Very Livable Tiny House

Tiny House for Sale - $25k

Rather than tell the whole story here, I'll try to mostly stick to some of the details you'd want to know while considering a tiny house purchase. If you're interested, just ask, we'd be happy to talk about how the house came to be and its life so far. And of course, you'll want to come have a look for yourself. A visit will help answer a lot of questions.

We began building the house on a pice of property in Cedar Park, TX in February 2011 and it took almost a year before we had it "completed". One end of the house does not have the siding installed yet, but I will complete that before the sale of the house. There are a couple other small projects that I will complete before the sale of the house as well and I can talk about that when you're out looking at the house.
We lived in the house from around March of 2011 until July of 2013.

The house is 10 feet wide, 25 feet long = 250 square feet of living space. Even more if you include the sleeping loft space.

The house is fully plumbed in the kitchen and bathroom with hot and cold water. Currently there is a connection on the outside of the house for a garden style hose as the water supply. The connector can be changed out for a permanent connection if desired.
Hot water is provided by a propane fired tankless water heater. There is a 50lb propane tank that sits on a little concrete pad. The tank goes with the house.

There is a propane fired two burner stove top in the kitchen.
The kitchen is a free standing IKEA kitchen with an additional custom bamboo cabinet to complete the space. Mostly stainless counter tops other than the bamboo cabinet top section.

The television seen in the photos is not included with the house. The dresser in the living room is no longer in the house. And the shoe cabinet in the bathroom is no longer in the house. My wife would be more than happy to talk about furniture ideas and we could talk about including or adding items to the house as a condition of the sale for some agreed upon price if interested. I'm just saying, we had to be creative to build the house in the first place and that creativity extends into all areas of our life, so we're going to be thinking creatively as we work on the sale of the house as well. That should benefit everyone involved I think.

The floors are bamboo.

The walls are 3/8 drywall. All the trim is unfinished pine. The ceiling is pine. The baseboard is the only non pine trim and is painted white.

Bathroom has a sink and a regular size tub. The bathroom also has an exhaust fan which keeps the humidity down during lovely extended hot showers. It also provides another very important function. . .

We used a sawdust toilet. The bathroom could be set up with a regular toilet piped to a sewer system, a composting toilet, or a regular toilet piped to a holding tank.

All dual pane windows and door.

The walls and ceiling are insulated with fiberglass insulation. There is no insulation under the floor, yet. During extended Texas cold snaps, the interior never got uncomfortable so we weren't motivated to do floor insulation.

We installed and then removed a propane heater because it was too much heat. We found, surprisingly, that a small electric fan/heater was plenty to keep the place warm when it was real cold outside.

Cooling comes from a mini-split AC system. Condenser is outside the house and the evaporator is inside above the front door. It does a great job and is very quiet.

Ceiling fan does a great job of moving air around in the space.

The electric panel has room for expansion. We planned to install a deck around the house with a place for a washer and likely an electric dryer. The electric panel is capable of providing a 220v circuit for that purpose. Most of the outlets and utilities have their own breaker, but the lighting is all on one circuit because I planned on running low voltage lighting on that circuit at some point.

There is a coax cable already in the wall at two locations for a TV. We used an antenna for an OTA signal but the coax could also be connected to a cable service provider.

There is also Ethernet cable in those same locations. It also runs outside.

Since the house is 10 feet wide, it cannot be transported on the highway without a permit. I have read that such a permit costs around $150. I never confirmed that.

It was discovered more recently that apparently while the trailer was still a Rambler RV, one of the axle bearings detonated, got real hot, and ruined the one hub. SO, that axle would need to be replaced. And in fact I'd just replace them both for around $1500. . . BUT, I believe it will probably make more sense to just pay the right professionals to move the house. I've gotten quotes to move the house for a LOT less than the cost of replacing the axles. And since we never intended to move the house often due to the 10 foot width, new axles wouldn't be a good investment. It depends on how the house is used I suppose and the choice of new axles verses just removing the old ones and hiring a professional mover could be decided during the sale.

We love our tiny house and wish we could keep it, but we feel that selling it is the wisest decision for us right now. Hopefully there's someone out there that will love and enjoy and benefit from it as much as we have.

Thanks for your interest - Steve and Wendy

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