the mystery of where to park the tiny house. The question boils down to a few options:
1. Buy a house and park it in the yard.
2. Find someone nice and park in their yard.
3. Find an RV park that permits them.
4. Buy unrestricted land.
Considering that saving money is one of the main reasons why we chose a tiny house and that we wanted to stay in a specific area, number 2 was our preferred option. And to be honest, for us, having a place to park the tiny house went hand in hand with buying the tiny house. If we didn’t have a palace for it, I’m not sure if we would have chosen a tiny house. We are blessed to be able to live on Alex’s parents’ property. If we couldn’t stay here, we would have searched for another family member/friend/friend of friend and asked them to rent their yard. Basically any house that permits an RV to be stored on the property shouldn’t have a problem with a tiny house being stored on the property.
I read through the zoning laws thoroughly. Houses are zoned as city, rural residential, rural estate, or rural agriculture. City has the most restrictions, with specific neighborhoods adding more restrictions. Over in rural agriculture, just abou anything goes. The difference between rural residential and rural estate is that rural estate properties have 3+ acres and rural residential has fewer than 3 acres. That’s where we live. We’re about 5 miles outside of town on a property with a well and a septic tank. We we hook up to their water and electricity, but have a composting toilet.
I think I would prefer to be on property closer to my city’s downtown because I love walking and biking places and being involved in that community, but this works for now. We have a big yard and are able to stay connected with our family.
Eventually, we would like to buy our own property. At that point, we will have to investigate the zoning laws of the area in which we choose to settle. Until then- our tiny house is happy here!
1. Buy a house and park it in the yard.
2. Find someone nice and park in their yard.
3. Find an RV park that permits them.
4. Buy unrestricted land.
Considering that saving money is one of the main reasons why we chose a tiny house and that we wanted to stay in a specific area, number 2 was our preferred option. And to be honest, for us, having a place to park the tiny house went hand in hand with buying the tiny house. If we didn’t have a palace for it, I’m not sure if we would have chosen a tiny house. We are blessed to be able to live on Alex’s parents’ property. If we couldn’t stay here, we would have searched for another family member/friend/friend of friend and asked them to rent their yard. Basically any house that permits an RV to be stored on the property shouldn’t have a problem with a tiny house being stored on the property.
I read through the zoning laws thoroughly. Houses are zoned as city, rural residential, rural estate, or rural agriculture. City has the most restrictions, with specific neighborhoods adding more restrictions. Over in rural agriculture, just abou anything goes. The difference between rural residential and rural estate is that rural estate properties have 3+ acres and rural residential has fewer than 3 acres. That’s where we live. We’re about 5 miles outside of town on a property with a well and a septic tank. We we hook up to their water and electricity, but have a composting toilet.
I think I would prefer to be on property closer to my city’s downtown because I love walking and biking places and being involved in that community, but this works for now. We have a big yard and are able to stay connected with our family.
Eventually, we would like to buy our own property. At that point, we will have to investigate the zoning laws of the area in which we choose to settle. Until then- our tiny house is happy here!