonderful idea! We single seniors could actually live on our social security in this home.
This is a great idea. Put in a nice wood stove, solar panels, and fix it up to be a home. Least they’d be out of the rain and elements and you don’t need to pay rent. It’s yours.
My autistic grandson dreams of having this exact Tuffshed out on our ranch in the Texas hill country. I know one day soon he will be able to realize his dream. Thanks for this post. He did love the second floor and he is 6’4”. When we go to HomeDepot he always checks it out.
Same with our 22 yr old son. We intend to do this and give him some sense of independence and responsibilities of his own. We think it would be really good for him. He is a little over 6 ft too. God bless and I hope your grandson gets his wish. There are all kinds of organizations, or maybe a local church, that might offer to help with the costs. I would look into it, as people are always looking for something like this to do for someone who would benefit so much from it. God bless ❤ 🙏
That is wonderful. My autistic son is great with a garden and wants the same thing. Years ago we were looking for a shed for our home and he said, this would make a great home. I said "no way is my kid living in a shed" and here we are and I want one now too. Look up Country Road Cure online they did everything themselves. The great journey in Arkansas building on land.
Good mornin Rusty! Some just have such closed minds that not even the tiniest of light could ever shine in.. Sad, but true. I bought my 320 sq ft home in Dec 2016- the day before being diagnosed with breast cancer. I started living in it in 2017, after I made it all I wanted it to be. ( mine was part of the barracks from FT. Huachuca 1965 ) If I did this, anyone can. Let the negative nellies keep their neck high debt and worries. Have a most wonderful week Rusty... BIG hugs from near FT. Huachuca- AZ. KIM 🙂
These people that write think that some of the people who do this and even 'vanlife' are homeless and think only some expensive traditional homes are only homes there really are! Screw those people! GO OUT AND LIVE!!!
What I would like to find is a place with large machine shed some Call them pole barn.Then put my RV inside of it and let them think I just bought a place with a storage building.Would be my Home base.Pull the RV out to travel and come home to my secret home base when not traveling
My sis in law had her camper next to the pole barn. Slept in that and fixed up a nice living area in half the barn. Lived like that til they built their house.
Well, a decent carpenter could make a simplistic drawing from measurements and might be able to build it as seen for maybe $3,000 - $5,000 materials cost. But finish out (insulation, walls, electrical, flooring) just might 2x or 3x that.
I actually like the idea of putting in my own insulation. My dream is to dig and finish a basement then place a little house like this on top. I need room to do my canning and food storage. Thank you for this video.
People with closed minds don't survive when nip-n-tuck times are upon them. Great idea. If it won't fit where you live? Then move. Zone me in is akin to "don't fence me in". Great presentation Rusty...
Thank you! Things have gotten quite expensive where I live. My daughter and fiancé are being priced out of the market and we live in the country with 6 acres. Lots and houses go on sale here now and they’re gone in a day and the prices are crazy now. I have water, power and septic already installed at the rear of our property, this would be a great choice for them!
I could live in there easy. I'd put a wood stove in there, a compost toilet, air fryer, mini fridge and few solar panels, and get one of those galvanized tubs for bathing. You don't even need the toilet. Just build an outhouse and do big business outside.
I did walk through both floors of one of these at a Home Depot in Indiana. It did strike me as a livable place for one or two people. However, I would invest in upgrades. There is so much you can do yourself: insulation, flooring, painting, etc. Be sure to check all building requirements where you hope to build first.
Great starting house! These are better than a “tiny house” and much cheaper! You can always improve your interior on how you want. Thanks for the tour. ❤
I'd be happy with something like that but I'd need help with the inside because I'm close to 80 years old. I would like to live somewhere I could have my dogs, a garden and some peace and quiet. Thanks for showing me that it's possible 😁
All it needs is plumbing, electric, hvac, insulation, drywall, paint, cabinets, trim, flooring, appliances, and landscaping. Its almost complete! Oh dont forget land and permits. 😂😂
Throw $20K for all that and you're still under $50K is what he was getting at. Hell the HVAC could be a 10k btu window ac downstairs and a 5000k upstairs and for heat a cheap wood stove. Thats $2k if not less there.. I think if you can get everything else and DiY it and come out at $50K that's still a hell of a lot cheaper.
I just bought an entire kitchen cabinet set for $30 -- by removing it from a place that was being upgraded. Just walked up and asked to buy it. Why would anybody even think they had to buy new to put in something like this? HVAC? Get serious. Wood stove & windows 😂😂😂😂
Any place except heavily forested land, county government has overhead imaging of your lot and it's not difficult for them to know if you are full-time. However, it is legal to live in a shed as you wish in many rural places, and some sparsely populated counties do allow you to build your own septic. But I can't think of any counties in Arizona (where I live) where you can build and use an outhouse, cesspool, cat holes or burn pit to do your business anymore. If you are rural here though, septic is sometimes ALL you need to move in and stay. Big 👍 on this video.
You could retrofit it with sprayed torn demin or anything to insulate, septic field can done DIY in a few hours according to youtube walkthroughs, same can be said for the drill rental or if your into making your own drill from recycling, it's been done before. I researched about geothermal and theres two ways to heat your home for free with a few not many solar panels, heatpumps can be from a retrofit to a air conditioner or bought 2nd hand. If money matters, shop for used but recyclable. Grab a land lot in the middle of rural areas if done with the city.
@@Mike-v4c5l He is confused by your comment, because it really doesnt have to cost as much if not shopping for paying as much as possible. Land lots can even be like 5 grand depending on the area, even very close to shopping etc if location needs to include that for your conveniences. Banks and townships both list their holdings of real estate inventory they dont want to have to keep mowing the lawns for, so they are open to offers. I heard philly has something like 20,000 empty homes in their inventory for example, and florida is full of cleared lots ready to install various housing onto, check with limits though or they wont let you call it a residence. Other cheaper solutions are to keep wheels underneath the otherwise shed kit, like a camper has you can put trim for cheap around so it wont look like a camper. I saw someone last night make a super affordable water heater with some metal plumbing parts and a small heating element added. Home can have luxury without cost.
@truetech4158 Then try finishing a rough building and get back to us, I have worked at lumber yards, selling sheds, additions and houses, as well as building my own.18k for a rough shed is an average price, turning it into a house means you need everything else.
If lightning strikes twice, Rusty will be looking for another property to buy, or another RV to buy, or another car to buy. But he might do that anyway, with or without a viral video. Never a dull moment.
Where I live we call that siding Hardi T1-11. They make a lot of trim also. We built a 480 square foot place here in Alaska on a full foundation 11 years ago and all in it was about $100 grand. I did the wiring including the meter base by the road and plumbing The weathering in of a building is the cheapest part of construction. It cost me $4,500 for some framers that had the place weathered in after one day and that is double stud walls.. A few acres of land ,septic, well, power and foundation cost me about $70 grand 11 years ago. We have an off-road place also. Now I’m finishing a duplex and my wife and I will be traveling around down south in the fall and winter.
I really appreciate these videos, It feels like I'm talking to my southern granddad (god rest his soul) about buying this and he is just happy I'm living my life as he would be. I hope you're doing well in life Rusty
Memories like the corner of my mind 🎷🎺🎻🎸Nice tour Rusty I remember when you did a walk through a couple years back and went upstairs. Any thing is possible if we want it bad enough 👍 Much love and many blessings
Another use for this great TuffShed would be to put it on a lot with a pre-existing home where zoning allows for a guest home. Many people rent out their guest homes. You could use it as income property. No doubt it would pay for itself fairly quickly. Just a thought . . .
Cities are making it extremely hard to do this. Mine for example requires a license to rent a bathroom and a room out of the home I own, and to pay hotel taxes to city and State. It is considered a short term rental, if you want to use it as a guest house in my city (Austin). Also, the separate guest house would require a city inspector to come out. It’s a lot more complicated than people think.
@@Catsandchickens I'm in Arizona and understand another state or city may restrict the rental. Here in Arizona it is permitted unless a subdivision has specific Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions that would bar the use as Austin does. I would think investigation into any such issues would fall under the same due diligence umbrella regardless of where it was placed. Have a wonderful day! 😊
You can buy a used 5th wheel, up to 400 square ft. Park in an RV park in AZ. Buy a second one in the north, same deal. park it permanently in the 2 RV parks. No pick up truck needed. The used 5th wheels you should be buy able for 30 k or less each. Then you have nice weather year round. Another option could be to buy a house in an area where house prices are depressed because of low demand. You can buy some pretty cheap houses that way.
Great video! Would be awesome on some unrestricted land, you could actually put it on a foundation and have a basement if you wanted. Great video, thanks! 👍🏼
What bothers me is how laws and rules and zoning are all set up to make housing expensive. Housing could be so much cheaper. Most places have "minimum size" requirements that eliminate tiny homes for the most part right off. Then you have permits and a lot of times the permit will be outright denied with no recourse. Then you have "building codes" and inspections and all that to deal with even if you can get "permission". What would allow housing to become affordable is to mix up sheds and mobile homes and tiny homes. Offer modular portable units with a default width of 8ft and a length up to 32ft (this would allow transport on pretty much all roads without permits or pilot cars or other expensive things). Have these units by default be bare, like sheds in a way. The buyer can buy bare and do the finishing themselves, or have it finished at the factory or a third party. If you can live with a space of 8ft x 32ft, you would only need one unit. If you need more, say you have a family and want more room, get two or three units and have them be able to be connected in a modular way. Need to expand your family? Buy and bring in another unit. This kind of setup would allow the manufacturer to mass produce the bare units for a much lower cost, kind of how mobile homes used to be really affordable at one point. If the end structure is a single story, add the roof module and siding modules and you have a weather-tight structure. If you use RV like wiring (mobile homes at one point did this), you could literally just plug the unit into a plug at the power pole and you have electric. If you use RV like plumbing, you could connect the water via a heated hose. No worries of it freezing, easy to connect, and it can be made to last as long as any other part of the plumbing system. The big problem is that this would cause some industries to lose money and bribery is a thing that happens all the time. Good luck getting the laws and rules and such changed/in place to allow such a logical, modular, and affordable housing option.
More of a question would be is what county is going to allow you to live in this structure. That would be the first consideration outside of anything additional.
Great idea if you own a piece of land and just want a small affordable shelter place to crash and sleep. Finish off interior and you're good. Get a compost toilet and have a simple kitchenette.😊
The shed is very well built. You should see new home constructions. If you ever upgrade the staircase and flooring, you know what I mean. The staircases look worse than old pallet wood; the floors are not even; and there are all kinds of trash behind the drywall.
Love it! My brother has something like this as his writing shed. If you stay off-the-grid, store boxes and camping equipment in it, things should be fine
480 sq ft?? over 400 dollars per...unfinished?? on a lot...septic,wiring,foundation,inside walls,kitchen, paint....That is a 50k home...and more...heating and air... I had a 720 sq ft house trailer given to me...use it for storage...behind my barn...
A couple of years ago, when I began to watch some of the shed repossession videos. I was surprised to see a number of those repossessed sheds had been converted into living units or homes. Those guys had acquired those sheds and made them into living units instead of paying the bill on the shed, so they were being reposed. And then I saw some videos of people buying them and making them into homes. At first I was appalled primarily because of the lack of foundations and support for those units for living purposes and the lack of proper wiring and plumbing being up to code. I considered them unfit for habitation due to my perceived safety and risk factors. I was and am still concerned they don’t have proper structural site support. I considered the flooring and its sub structure very suspect for long term use. I am still not convinced these are good for permanent housing solutions, but I have come around quite a bit on the use of these for living spaces. But I am a whole lot more willing to accept these as temporary homes and additional auxiliary living units like the old garage apartments of years past. People live in old dilapidated shacks, travel trailers and house trailers whose condition is much worse than one of these sheds will be. There are a whole lot of people and families where one of these sheds set up as a home unit would be a huge improvement in over their current housing situation. So my opinion on living in one of these has improved considerably. If something like this is all you can afford, or can be configured for what you need and want, then so long as it’s compatible for the area you’re placing it in, go for it. These would make for good he, she or kids sheds.
Make sure you check. Many won't place on cender blocks. I have been researching and you need 4 inch concrete slabs. They won't place on if it's 6 inch (which is recommended by a lot of people). I would dig down 2 inches and pour 6, that way 4 inches is what it's being delivered on.
Just save and wait for the next housing market crash. That is what I'm doing. 2011 I paid 17k for a 1000 sq ft house on an acre of land. Last person to buy the house before me paid 100K for it just before the housing market crash. I just resold the house last year for 110K. Now, I have that in the bank while I live in the Sprinter van I DIY converted for fishing.
That $18000 shed has about $4500 in materials in it. The siding is crap T1-11. The roof is shingles not metal. The reviewer doesnt know what he is talking about. The Idea of using a shed as a tiny home is not original and not a bad idea. But you can buil he shed yousel in a few days o a lot less money.
ugly and over priced. I did not watch the video because this shed is so depressing looking. The price must be 3/4 or more labor charge because the materials in this thing are very little of the price.
It's a shame people are having to consider a shed for a home because housing costs are so out of touch with wage. The federal reserve has destroyed the value of a dollar and what one man could do for a family. I would consider this and a 40 conex shipping container for storage.
That is probably T1-11 siding what about utilities that will outweigh the costs of the structure plus someone that owns a tough shed that siding only lasts about 6-7 years
Yes you are correct but a trailer is not a house. I owned a large Airstream with the rare pop out and we found it claustrophobic. He likes the two story shed.
Hi Rusty..i love your positive outlook and your open mind.. it will surely keep you young..i really like that you see the possibilities and the positive parts of new tech that can be used to circumvent the downsides of modern life.. yes houses are ridiculous price wise.. thank you corporations and investers for buying up everything after 2008.. and renting them out or air bnb.. so prices sky rocketed because so many houses are permanently off market and yet still nobody really can buy them.. many set vacant a majority of the time.. good on you for helping find a way around the predicament these young generations are in.. you do what you can with what you have! Absolutely!
You would've made a wonderful salesman for this tiny home and others like it. I would offer you a job for Home Depot if I were the boss because of how well you give the facts straight to the point.
I thought about this myself if you can find a nice location that would be a nice place to throw your hat and you can slowly upgrade it as you go along thank you sir for your content
Hi Rusty. On the tiny home shed idea. I get the solar possibilities and the water collection attachment but could you explain please the sewage waste different short cuts. Thanks Rusty. Love your videos.
If I was going to do this. I would elevate the shed enough to use a biogas toilet. Not only can you use it with no septic permit (in most places), but it produces gas you can cook with. Look for homebiogas.
