Post: Land buying tips

This is just a random post I ran across, but some of his points are very good ones, and are food for thought as we move ahead. I’ll reproduce the entire text here for reference, since this looks like a personal site that could easily vanish.

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Finding & Buying Your Place in the Country

Finding & Buying Your Place in the Country

Some of the reading I’ve done points to this book as being the “bible” of buying rural land. The last printing is from 2000, so I suspect that it may be pretty out of date. I’m going to see if I can’t check it out from the […]

Cordwood Building: The State of the Art

Cordwood Building: The State of the Art

This is a book I checked out on a whim from the library, and I just bought a physical copy, even though I’m only halfway through it so far. Basically, it deals with a method of building that I find very compelling and interesting: using cordwood laid end-out […]

Tiny House Living

Tiny House Living: Ideas For Building and Living Well In Less than 400 Square Feet

I think this was one of the first books I skimmed in a bookstore a few years back when I was getting seriously interested in the whole tiny house concept; a lot of the text is familiar as I read […]

Book reviews

As I am digging into the whole tiny house (and related) areas of reading, I intend to post pocket reviews of what I run across, both for later reference, and to identify which books I end up with physical copies of to make lending them out later a bit easier. Watch this space (Reference category, […]

The DIY Library

The “DIY Library” category will be used to hold books that one of us has a physical copy of. This should make it easy for someone to quickly check the list and find a book they’d like to borrow.

Welcome Teresa

Just added Teresa to the users here so she can post links and generally follow along. She and her husband Jim are serious homesteaders, and are generously advising us on a lot of fronts.

New Bill Could Legitimize Tiny Houses Around Washington

It sounds like the need for tiny houses to be on wheels may be about to go away…

The digest:

Prohibits certain local governments from regulating or restricting the minimum gross floor area for single-family detached dwellings.

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Tiny House builders in the area

So far I’ve only spotted one, but if more bubble up, I’ll update this post.

If you want to simply purchase a pre-built Tiny House (on a trailer) and drop it on a site, these some options:

Seattle Tiny Homes

Kit houses

Another category of houses in the “tiny house” genre seems to be owner-built “kit houses” (search “kit homes washington state”). One example of is : Shelter Kit, who will sell you a kit that you assemble yourself. Supposedly takes two people a few weeks with no crane required. Sounds like it might be an interesting […]