You get what you pay for. Not hard to msg the seller and ask for a scale video of it when opened up. I mean if you are spending more than 1000 and not using due diligence on the item and making sure its correct, then you deserve to be taught why you should. Its like buying a car. You don't go do it alone or unguided if you have no idea about the market and issues you can have. Size of the item is the first thing you check when buying anything online thats cheaper than it should be in your head.
@@drunkpaulocosta that's not what they were saying? m8, the guy in the video didn't ask for an upgrade, he GOT one once amazon heard that he would be making a video about it, probably assuming it would be a review. considering the fact that it is a PLASTIC, UNFOLDABLE HOUSE, they likely wanted to make sure he'd be more inclined to say good things about the product, even if it sucks
"I will make someone pay me to live in a plastic improvise temporary house and make it their problem." This is a really a step on become a weird billionaire without having the money.
Are you fuckers living in Airbnb’s or something? You’re only supposed to use those for like a week at most. Why is everyone acting like he’s forcing people to live in the shack by offering to set people live in the shack. Lol
One time I had to find a new place on short notice and I ended up relying on AirBnB. I'd say roughly 100% of the places I stayed fit this description. One of them was a bedroom next to this lady's illegal grow operation (literally, between that room and the bathroom).
Much respect to Danny Gonzalez for actually bringing up how wrong it is to make an AirBnB out of one of these tiny houses that the guy who bought it himself wouldn't even live in.
No fr, the min he said that i was like, thank god he said what everyone was thinking, cuz holy shit how unsafe this sounds struck me, im shocked that guy in the tiktok felt it would be a good idea to rent it 😭😭😭
I was all ready to be sympathetic to the guy because this being the only path to homeownership for a lot of people is absolutely depressing and then he hit us with the “I’ll just turn it into an Airbnb” and those feelings quickly turned into rage lmao
I really dislike the article suggesting tiny homes are an affordable option, the expensive part of the home is the land it has to go on. Prefabs allow you to assemble a neighbourhood quickly but they don’t actually do much of anything to reduce the price of housing. Prefab homes have been around for a long time and they haven’t prevented housing markets from exploding.
People looking at tiny homes, prefab, and whatever, rarely get beyond the enthusiasm point because as you said LAND. A lot of people do not consider the land aspect, nor water, sewage, power, etc. It's a pipe dream for most and not thought out. Once you pay a small fortune for the land, living in a shed on it seems less appealing. There is cheap land, but it's a long commute, and if people with no money, probably can't spend what little they have on gas.
@@aaronwinter447 when i was looking to get a house all the advice i saw for anyone wanting those big sets of land was to find one with a really bad house on top that you were willing to tear down because it would have water and power running to it already but there's barely any of those for anything even close to what a regular house would cost
Well...now I'm imagining someone buying a plot of land, living in a tiny house, having kids, and then getting the kids their own tiny houses when they're big enough to need their own space. In a couple generations you'd have a family commune or clan, and over the long years you could all upgrade your houses or add to them 😊
Yeah its almost like he is inadvertantly advertising for amazon. People will forget and realize they are not getting the same house or stuff he is getting.
Why because you want to stay at the ritz for £50? It's a perfectly fine place to stay, they have hotels like this in France called Premiere Classe, Paris is expensive I'm not gonna spend £200 a night on a hotel, so I stayed at premiere classe, I'm only sleeping there what difference does it make?
@@cryingchild4209he's living in one of those car trailer things, that you attach to cars and take camping. I forgot the name but he has one parked outside his ex wife's house.
Also cosmetologists/estheticions can’t legally work out of their own houses (in most states anyway) so this could work as a studio space for that. Still wouldn’t recommend it cause there’s no weather proofing or anything though
Umm no. There are many states you can work from home. Usually you just need a detached or separate bathroom for the clients. I've live(d) in 2 of them. So 🤷♀️ is possible
Hey Danny, licensed structural engineer here. Depending on your local jurisdiction will affect the legality of this house and also whether you need a foundation, anchorage, additional bracing, and a whole slew of other potential problems. The trick here is that because it can be disassembled you can claim that it is not a permanent structure and therefore is not intended for the structural capacity actual houses are built for. Not does that mean this won't blow over in a storm or fall apart in an earthquake? No. It just means statistically this thing has a low chance (in theory) of being erected in a "100-year wind/seismic event" that traditional homes are build for.
In resume, this shouldn't be used to live or sleep-in, just be used as a extra space to storage something that should suffer outsiders condition, like rain, snow, etc...
@@andrewrobinson1634A lot of those houses were really nice and still stand today though. Houses bought and built from catalogues in the early-mid 1900s actually go for a good bit of money nowadays. There was one in my old town that I knew of that was super cute and looked almost brand new
@@andrewrobinson1634 that’s not even comparable to buying a house on amazon. The only similarity they have is they are “ordered”. Those houses were Actual houses.
@@andrewrobinson1634 Craftsman houses were so much better. They were already assembled and came with land. This is different. It's almost like ordering a mobile home that's a lot harder to transport.
here in austria it's normal for people living in cities rent gardens in the outskirts of town or around a lake. a lot of people have little hits just like in the video so they can soend the summer in their garden
Man i was so excited to see this guy learn homesteading on his own land free from the confinements of the city but turns out he's a lvl 1 landlord on the slumlord class tree.
At least when he's buying some random product from a new brand there's a tiny chance he's directly supporting a product by some real person trying to make a honest living. If he just starts testing Amazon products it'll be a boring advertisement of possibly the worst place to work.
So, do these people not realize they still need to buy land? You can't just order this and set it up wherever you please. It's a shed with no working utilities, not a house.
After that then you'll need a 10k concrete pad, 12k to get a well dug and 15 to 20k for the septic system. Then get electric run, insulation, drywall, then your well hooked up etc.
@@nyancat8828 House refers to a building in which someone lives. In contrast, a home can refer either to a building or to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. So no, not exactly.
@@nyancat8828 it's not a solution, or at least, not a good one. just a thought I had when the video showed the article about how millennials are supposedly beating the housing crisis by buying these so-called "tiny homes" that are really just glorified sheds. esp bc danny was correct abt missing middle housing in the US - most places are zoned for either massive apartment complexes or single-dwelling units in an endless suburban sprawl.
Facts, and you can probably get better one, and convert it to tiny house, better, and cheaper, in person yourself, just going to home depot or building supply😂
yeah you can, the sheds where i live i believe arent plastic at my home depot, it feels like its almost tin or metal, their quite small tho, smaller then this house@@illyph9963
@@illyph9963 Literally! They have optional porches for the customizable ones (that come with a disclaimer saying you pinky promise not to use it as a dwelling). Like $4-8k for a WAY more stable building.
Dude, some of those houses are still standing to this day. Definitely won't be able to say that about these plastic houses, although the plastic itself will long outlive the sears houses unfortunately.
Crossover between the lady that's digging a mineshaft under her neighborhood and a broke person that has been tricked into living in a 6 ft tall origami
@meemow8671 I started a mine when I was 19 and now I'm 24 and have tons of artifacts and gems and crystals cause there just happened to be an ancient river bed under my property with stone age artifacts from the stone age and river rocks from that time period. You'd be surprised what you'd find if you all started digging on your property.
ah yes, the solution to the housing crisis: uninsulated boxes that are probably even more expensive to upkeep. definitely not just increasing regular ass housing.
@@safetyscissors9281 idk id say its because ppl selling them want to make money off the barest amount of work but maybe im cynical. i dont think the solution to desperation should have to be settling for crumbs.
It's because capitalism breeds ingenuity. It totally doesn't just motivate people to try and make money any way they can, even under the guise of solving a problem.
seems awfully convenient to me that an amazon employee just happened to see his video, “loved it”?? & hooked him up with a bigger “house” plus some very random furniture… when he clearly was never planning on living in it… it screams undisclosed ad/partnership to me, but maybe I’m too skeptical lol
I agree, but I’m so baffled by it-who is sponsoring it?! Amazon?! They’re not the ones producing and selling the houses, but maybe. The tiny house companies?? Who is going to be influenced by this TikTok, realistically?
And then he proceeds to talk mad shit about the FREE furniture he was given. Not even a thank you or "I'll just reupholster it because I don't like pink."
@@guyanomaly honestly, though. I know tiktok is the prime location for getting people to impulse buy stuff they “need” from amazon, but who is the target audience for impulse buying a house?!😅 other than the guy who actually bought one, never in my life have I heard someone buy a house impulsively. I don’t even think mega rich people do that😂
If youre spending $30,000+ on a "house" from amazon, just buy a trailer home or some shit, theyre actually insulated and come properly set up for a human being to live in
That’s what I’m saying. There are even a lot of tiny house companies that sell much more livable houses (with higher ceilings) for similar prices. Why this?
@@pastaboiii3324 so do many actual offices. these are just the basic rooms that go into most buildings. houses have safety features and have to abide by building codes that these glorified sheds don't.
That was my thought too. My thoughts kept going to what about things like water rights that actual houses have. If you are going to buy a plot of land plus a house there are options if you really are going this far. I can get a house in Haxtun Colorado for 100 something thousand if I am that desperate
I'd like to believe these amazon homes would serve a better purpose as emergency/temporary housing for those who have lost homes in natural disasters. I found the appeal of these houses being able to be shipped and assembled so quickly fitting for that. That's my idea, anyway, I could be wrong.
13:47 i live in a small college town and, according to airbnb, there are over 900 airbnbs in my town. meanwhile the college students are constantly struggling to find places to live that we can afford-i think there are maybe 10 places available to rent right now. i hate airbnbs so much, we’re being pushed out of our own town by tourists 😭
Yeah, I grew up in West Virginia, so when I graduated high school many of my friends went to WVU in Morgantown, which is very much a college town. I went to school out of state but I would visit friends at the WVU campus, and see the same issue there. Also, the places these landlords would try to pass off as livable housing to rent out to students were absurd, like literal garages.
Let’s focus on who the actual problem people are, the landlords. It’s not people’s fault that they wanna go on vacation, but that’s what hotels or motels are for. Airbnbs are fucking destroying the housing market.
Won't hold up to high winds, tornadoes, freezing cold, flooding, etc. Too thin exterior walls. Not structural sound for most circumstances. Doesn't include vital utilities, foundation, etc. Plus its probably only good for temporary shelter.
you MAY need a permit for a shed depending on area, but it is just illegal in general, regardless of state or province. It is illegal because In this sense, the purchaser is using what should be a shed as a dwelling. You are not legally allowed to have an accessory shed as a livable/rentable house (because it is not taxed and treated as such). It is against zoning laws, safety standards, applicable boards for housing standards. It is against many many federal, state, and bylaws and very illegal. You can try to do this, but if people find out and complain, you can get in some trouble. A shed MAY qualify as a home but it must face very strict building code standards which most sheds aren't designed for at all and would need a complete retrofit. A lot of those tiny homes videos you may have watched are different because they are either designated as mobile homes, or mini homes, which again have different standards and rules. A shed would NOT fit into any of these categories and unfortunately is not a legal, livable home.
@@mythcrafts the first and most obvious logistical problem is where to put it, pretty much every area of land you encounter is going to be owned by someone and obviously they won't like having a random small house appear one day. But then, as the guy above said, there are general requirements to make a house legally something you can live in. These requirements are often surprisingly strict. In many places bedrooms have to have windows, for instance. Obviously insulation and running water are also big problems.
aren't they just essentially recreating trailer homes? Like, the housing market is so bad that people are willing to buy prefab trailer houses on Amazon lmao
This guy bought a 26k house without a second thought when he doesn't even have a place for it.. How are people so bad with their money, he would be better off gambling it.
yeah this is kinda driving me insane, i cant even imagine being in a position where i am able to impulsively spend 26 THOUSAND dollars on a plastic house and its just a silly haha "take the card away" moment. but oh hey theyre turning it into an air bnb, landlords are all just universally stupid as fuck i guess
Now I'm an impulsive buyer and VERY bad with my money, but even I would think very hard about dropping this much money on something. And I also wouldn't buy this
Ever since Danny stopped saying whats up greg I've become clinically depressed. My bones have become squishier, my butthole tighter. Pls bring back the la croix 😔
love how the warning where "people could get hurt" happens when he's trying to rent out his horrible home to other people on AirBnb, which makes me just imagine all the people who rent his airbnb are gonna be so mad about how they were ripped off that they beat the crap outta him
If I'm not mistaken, they may be using the same material for the walls that are used for stand-alone "cold rooms" pretty much a pre insulated panel. A lot of motels in regional areas have units made of the same stuff as a cheaper option, usually for workers. They work pretty well.
Right 😢😢 like my down payment was actually $20,000 and this guy had $6,000 more than me; he probably could've gotten a better one tbh 😅 but he's just a scum bag landlord
And then be stuck paying it off for thirty years where you are one bad day from losing your house? nope. I'd buy one of these and land for in a heart beat if it meant owning free and clear. Not everyone wants an investment, some people just want a home.
@@functionatthejunctionThen you'd still have to get a mortgage to hook it up properly with indoor plumbing and everything. Just a septic system and well would cost you at least $30k. Not to mention the foundation (another $15-25k) and electric ($10k) and everything else. And you'd have to buy the land. But it wouldn't matter since they are not going to be code compliant anywhere and the local government could condemn it and prevent you from living there or allowing anyone else to live there. You'd also have no resale value and miss out on all the capital gains of owning a real house.
Here’s the thing they’re not gonna tell you 1. You still have to obtain land to place the house on 2. You have to get your land zoned and have the city ALLOW YOU to place that house where THEY tell you to put it on your own yard 3. Running utility lines along with digging out areas for them (plumbing and electrical) is going to be a huge expense 4. With all the other points in mind along with other things I didn’t mention???? You’re looking at approximately well over $500k just to obtain land and place that house there with full electrical capabilities you would add in yourself which also costs insane amounts of money you’re spending ON TOP of the fact that you spent a good $26k on a house alone
that just pisses me off how that guy talked about how unlivable it was then immediately jumped to signing it up for airbnb... i hate this era of having to resort to making scummy money for a quick buck especially with scams and whatnot
@@gabbyb9939FORREAL like 30k is nothing to scoff at... not to mention the aftermath of adding improvements to the shed which is extra $$$. wtf does bro do for a living
Ive never seen a motel room that was liveable. Yet they are rented out daily. Do you not understand Air BnBs arent purchases? They are short rentals? Gimmicks? Derpty derp…Common sense.
@@bradkirchhoff5703Exactly. I wouldnt mind staying there, I'm assuming it would be more affordable compared to other options.. With airbnbs, I'm only looking for a place to stay and park my car short term.
I like how they’re tricking us into bringing trailer parks back. “It’s a tiny house! Need somewhere to put your tiny house? Welcome to our Tiny House Village 😉”
Tiny houses have annoying laws... You can't just plop one of these wherever you want. Also are we just ignoring the fact this guy has a single credit card with at least $28k limit on it?? I don't think he's hurting for money and would need to live in this place 😂
Yeah I didn't really think about that part. He said was 23? And he has a credit card with a limit of at least 25K (im rounding cause I feel like CC limits are often an even number). I think when I was his age, my one and only credit card had a 8K limit.
You don't need money to have a credit card with a high limit. I'm in debt up to my eyeballs but boy will they give me a credit card with a 15k limit because I know how to game my credit score. That being said, he sounds like a dropshipper (with the "I'mma make this an airbnb" bs) so I'm not surprised at this point.
@@ThroatzillaaaI'm 29 and still never have had a credit card. I only have used a debit card and cash. And I've never seen more than $14,000 in my bank account... Some people have no idea how good they have it...
You are buying JUST a building with no land, no insulation, no plumbing, no electrical. At that point is it even cheaper than just buying a real house?
You are correct, it's not really any cheaper, in fact probably more when these things do not last long. Bro in the video is in denial that he merely wasted $26k.
Yea just buy a home Depot shed. You can get a 2 story with windows for window units. They are also normal stud walls so you can run wires and insulate easily before drywalling.
I've actually been in a Sears log cabin in canada, where we have pretty cold winters. It's actually decently built and stays warm with the wood stove. Considering it was built like 40 years ago by my mom's friend and his dad it's kept up pretty well
Sears, Roebuck & CO has been around forever, late late 1800s. It's decline was caused by the owner's love for Ayn Rand and invisible hand of the free market and that style of capitalism/objectivism. He implemented these procedures around 2005ish and started to drastically lose money. But he kept going, trying other things in that same vein. That's what ultimately decimated the company. 20 years of Eddie Lampert caused the internal company collapse while the external was impacted by online shopping (but not destroyed, still salvageable, if it weren't for Lampert.) As of January 2024, there are 13 Sears stores in total remaining, 1 in Puerto Rico and 12 in the US. It's actually a really interesting story if you google it. There are tons of articles about it. It's not recent, but it's still very relevant in terms of capitalism and consumerism, or if you just dislike Ayn Rand (me).
So, here in Germany, there are people who spend like 3-6 months out of the year living in camping parks. They buy or permanently rent a plot and treat it as their summer home. Some of them have pretty elaborate set-ups either for their trailer or pretty big "sheds" that basically reach tiny house status. Similarly, there are people who rent little parcels of land to garden on and usually they also build what's effectively a tiny house on it - not to permanently live in it, but to maybe spend a weekend in their little garden or to host garden parties and have somewhere to sit and use the loo and such. I feel like that's the kind of scenario these kinds of houses were originally meant for. It's a pretty elaborate camping set-up, but not really all that good as a permanent home you want to live in year-round. If that was more transparent, I'd be pretty fine with this. But the landlord mindset is really scary.
@@moongirl8807It’s called a „Schrebergarten“ or at least I think that’s what OP is referring to. You are as far as I know not even allowed to actually live in these homes. It’s simply a rented garden with a shack in it. Some people get fancy with it but in the end it’s not supposed to be used as an actual place to live in
@foodsupply5071 nah I know those and yup, you're not allowed to live there (you can sleep there sometime though). I meant people that literally live on camping sites, Dauercamper
The salon suggestion is a really good idea. People who have their own clients need a private space to do their business. It's way more expensive to rent a space in a salon.
he said he was having the electricity & plumbing taken care of anyway, so it's safe to assume both are things that can be relatively easily added. instead of making it into an air b&b tho, rent it as salon space @@ZombixMix
Actually hearing someone saying they spent $26,000 on a house without even a second thought is so crazy to me. Like I can’t even buy a pack of gum without having to think twice. 🤦🏻♂️
All things considered, this structure is probably an ideal airbnb scenario. It’s not like he is taking prime real estate in a coveted location. A shanty house on the outskirts of a city sounds perfect for temporary accommodations
Mobile homes, tiny houses, guest homes, even small boats are all available and reasonably priced on Airbnb. I don’t see why not this if someone wishes to travel on a budget? Unless I’m at a resort or want to be luxurious, when I travel I’m spending most of my time exploring the area and just need a safe place to sleep at night. This could fit the bill 🤷🏽♀️
When I lived with my parents, my room was the only one in the house without proper insulation and it was TERRIBLE. Looking at those prefab houses on Amazon just gives me flashbacks to those days. I can just imagine you'll be freezing during the winter and boiling in the summer unless you're located in *just* the right area.
People also don’t realize that these things you have to put in all the lines for water and gas yourself. Especially if you’re plopping it on a piece of property that’s never seen a building. That cost a lot of money
i'm more pissed at the comment section than i am at that dude. like why do they act like scamming people and potentially putting them in danger is a "smart move"?
1. There are already houses on Temu. 2. Half of Amazon’s random items (that don’t have a recognized brand) are the Exact same thing being sold on Temu, like literally identically the same manufacturer.
I don't remember his username but there's a guy who is following the sears house building guide and buying all the materials required to compare the cost
Danny a lot of like black hairstylist actually do use sheds and smaller rooms to braid in the same as nail techs and etc it’s actually really popular 😭
From the 1900s-1940s, Sears (then Sears-Roebuck) used to sell homes through their mail catalogue, they ranged from small to big ranch style homes, and basically you would receive pre-cut wood pieces that you (and I guess neighbors or friends) could assemble together, over the course of several weeks to a month, and the end products looked pretty good! (as long as you knew what you were doing) Back then, people could forego bank loans and mortgages and purchase their homes through Sears-Roebuck's loan program, which almost always resulted in the buyer getting a loan (so they could buy from Sears-Roebuck) but when the Great Depression hit, Sears also took a massive hit and ended up having to foreclose on a LOT of those homes. Think about a house you built with you own hands being taken away by the company you bought it from... Anyways, a lot of those homes are actually still around and as long as they haven't been too renovated you can often tell which homes are from the catalogue! Just thought it was interesting that history was repeating itself
From 1900? You mean to tell me that part of Red Dead Redemption 2 where you do literally buy a house out of a catalogue to build yourself was historically accurate?! I guess I shouldn't be that surprised but wow...
@@shwahgamer Sears was founded in 1892. The westward expansion of the railroad made it possible for basically anyone in the US to order anything by mail and have it delivered near enough to them that they could pick it up in an afternoon. They had MASSIVE warehouses dedicated to catalogue and mail order shopping until the late 80s/early 90s Right when the internet started picking up they decided the way of "the future" was brick and mortar stores so they closed their mail order business. If they had moved their catalogues to the internet instead they would be bigger than Amazon.
PreFab and Container houses are very difficult to maintain and live in for more than a year. They were always meant to be temporary and it's insane that people are selling them as actual homes
But there are some pretty good prefab homes. They are also an easy way to get to passive house criteria. Like undecided (a TH-cam channel and guy) got a prefab the panels are made in a factory and assembled on site and it's a house that meets the passive house standards There're some high quality pre built and manufactured homes that come to the site already built and there are some insane high quality triple wides I'm not sure about a container homes but they seem pretty good quality from the ones I've seen and watched on TH-cam
In the 50s they had perfectly livable and affordable pre-fab homes but now the economy has gotten destroyed and corporations think they can make them as cheaply as possible to the point they don’t function as houses and break after a year and the poor people will be forced to settle for it anyways because they have no choice
Amazon is definitely not the right place to go for buying prefab houses like this. I agree the longevity and purpose of these homes are being misrepresented on the Amazon listings. There are mobile homes that can be transported on roads but are designed to be lived in permanently once put in place.
@@haleyc.3530 In my area you can still buy great prefab and transportable houses in the range of $50k-$150k, from reputable companies that will help with the logistics and have homes that actually meet standards. I would just never purchase something like that off amazon
ETA: THE WAY THAT MAN GOT A WHOLE FREE COUCH THAT ACTUALLY LOOKS PRETTY NICE AND THREW A TANTRUM BECAUSE IT WAS PINK LMAO....the weakness. Of course he turned around and started bleating about AirBnB. ......honestly it looks really good for that price. (ETA: Oops I forgot this one was more expensive.) I'm surprised. But I guess I'm thinking of it as 'if your house has black mold, or a relative's house burned down and you don't have elbow room....other than that, it just seems like it could be an outdoor studio if you have enough yard space in your own house? My brain just.....kinda rebels at the idea that people look at those products and expect an Actual Home. There are higher quality prefab type houses but they take a lot longer to set up and are a lot more expensive, it happened in my extended family. It definitely was not unfoldable lol.
@@NotUnique_ Yeah like there is a massive audition process like Americas got talent. *Foghorn Leghorn Voice* "Now i say boy, thems the best lasso spins i've gone done seen in all of tarnation"
They're fancy sheds, they're sheds advertised as "houses" and more like man cave/she sheds for your backyard to act as your hobby room or backyard getaway. I live by a shed warehouse that sells a ton of these for the upscale neighborhoods with big backyards
Literally this. But well, the social media always does the best job as mispreading information "gen z now can have houses" and so on just to generate a boom and have views, but I hope people won't be dumb enough to actually buy these as actual homes..., but the human stupidity is endless which worries me
It’s even funnier when you remember that Amazon originally started as an online bookstore. Like there’s no way they ever envisioned that you would be able to buy a house on it one day
I'm a civil engineer who has worked with prefab houses so let me tell you this. These houses are essentially containers with holes and minimal insulation, so they're pretty small in general. You have to pay extra to have outlets and all the electricity stuff. You need to build a minimal foundation since they're so small but I wouldn't recommend them for areas with earthquakes and other extreme climate conditions or you'll end up like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz.
Ppl kept suggesting renting to aestheticians because it's common practice to sublet a space to run your business out of, it's cheaper than opening your own store and generally a little more accessible to people with a smaller clientele who are looking to go off on their own venture (Hairstyling student, literally was talking about this with one of my teachers yesterday)
SAME. And then hating on the furniture when the home isn't even liveable for him.. but he go the furniture for FREE and is gonna rent the "unit" out anyway. And he had gotten both an upgrade AND the furniture for free just felt so very out of touch and rude, because he got them from someone who WATCHES him. Wtf.
@@NotKekePalmer tbf do you expect any better from someone who made a $26,000 dollar purchase and “didn’t even think twice”? at 23 years old as well? it’s insane how a person can be so financially irresponsible yet so tight fisted
In Australia we call these Granny Flats.. people generally have them in their backyards for family to stay in (or atm renting out for renters) most don’t come with electricity you have to have that installed separately
Yeah, my parents have actually been looking into building something like this on their property (we’d call it a guesthouse or bungalow). I can honestly see some people purchasing these.
All the granny flats i've seen are much better quality and more durable since people actually respect their grandmas. more than these airbnbs at least 😂
This is not revolutionary or amazing. This is dystopian. Amazon is selling slightly oversized Walmart garden sheds as houses here. This is some sort of next level trailer park living.
the problem aint that it is dystopian, that dont mean shit the problem is that it aint work if it works it works, but it has problems that makes it not work
no. this is a shittier version of trailer park living. for the amount of money this dude spent he could have gotten a doublewide trailer and gotten twice as much space.
you can buy a literal 4 bedroom house with a pretty big yatd for 70k in finland where im from, in smaller cities you can buy an 2 bedroom apartment for 20k and not even one in a bad shape but in decent, well to be fair after 2020 its a bit more expensive but notmmuch. I bought a duplex house that had 2x 2 bedroom apartments and both had big kitchens etc lots of space an attic storage and 2 rooms down stairs for storage since they at the time had onlu concrete walls and floors and a big sauna and a big garage etc it has around 30 yards of a beach line in a lake in the corner of back yard, i re did all the floors , ceilings and floors we did new electricity and fuseboxes etc new tiles snd everything but believe it or not the house cost 76k and my gather managed to negotiate it down to 68k and we would empty everything they did not want becouse they wanted to get rid of it, their father had passed away and it was his house. Deals like this all the time. But the houde is less than 2 miles from city central but is in a family oriented part of town with lots of forrest etc and 5 lakes to go swimming in a 1,5 mile radius and ocean like a mile away etc in a beatifull 500 year old city.
@@rachaelbusby3940have you seen the state of the market in some places? There's a lot of cities where the price is basically unaffordable if you can find one for sale because people are holding onto their houses, sometimes without renting them or just renting as airbnb. Yeah if you don't have a job that ties you down, you can get a decent house in the sticks for less than 100 grand, maybe even 50. But if you're near any large city, good luck. Plus if you don't go through the song and dance of being a good capitalist and taking credit and you're being savvy and just use a debit card, your credit score's gonna be shit, and no bank's gonna give you a mortgage. And even if it is good you're gonna want to burn a few insurances before you get one if you can even get it. Imo there should be some things in place against having businesses renting houses. Because those apartments are built to look good but they're basically as good to live in as a tv set.
@@rachaelbusby3940why are you, a person who has apparently either never bothered to considerer the reality of the housing market/landlordism or are too stupid to, responding to this?
You could just buy a steel barn for the same price and its bigger and has room for a 2nd floor. And yes, some companies will build it for you, no extra cost.
My thing is why buy it from Amazon? Especially without land? There are legit websites where you can buy proper prefabs. There are still a lot of documentations and permits you need before placing it and even before living in it.
This exactly! You can also buy a schoolbus from an auction house and renovate it, and many builds are beautiful. Some people can get it done for under $20k, cost of bus included, but it's an immense amount of work that can take years to complete and requires knowledge of electrical, plumbing, carpentry, etc. or access to someone who can do that for you. Prefab tiny houses are a great option depending on where you live. Many states, however, require extensive permits. And depending on where you buy, you might have to drill for a well, which can be over 20k. Not to mention solar and septic! The tinyliving community is wonderful and I can understand the appeal, but buying a shoddy, sketchy prefab on Amazon is not where it's at...
By the time you get land, utilities set up and wired, etc, you end up paying the same amount as a better and bigger house. And there’s no real roof, so if you live somewhere with rain and snow I’d wonder how it would hold up without leaking. And some zoning doesn’t even allow houses this small. Doesn’t even seem worth it
right!! prefabs can be a smart decision when you already have the land for it. my parents had a piece of land in our village (in Turkey) but not the budget to build a whole ass house from the ground up so my parents were looking into prefab houses. but it's still a process where you have to actually do your research and a cost-benefit analysis, it definitely should not be something you can buy off amazon without the opportunity to talk to people who actually know what they're talking about to guide you. plus it's going to be WAYYYY safer, built the proper way and actually worth living in.
i deeply adore how much danny gets stuck on the "take the card" """"contradiction"""" instead of considering that maybe he was reading the meaning completely incorrectly
Some Sears kit homes in my neighborhood and they’re not awful. People usually needed to install sump pumps in the 90s because the water retention was getting bad so that’s I guess the worst part.
I could be wrong, this is just a guess, but Danny probably sees his son more often than we do. So he has a lower chance of forgetting his existence. Maybe
you're better off building a house from plywood and 2×4s. at the end it'd be at LEAST a thousand dollars cheaper for the same size house, and you can update it over time instead of being locked into a plastic house
okay as someone who works in manufacturing tiny houses this was a delight to watch. and yes, you do need a foundation for these things. i'd be worried about some of these things folding over on itself in a bad windstorm, let alone if you're in any kind of inclement weather area like a tornado alley or on the coast. i'd imagine some of them are fine, but the air bnb guy really got scammed hell, even getting land for these can be a hassle bc you need to have the proper zoning code to put the house on, and if it's a tiny house like these, they may fall under their own code/exceptions. the ability to *rent the damn thing out* is yet another can of worms, i know in my state you legally cannot rent a tiny house (which i imagine is what this thing is) as any sort of rental unit no matter what you call it. i'm not confident we can even have those on properties as like in-law suites, that has its own square footage + code requirements that i doubt something like this would meet. i'm honestly curious what kind of code this runs under hard agree that we need more middle type housing though, i wouldn't at all mind having a duplex or townhome instead of A) sell your soul to a landlord only to get price gouged anyway, or B) live at home because your boomer parents bought their house for three nickels and some slivers of wood Back In The Day
Yeah all of this plus proper planning, plumbing, sewage, electrical all need to be taken care of as well. Unless you're doing all of that yourself (which will still cost you money for the materials), the overall cost between the house, the land, legal documents, and the pad, plumbing, sewage, and electrical is gonna be so expensive that you'd have to have either a lot of money saved or a bank willing to give you a loan. Honestly instead of going through all of that hassle just take the money if you have it already and put a downpayment on an actual house.
My grandparents kicked us out of a family home leaving us panicking barely being able to find a house, and then they just Airbnb it after that. Our house was a house in the woods of Maine, so they found it a money opportunity even when we were actively living there. This happens to a lot of people, so don't use Airbnb. People also always need houses and people are using up spaces where people could live to make money. Pure evil.
@@maxmarohn581 They've done stuff proving they don't give a damn about my family. Like when my dad was 16 moving 18 hours out and building a house that didn't have a room for him. He stayed with his mother instead (his parents were divorced).
Airbnb is a plague. I’ll never forgive them for their part in jacking up housing prices in my city so hard-we used to be a pretty affordable place. I dream of a day where there’d be a regulatory crackdown on Airbnb, but we live in hell and free-market capitalism must be allowed to keep trudging blindly along, I guess.
I feel like people greatly underestimate the complications of home construction. You cant just plop one of these down anywhere. Realistically houses need a foundation, you need to grade the ground to avoid flooding, you need plumbing, ac, to make sure the walls are properly insulated, inspection to make sure things are sealed/installed properly (dont want water coming through the windows during ur first rainstorm), electicity, etc. Plus alot of the stuff in these ready made houses will break easily so prepare for repairs.
This isn’t really a new thing. People used to buy house-kits for Sears in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You’d get a kit with instructions and all the parts and just put it together. There are a lot of them still around today! They seem to have held up pretty well honestly
15:38 as it stands, we have enough houses, 15.1 million empty homes, subtract our population of homeless people, we have 14.5 million empty homes left. We do have a problem and that is the commodification of housing
We have SO many abandoned houses in my city. And they just sit there, meanwhile there's homeless people, who tend to end up squatting in said houses. When we could fix up those house for cheap prices and help the homeless because most of the abandoned homes belong to the county land bank now
We even have some affordable housing. Of course, you can’t buy it, because they’re immediately snapped up by landlords so you have to pay more to rent than it costs to own.
Those homes are often not in places that people need, or have other issues that make them unlivable or extremely undesireable. There are absolutely places that need more housing, and denying that is insane. And like was said in the video, there are a lack of options for types of housing. Additionally, it being less dense results in ever increasing commute times and social alienation. Why do so many leftists now oppose building apartments?
Glad that Danny is pro dense urbanism. Mixed use zoning is also illegal in most parts of the US. For example having a restaurant on the first floor and an apartment on the top floor. Mixed use zoning makes it a lot easier to have walkable communities that aren’t car dependent. I live in a suburban sprawl with few protected bike lanes which makes the possibility of walking inconvenient at best and the act of biking dangerous at worse. You’ve touched on my favorite social issue so thanks for that. I want people to be more aware of this kind of thing
Oh, that’s so cool I’ve never heard of that until I watch this video. As someone who doesn’t have a car, it’s my goal to definitely live in a more walkable city. I even ironically always wanted to live on top of the business that I start (cafe/artstudio). I didn’t even know that it was illegal in some parts of the US. It’s also crazy because I live in a college town and you would think that was more walkable, but there is a major highway that stops a lot of bike/Walking. it’s very rare that you can get somewhere without at least needing some type of ride. I hope this issue gets talked about more. I’m going to go do more research because now I’m very intrigued.
same!! I work in a social housing organisation and spend almost every waking hour thinking-reading-talking about housing issues so even just hearing him say the word 'housing' made me so happy lol. And I was glad to hear him talk about it in a more critical/progressive way, though I'm way more radical about these things, as a European I could talk for days about how horrible the suburbs in the US are in every aspect, and how the whole concept of landlords are fucked.
Wow, I'm from Europe so I never thought mixed use zoning like that could be illegal! I feel very strongly about walkable/bikeable cities and areas and accessible architecture. Denser architecture like rowhouses are going to be so so important in the future, especially in areas where family units are shrinking (instead of two or three generations of people living under the same roof, we now have a lot of families that consist of like. a couple and a dog. or a single person. No reason to live in a 3 bedroom suburban single family house)
I think that's one of my favourite things about Chicago. Chicago is pretty walkable, if needing to go across the city, they have the L and buses, and most buildings are similar to town homes/apartments, and most restaurants are below some of them!
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The fact that this is the house they UPGRADED him to AFTER finding out he was going to make a video on it is not a good sign...
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Oof.
Was literally just about to comment the same thing😆
You get what you pay for. Not hard to msg the seller and ask for a scale video of it when opened up.
I mean if you are spending more than 1000 and not using due diligence on the item and making sure its correct, then you deserve to be taught why you should.
Its like buying a car. You don't go do it alone or unguided if you have no idea about the market and issues you can have.
Size of the item is the first thing you check when buying anything online thats cheaper than it should be in your head.
@@drunkpaulocosta that's not what they were saying? m8, the guy in the video didn't ask for an upgrade, he GOT one once amazon heard that he would be making a video about it, probably assuming it would be a review. considering the fact that it is a PLASTIC, UNFOLDABLE HOUSE, they likely wanted to make sure he'd be more inclined to say good things about the product, even if it sucks
Gotta love the mindset. “It’s not good enough for me to live in so I’m going to turn this into a shitty rental to make it someone else’s problem”
"I will make someone pay me to live in a plastic improvise temporary house and make it their problem." This is a really a step on become a weird billionaire without having the money.
Are you fuckers living in Airbnb’s or something? You’re only supposed to use those for like a week at most. Why is everyone acting like he’s forcing people to live in the shack by offering to set people live in the shack. Lol
And you know they'll be charging $900+ to stay there too. PLUS utilities
One time I had to find a new place on short notice and I ended up relying on AirBnB. I'd say roughly 100% of the places I stayed fit this description. One of them was a bedroom next to this lady's illegal grow operation (literally, between that room and the bathroom).
Renting by landlords:
danny casually referencing his child still baffles me, i'll never get used to danny being a father
In my mind Danny is still 19
Lol my brain went straight into denial, like "yeah no, I didn't just hear that"
constantly gaslighting myself into thinking danny's still fresh off vine even though i've been a regular viewer for years now
He's like 13 himself wdym child
I’m sorry but the big 4 (Cody, Danny, Kurtis & Drew) being married and having babies still seems weird 💀I forget they’re grown men
Much respect to Danny Gonzalez for actually bringing up how wrong it is to make an AirBnB out of one of these tiny houses that the guy who bought it himself wouldn't even live in.
Comrade Danny 🥰
No fr, the min he said that i was like, thank god he said what everyone was thinking, cuz holy shit how unsafe this sounds struck me, im shocked that guy in the tiktok felt it would be a good idea to rent it 😭😭😭
I was all ready to be sympathetic to the guy because this being the only path to homeownership for a lot of people is absolutely depressing and then he hit us with the “I’ll just turn it into an Airbnb” and those feelings quickly turned into rage lmao
REAL that was my exact trajectory too
I wanted to b slap him since he said he didn't even think about where he should put the house, with those dead, empty eyes.
Same here because what 😭 I really don't understand why he got it in the first place based on where this went
I'm never gonna be sympathetic to someone who made a $25k purchase without any thought
Righttt same
Hearing someone say they didn’t even think twice before making a $26,000 purchase is wild to me
It kinda makes me mad that he’s just being like silly haha “take away my card”
For REAL. I'm 23 too and I think twice making a 20 dollar purchase like damn 💀
For real take away the card and give it to someone who needs to feed their kids or something
@@alili1152true like why is he doing girl maths over a 26k “house” 😭
I mean he likely planned on doing it well in advance, and decided to go ahead with it to make content out of it.
Danny casually saying “my son” still makes me do a comical spit take
5 months old almost an adult
oh my talk about small world LMAOOO !!!! i hope youre doing well psygod !
Bro same 😭 I actually can’t believe that he has a child
I just picture an identical copy of Danny, but small
Danny had sex. That's still crazy for me to think about. No idea why. Not like he can't do it.
I really dislike the article suggesting tiny homes are an affordable option, the expensive part of the home is the land it has to go on. Prefabs allow you to assemble a neighbourhood quickly but they don’t actually do much of anything to reduce the price of housing. Prefab homes have been around for a long time and they haven’t prevented housing markets from exploding.
People looking at tiny homes, prefab, and whatever, rarely get beyond the enthusiasm point because as you said LAND. A lot of people do not consider the land aspect, nor water, sewage, power, etc. It's a pipe dream for most and not thought out. Once you pay a small fortune for the land, living in a shed on it seems less appealing. There is cheap land, but it's a long commute, and if people with no money, probably can't spend what little they have on gas.
@@aaronwinter447 when i was looking to get a house all the advice i saw for anyone wanting those big sets of land was to find one with a really bad house on top that you were willing to tear down because it would have water and power running to it already but there's barely any of those for anything even close to what a regular house would cost
Well...now I'm imagining someone buying a plot of land, living in a tiny house, having kids, and then getting the kids their own tiny houses when they're big enough to need their own space. In a couple generations you'd have a family commune or clan, and over the long years you could all upgrade your houses or add to them 😊
@@jonquilgemstone its like we're evolving backwards
i love that the premise is amazon saw his tiktok about how he had nowhere to put his unfolding house, loved it, and gave him a bigger unfolding house
Yeah its almost like he is inadvertantly advertising for amazon. People will forget and realize they are not getting the same house or stuff he is getting.
@@lunova6165the fact that its worse than this lmao
danny blasting out those second channel videos like nobody's business
Frfr💀💀💀🤣
it’s my business. 😣 i’m sorry you had to find out this way snorble
Remember when he forgot this channel existed? This is him making up for that
2 Danny way 2 furious? 😂
Ha has some bills to pay now that he is a father
This video is the best anti-AirBNB ad I've ever seen.
You're fast; 5 min after the video went up? :p
watched it on x2 speed
@awdsqe123 maybe they have seen the original tiktoks 💀
a listing like this wil most likely have shit reviews. it's not hard to use the search filters to look for actual decent listing with good ratings.
Why because you want to stay at the ritz for £50? It's a perfectly fine place to stay, they have hotels like this in France called Premiere Classe, Paris is expensive I'm not gonna spend £200 a night on a hotel, so I stayed at premiere classe, I'm only sleeping there what difference does it make?
I love that they tagged Austin McBroom of all people. The internet never forgets
what happened?
@@cryingchild4209 I could be way off but from what I've seen, he lost his $10 million home in 2021
@@BritishRepublicsn ohh thank you for explaining
@@cryingchild4209he's living in one of those car trailer things, that you attach to cars and take camping. I forgot the name but he has one parked outside his ex wife's house.
@@genek488damn 😭😭😭
people were suggesting making it a salon bc they know it’s unliveable and were like trying to save people from getting it as an airbnb
i think it's because they're mostly sitting/laying down. standing is usually when the person is coming or going
@@adeadmarshmallow9493 For once I’m actually kind of glad I’m 4’10. lol
Also cosmetologists/estheticions can’t legally work out of their own houses (in most states anyway) so this could work as a studio space for that. Still wouldn’t recommend it cause there’s no weather proofing or anything though
@@katereagon4299 or ventilation tbh for nail techs... very unwise decision safety-speaking
Umm no. There are many states you can work from home. Usually you just need a detached or separate bathroom for the clients. I've live(d) in 2 of them. So 🤷♀️ is possible
Hey Danny, licensed structural engineer here. Depending on your local jurisdiction will affect the legality of this house and also whether you need a foundation, anchorage, additional bracing, and a whole slew of other potential problems. The trick here is that because it can be disassembled you can claim that it is not a permanent structure and therefore is not intended for the structural capacity actual houses are built for. Not does that mean this won't blow over in a storm or fall apart in an earthquake? No. It just means statistically this thing has a low chance (in theory) of being erected in a "100-year wind/seismic event" that traditional homes are build for.
In resume, this shouldn't be used to live or sleep-in, just be used as a extra space to storage something that should suffer outsiders condition, like rain, snow, etc...
@@erreyakendo8290 exactly, it clearly says storage on it😂.
So, you're saying to hire the tunnel girl to dig the foundation?
@@AndromedaDthe crossover event of the century
@@AndromedaD Tunnel Girl is frothing at the mouth rn
Bro bought an awful house and the spirit of all landlords immediately surged through him 💀
@@andrewrobinson1634A lot of those houses were really nice and still stand today though. Houses bought and built from catalogues in the early-mid 1900s actually go for a good bit of money nowadays. There was one in my old town that I knew of that was super cute and looked almost brand new
@@andrewrobinson1634 that’s not even comparable to buying a house on amazon. The only similarity they have is they are “ordered”. Those houses were Actual houses.
@@andrewrobinson1634 A quick glance at em shows that you had to like, actually build those though - couldn't just unfold em and be done with it
@@andrewrobinson1634 Craftsman houses were so much better. They were already assembled and came with land. This is different. It's almost like ordering a mobile home that's a lot harder to transport.
@@tessaelto1472like that scene in RDR2?
I think these are the kind of containers people sometimes put on their land and live in while they're waiting for their actual house to be built
here in austria it's normal for people living in cities rent gardens in the outskirts of town or around a lake. a lot of people have little hits just like in the video so they can soend the summer in their garden
@@sauleiwanderapfelstrudel aww that's so cute
Man i was so excited to see this guy learn homesteading on his own land free from the confinements of the city but turns out he's a lvl 1 landlord on the slumlord class tree.
I think he’s higher level if he’s got 30k to sling around on a goof 😂
There was a pretty big hint it wouldn’t be the first one
@@madaoisblooming705"Off grid youtube channels".... something don't add up....
@@nignamedmutt7270 off grid just means you arent on the government power grid thats the point of the term
LMAO right? Exactly my thoughts too, what a letdown. I hope this Airbnb scheme goes as poorly as I think it will...
Im just imagining our dystopian reality where everyone has plastic amazon houses and they all blow away immediately during a hurricane.
Don't forget, all of them is a rent plastic house.
black mirror: **furiously taking notes**
Some of us live in places that don't have much in the way of extreme weather, people in the UK live in static caravans or shipping containers.
@@thedarkness111that’s true!
Which happens routinely bc that's "just a normal storm!" And they continue to ignore global warming
Well, I guess now we need these Amazon houses to target advertise at Drew Gooden so he buys it to test.
@drewgooden please 😂
Hope scope was saying she’s tempted to buy one lol
Yk I was waiting for Danny to buy and review it but then I realised he's not Drew
At least when he's buying some random product from a new brand there's a tiny chance he's directly supporting a product by some real person trying to make a honest living. If he just starts testing Amazon products it'll be a boring advertisement of possibly the worst place to work.
@drewisgooden pleasseee
So, do these people not realize they still need to buy land? You can't just order this and set it up wherever you please. It's a shed with no working utilities, not a house.
After that then you'll need a 10k concrete pad, 12k to get a well dug and 15 to 20k for the septic system. Then get electric run, insulation, drywall, then your well hooked up etc.
"I hope you buy a house on Amazon" sounds like a passive-aggressive way to say you hate someone.
"I wish you nothing but financial setbacks and just enough money to get yourself a treat before that shed collapses."
@@ravennalovecraft421just had a kidney removed and that shit bout killed me be aware of the power of laughter you almost took me out 😆😆😆
@@ravennalovecraft421damn dying over here 😂😂😂😂
Thanks I will need it
this reminds me of that one woman who wrote an article like "how I'm beating homelessness by living in my car" Yeah, that's called Being Homeless
It's homeless, not houseless. If she considers her car home then who are we to judge
@@nyancat8828 House refers to a building in which someone lives. In contrast, a home can refer either to a building or to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. So no, not exactly.
@@nyancat8828"without a home" is the etymology. Actual homelessness includes living in a vehicle, that's the definition
@@nyancat8828 it's not a solution, or at least, not a good one. just a thought I had when the video showed the article about how millennials are supposedly beating the housing crisis by buying these so-called "tiny homes" that are really just glorified sheds. esp bc danny was correct abt missing middle housing in the US - most places are zoned for either massive apartment complexes or single-dwelling units in an endless suburban sprawl.
Gen Z think they're secret geniuses
It's a shed. You're buying a shed.
Facts, and you can probably get better one, and convert it to tiny house, better, and cheaper, in person yourself, just going to home depot or building supply😂
Was just about to comment this. You can get the same experience from home depot for 1000
yeah you can, the sheds where i live i believe arent plastic at my home depot, it feels like its almost tin or metal, their quite small tho, smaller then this house@@illyph9963
@@broccolycowboy3016something about you calling it an “experience” is so funny 😂
@@illyph9963 Literally! They have optional porches for the customizable ones (that come with a disclaimer saying you pinky promise not to use it as a dwelling). Like $4-8k for a WAY more stable building.
These people are gonna lose their minds when they realize you used to be able to buy prefab houses with a sears catalog.
Unfortunately the quality has WAYYY dropped over the years, the pre fabs now are structurally equivalent to a very nice dog house
My dad owned a house that was built from a sears catalog and we lived in it until I was 8. It was actually really nice even tho it was small
That were good...not crap like these today.
@@floridagirl5250 no doubt. my next door neighbor is a sears house, built to last.
Dude, some of those houses are still standing to this day. Definitely won't be able to say that about these plastic houses, although the plastic itself will long outlive the sears houses unfortunately.
Crossover between the lady that's digging a mineshaft under her neighborhood and a broke person that has been tricked into living in a 6 ft tall origami
next video: tunnel lady airbnbs her dungeon
@@pellaw8011 😂😂😂 people would go to make tiktoks or "I Spent 24 Hours In The Haunted Tiktok Tunnel!!!" TH-cam videos
Mine shaft lady terrifies me
id stay in her mine bnb tho
@meemow8671 I started a mine when I was 19 and now I'm 24 and have tons of artifacts and gems and crystals cause there just happened to be an ancient river bed under my property with stone age artifacts from the stone age and river rocks from that time period. You'd be surprised what you'd find if you all started digging on your property.
ah yes, the solution to the housing crisis: uninsulated boxes that are probably even more expensive to upkeep. definitely not just increasing regular ass housing.
tbh i think these solutions are presented bc ppl are desperate
@@safetyscissors9281 idk id say its because ppl selling them want to make money off the barest amount of work but maybe im cynical. i dont think the solution to desperation should have to be settling for crumbs.
@@safetyscissors9281 yes, unfortunately
It's because capitalism breeds ingenuity. It totally doesn't just motivate people to try and make money any way they can, even under the guise of solving a problem.
@@sarahbarabe4990capitalism as opposed to what
seems awfully convenient to me that an amazon employee just happened to see his video, “loved it”?? & hooked him up with a bigger “house” plus some very random furniture… when he clearly was never planning on living in it… it screams undisclosed ad/partnership to me, but maybe I’m too skeptical lol
You're not wrong to be skeptical lol. These people will do anything to go viral and get some attention (and money of course)
I agree, but I’m so baffled by it-who is sponsoring it?! Amazon?! They’re not the ones producing and selling the houses, but maybe. The tiny house companies?? Who is going to be influenced by this TikTok, realistically?
And then he proceeds to talk mad shit about the FREE furniture he was given. Not even a thank you or "I'll just reupholster it because I don't like pink."
@@guyanomaly honestly, though. I know tiktok is the prime location for getting people to impulse buy stuff they “need” from amazon, but who is the target audience for impulse buying a house?!😅 other than the guy who actually bought one, never in my life have I heard someone buy a house impulsively. I don’t even think mega rich people do that😂
assholes who wanna make a quikc buck, cleary@@sarah.1230 god, the kids are not alright
The fact like every single "house" shown was noting it was good for, essentially, temporary spaces not meant to be lived in says a Lot...
If youre spending $30,000+ on a "house" from amazon, just buy a trailer home or some shit, theyre actually insulated and come properly set up for a human being to live in
Or down-payment for an actual house 😂
Bro how cheap do you think trailers are? 😂 They cost like 200-400k
LOL a trailer home cost the same as a regular house except you can't get a regular home loan (it's more like a car loan) unless you buy with land.
@@fauna5328 the tiny ones thooo
That’s what I’m saying. There are even a lot of tiny house companies that sell much more livable houses (with higher ceilings) for similar prices. Why this?
These aren't houses, these are sheds. They say home office because its meant to be an additional building to go outside your normal house.
I mean it does have a kitchen bathroom and a living room, almost sound like a house to me
@@pastaboiii3324
so do many actual offices. these are just the basic rooms that go into most buildings. houses have safety features and have to abide by building codes that these glorified sheds don't.
That was my thought too. My thoughts kept going to what about things like water rights that actual houses have. If you are going to buy a plot of land plus a house there are options if you really are going this far. I can get a house in Haxtun Colorado for 100 something thousand if I am that desperate
@@ericlivingston8027100 something thousand is beyond the prices of these Amazon listings
@@ericlivingston8027green tea ☕️
I'd like to believe these amazon homes would serve a better purpose as emergency/temporary housing for those who have lost homes in natural disasters. I found the appeal of these houses being able to be shipped and assembled so quickly fitting for that. That's my idea, anyway, I could be wrong.
Yeah, they could definitely be very useful in crisis situations
They aren’t made or sold by Amazon,just on Amazon
@@queen-of-hearts89they do look like they belong on a construction site, like a break room or something
@@queen-of-hearts89considering the listing refers to it as a security shack and a shop in the title, I'd say you're spot-on!
Wait this is actually an amazing idea.
That would’ve been a down payment on a nice actual house
He may have financed it. I saw it said 300 something a month for a few years
Wow this guys bad financial decision sent him down an entire villain arc.
I think he was probably a villain to start with.
That might qualify as a super-villain arc.
he is just a sociopath or something
bruh the entitlement from the jump was so clockable, the landlord trajectory was natch.
@@bluevioletandlilac Walter White type beat
this is so sims coded im crying
as someone who sucked at building my own custom shit and just plopped down preexisting houses from the clipboard onto empty lots, youre not wrong 😂
I been playing sims a lot like a lot these days and oh god I thought i was hallucinating the words sims
@@clixhe😭😭 me too
@@xiaraskai helpp i remember the obsession getting so bad that I used to see green things above ppl heads it's really bad
@@clixheIM CRYING
13:47 i live in a small college town and, according to airbnb, there are over 900 airbnbs in my town. meanwhile the college students are constantly struggling to find places to live that we can afford-i think there are maybe 10 places available to rent right now. i hate airbnbs so much, we’re being pushed out of our own town by tourists 😭
Yeah, I grew up in West Virginia, so when I graduated high school many of my friends went to WVU in Morgantown, which is very much a college town. I went to school out of state but I would visit friends at the WVU campus, and see the same issue there. Also, the places these landlords would try to pass off as livable housing to rent out to students were absurd, like literal garages.
Let’s focus on who the actual problem people are, the landlords. It’s not people’s fault that they wanna go on vacation, but that’s what hotels or motels are for. Airbnbs are fucking destroying the housing market.
this is how it still is! fairmonts getting like that now too. (':@@Throatzillaaa
Nah, but this guy is adding to the housing supply, not taking away a home that someone else could have bought.
the subreddit for my city is full of people asking "Student coming for 2 semesters, can I air bnb while I find a sharehouse to live?"
NO
Won't hold up to high winds, tornadoes, freezing cold, flooding, etc. Too thin exterior walls. Not structural sound for most circumstances. Doesn't include vital utilities, foundation, etc. Plus its probably only good for temporary shelter.
airbnb yuppies are the unholy union of landlords and dropshippers
Oh no 😂
Damn 😂 you're not wrong
So contentious, and so correct
SO TRUE.Holy shit
honestly horrifying 😭
NO plumbing, NO electrical, No insulation, No permit. Be prepared to spend tens of thousands more.
dumb question, what's the permit for? the land?
you MAY need a permit for a shed depending on area, but it is just illegal in general, regardless of state or province. It is illegal because In this sense, the purchaser is using what should be a shed as a dwelling. You are not legally allowed to have an accessory shed as a livable/rentable house (because it is not taxed and treated as such). It is against zoning laws, safety standards, applicable boards for housing standards. It is against many many federal, state, and bylaws and very illegal.
You can try to do this, but if people find out and complain, you can get in some trouble. A shed MAY qualify as a home but it must face very strict building code standards which most sheds aren't designed for at all and would need a complete retrofit. A lot of those tiny homes videos you may have watched are different because they are either designated as mobile homes, or mini homes, which again have different standards and rules. A shed would NOT fit into any of these categories and unfortunately is not a legal, livable home.
@@mythcrafts the first and most obvious logistical problem is where to put it, pretty much every area of land you encounter is going to be owned by someone and obviously they won't like having a random small house appear one day. But then, as the guy above said, there are general requirements to make a house legally something you can live in. These requirements are often surprisingly strict. In many places bedrooms have to have windows, for instance. Obviously insulation and running water are also big problems.
That’s why you learn and do it yourself🙂 I could set that all up in a 400sq ft basically shed for about 2-3000
@andrewg5672 that is only dependent on what state you live in. In GA it is completely leagl.
aren't they just essentially recreating trailer homes? Like, the housing market is so bad that people are willing to buy prefab trailer houses on Amazon lmao
But even worse than a trailer because they’re plastic and have no electrical/ plumbing/ ac/ furnace
@@emelizabxth well damn might as well get an RV
Exactly what I was thinking
@@emelizabxth He shows you right there they do have hook ups for plumbing and electrical.
@@functionatthejunction the plumbing and electrical are still going to be exposed...and mounted to a plastic and metal wall
I love the idea that the only way you can get the house is by shipping it to an address.
This guy bought a 26k house without a second thought when he doesn't even have a place for it.. How are people so bad with their money, he would be better off gambling it.
right?
yeah this is kinda driving me insane, i cant even imagine being in a position where i am able to impulsively spend 26 THOUSAND dollars on a plastic house and its just a silly haha "take the card away" moment. but oh hey theyre turning it into an air bnb, landlords are all just universally stupid as fuck i guess
Fr he treated it as a casual drunk Amazon purchase
@@Random-sk6hm seriously. my sister in law was drunk and bought a $300 pool on amazon and totally freaked out abt it. 😭 yet hes all jokey abt this omg
Now I'm an impulsive buyer and VERY bad with my money, but even I would think very hard about dropping this much money on something. And I also wouldn't buy this
Ever since Danny stopped saying whats up greg I've become clinically depressed. My bones have become squishier, my butthole tighter. Pls bring back the la croix 😔
w-wha
…What.
drinking tight-ass flavored la croix in sorrow rn
Omg?? I thought it was only me lmao. I'm really glad it isn't. So relatable
fr :(
love how the warning where "people could get hurt" happens when he's trying to rent out his horrible home to other people on AirBnb, which makes me just imagine all the people who rent his airbnb are gonna be so mad about how they were ripped off that they beat the crap outta him
Already happen, this only will be a new category of "How you wanted to be screw by AirBnB?".
If I'm not mistaken, they may be using the same material for the walls that are used for stand-alone "cold rooms" pretty much a pre insulated panel. A lot of motels in regional areas have units made of the same stuff as a cheaper option, usually for workers. They work pretty well.
Pro finance tip: if you have 20 - 30k to spend on a shitty pre-fab house, just make a down payment on a regular ass house.
seriously thats down payment money right there!
Right 😢😢 like my down payment was actually $20,000 and this guy had $6,000 more than me; he probably could've gotten a better one tbh 😅 but he's just a scum bag landlord
And then be stuck paying it off for thirty years where you are one bad day from losing your house? nope. I'd buy one of these and land for in a heart beat if it meant owning free and clear. Not everyone wants an investment, some people just want a home.
@@functionatthejunctionactually a mortgage company will work with you. Plus the house that can be bought on Amazon will be destroyed with a fart 😂😂😂😂
@@functionatthejunctionThen you'd still have to get a mortgage to hook it up properly with indoor plumbing and everything. Just a septic system and well would cost you at least $30k. Not to mention the foundation (another $15-25k) and electric ($10k) and everything else. And you'd have to buy the land. But it wouldn't matter since they are not going to be code compliant anywhere and the local government could condemn it and prevent you from living there or allowing anyone else to live there. You'd also have no resale value and miss out on all the capital gains of owning a real house.
Can’t wait for the Temu houses to roll in
And with the slightest gust of wind, they’ll roll out
they’ll melt in the rain
im picturing one of those lil plastic toddler houses
these are already all over AliExpress since forever 😂
😂
"The house will be upon him" had me laughing for like ten whole seconds.
Here’s the thing they’re not gonna tell you
1. You still have to obtain land to place the house on
2. You have to get your land zoned and have the city ALLOW YOU to place that house where THEY tell you to put it on your own yard
3. Running utility lines along with digging out areas for them (plumbing and electrical) is going to be a huge expense
4. With all the other points in mind along with other things I didn’t mention???? You’re looking at approximately well over $500k just to obtain land and place that house there with full electrical capabilities you would add in yourself which also costs insane amounts of money you’re spending ON TOP of the fact that you spent a good $26k on a house alone
that just pisses me off how that guy talked about how unlivable it was then immediately jumped to signing it up for airbnb... i hate this era of having to resort to making scummy money for a quick buck especially with scams and whatnot
Right!? I completely agree. It's so shady and disgusting. It's your basic Slumlord mentality.
He wouldn’t have even needed the sleazy money if he hadn’t impulse purchased a house from bezos 😭
@@gabbyb9939FORREAL like 30k is nothing to scoff at... not to mention the aftermath of adding improvements to the shed which is extra $$$. wtf does bro do for a living
Ive never seen a motel room that was liveable. Yet they are rented out daily. Do you not understand Air BnBs arent purchases? They are short rentals? Gimmicks? Derpty derp…Common sense.
@@bradkirchhoff5703Exactly. I wouldnt mind staying there, I'm assuming it would be more affordable compared to other options.. With airbnbs, I'm only looking for a place to stay and park my car short term.
Honestly with rent being so expensive, I’d use an Amazon BOX to live in at this point
That’s so sad and dystopian 😭😭 has society really come to this point 😢
@@cherie..cherryShort answer: yes. Long answer: sadly, yes.
@@TChericei love this lmao
would you spend every dollar at the liquor shop?
@@spimuru5040 don’t tempt me
I knew I liked Danny but hearing him get angry at Airbnb's and landlords confirms it.
Based bro
I like how they’re tricking us into bringing trailer parks back. “It’s a tiny house! Need somewhere to put your tiny house? Welcome to our Tiny House Village 😉”
While being even harder to move than trailers, RVs, and mobile homes (in case the trailer park closes down/raises rent too high).
Trailer parks... Still exist tho?
Fr, trailer parks aren't allowed where I live and they're trying to sneak these under the radar
The amazon houses lowkey look like something an eight year old could build in minecraft
down to the shortass ceilings 😭😭
bro fr
@@captainofthelosercruiser7355the ceilings made of full blocks lol
Laughs in *MineCraft Player*
Cries in *35 year old who still builds like that*
@@drunkpaulocosta But it's functional, isn't it?
I feel like these are just fancy overpriced sheds
That's exactly what I was thinking! Reminds me of a larger and more waterproof plastic garden shed.
It’s a pre-fab. It’s basically a mobile home that wasn’t built on a trailer.
you can actually get a decent shed from some place like home depot for half the price (or less).
Exactly
i'm concerned with the foundation.
Tiny houses have annoying laws... You can't just plop one of these wherever you want. Also are we just ignoring the fact this guy has a single credit card with at least $28k limit on it?? I don't think he's hurting for money and would need to live in this place 😂
Yeah I didn't really think about that part. He said was 23? And he has a credit card with a limit of at least 25K (im rounding cause I feel like CC limits are often an even number). I think when I was his age, my one and only credit card had a 8K limit.
You don't need money to have a credit card with a high limit. I'm in debt up to my eyeballs but boy will they give me a credit card with a 15k limit because I know how to game my credit score. That being said, he sounds like a dropshipper (with the "I'mma make this an airbnb" bs) so I'm not surprised at this point.
Could it not be a debit card?
@@ThroatzillaaaI'm 29 and still never have had a credit card. I only have used a debit card and cash. And I've never seen more than $14,000 in my bank account...
Some people have no idea how good they have it...
@@shiannafoxxthis isn't a typical housing transaction lol he could buy it however he pleases
You are buying JUST a building with no land, no insulation, no plumbing, no electrical.
At that point is it even cheaper than just buying a real house?
You are correct, it's not really any cheaper, in fact probably more when these things do not last long. Bro in the video is in denial that he merely wasted $26k.
Yea just buy a home Depot shed. You can get a 2 story with windows for window units. They are also normal stud walls so you can run wires and insulate easily before drywalling.
The people yearn for the return of Sears kit homes
I've actually been in a Sears log cabin in canada, where we have pretty cold winters. It's actually decently built and stays warm with the wood stove. Considering it was built like 40 years ago by my mom's friend and his dad it's kept up pretty well
yeah we want them back
Sears, Roebuck & CO has been around forever, late late 1800s. It's decline was caused by the owner's love for Ayn Rand and invisible hand of the free market and that style of capitalism/objectivism. He implemented these procedures around 2005ish and started to drastically lose money. But he kept going, trying other things in that same vein. That's what ultimately decimated the company. 20 years of Eddie Lampert caused the internal company collapse while the external was impacted by online shopping (but not destroyed, still salvageable, if it weren't for Lampert.) As of January 2024, there are 13 Sears stores in total remaining, 1 in Puerto Rico and 12 in the US. It's actually a really interesting story if you google it. There are tons of articles about it. It's not recent, but it's still very relevant in terms of capitalism and consumerism, or if you just dislike Ayn Rand (me).
the sear’s home kits were my first thought as well!
some of those looked so beautiful and like genuinely good homes. i do, in fact, yearn.
So, here in Germany, there are people who spend like 3-6 months out of the year living in camping parks. They buy or permanently rent a plot and treat it as their summer home. Some of them have pretty elaborate set-ups either for their trailer or pretty big "sheds" that basically reach tiny house status. Similarly, there are people who rent little parcels of land to garden on and usually they also build what's effectively a tiny house on it - not to permanently live in it, but to maybe spend a weekend in their little garden or to host garden parties and have somewhere to sit and use the loo and such. I feel like that's the kind of scenario these kinds of houses were originally meant for. It's a pretty elaborate camping set-up, but not really all that good as a permanent home you want to live in year-round. If that was more transparent, I'd be pretty fine with this. But the landlord mindset is really scary.
An old friend of my mother used to have something similar to the Garden thing, I am also from Germany btw!
I've always wondered about the camping parks, I just thought they'd live there all year round. But they actually have a normal house on the side too?
@@moongirl8807It’s called a „Schrebergarten“ or at least I think that’s what OP is referring to. You are as far as I know not even allowed to actually live in these homes. It’s simply a rented garden with a shack in it. Some people get fancy with it but in the end it’s not supposed to be used as an actual place to live in
@foodsupply5071 nah I know those and yup, you're not allowed to live there (you can sleep there sometime though). I meant people that literally live on camping sites, Dauercamper
No people do live in rvs
The salon suggestion is a really good idea. People who have their own clients need a private space to do their business. It's way more expensive to rent a space in a salon.
I agree.
But there’s no electricity OR running water
@@ZombixMixRight! Which a salon needs both of those things.
he said he was having the electricity & plumbing taken care of anyway, so it's safe to assume both are things that can be relatively easily added. instead of making it into an air b&b tho, rent it as salon space @@ZombixMix
@@LoveK1I thought the dude said he got the plumbing and electricity done in one of the videos
Having to put a whole house in storage because you don't know where to put it is such weird problems to have.
Actually hearing someone saying they spent $26,000 on a house without even a second thought is so crazy to me. Like I can’t even buy a pack of gum without having to think twice. 🤦🏻♂️
Ikr. Not me out here passing by a Little Ceasars and having to think really fuckin hard about if I can afford a fucking $5 hot n ready
I can’t even make a single $4 purchase without doing extensive research and think twice before clicking the button to buy
the groan i let out when he said he was gonna turn it into an airbnb was monstrous lmao
All things considered, this structure is probably an ideal airbnb scenario. It’s not like he is taking prime real estate in a coveted location. A shanty house on the outskirts of a city sounds perfect for temporary accommodations
Mobile homes, tiny houses, guest homes, even small boats are all available and reasonably priced on Airbnb. I don’t see why not this if someone wishes to travel on a budget? Unless I’m at a resort or want to be luxurious, when I travel I’m spending most of my time exploring the area and just need a safe place to sleep at night. This could fit the bill 🤷🏽♀️
When I lived with my parents, my room was the only one in the house without proper insulation and it was TERRIBLE. Looking at those prefab houses on Amazon just gives me flashbacks to those days. I can just imagine you'll be freezing during the winter and boiling in the summer unless you're located in *just* the right area.
They're unfinished. It's like buying a shed. You're supposed to put all that in
I would take having to spend a couple grand on installing insulation over the average house price of 700k
People also don’t realize that these things you have to put in all the lines for water and gas yourself. Especially if you’re plopping it on a piece of property that’s never seen a building. That cost a lot of money
alot less than 700k+ im sure@@tjistheb13
I had the same when i lived at my parents of course as soon as i moved out they insulated it..
16:20 not me growing up watching UnspeakableGaming knowing that man would rupture my eardrums each time I clicked a video
i'm more pissed at the comment section than i am at that dude. like why do they act like scamming people and potentially putting them in danger is a "smart move"?
Literally. Its the people buying houses just for them to sit empty most of time that are ruining the housing market.
other people's wellbeing dont matter till someone croaks. something something all laws were written with blood.
because people aspire to oppress.
Seriously there's some comments acting like people should be eternally grateful for the privilege of having a roof alone
My house don't jiggle, jiggle, it FOLDS.
underrated comment 🫡
definetely an underrated comment lol
I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂😂
Looool
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I really hope this isn't something Temu will steal. I can only imagine the horrors of a Temu house
Would make for some great youtube videos though.
1. There are already houses on Temu. 2. Half of Amazon’s random items (that don’t have a recognized brand) are the Exact same thing being sold on Temu, like literally identically the same manufacturer.
Sears Homes walked so Amazon Air BnBs could crawl
I don't remember his username but there's a guy who is following the sears house building guide and buying all the materials required to compare the cost
😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine renting an air bnb and showing up to see a plastic Amazon house
I honestly expect this to happen
Danny a lot of like black hairstylist actually do use sheds and smaller rooms to braid in the same as nail techs and etc it’s actually really popular 😭
From the 1900s-1940s, Sears (then Sears-Roebuck) used to sell homes through their mail catalogue, they ranged from small to big ranch style homes, and basically you would receive pre-cut wood pieces that you (and I guess neighbors or friends) could assemble together, over the course of several weeks to a month, and the end products looked pretty good! (as long as you knew what you were doing) Back then, people could forego bank loans and mortgages and purchase their homes through Sears-Roebuck's loan program, which almost always resulted in the buyer getting a loan (so they could buy from Sears-Roebuck) but when the Great Depression hit, Sears also took a massive hit and ended up having to foreclose on a LOT of those homes. Think about a house you built with you own hands being taken away by the company you bought it from... Anyways, a lot of those homes are actually still around and as long as they haven't been too renovated you can often tell which homes are from the catalogue! Just thought it was interesting that history was repeating itself
I love comments like these
I actually grew up in a Sears Prefab house!
It's a pretty interesting part of history to grow up in.
From 1900? You mean to tell me that part of Red Dead Redemption 2 where you do literally buy a house out of a catalogue to build yourself was historically accurate?! I guess I shouldn't be that surprised but wow...
@Bbqbbq13 me too😊
@@shwahgamer Sears was founded in 1892. The westward expansion of the railroad made it possible for basically anyone in the US to order anything by mail and have it delivered near enough to them that they could pick it up in an afternoon. They had MASSIVE warehouses dedicated to catalogue and mail order shopping until the late 80s/early 90s Right when the internet started picking up they decided the way of "the future" was brick and mortar stores so they closed their mail order business. If they had moved their catalogues to the internet instead they would be bigger than Amazon.
PreFab and Container houses are very difficult to maintain and live in for more than a year. They were always meant to be temporary and it's insane that people are selling them as actual homes
But there are some pretty good prefab homes. They are also an easy way to get to passive house criteria.
Like undecided (a TH-cam channel and guy) got a prefab the panels are made in a factory and assembled on site and it's a house that meets the passive house standards
There're some high quality pre built and manufactured homes that come to the site already built and there are some insane high quality triple wides
I'm not sure about a container homes but they seem pretty good quality from the ones I've seen and watched on TH-cam
In the 50s they had perfectly livable and affordable pre-fab homes but now the economy has gotten destroyed and corporations think they can make them as cheaply as possible to the point they don’t function as houses and break after a year and the poor people will be forced to settle for it anyways because they have no choice
Amazon is definitely not the right place to go for buying prefab houses like this. I agree the longevity and purpose of these homes are being misrepresented on the Amazon listings. There are mobile homes that can be transported on roads but are designed to be lived in permanently once put in place.
It honestly makes me think about the cheaply made FEMA "houses" that turned out to be poisonous to live in from the early 2000s
@@haleyc.3530 In my area you can still buy great prefab and transportable houses in the range of $50k-$150k, from reputable companies that will help with the logistics and have homes that actually meet standards. I would just never purchase something like that off amazon
The 'track your order' screen showing a whole house on the way lmao
ETA: THE WAY THAT MAN GOT A WHOLE FREE COUCH THAT ACTUALLY LOOKS PRETTY NICE AND THREW A TANTRUM BECAUSE IT WAS PINK LMAO....the weakness. Of course he turned around and started bleating about AirBnB.
......honestly it looks really good for that price. (ETA: Oops I forgot this one was more expensive.) I'm surprised. But I guess I'm thinking of it as 'if your house has black mold, or a relative's house burned down and you don't have elbow room....other than that, it just seems like it could be an outdoor studio if you have enough yard space in your own house? My brain just.....kinda rebels at the idea that people look at those products and expect an Actual Home. There are higher quality prefab type houses but they take a lot longer to set up and are a lot more expensive, it happened in my extended family. It definitely was not unfoldable lol.
LMAO THERES NO WAY A GROWN MAN LIEK THAT THREW A TANTRUM KVER A PINK COUCH😭🙏
The lady knew he was gay and probably thought he would love it
i thought the title said "bought a horse on amazon" and i thought you were gonna be bullying aspiring cowboys
Aspiring cowboys is so hilarious to for some reason idk what it is but can’t stop laughing
@@NotUnique_ Yeah like there is a massive audition process like Americas got talent.
*Foghorn Leghorn Voice* "Now i say boy, thems the best lasso spins i've gone done seen in all of tarnation"
@@drunkpaulocosta 😂😂😂I'm crying
I love the phrase "aspiring cowboy" I feel like I should be calling all 8 year olds with a wild west phase that
@@Fluff_Noodles lol y'all are hilarious
I would not want to be in a house like that during a hurricane, watching the walls bounce back and forth like some cartoon show
I wouldn't want to be in it in a light drizzle
And it would get sucked up by the hurricane and probably land on the wicked witch of the east 😭😭
Can you imagine eating your ramen noodles and watching your “house” sway around you?😂
They're fancy sheds, they're sheds advertised as "houses" and more like man cave/she sheds for your backyard to act as your hobby room or backyard getaway. I live by a shed warehouse that sells a ton of these for the upscale neighborhoods with big backyards
Literally this. But well, the social media always does the best job as mispreading information "gen z now can have houses" and so on just to generate a boom and have views, but I hope people won't be dumb enough to actually buy these as actual homes..., but the human stupidity is endless which worries me
“Millennials and gen z are buying Amazon houses!”
No the fuck we aren’t???
The house folding in on you won’t be a problem for your squishy bones
“Oh No MY HOUSE IS FOLDING IN”!
*squish*
GUYS MY BONES ARE GETTING SQUISHY-
Stop 😆
Squish
B-b-b-but m-my bones are crunchy! *Gulp*
It’s even funnier when you remember that Amazon originally started as an online bookstore. Like there’s no way they ever envisioned that you would be able to buy a house on it one day
I'm still waiting for the funny part. No Bezos never envisioned being one of the richest people to ever live, you are a genius!
Lmao
@@facetiouslyinsolent8313 dude chill
I'm a civil engineer who has worked with prefab houses so let me tell you this. These houses are essentially containers with holes and minimal insulation, so they're pretty small in general. You have to pay extra to have outlets and all the electricity stuff. You need to build a minimal foundation since they're so small but I wouldn't recommend them for areas with earthquakes and other extreme climate conditions or you'll end up like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz.
@@coastalshenanigans4413 You don't have to wonder, it's weird.
@@ergerg2 ?
@@coastalshenanigans4413 Comments maybe aren't the best medium for my joke reply.
@@ergerg2 i just didn't understand what u meant
Are those the only issues with those houses? Cuz I can pay for electrical and a foundation
Ppl kept suggesting renting to aestheticians because it's common practice to sublet a space to run your business out of, it's cheaper than opening your own store and generally a little more accessible to people with a smaller clientele who are looking to go off on their own venture
(Hairstyling student, literally was talking about this with one of my teachers yesterday)
my heart sank when he said he was gonna use it as an airbnb lmao
SAME. And then hating on the furniture when the home isn't even liveable for him.. but he go the furniture for FREE and is gonna rent the "unit" out anyway. And he had gotten both an upgrade AND the furniture for free just felt so very out of touch and rude, because he got them from someone who WATCHES him. Wtf.
@@NotKekePalmer tbf do you expect any better from someone who made a $26,000 dollar purchase and “didn’t even think twice”? at 23 years old as well? it’s insane how a person can be so financially irresponsible yet so tight fisted
In Australia we call these Granny Flats.. people generally have them in their backyards for family to stay in (or atm renting out for renters) most don’t come with electricity you have to have that installed separately
Yeah, my parents have actually been looking into building something like this on their property (we’d call it a guesthouse or bungalow). I can honestly see some people purchasing these.
All the granny flats i've seen are much better quality and more durable since people actually respect their grandmas. more than these airbnbs at least 😂
I rent a granny flat in aus and it’s 100x more durable than this structure 🤣
Sure but a lot of granny flats are way better quality than this, some even being regular constructed 1 bedroom spaces. This is next level
This is not revolutionary or amazing. This is dystopian. Amazon is selling slightly oversized Walmart garden sheds as houses here. This is some sort of next level trailer park living.
+++this
the problem aint that it is dystopian, that dont mean shit
the problem is that it aint work
if it works it works, but it has problems that makes it not work
no. this is a shittier version of trailer park living. for the amount of money this dude spent he could have gotten a doublewide trailer and gotten twice as much space.
Right
you can buy a literal 4 bedroom house with a pretty big yatd for 70k in finland where im from, in smaller cities you can buy an 2 bedroom apartment for 20k and not even one in a bad shape but in decent, well to be fair after 2020 its a bit more expensive but notmmuch. I bought a duplex house that had 2x 2 bedroom apartments and both had big kitchens etc lots of space an attic storage and 2 rooms down stairs for storage since they at the time had onlu concrete walls and floors and a big sauna and a big garage etc it has around 30 yards of a beach line in a lake in the corner of back yard, i re did all the floors , ceilings and floors we did new electricity and fuseboxes etc new tiles snd everything but believe it or not the house cost 76k and my gather managed to negotiate it down to 68k and we would empty everything they did not want becouse they wanted to get rid of it, their father had passed away and it was his house. Deals like this all the time. But the houde is less than 2 miles from city central but is in a family oriented part of town with lots of forrest etc and 5 lakes to go swimming in a 1,5 mile radius and ocean like a mile away etc in a beatifull 500 year old city.
Y'know, i feel like being short is really looking great for me right now.
What we need for housing is no landlords. There can only be a housing market if there's the threat of not having a home.
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Then buy your own home?
@@rachaelbusby3940have you seen the state of the market in some places? There's a lot of cities where the price is basically unaffordable if you can find one for sale because people are holding onto their houses, sometimes without renting them or just renting as airbnb.
Yeah if you don't have a job that ties you down, you can get a decent house in the sticks for less than 100 grand, maybe even 50. But if you're near any large city, good luck.
Plus if you don't go through the song and dance of being a good capitalist and taking credit and you're being savvy and just use a debit card, your credit score's gonna be shit, and no bank's gonna give you a mortgage. And even if it is good you're gonna want to burn a few insurances before you get one if you can even get it.
Imo there should be some things in place against having businesses renting houses.
Because those apartments are built to look good but they're basically as good to live in as a tv set.
@@rachaelbusby3940omg ur so smart and innovative great suggestion you fixed the entire crisis 😮
@@rachaelbusby3940why are you, a person who has apparently either never bothered to considerer the reality of the housing market/landlordism or are too stupid to, responding to this?
You could just buy a steel barn for the same price and its bigger and has room for a 2nd floor. And yes, some companies will build it for you, no extra cost.
Right like my sister bought a 14x38 two story barn/shed and finished it for a total of like 25k and it has 9ft ceilings so…..
@@Alfredobearington3rd Thats the way to go
For $26,000 you can buy a 4 bedroom house in flint, mi. 😂
@@QueenJellyBean307but then you’d have to live in flint Michigan ya know
@@QueenJellyBean307 The shed might be a lil more livable
My thing is why buy it from Amazon? Especially without land?
There are legit websites where you can buy proper prefabs.
There are still a lot of documentations and permits you need before placing it and even before living in it.
This exactly! You can also buy a schoolbus from an auction house and renovate it, and many builds are beautiful. Some people can get it done for under $20k, cost of bus included, but it's an immense amount of work that can take years to complete and requires knowledge of electrical, plumbing, carpentry, etc. or access to someone who can do that for you.
Prefab tiny houses are a great option depending on where you live. Many states, however, require extensive permits. And depending on where you buy, you might have to drill for a well, which can be over 20k. Not to mention solar and septic!
The tinyliving community is wonderful and I can understand the appeal, but buying a shoddy, sketchy prefab on Amazon is not where it's at...
@ephemeralgod my friend in Cali wanted to do that. Only to be told that it couldn't be insured. So it really depends on what state you live in.
By the time you get land, utilities set up and wired, etc, you end up paying the same amount as a better and bigger house. And there’s no real roof, so if you live somewhere with rain and snow I’d wonder how it would hold up without leaking. And some zoning doesn’t even allow houses this small. Doesn’t even seem worth it
right!! prefabs can be a smart decision when you already have the land for it. my parents had a piece of land in our village (in Turkey) but not the budget to build a whole ass house from the ground up so my parents were looking into prefab houses. but it's still a process where you have to actually do your research and a cost-benefit analysis, it definitely should not be something you can buy off amazon without the opportunity to talk to people who actually know what they're talking about to guide you. plus it's going to be WAYYYY safer, built the proper way and actually worth living in.
@@jondoe230 then don't insure it as a house but as a garage or something else. Everything has to be insured in life from birth to death anyways.
i deeply adore how much danny gets stuck on the "take the card" """"contradiction"""" instead of considering that maybe he was reading the meaning completely incorrectly
You used to be able to buy houses from Sears too. RIP sears
Some Sears kit homes in my neighborhood and they’re not awful. People usually needed to install sump pumps in the 90s because the water retention was getting bad so that’s I guess the worst part.
they were good too
Technically there are still 13 Sears stores in existence. Including one in Puerto Rico for some reason.
There’s actually a sears pretty close to me
yeah but they were actually decent quality. A wind blows and this house collapses xD
oh gosh I've been waiting for the Amazon house extension to drop for years
its the new DLC
omg yess hopefully I can afford to buy the dlc soon!
Dw its getting bundled with Prime soon
These ceilings have been nerfed unfortunately
7:19 love Danny talking about his kid, I completely forgot he had one... I hope he doesn't forget he's got one either
He's been there for 5 months, he's old enough now to move out and forget about until special days roll around~
I could be wrong, this is just a guess, but Danny probably sees his son more often than we do. So he has a lower chance of forgetting his existence. Maybe
But does he really have one? I was so confused
@@Fanproductionsyes lol😭 his son was born last year
@@thejacquelinerowlandi think they were joking
you're better off building a house from plywood and 2×4s. at the end it'd be at LEAST a thousand dollars cheaper for the same size house, and you can update it over time instead of being locked into a plastic house
okay as someone who works in manufacturing tiny houses this was a delight to watch. and yes, you do need a foundation for these things. i'd be worried about some of these things folding over on itself in a bad windstorm, let alone if you're in any kind of inclement weather area like a tornado alley or on the coast. i'd imagine some of them are fine, but the air bnb guy really got scammed
hell, even getting land for these can be a hassle bc you need to have the proper zoning code to put the house on, and if it's a tiny house like these, they may fall under their own code/exceptions. the ability to *rent the damn thing out* is yet another can of worms, i know in my state you legally cannot rent a tiny house (which i imagine is what this thing is) as any sort of rental unit no matter what you call it. i'm not confident we can even have those on properties as like in-law suites, that has its own square footage + code requirements that i doubt something like this would meet. i'm honestly curious what kind of code this runs under
hard agree that we need more middle type housing though, i wouldn't at all mind having a duplex or townhome instead of A) sell your soul to a landlord only to get price gouged anyway, or B) live at home because your boomer parents bought their house for three nickels and some slivers of wood Back In The Day
My grandparents bought their house in 1961 for $18,000. After they passed we had it appraised and today it’s worth 400k 🙃
Yeah all of this plus proper planning, plumbing, sewage, electrical all need to be taken care of as well. Unless you're doing all of that yourself (which will still cost you money for the materials), the overall cost between the house, the land, legal documents, and the pad, plumbing, sewage, and electrical is gonna be so expensive that you'd have to have either a lot of money saved or a bank willing to give you a loan. Honestly instead of going through all of that hassle just take the money if you have it already and put a downpayment on an actual house.
Hahah I loved this explaination
In my state tiny homes are considered accessory dwelling units, and you can do whatever you want with them as long as you get a permit.
My grandparents kicked us out of a family home leaving us panicking barely being able to find a house, and then they just Airbnb it after that. Our house was a house in the woods of Maine, so they found it a money opportunity even when we were actively living there. This happens to a lot of people, so don't use Airbnb. People also always need houses and people are using up spaces where people could live to make money. Pure evil.
Your grandparents sound like they are incredibly greedy or for benefit of the doubt really hard up for cash
@@maxmarohn581 They've done stuff proving they don't give a damn about my family. Like when my dad was 16 moving 18 hours out and building a house that didn't have a room for him. He stayed with his mother instead (his parents were divorced).
Airbnb is a plague. I’ll never forgive them for their part in jacking up housing prices in my city so hard-we used to be a pretty affordable place. I dream of a day where there’d be a regulatory crackdown on Airbnb, but we live in hell and free-market capitalism must be allowed to keep trudging blindly along, I guess.
That really sucks, i can't believe family would do that to you, and especially your grandparents! Money is evil
@@tommymarco greed is evil
I feel like people greatly underestimate the complications of home construction. You cant just plop one of these down anywhere. Realistically houses need a foundation, you need to grade the ground to avoid flooding, you need plumbing, ac, to make sure the walls are properly insulated, inspection to make sure things are sealed/installed properly (dont want water coming through the windows during ur first rainstorm), electicity, etc. Plus alot of the stuff in these ready made houses will break easily so prepare for repairs.
This isn’t really a new thing. People used to buy house-kits for Sears in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You’d get a kit with instructions and all the parts and just put it together. There are a lot of them still around today! They seem to have held up pretty well honestly
Those were actual homes.
But it is a similar concept
15:38 as it stands, we have enough houses, 15.1 million empty homes, subtract our population of homeless people, we have 14.5 million empty homes left. We do have a problem and that is the commodification of housing
Yeaaa like we have the houses just no one but the very rich can afford them
We have SO many abandoned houses in my city. And they just sit there, meanwhile there's homeless people, who tend to end up squatting in said houses.
When we could fix up those house for cheap prices and help the homeless because most of the abandoned homes belong to the county land bank now
We even have some affordable housing. Of course, you can’t buy it, because they’re immediately snapped up by landlords so you have to pay more to rent than it costs to own.
Those homes are often not in places that people need, or have other issues that make them unlivable or extremely undesireable. There are absolutely places that need more housing, and denying that is insane. And like was said in the video, there are a lack of options for types of housing. Additionally, it being less dense results in ever increasing commute times and social alienation. Why do so many leftists now oppose building apartments?
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People like to own shit, weirdo.
Glad that Danny is pro dense urbanism. Mixed use zoning is also illegal in most parts of the US. For example having a restaurant on the first floor and an apartment on the top floor. Mixed use zoning makes it a lot easier to have walkable communities that aren’t car dependent. I live in a suburban sprawl with few protected bike lanes which makes the possibility of walking inconvenient at best and the act of biking dangerous at worse. You’ve touched on my favorite social issue so thanks for that. I want people to be more aware of this kind of thing
Oh, that’s so cool I’ve never heard of that until I watch this video. As someone who doesn’t have a car, it’s my goal to definitely live in a more walkable city. I even ironically always wanted to live on top of the business that I start (cafe/artstudio). I didn’t even know that it was illegal in some parts of the US. It’s also crazy because I live in a college town and you would think that was more walkable, but there is a major highway that stops a lot of bike/Walking. it’s very rare that you can get somewhere without at least needing some type of ride. I hope this issue gets talked about more. I’m going to go do more research because now I’m very intrigued.
same!! I work in a social housing organisation and spend almost every waking hour thinking-reading-talking about housing issues so even just hearing him say the word 'housing' made me so happy lol. And I was glad to hear him talk about it in a more critical/progressive way, though I'm way more radical about these things, as a European I could talk for days about how horrible the suburbs in the US are in every aspect, and how the whole concept of landlords are fucked.
No zoning in Vermont
Wow, I'm from Europe so I never thought mixed use zoning like that could be illegal! I feel very strongly about walkable/bikeable cities and areas and accessible architecture. Denser architecture like rowhouses are going to be so so important in the future, especially in areas where family units are shrinking (instead of two or three generations of people living under the same roof, we now have a lot of families that consist of like. a couple and a dog. or a single person. No reason to live in a 3 bedroom suburban single family house)
I think that's one of my favourite things about Chicago. Chicago is pretty walkable, if needing to go across the city, they have the L and buses, and most buildings are similar to town homes/apartments, and most restaurants are below some of them!