The system is set up to knock people down, for sure.
Comment on Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
$120k for a tiny home is an absolute ripoff, and no one should be paying even half of that.
I love the idea of tiny homes, and I want one on my property one day probably for my kid/s to live in when they’re a bit older and want some independence, but there are a few problems.
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Councils. Bloody councils. Regulations are through the roof and confusing as all hell. Application fees are stupidly expensive - in my area they increased the fees by like $5k since covid while pushing the idea of people building them! Last I checked the application fee and everything that goes with it was $28k here, and if you get denied you don’t get any of that back. Greedy pieces of shit they are. Depending on different things to do with the dwelling might mean it needs to be built as a “secondary dwelling” or a stand-alone new home, and as such the regulations and costs vary wildly. Having them on wheels/a trailer is a workaround, but even then you can only legally live in one in the same space for 6 months I believe it was, before having to move to a different place.
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Land to put it on. You can’t just build a tiny home on a trailer and just pull up somewhere and live there. Your home build is actually only a minority cost in buying a home and land package - you can build a regular full house for like $150k, but you need the land to put it on. Even a 400msq2 block these days can be $500k easily or more depending on location.
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guismo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Thanks for the information. It confirms my impression that my dream is impossible.
I wanted to build my own house myself, which is a massive challenge. But the idea that it will be made twice as difficult because of other people, not the challenge itself, made me give it up. I wouldn’t have the emotional stability to tolerate that.
I’m not a fucking corporation wanting to profit from other people’s work. I just want a place to live! I fully support all possible regulations and fees scaling with the intended profit and people hired, but how come someone wanting to get a place to live have to put up with the same as someone wanting profit? Or worse, usually even more, since parasites have many ways of avoiding tax and other things…
And the price of land is a consequence of the same issue: that the market is made for “investors”, vampires, undead and other horrors.
The rest, septic tanks, solar system, etc, they are just natural parts of the challenge. Nothing to complain on that, quite the opposite; how easy it is now to generate your own energy with solar is a great show of progress. There will be costs with that, or with linking to the structure someone else paid and provided.