Closed on mine last April. 3BR/2BA, brick, double garage, on an almost-half acre lot. Payment is presently $611/month, will be going down to about $550/month next year when I can qualify for the homestead exemption on property taxes.
VA loan, 30 years fixed @ 5.5%, nothing down.
Housing is a lot cheaper in the rural South than it is elsewhere, apparently.
Downside is I’m too far out in the country to get high speed internet at home, so no more WoW/CoH for me 
These Tiny Houses are totally cool but you’d have to find a place to park.
that was in hong kong, not the seattle people…and a lot of their life went on in the hallways, articles have mentioned that they set cots up in the halls to sleep when it is hot.
Although mrAru just pointed out that I frequently spend almost all my time in the bedroom, which is 11 feet by 9 feet, the computer is in there, and currently I am working on a hospital table while sitting up in my bed as my feet are giving me issues today. I have a melitta 1:1 pod brewer, and he lugs water in by the gallon for it, and I tend to get my meals and bring them back in to eat. I have the tv, dvd and cable in here, and frequently he will play eve or wow on my desktop while I play on the laptop.
Though personally if I were to get one of those microapartments, I would actually want my own furniture, not theirs…
I really like this concept house it is German, and designed to be plunked down on top of buildings, though I see it settled into a freshwater lakefront surrounded with trees. Only thing I couldn’t deal with is the rocks on the bathroom floor, it needs to be wheelchairable.
Oh those tiny houses are lovely! OK a lot less space than the place I rent now but my spare bedroom is seldom used and only stores some boxes, and the tiny house would FORCE me to keep tidy - no space to leave stuff around the kitchen and leave books all over my bedroom floor, and keep stuff that really should go to the charity shop and keep dead computers that should be recycled or re-homed etc. Ah wait, can’t remember if tiny house man said anything about washing machine in his video tour. They’re gorgeous though.
I’m living in a 700 square feet (about 64 m^2) apartment, and I could live in a slightly smaller place, but hell, I like having a fairly decent (if small) kitchen and separate bedroom too much.
Also: my total montly costs for BUYING the place I live in is only a bit higher than that.
ETA: and I have a garden 
Those houses have a horrible ratio of volume to surface area. Unless he doesn’t use any heat or air-conditioning, an apartment would be much more energy-efficient.
My house is 1,800 sq feet, 3 bedrooms, 1/3 acre, huge garage- $800 a month mortgage and taxes. Bought 5 years ago. Cheaper than renting a 2 bedroom apartment in the same town.
My last place was half way across the country from here, I bought a big 2 bedroom mobile home for $4,000 and paid $200 a month lot rent in a park.
The utilities for those 2 places might be another $200 a month. So total $1,000 and $400 a month.
$600 a month for a 10 by 10 foot room? That must be a really wonderful place to live for that price to live in a closet!
I briefly did live in a house 100 sq ft place. It also had a communal kitchen. I had a custom-made loft bed with a closet and desk underneath. I have to say that it wasn’t super comfortable but it did the job. Students and young people sometimes have no other choice.
Now that I live in a place 30 times as big, I have to say that I sometimes miss the simplicity of it all, even when our place is stark by most people’s standards. I like simple, kids do not mix well with simple though.
I can live in the University co-ops in Austin for about that. $659/month for a single room attached to a house with a large and comfortable dining room and living room area, all utilities and food paid, but they generally only admit students and you have to do chores. The single room I had when I lived there was about 8 x 14, a real shoebox with a small closet and a teensy bathroom. You could lean forward wash your hands in the sink while you sat on the toilet, and you could reach to your right to turn on the shower. It was quite comfortable and I’d do it again. If I got rid of all my stuff I could do this and the thought doesn’t trouble me overly, though I’d have to upgrade my Audible membership and sell my books.
To me, though, that’s a totally different situation. You have access to a living-room, and a real kitchen. In that situation, I just wouldn’t go in the bedroom except to sleep. I’ve certainly lived in tiny bedrooms (about 40 square feet for two years is the most impressive acheivement) and it was fine, but not if it’s your whole house.
I’m fairly atypical, though, since I hate the idea of a one-person house to begin with, and I know that’s not a majority opinion these days
The article mentions a communal kitchen with a food locker. Pretty much the same arrangement I had.
Which way did you do the conversion? 700ft = 213m which is quite a large apartment.
Reminds me of a gag in Alejandro Jodorowski’s Holy Mountain.
Developer: “It’s not a home, it’s a shelter. If we can sell them on the idea of a shelter, we can make a fortune!”
square meters. 1 meter = 3.28 feet. 1 square meter = 3.28 feet x 3.28 feet = 10.76 feet^2
No, the “living room” was only used as a kitchen by the upstairs people. There was no real living room. It really was my room + bathrooom + kitchen.
Sounds like a dorm. I couldn’t do it. I don’t like having other people that close.
StG
I’ve lived in the barracks before. I could do it again, if you put a gun to my head. But only if.
I think I could do it as an experiment. I have been fascinated with this topic since I was a child when my aunt gave me a coffee table book called something like “Tiny Houses”. However, I wouldn’t want anyone else to design and build it for me, I would look at it more like engineers do for space missions where every square inch counts. For instance, the couch and the bed would have to be one in the same but not a pullout. It would have to be equally good for sitting and sleeping. Storage would have to be creative and attractive probably lining the walls. The kitchen could be less than 4 feet wide if it is designed correctly. The bathroom would have to be incredibly small but check out the ones they have in Europe sometime. They make due. I have a 3000 square foot house and an 800 square foot apartment and both of them are too big for the purposes they serve. Mine would have to be freestanding though or, otherwise, you get into the dorm situation mentioned above and I am not 18 years old anymore.
I had the same reaction. I remember when I was growing up, my parents paid around $3,000/month for a place they purchased in the very early 1990’s. Our housing market is crazy, though.