Bus conversion vs tiny home label

[windtrader]

Bus to tiny home

Exactly!
The perfect example of melding the two worlds. Never know something goes viral then  overnight they come  like locusts.

The  cost of new tiny  homes is stupidity  expensive,  many can only dream of buying one but a basic  paneled shell looks like a steal then  dreams of a quickie conversion get  the  checkb out.

[lostagain]

I notice a lot of young people posting on FB about converting coach buses and school buses into motorhomes/tiny homes. So I don't see our busnut hobby dying at all.

And speaking of prices, the lower end old conversions, or the half done ones, are the ones only worth up to 20 to 30k. But the higher quality ones are holding their value in the 50,000 and and up range. A well maintained 1990s to 2000s factory conversion starts in the 60s 70s, up to  a couple hundred gran. 

[pabusnut]

You can call me Bus Conversion, Tiny Home, Motorhome, House Truck, Shanty Car, Motor Cabin....

Reminded me -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoYsfbq3vMc

[dtcerrato]

 

[Dreadnought]

Tiny house to me is a pretentious term. It goes hand in hand with eco-fascism and carbon foot prints - the types that focus on electric vehicles but conveniently ignore where and how the power is generated or how the lithium is mined. "Tiny house" term is a trendy buzz word that is poverty appropriation. I'm from Europe originally- you have no choice but to live in a tiny house. I used to travel to Japan, and you had to live in a tiny space - so the pretentious concept of a "tiny home" doesn't exist over there. I drive a bus, I own it, no payments and I've converted mine. I don't need trendy terms to feel accepted by society. That said- if the tiny house term garners more popularity for our steeds, so be it!

[silversport]

So do tiny homes pull dinghy or toad

[richard5933]

I like what Dreadnought said, and I wonder if some of the trend we're seeing pushing this tiny house movement isn't just a generational reaction to the previous generation.

In the decades since the 70s there has been a trend towards larger and larger homes in suburban America, and now we have a generation eschewing driving, large homes, excessive lifestyles, etc. In many ways it looks like a repeat of the hippy generation which did the same thing with their return to more a down-to-earth lifestyle than their parents and grandparents.

Bottom line for me though is that if the tiny house movement makes my tiny house on wheels more valuable, so be it. It certainly can't hurt to have more and more people interested in living in small spaces, whatever they call them.

[chessie4905]

Just another trend that will come and go. People get tired of cramped accommodations. Which then is a desire to enlarge the living area some. Just like travel trailers and mini motor homes, the trend is to trade up to larger. Imagine a TV with no remote or a car with crank down windows. Its human nature to desire conveniences, including more space.

[richard5933]

Just another trend that will come and go. People get tired of cramped accommodations. Which then is a desire to enlarge the living area some. Just like travel trailers and mini motor homes, the trend is to trade up to larger. Imagine a TV with no remote or a car with crank down windows. Its human nature to desire conveniences, including more space.

I'd love a car with crank down windows right now...

My guess is that once the current generation which is embracing the tiny houses have one or two kids they'll see the advantage to having more space. Maybe not the McMansions which became popular in the 90s, but more than a single room for sure.

[muldoonman]

When mine quits running it will be towed and become a tiny home for somebody.

[chessie4905]

Maybe a multi family apartment.😅

[windtrader]

A Bus Conversion, is not a tiny home.
A Bus Conversion group, started  FMCA and other what we now call motorhomes.
A tiny home is what we used to call a Park Model Travel Trailer.

Going back to the OP. so a tiny home is not a tiny home? 

[Jim Blackwood]

The problem is that an ever diminishing part of the new generations can afford the McMansions that the housing industry has been insisting on building. Half to quarter million dollar homes have been the gold standard for well over a decade now. With minimum wages in the 8 dollar range that's just not sustainable over the long haul. Those people are now sharing beds stacked up like cordwood in the cheapest apartments available and spending all their income to do it. No way they have any hope of ever raising  even a $1500/month mortgage payment AND 10% down when take home is $320 a week, the numbers just don't work. And rent is often higher than that.

Jim

[chessie4905]

Inheritance will help many. As demand dries up for those expensive houses. prices will drop. As the higher income people retire, new ones will be needed to take their place. Doesn't help that regulations, a benefit to all, also chase our jobs to other countries, leaving a lot of low paying service industry jobs left.

[sledhead]

do you guys want to move into this house that sold for $800,000 over asking price ! and I think of it as a tiny shack

you got to look at it

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/this-tiny-toronto-house-just-sold-for-800k-over-asking-1.5072243

what happened to our world ?

dave