Texas Tiny Home Village Offers Affordable Housing in Competitive Communities
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Village farms is a tiny home community in East Austin based around Green Gate Farm. This little village has a variety of tiny homes and invites anyone at any age to join the neighborhood! The welcoming vibe presents a sense of community and simple living, with common areas for residents to gather and a beautiful organic garden. In addition, there’s a pool, jacuzzi, dog park, and picnic/bbq areas. A walk around this park feels like a resort with your closest friends.
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The cheapest home is $166K. Lot rent is $750. Mortage + lot rent = doesn't sound like affordable housing. Am I missing something?
Dang :/
Yes the affordability
Definitely not affordable in my opinion.
Randy Jones in Tennessee at Incredible Tiny Homes may not have a big pool area but his lot & tiny house prices got them beat on affordablility. Even with that being said - I do like what is going on here though for those who can afford to buy, well thought out amenities.
I truly think people are missing the purpose of having a tiny house. Suppose to be affordable and minimalist. No fancy stuff to raise the price.
Are tiny homes worth 190k plus. The price seems to defeat the purpose of living in a tiny home.
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Depending on where you live I suppose. If you live in an area where a 1200 sqft 3 bedroom house is $600,000+ that tiny home looks real attractive all of a sudden. At least it's a place to live.
Absolutely not; if you pay that amount, you are getting screwed
Exactly a little bit pricey for something that small and it should be maximum 125k nothing over that.
I guess if you have a million or two invested with a financial advisor a 399sf $178,000 tiny home and $750 community fee is very reasonable
These homes built close to standard building code, used to be $75k - $100k (100K was high end) ....now they are asking $177-199k???.....contractors are taking advantage of demand and the economy. Building supply quality is the same....nothing has changed except supply and demand. These houses are NOT worth what they are asking. This is ridiculous.
Agree totally
Still cheaper than a house I'd guess. In canada you don't find anything for that price.
@@poges This isn't Canada
I concur
I agree, but the ammendities are factored into the price though too like the community pool, the garden, the farm, dog washing station, a gym, ect. I still think they could come down on the price some though.
Tiny homes are about living simply and minimalism..and NOT having a mortgage. One shouldn't cost more than the traditional 3 bedroom 2 bath home I currently own. If you want the real tiny home experience buy a nice shed for $10k and build it out as a off grid home with solar.. doable for under 25k. Or go the school bus conversion route.
agree!! 25-50k is what people who DIY mostly spend but in off grid areas.
The only problem is finding a place to put it. Living off grid applies to a small percentage of people. Unfortunately, I'm not in that percentage due to where I live.
yes, BUT- codes swoop in & tell you that you cannot live in it unless it is a certain size or condemn it for lot and code violations they make up.
Sadly, in most areas of the country, that is not possible. Local Zoning laws often do not allow these homes because they are not to code and they are not permanent.
When you buy a real home for $190K, you get a house AND land...not a never ending lot fee that could increase at the whim of the land owner.
Not to mention if a developer comes along and offers the landowner a boatload of money for the land. You then have 30 days to take your RV, trailer, mobile home or whatever you want to call it and skeedaddle.
I live in Austin. This is affordable for Austin, but the prices are inflated like the rest of Austin.
Tiny home prices are ridiculous. If I was advising someone on the financial aspects, I would never recommend the purchase. Per square foot, it’s better to purchase a small traditional home.
Sadly small traditional homes are not existent. Average sq footage is around 1500 sq feet, normally box type, cookie cutter horrible houses without character. You will need a large shipping container full of furniture and extras to make it cozy.
Or just convert an Astro Van to a camper.
Especially with these prices
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Check out Recreational Resort Cottages. The majority of their tiny homes are under 100K and are beautiful!
The homes are really nice, but outside of the cost of the houses, which range in price from $166K to $193K according to the video (which is too high IMO), you ALSO have to pay 750$ A MONTH for the community fee. I get that the grounds need maintenance and what not, but that's A LOT for what amounts to a monthly rent even after you pay off the house itself. And that's not even counting monthly utility costs. All in all, I am sure it's a wonderful place to live IF you can afford it, but it doesn't sound like it ends up being very "affordable" to people looking to live in a tiny space for a lower cost of living IMO.
I mean, the average 1-Bedroom apartment rent in Texas is around 1064$ for 822 square feet. With these you'd probably pay more than that (for half the space) for 15 years for the mortgage + community fee, and after you pay it off, you're still stuck with that high fee. I think if the houses cost significantly less (70,000-120,000) and the monthly fee was no higher than 400$ then it might fall into what I'd consider affordable, but that's just me.
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I agree with your thinking mostly accept this:
Taxes.. taxes are a killer here in Texas. We are considered 1 of the most tax repressive states in america... the average house in dallas is 275k x 3.5% is around say 10k (without homestead) so 800+ a month for an average home in taxes alone... also I live in a
@@jonnycammcleod5782 interesting. I would have thought, being a red state, that taxes in Texas would be much lower.
@@NicMercy It depends on where in Texas you live. Keep in mind this state is HUGE. Also, we have no state income tax.
Although I like the idea of the tiny home community. I’m horrified at the costs for the lot and a mortgage, especially for seniors on a fixed income. Not to mention dealing with rent increases for the lots and exaggerated values on the homes. A lot of pluses but definitely some negatives for those with less income.
the negatives outweigh the positives frankly
Just this week (September 2023) I visited Majestic Hills north of Houston.. another Tiny home community of all Park Model homes. But the difference here is most of their homes were at $100K with a few models under 90. Not sure why things are so overpriced in Austin area.
But is it really affordable. Where I live they talk all about building affordable hones an yet when they do they ain't affordable
what heck did you expect ? 20,000 dollar home ???? you crazy , tiny home on wheels can cost you as much as 150k to 650k in canada , because of labor and shortage of supplies then you will run in to more problems , cant park it any where lol
@@HalifaxComputersRepair Actually yes, tiny homes should be $20k definitely no more than $50k.. but the thing is tiny homes are really meant for people who are self sufficient and able to DIY.. the whole point is not to be a slave to a job and the banks and have a mortgage, etc.
Nope to be affordable the homes would need to be $50k and the lot rent under $500 a month.
@@HalifaxComputersRepair It’s one thing to claim to be affordable but not actually be affordable.
While this is a nice community it’s definitely not affordable.
Because the reality is that homes, at least ones worth living in, will never be "affordable" to the lower and lower-middle class. It just doesn't make financial sense on the part of all the different parties involved to build cheap, bare-bones houses that will be extremely basic just so they can be attainable for people making less than $100k a year. It's an age old law of nature, if you want nice things in life you have to be smart enough to gain the resources you need to get those things.
That explanation as to why it's so expensive was simply priceless.
Right.... B. S
you could tell even the lady saying why the price is so high didn't believe what she was saying
The price of these tiny homes defeats the purpose of living in a tiny home in the first place. If you know anything about tiny homes, this price is way too high. And I'm saying this as someone who has lived in the Bay Area all my used to paying a ridiculous amount, anyways. And on top of the overpriced home you also have to pay $750 every month to be on the land.
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But this isn't affordable. Just a cute tiny home community.
Would be better if they could park their cars infront of their home price for them is way to high
They can do that on the "Founders Side" in the RV park, where they have driveways.
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Over priced! Ridiculous!
Between mortgage and rent; that is not cheap living. Worse yet, since this is not a permanently built home; it depreciates.
I live an hour south of Austin I pay 500$ lot rent and you can buy a brand new mobile home for 110 grand
Would be worth the commute to save tons of money and the headache this will cause.
Nice idea but overpriced. Can owner move the tiny house if they wish to?
If you stop paying the rent which is at 750 a month and will increase every year, you will have no choice but to...
So they have to pay rent for the duration of ownership? I agree that this seems really over priced
Technically you can, but it would be very difficult and expensive. People who have had to move away from here just resell their homes.
Since you have to pay so much for lot rent, and then the price of paying the mortgage, there’s no way this would be worth it. They need to come a lot cheaper than they are. That’s crazy.
It would have been nice to see the tiny homes and the layouts avalible. Especially for those prices!!!
If you actually want to see the layouts before buying, that will cost 25% extra.
Why would people want to spend that kind of money when it’s as much as a single family home?
Whooo boy! I wish that was near home prices in our area! Cheapest home here is $650,000
Imagine a future buying tents will be the new affordable way at $100k each 🤣🤣
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Sadly this seems to be true
I love the idea of living in a tiny home community like this for the low maintenance and lower overall cost of living. It seems to offer the benefits of resort-style condo living with the added benefit of not sharing walls with your neighbors. The tiny house movement seems to attract a lot of down-to-earth, nice people who I would enjoy having as neighbors.
So you should check out The Incredible Tiny Homes channel on TH-cam.
$166,000 plus lot rent $750! They call this "affordable".
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My plan when I retired was to get an RV and see America. Since the pandemic the quality of RV's has tanked. I then thought about a tiny home in a nice tiny home community. The quality might be there, but the prices are, like so many people in the comment section said, ridiculous. I'm buying a Hondawing to tour the country and either camp or stay in a nice motel.
I love the idea of tiny home communities.
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Prices? some tiny homes are becoming more expensive than a small 2 bed on piece of property. I'm still researching for affordable.
25 years ago I purchased a small cottage in southern Ohio. It was going into foreclosure and I paid 40k for it. It has 2 bedrooms 2 full bathrooms and is about 1,500 square feet. I moved in to it 2 weeks ago before closing. All it needed was some fresh paint and I put in some hardwood floors because I hate carpet. It had a 2 car garage w/ One bedroom apartment above the garage I rented out up until the lady passed away 3 years ago. Now I rent the apartment to my 28 year old son. The small town I live in population 5,000 no gangs just good old peace & quiet 💕
Anything over 100k is too high for these little homes to me.
I recognized the retired teacher. She has a beautiful place!
The neighbors are super close. I would love to be lucky enough to have her as my next door
This is awesome. I love all the versatility of the community!! I would love to see this in a specific price range more affordable for lower bracket incomes. Great video!
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The low income tiny homes are actually across the street from this.. Homeless population so u know what that means
WRONG..
Luv how the older lady shows up in all the videos❤
I know her. She lives in the mansion right next to mine.
My wife and I did a tour here late 2021, and the lady was so rude and dismissive to us. The whole time, it felt like we were inconveniencing her time. Wanted to like this area so bad. Glad I moved on from this
Hello, That's strange to know about your bad experience there. would you please name the lady? have you reported this?
I stopped by in 2021, too-- they were a bit dry and snooty. The tiny home and lot prices made the tiny home cost as much as any other home.
Her name was First Name Last Name.
@@samanthalake5011 Actually, I believe her name was Ima Grifter.
Outrageous
Cheaper to build your own and put it on your own lot
Come to kansas folks! Small homes are listed every day for 30,000 dollars, and usually less! Similar houses in Austin are mowed down to build tiny homes! I lived at a village down the street from this one for 8 years! This place is very nice! It should be at this price!
Sweet! Nice to wake up in 2023 and find this waiting. Thanks for posting!
I wish more places had these!
How much is HOA a month?
How much is the garden a month (to pick and eat)
@@michelleelle4622 If you volunteer on the farm on Saturdays, you can get free produce. Otherwise, they have a farmer's market to buy it, and a program called CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) where you pay a fee and get seasonal produce once a week, if I'm not mistaken. (I've heard it's a LOT of food so some single people split the cost.)
Question is their a Lot Rent or do you buy the Lot that the Tiny Home is On
Additional $750
These homes are so gorgeous.
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Anyone that pays that amount of money for a place like that is a fool. But people are doing it and thinking it's great, and that's why they're being fleeced and will continue to be
Beautiful homes. Wish we could see one of the houses on the inside.
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They have several videos doing just that here on YT. Just search for them.
@@Widdershins. Wow really thanks u so much
@@Widdershins. Yes, a number of them on this very channel.
I like the idea. I’m sure there’s a lot of room to grow and develop the tiny home community model.
Very very nice tiny homes, love it with communities you all get a long love it, the villages is soooo very nice !!! Thank you sooo much !!! ❤❤
Way too expensive. How the heck can an average person afford this and the lot rent? Because it’s in Austin is why they have this so high. Take a look at Randy with Incredible Tiny Homes and his communities. He is doing a fantastic job with great prices.
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My hrandparents purchased their 4 bedroom, split level home built from the ground up for less than $150k in WV. That's including the price of their quarter of an acre lot. Only 15 minutes from the Virginia state line. The price for these tiny homes are ridiculous. Definitely not worth the hassle. However, the concept is great.
Where I live in Mississippi, I can buy 1/2 an acre of land and get the tiny house built for a fraction of what they are asking.
It's a whole different economy there.
Because it’s Mississippi…. 😂
I'm wondering if you guys know of the famous Mr Tiny from Texas 🤠.
I absolutely love tiny homes ,
My brother has a tiny home cabin here in Smyrna. My mom had to stay there when we were in quarantine because of Covid .
All is well now , mom was asymptomatic and I never got sick . It was very peaceful and healing to be able to break away from chaos in a tiny cabin in the country .
I have learned a lot watching tiny homes when it comes to managing your space .
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Yes, he's great! Got to see him at a Tiny Home Expo here in Austin a few years ago.
These prices negate the purpose of tiny living. It is tailored to an elite clientele and $176,000 can buy a home with no developer rules and regulations and no sharing with an RV park. The justification of adding appliances and a sink doesn't convince me at all. Plus they all look like they have the same exterior color. This is more an apartment complex than a tiny living park.
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Very expensive for a tiny house, if that included some property it sat on then perhaps but even. The rental cost completely kills it and remember that cost can go up and up. I like the premise, not the cost. Option to have larger tiny home would be good
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This is heaven to me. Great video and continue your great work and I wish you all the best 😀😀
So I’m from Florida and while everyone is saying it’s too much with lot rent. Here you can only get a condo for that price and hoh fees are at least 400 a month on top of rent. Now obviously the places here are bigger. But you also have neighbors on either side of you and no farming. If you want a 2 bedroom condo to buy it’s upwards of over 200k. Rent prices everywhere have doubled basically. At least there it’s a cool private community and you own in 15 years not 30.
In 15 years that park will look like every other trailer park except then you will have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a trailer that has depreciated to $5000.
Maybe someday when I'm rich I'll downsize to a tiny home. 😂
Those aren't Tiny Home but Small Home by standard. Whatever it is superb and commendable. Great home!
Can I have some of what you're smoking? That's some really powerful stuff!
166 to 193! That’s insane! And these homes doesn’t appreciate. That’s crazy! You might as well buy a regular home. Insane!
We need a tour of some of your tiny homes! Lovely to see more and more of these communities being built.
A number of the residents have done video tours of their homes on this channel.
This is probably one of the nicest tiny home communities I have seen.
On the payroll, huh?
Great and impressive work 😊
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It's nice that this community build tiny homes 🏡 that residents live in . This way the residents know that their homes meet the qualifications needed to be apart of this community
When I started looking a year ago the prices had skyrocketed and the explanation was “Covid”. These homes are built by the same few manufacturers and there’s not much changes to the floor plans/ designs to justify a quality price raise. I’ve now started to look for RVs and the new ones are very similar in price now.
Yes, in March of last year they all went up by about $30K literally overnight. Fortunately I had my price locked in not long before that, or I probably would have backed out.
Bought a 16 × 36 shed from URich I'll turn it into a tiny home and get an acre in east tex. Paid 5k eight yrs ago. Plus they have log cabins.
Almost $2,000 a month in mortgage and lot fees is NOT affordable! I love the idea of tiny home communities and wish they would do them in my state because housing availability here is DIRE. BUT not if it's going to cost just as much (or more!) as a much larger apartment or condo! What is the point???
Well, at least you won't have to spend much time in your little, high dollar matchbox. Will need to spend 16 hours a day at work to pay off this money pit.
This is a great service you are providing, we all kinder communities to thrive in.
Affordable? For who?
I built a cottage on my own land 540 sq.feet ..
2023. . I was owner builder. I learned how to do this watching u tube and read codes for county .
65.00 actual for building . Its a beautiful small space .
Home prices are out of control. We bought a brand new four bedroom, 2 bath house with a large backyard, 10 minutes from downtown ATL 20 years ago for less than that teeny tiny 400 sq. ft. house.
You could get that in Austin 20 years ago, too.
i wish there was a place like this here in southern Illinois
@clot shots It wouldn't cost as much there. (My mom is from southern Illinois.)
I hope there is not a lot rent for that price! Wow.
$750.00 a month lol rent. Outrageous!
Great idea and beautiful homes 😍😍😍😍😍😍.
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Amazing job and park.
Nice place but, too high. I can buy a house & land for that price.
166,000. Is not cheap … robbing people telling them it’s affordable …
I like it very much!
Amazing,beautyfull,i want one!
Need to include a community storm shelter for that price..
This is so cool. I’d love to be a part of a community like that.
I'm semi retired and work from home. I'm actually looking for a community like this. Thinking about taking a road trip to visit it.
@@notyet2345 Wow nice 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@clot shots Would if I could, but I still need my job and the health insurance! I do like the community, but if I had my druthers (and no family in Texas) I'd move to one of the Simple Life communities near Asheville. Similar homes but more for the money -- some have long driveways, little fenced yards, and garages, and others have a bonus room for a total of 540 square feet. Beautiful communities, too.
I LOVE the concept of this community.. when I seen the price my jaw dropped 😂😂. I plan to start a community like this in Michigan but they will all be rentals and affordable.
I googled a tiny home dealer, and found one in Bastrop, Texas (20 miles away from the community in the video) that sells these same homes for $120k.
Still high
My prediction: Wait a year and these tiny homes will probably cost 10k.
I’m with u,that price😢
If anything they'll only get progressively more expensive.
Cheaper to fit out a van & live the van life on wheels, which means u can travel anywhere u want. These tiny homes are ridiculously expensive for what they offer, sigh
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Yes, but living in a van isn't for everyone.
This looks like Heaven on Earth!
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These are lovely, but it's sad that the tiny home movement has been totally highjacked! The whole point, heart and soul of the idea was to get away from debt and over consumption, and to make it acceptable for regular folks to live modestly. Unfortunately, the mcmansioners felt left out of a 'cool' thing, and took it over. There's NO reason for these to cost so much! Just the yuppies making sure everyone knows they have the money for the mansion and don't Have to live this way.
Lot rents are ridiculous. Everything is always ruined by greed, greed, greed. Now you are paying the price of what homes use to be and you end up living in a box.
Amazing what you can do when you are not paralyzed by fear.
Places like that are needed more. Ever where in ever state.
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They are eating to many mushrooms for that price.
I love everything about this however the price is crazy ridiculous. I would no5 pay this price.
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Too expensive we paid for our house that is 1,811 sqft with 0.54 acre land for $275k and it is paid off in full. Meaning we don’t own anything to the bank.
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I am intrigued by this concept and am in the process of looking for one for the future. I love the ease of maintenance. I love the interiors but the community is creepy. This community gives me the feeling of the corona quarantine/concentration camps that were set up in Australia to quarantine people.
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I've lived at Village Farm for nearly eight months and I can assure you, there's nothing creepy about the community!
I've been a watcher of your Channel for a while now and I love seeing the different types of homes and vans and DIY projects that people create to make a home for themselves. I guess I should have known that somebody was going to look at the cheap way that you can save money by living in a tiny home and decide to capitalize on it. These homes are no different than any home that you can buy in the city $160,000 $290,000 that is no different than any house that you can buy in any City in this country. What used to be an alternative lifestyle is now just become another option of milking money from people. If I ever did this life I would have to just get a van and clean it out scrap it out and fix it myself I would never go to a tiny home Community because it's built to take money
Agree 100%. What was once a good and viable option for lower income folks to afford a safe space to live, is now being taken advantage of by greedy "opportunists". It's sad that our society has such backward values.
Nothing to see here, money pit.💸
Love this
I would like to see the inside of the tiny homes! Just a visual tour!
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This is exactly how I want to retire.
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"Affordable"? 🤣
My concern would be not owning any land, even collectively as in the form of a condo community. When someone else owns the land, they can sell it and the new owner can decide to repurpose the land on the drop of a hat. Then you have lost nearly $200,000. Do any of these tiny home parks ever have 15 or 30 year leases?
Do you mean lease or mortgage? Definitely no rent control here, and I'm not sure about the loan period (I did a cash purchase.) But it isn't actually a mortgage since these are legally RVs.
What a cute little area. It seems like this is an area all about community.
Has to be. It sure as heck isn't about your HOUSE!
As a Texan, I can say: Once again, Austin took something that was supposed to be minimalist and inexpensive, and made it for the elite.
Most of us in Texas no longer claim Austin as part of our state.
I live in the Austin area and its overpriced and not worth living in Travis / Williamson county. The cost for living in the Austin area = Highway Robbery