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Retail Update: Asian Palace Opens on North Main
Bret Ancowitz
Speaking of the "Retail to Restaurant" trend we were all debating, the newest example is located nearby on North Main Street (1184, across from East Side Urgent Care). This is where the long closed (and cutely named) Off Track Bedding outlet (whose empty storefront was captured by Google Streetview above) has been replaced by Asian Palace, which opened this past Friday. Should the photo above scare you, I'll add that they've substantially gutted and updated the building.
Their menu is what I personally refer to "RI Pan-Asian 2.0." What seems to distinguish Asian Palace, as far as I can see, is their hours. They're open to 11 PM Mon-Thurs, and until 1 AM on Friday and Saturday, much later than almost every other ethnic dining option I can think of, Asian or otherwise, in the entire metro. This will likely work well for them given their close location to Miriam Hospital and its continuous stream of workers around the clock.
So, a question: Does anyone know if this pan-Asian default for restaurants is a RI only trend? If so, why? When I go home to NY, I don't find this… The restaurants there, both in the city and suburbs, are solo-cuisine for the most part. Same thing in my recent travels around the US. Why only here?
To read more about the menu type and my very brief review, click below:
So what is my self named "RI Pan-Asian 2.0?" This type, best represented previously by Jackie's Galaxy (multiple locations) or Best Eastern (N. Providence), tends to consist of an abridged list of the most popular Americanized Chinese dishes along with a basic sushi menu and sushi bar. The rest of the menu tends to be rounded out by a few of the "biggest hits" of Americanized Japanese and Thai cuisines. Thus, you can order Hot and Sour Soup, California Maki Roll, Chicken Pad Thai, and General Chao's Chicken all in one sitting, which kinda feels wrong, somehow…
This is as opposed to "RI Pan-Asian 1.0," best represented by the original Apsara. This tends to be a mix of fuller, un-abridged Thai, Vietnamese, and Cambodian ithems along with a half-heartedly implemented Americanized Chinese menu in order to appeal to the much wider swath of Americans who haven't been brave enough to experiment with the first 3 cuisines.
I quickly picked something up at Asian Palace Friday afternoon. My tofu chow fun was quite decent, but the fried rice I ordered had a flavoring that was very "off" somehow. The sloppily rolled vege nime chow (which I ordered without shrimp) was tasteless, which means they're depending on the shrimp or the sauce for taste and are skimping on the herbals and other flavorings in the roll itself. I'd perhaps give them a few more days open to get their cooking down… The interior was quite pleasant, a cut above the usual Asian dining setting.
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The pan-asian dining experience depends on the restaurant management. South east asian owners (from Thailand, Vietnam etc.) tend to go the pan asian route as the cuisines and ingredients used in the region are similar and make it easier to provide variety.
The pure chinese restaurant owners stick to chinese as it is easier for them than providing other asian dishes.
J Hogue says:
Perhaps this goes back to the New England diner experience. I'm not sure how this evolved, either, but i always wondered how some diners (typically pretty small) would have a fantastic, short menu full of goodies that were all done very well, and other (typically larger seating capacity) diners would have this long complicated menu where you can get eggs and corned beef hash or a burger or a chicken dinner or pasta florentine or seafood dishes. I've even been to diners where they add asian favorites to the menu. It becomes a one-stop restaurant where none of the food is that good, but you can get damn near anything you want.
Maybe that whole idea came first, and the pan-asian experience came out of that. Or, maybe New Englanders just don't know enough about Korean to know that they will like something on the menu, so a place is more likely to mix Korean with Japanese… I dunno. It does seem, though, that the more Pan Asian places there are, the less the consumer is likely to know about each individual cuisine, and start to assume that they are all this conglomerate of cuisines instead.
Speaking of diners, what's really weird about the diners around where I grew up in CT is that they were all owned by Greeks. Not only were they the huge menu type of place, but they also had a good sized Greek menu as well. I never understood that.
@ Jim: Interesting point. That's the same reason i've been given for not finding good pizza in Boston. Since the majority of pizza places are greek owned, it's hard to find an authentic tasting pie in that town.
I like a good Greek pizza, but there's an awful lot of bad Greek pizza.
On the subject of places that do everything… My wife went to grad school in Philly and had a place across the street from her apartment called "Pasqually's" (yes, that's how they spelled it) owned by Asians (not sure what nationality, but it might've been Chinese). It was a pizza place that had all sorts of food, from friend seafood to cheese steak to burgers to I think even Chinese food. None of it was good, not even worth a visit. It was cheap though.
Jef Nickerson says:
There was a great do everything Greek diner near me in Astoria, Queens. Astoria is historically a Greek neighborhood though. Most of the pizza on the Cape is Greek, since that is what I grew up with, that is what I really liked. Never really had a pizza I liked in New York, not even in Astoria.
I imagine a lack of Asians could in part explain the pan-asian phenomenon in RI. We really don't have a very large Asian population. So, not a lot of people to run authentic and non-pan places, and not a lot of native customers built in. We have lots of south and central American cuisine, because we have lots of south and central americans (and Italians, etc.).
Boston, seems to have a lot of straight up, one or another asian places, and it so happens, there are a lot of asians in Boston.
The other factor may be that RIers palates may not be as adventurous as we wish they were. You need a good customer base to provide a true dining experience, and if that base isn't big enough, you go pan to get more people through the door.
Bret Ancowitz says:
In the NY Metro, at one time, 90% of diners were owned by Greek familes (now estimated to be closer to 70%). I've read various theories… First that in the heyday of Greek immigration (30's and 50's to 70's) many newcomers worked for the railroads, which were often linked to diners at the time, making for a natural transition. Also that many worked as waiters and busboys in diners and they eventually bought and took over those diners when the owners retired, and once the immigrant pipeline was established, it flourished (I think similar numbers of Indian families, for example, own hotels in areas of the NY/Philly/DC corridor.
The diner has a fascinating history, actually. Diners eventually became the culinary version of Amazon.com in their day, as many feel that their huge, expansive menus, with everything from gyros to matzo ball soup to apple pie, helped kill many ethic and other restaurant types (such as Jewish deli's and neighborhood bakeries). Why go to the kinishery, the pickle vendor, the hotdog stand, or the pie shop when the cool new diner down the street, with its ample parking for cars, has all of those items under one roof and for less money? Sound like a familiar trend?
I wonder if the same will happen with pan-Asian dining. Will single-cuisine restaurants be forced out of business by consumers who can't conceive of not dipping their dragon roll in duck sauce?
justincase1021 says:
I eat there often. They are very good and its a beautiful resturant….as a matter of fact…i think ill do lunch there today
FYI people, all of these resteruants you are discussing are all AMERICAN ASIAN resteruants, meaning that Asian resteraunts have adjusted their menues for the purpose of appealing ot the white American food prererances. If you are truely interested in some ethnic cuizine, I advise that you not go to resteraunts with panasian themes if you want a true ethnic asian meal. Asian food is actually healthy. Its just that, evreything you see in the resteraunts is the fatty crappy food that white ppl crave for.
Also Asian food consists of middle eastern food, chinese, Laotion, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Hmong, etc…you're all being way to vague in your references to "Asian" food
Mike Blake says:
I'm amused that the original Google Street View that the first post says shows Off-Track Bedding is of a building clearly signed "ASIAN PALACE."
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The point of this is to understand that selling a failure of a breakout can help you protect capital. Look back at a chart of Sept. 2010 for the SP500 Index. If you sold as the market moved back DOWN from the S& P 500 breakout point of 1131.23 (which was the 6-10-2011 high), you were using Passive Shorting™ if you FIRST SOLD near the top AFTER a failure to move up through 1131.23 and SECOND REBOUGHT it as it moved back up from the low, which was May-June support that it hit at the low in August 2010.
You don't actually go short. You could but don't have to. You just move from say 60% invested in stocks to 50% if you want to be very conservative, or from 60% to 40% or even more if you want to protect more of your capital against losses in a decline.
I recommend you scale out in stages rather than selling all at once no matter what the percentage of your stocks you are selling. But I must add that it depends on how fast you feel you want to get out. You have to consider the circumstances. In 1987 it was best to not wait around and scale out if you began selling on the Friday before "Black Monday."
Selling a break back down through a top or a failure at or just below a top is simply selling AFTER a failure rather than selling as a prior TOP is approached from below as I discussed in an earlier article on "Selling at a Top."
2. The market begins to move up from some sort of bottom.
AND YOU COLLECT THE DIFFERENCE. That means that if you sell at 100 and it drops to 45 and you buy back at 50 and it goes back to 100, you end up with $200 for every $100 that your "buy-and-hold-neighbor" Jim has when the market moves back to the old high for the amount you went passively short.
Imagine you have a $200,000 stock portfolio. That is the STOCK portion ONLY.
You go passively short with half of that by selling $100,000 of that at the double top or failure of the breakout. But your sell point is very close to the top.
...and then rebuy with that $100000 cash when the market has come back up 5% and is only down 50%.
The market then recovers to the prior high when you had sold.
You have $300,000 in stock when the market goes back to the old high while your "buy-and-hold-neighbor" Jim has just $200,000. You are up 50% and he is only "back to even."
Would you rather be "back to even" and make NOTHING or up 50% by using Passive Shorting™ for half of your stocks?
You can read further details on my "Passive Shorting" page on the Blue Navigation Bar.
CONCLUSION: Remember that the catch in all this is that you MUST rebuy a new high if you are wrong about getting out. This is one of the most common mistakes investors make. They remain in fear after selling and never rebuy. If you are wrong, you admit it, and get back in! But if you are right, Passive Shorting™ could help you both PROTECT the MONEY YOU HAVE and MAKE YOU MORE MONEY.


Microsoft Word - HW 1 - ECI 114.
In the current Request for Proposals (RFP) process by the US Department of Transportation, civil engineering departments from 7 Universities, are offering bids on 4 distinct/different research center funding contracts (which are different in the level of funding and the duration). Any University can only be awarded at most 1 grant to open the research center.
a) Please explain how would you estimate the different ways in which the contracts could be awarded? Estimate the number. b) Under the assumption that the simple events are equally likely (each University has the same probability of being awarded a contract), find the probability that University No. 2 is awarded one.
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Sony president on how H1z1 differs from DayZ
Jon Martindale April 21, 2014 Development
When Sony announced its upcoming PC and PS4 zombie apocalypse, survival MMO, H1Z1, many people understandably drew comparisons with DayZ. Far from unaware of the similarities and inspiration drawn from the iconic game, Sony's president John Smedley praised Dean Hall's creation, but suggested that his company's title would be very different.
For one, the idea of 50 players per server or a limited number, is squashed. In H1Z1, Smedley eventually wants there to be thousands of players on the same "big landscape," giving them the ability to create, "small enclaves or pockets of territory and hold out against a legitimate zombie threat that's ever present while others go it alone taking their chances."
Players may need these protected areas too, since the developers have the ability to spawn huge zombie hordes whenever they feel like. This could mean hundreds of the undead suddenly converging on your hastily built town, testing your resources and skills to the limit – though balance will need to be considered, since developer spawned hordes could be seen as a little unfair if they attack your faction and not someone else's.
Crafting will also play a big part in the game, with players needing to become manufacturing houses in their own right, in order to keep communities supplied with items like bullets, arrows and other necessary, finite resources. Smedley has confirmed that the economy will be entirely player driven.
He also mentioned that the size of the map would massively increase over time. When the Early Access version launches, rural America will be the only environment to explore, but as it expands, cities and other areas will be introduced, some more abandoned than others, with the eventual plan to offer a enormous landscape to survive and fight in.
In terms of griefers and hackers, Smedley confirmed that the Planetside 2 anti-hack system would be in place, as well as a 24/7 customer service team, dedicated to sorting out problems for people, handling problems as they arise. He did however say that griefing would need to be clearly defined, since one person's view of it was very different from another's.
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These 2 sweet dessert recipes are by Pam McKinstry of SVKitchen.com. The first one is how to make the Sous Vide Lemon Curd. The second one following it is how to make Iced Lemon Curd Mousse out of the lemon curd. Both simple and oh, so tasty!
If you would like more information about the modernist techniques, ingredients, and equipment used in the Sous Vide Lemon Curd you can check out the following.
Preheat the water bath to 180°F (82°C).
Sterilize a 1-pint glass canning jar, lid, and ring; set aside.
Place the eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with a hand mixer until the sugar dissolves and the mixture thickens slightly, about 2 minutes. Whisk in the lemon juice and melted butter. Do not overbeat or the mixture will be frothy. Pour the curd into the prepared jar, filling to the brim. Seal the jar and immerse in the water oven.
Cook for 45 minutes, then remove the jar from the water. Open the jar lid and stir the curd with a spoon for 1 minute. The curd loses some volume as it thickens, so the cooked quantity is about 1¼ cups. Place the open jar in a bowl of ice and water and let cool. To store, reseal the jar and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
Serve this refreshing iced dessert in small glasses to show off the pretty color of the swirled lemon curd and cream. Although they're perfectly delicious served cold from the refrigerator, I like to freeze the mousses for about an hour before I serve them. The mixture doesn't harden, but it does get ice-cold. If you have lemon curd on hand, this makes a quick and easy yet elegant finish to a meal.
Place ¾ cup of the lemon curd in the bowl of a mixer (reserve the rest); add the cream and lemon zest. Beat on high speed until the mixture holds soft peaks.
Spoon a tablespoon or two of the mixture into each of 4 small glasses or cups, then add a tablespoon of lemon curd, cover with some more mousse, followed by more lemon curd to create a layered effect. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
The mousse will keep, refrigerated, for up to 3 days. About an hour before serving, transfer the cups to the freezer. When the mouse is ice-cold but still soft and creamy, garnish each portion with some of the cookie crumbs and serve.
This recipe makes a lemon curd that can be turned into a quick and easy iced lemon curd mousse - a deliciously elegant, yet refreshing finish to any meal.


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Sam & Max Episode 6: The Bright Side of the Moon Review
Published on April 30, 2007, by GamerNode Staff - Posted in GN, VG Review 0
All good things must come to an end, and sadly, that time has come for Sam & Max: Season One. The Bright Side of the Moon, the 6th and final episode, seemingly wraps up the loose ends of the season and still delivers the painfully hilarious lines and quips that highlighted the series. Coming out of left field back in October, Sam & Max: Season One managed to not only do what big companies haven't grasped (episodic game releases) but also kick-start a seemingly dormant franchise to a new-generation of fans. So how does the last episode shape up? In short, it delivers. It does what a finale should do; tie up loose ends, provide some very funny puzzles and end on a truly hilarious note.
With the previous episode, Reality 2.0, being the clear highlight of the series, how does the last one compare and stack up? Well, it may not exceed the hilarity of the past episode, but it still manages to deliver in its own right and continues many new small gameplay changes that seem to only enhance the game series as a whole. In a tactic that started with Episode 4, Episode 6 starts with you on the moon, or at least a location that's different from your office. While this change may be small, I feel this tactic is better since it won't bore players to death who have started each episode, like me, at the office. Telltale stated that starting from Episode 4, they will start taking comments from the community to better the game.
Another new tactic is that Telltale is incorporating different dialogue for things that are around the environment. Now that the story has drastically changed, things around their office had different dialogue attached. In Episode 6, these items have different dialogue than Episode 5 which is nice, and adds to the longevity since I implore everyone to listen to what the duo has to say. One example is the various magazines on display at Bosco's store. This time around, there's "Pointless Puzzles," which Max states, "must be about adventure games," and "Zazzle & Fib," which he states, "it must be hard finding copyrighted character names these days."
So you may be thinking, why did I say the moon as the starting location? Well, that is where the game takes place. The duo are sent to the moon to discover who is behind all of the wacky hijinks throughout Season 1, and that's Roy G. Biv. Biv is seemingly controlling the Earth through hypnosis, so it's up the duo to find out why. After passing through the "protected" door, the duo enters the sanctum of Biv and I have to say, the area is definitely the high point of this episode. Running through his headquarters was very fun and all the subtle jabs to the duo's past adventures were noteworthy. While you will be doing the standard gather items to proceed to the next area, the writing and humor takes center stage again and are clearly worth the price of admission.
Hands down, one of the best puzzles of the entire series is featured later in this episode. Basically, three of Max's body parts are split up and form three lagomorphs that represent Max's persona — red Max (violent), green Max (sheer and uncontrollable hunger) and blue Max (sloth). Without these feelings, the real Max turns into a complete happy fool and Sam's reaction to Max's comments are hilarious. The best part is rounding all three up and hearing what Max says afterwards. This definitely has some of the best quotes of the series.
Since this is the last episode, Telltale decided to go with the reunion route by sticking seemingly everyone throughout the game and during the ending credit roll — which is pretty funny but doesn't showcase anything at the very end. This time around, Sybil is now the queen of Canada (get ready for Canada jokes) and Bosco returns as his mother. Confusing? Yes, but it's definitely his best role despite all the standard clichés. A few folks from way back in the series also return as you enter Biv's headquarters, including Pennyworth from Episode 2 and the COPS from Episode 5.
Unfortunately, while this episode provided some pretty good puzzles, the ending and complete wrap-up of the entire series is slightly under whelming. Mostly everything is wrapped up, but it just seemed something was slightly missing from the overall presentation. Some predominant characters of past episodes, the Soda Poppers for example, are not used in the final wrap-up, and that just seemed weird with them being used heavily in past episodes. Other characters like Bosco are underutilized in the final episode, too. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean the story was bad. The story is great, and hilarious at plenty of moments, but how it wrapped up was kind of rushed, and we're left with a "that's good but that's it?" feeling.
Season 1 is over, but dry those tears as Telltale has basically confirmed development of the next season. Considering that the season has been a success and basically brought a once-dead franchise back to life, we'll be seeing more of the duo in the future. Episode 6 ends on a relatively high note, and the season as a whole fully delivered as being a wonderful and hilarious adventure series. Even though you can buy all the episodes separate for $8.95, I'd recommend picking up the entire season for $35. The Bright Side of the Moon is a fitting end to the season, and a good episode in itself.


BOULDER, Colo. – March 1, 2018 – Driven by customer demand, Zayo Group Holdings (NYSE: ZAYO) has significantly expanded its infrastructure in the Texas Triangle, the megaregion that includes Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth, over the past two years. Zayo has almost tripled its network footprint in Texas and increased its customer base by 33 percent to more than 450 customers.
The expansion has largely been driven by several major customer contracts, including fiber-to-the-tower (FTT) builds in San Antonio and Austin for a wireless provider, dark fiber for the state's fifth largest city and dark fiber for a regional school district.
Zayo has recently signed an additional customer contract that will further expand the company's extensive fiber network in San Antonio by approximately 25 miles. The build will enable diverse, high-fiber count access to Texas Research Park and the Westover Hills areas. The project leverages in-place network from the 2016 FTT buildout and complements fully diverse routes between Austin and San Antonio.
The Texas Triangle represents approximately 75 percent of the Texas economy and is a growing center for technology, energy, finance, transportation and enterprise. It is home to more than 50 Fortune 500 companies.
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Manning Smith, right, husband of former Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith, center, waits with his wife at her arraignment hearing in a Lancaster County courtroom in late August.
Law enforcement authorities are awaiting results of an investigation into transfers of money from former Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith's office to the county Drug Court, which was run by her husband, Manning Smith.
The investigation is aimed at determining the amount of money that was transferred, when transfers occurred and the propriety of moving the money.
Several sources, including clerks in other counties, said the kind of money that was transferred is intended to help clerks' offices handle child support cases and should not be used for other purposes. A state official said his office discouraged Elizabeth Smith more than a year ago from diverting the child support money to the Drug Court when she called to ask whether it would be appropriate.
Drug courts don't typically handle matters related to child support; that's the role of family courts. Drug courts, which exist in several counties in South Carolina, help non-violent drug offenders enter rehabilitation programs as an alternative to going to prison.
The money should be used by clerks of court only for costs related to child support cases, said Larry McKeown, director of Child Support Enforcement, a branch of DSS. McKeown said Elizabeth Smith queried his office more than a year ago about sending her IV-D money to the Drug Court.
She "wondered if it could be used in some way in that court and we didn't see how it could be used," McKeown said. "She explained the drug court would work with non-custodial parents to help them pay back child support and reduce recidivism."
Under state law, if a clerk's office doesn't spend all of its IV-D money in a year, the remainder goes into the county's general fund. It could not be immediately determined whether the Beaufort County clerk's office ever had left over IV-D money that reverted to the county. The Drug Court, for its part, didn't always get the money Manning Smith said it needed. Funding is currently provided by Beaufort County, the Town of Hilton Head Island and the federal government. But the city of Beaufort, which stopped contributing to Drug Court in 2004, rejected the judge's request for money again this year.
Two clerks in counties that also have Drug Courts -- Julie Armstrong in Charleston County and Marcus Kitchens in Spartanburg County -- both said that they don't think IV-D money could be applied to their drug courts.
"It's my interpretation of the rules and laws governing IV-D money that it can only be used for Family Court and the collection of child support," Kitchens said.
"I can think of no scenario (where a clerk could use IV-D money in drug court)," Armstrong said.
Solicitor Duffie Stone, whose office took over supervision of the Drug Court after Judge Smith's departure, says the court won't be using IV-D money in the future.
"I'm not going to use it because I don't think that's the purpose of it," Stone said. "I'm not saying it's illegal but I just don't think it's proper."
Carol Ruff, who was appointed by Stone and the circuit's judges to replace Manning Smith as drug court judge, declined to comment.


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package org.apache.jasper.el;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.el.ELResolver;
import javax.servlet.jsp.el.ImplicitObjectELResolver;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

import org.apache.el.stream.StreamELResolverImpl;

public class TestJasperELResolver {

    @Test
    public void testConstructorNone() throws Exception {
        doTestConstructor(0);
    }

    @Test
    public void testConstructorOne() throws Exception {
        doTestConstructor(1);
    }

    @Test
    public void testConstructorFive() throws Exception {
        doTestConstructor(5);
    }

    private void doTestConstructor(int count) throws Exception {

        List<ELResolver> list = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            list.add(new ImplicitObjectELResolver());
        }

        JasperELResolver resolver =
                new JasperELResolver(list, new StreamELResolverImpl());

        Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(count),
                getField("appResolversSize", resolver));
        Assert.assertEquals(9 + count,
                ((ELResolver[])getField("resolvers", resolver)).length);
        Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(9 + count),
                getField("size", resolver));
    }

    private static final Object getField(String name, Object target)
            throws NoSuchFieldException, SecurityException,
            IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException {
        Field field = target.getClass().getDeclaredField(name);
        field.setAccessible(true);
        return field.get(target);
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}

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Q: How to split string at the last occurence of a character so that the resultset contains both values? I want to use reg_split to explode a string from the last occurance of a slash.
So the input '/some/string/foo/bar/13' shall become ['/some/string/foo/bar', 13]
I know I can use preg_split("/\//", $input);, yet this splits into an array of size 6 with all the strings.
I also can match each part I want with preg_match like so:
$match = [];
$value = $page->value;
preg_match("/.*[^\d]/", $value, $match);
$base = $match[0]; // => 13

$match = [];
preg_match("/[^\/]+$/", $value, $match);
$numbers[] = $match[0]; // => /some/string/foo/bar

Yet how can I turn this into an oneline using preg_split? As when I try applying those preg_match patterns, I get an array of size 2, yet only having the value it matches and not both.

A: Use a positive lookahead.
preg_split('~/(?=[^/]*$)~', $input);

or
Negative lookahead.
preg_split('~/(?!.*/)~', $input);

A: As a complementary answer to Avi, in case you want to match and capture (instead of splitting) you can also use a regex like this:
(.*/)(.*)

Working demo
Php code
$re = "@(.*/)(.*)@";
$str = "/some/string/foo/bar/13";

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches);

Match information
MATCH 1
1.  [0-21]  `/some/string/foo/bar/`
2.  [21-23] `13`

A: You can do that too:
$str = '/some/string/foo/bar/13';

if (false !== $slashPos = strrpos($str, '/')) {
    $result = [substr($str, 0, $slashPos), substr($str, $slashPos + 1)];
    print_r($result);
}

or:
$parts = explode('/', $str);

$last = array_pop($parts);

$result = [implode('/', $parts), $last];

A: Not really a oneliner, but no regex needed!
$input = '/some/string/foo/bar/13';
$slash_position = strrpos($input, '/');
$result = array(substr($input, 0, $slash_position), substr($input, $slash_position+1));

Result: Array ( [0] => /some/string/foo/bar [1] => 13 )

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Houston Hires Debt Collection Agencies
Mar 14, 2011 Kyle Duncan
The city of Houston recently announced that it would be going after those who owe it money by using debt collection agencies. The Houston Chronicle reports that the city has nearly $1 billion in unpaid fines and fees, and has launched an aggressive new program to get paid. The city will put more pressure, through its hired agencies, on people who owe money for parking tickets, code violations or unpaid ambulance fees. Houston Mayor Annise Parker said that the city wasn't willing to let people off the hook. "We cannot afford to leave any money out on the table, so we're going to go out and collect it," Parker said in an interview with the paper. City leaders are hoping to combat the $54 million shortfall for this year's budget and the projected $120 million shortfall for the next fiscal year, which starts in July. An Idaho town recently took similar action. The Idaho Mountain Express reports that the town has hired a collection agency to get the $109,000 it is owed.


When Tokyo hosted the XVIII Olympiad in 1964, the occasion became known as The Happy Games and was accompanied by, arguably, the most ambitious urban development programme the world had ever seen. The event also demystified a nation that had been at war with much of the world just under two decades earlier.
Bill Sweeney, chief executive officer of the British Olympic Association, believes that 2020 offers similar opportunities for Japanese society—and the UK stands ready to share the lessons learned from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
"Back in 1964, a lot of people were still very suspicious of Japan; it was a mysterious place that not many people knew a great deal about and there was little understanding of Japanese culture," Sweeney said in an interview with ACUMEN during his December visit to Tokyo. "The Happy Games went a long way to changing that' ".
Reflecting on the UK's own experience, he added, "We saw something similar in London in 2012, and many still recall how people would talk to each other on the tube and the feeling that was in the city.
"I think that, in 2020, the world is again going to see a side of Japan that they did not necessarily know about", he said. "The Japanese will welcome visitors and these may very well be remembered as 'The Friendly Games'".
And while much will inevitably be made of Japanese technology—from robots that welcome visitors at Tokyo's airports to state-of-the-art sporting arenas—Sweeney is also confident that the arrival of thousands of athletes from around the world, together with tens of thousands of foreign spectators, can serve to promote diversity and inclusion in Japanese society.
He spent three years in Tokyo from 1997 to 2000 as an executive with what is now the Adidas Reebok Group before joining the Team GB operation in November 2013.
"I went into sport because I didn't want a 'job'," he confided, "and taking your country into the Olympics doesn't feel like a job".
Yet the challenges of ensuring that all components are in place to give the athletes the very best chance of winning a medal appear monumental.
"We started our preparations for Tokyo 2020 five years ago—so before the Rio Games—because we knew this was going to be a demanding Olympics", he said.
The Japanese summer is a particular cause for concern, and athletes are taking part in a series of camps during the year to give them a sense of the conditions in which they will be competing next year.
Much work has also gone into building relationships with local governments that will host the Team GB athletes, and with the universities, schools and organisations that are sharing their sporting facilities. In addition, solutions have had to be found to logistical problems such as accommodation, moving between sites and ensuring that the athletes' dietary and medical needs are met.
A good deal of that falls on Sweeney who, during his mid-December visit, signed a deal to use the sporting facilities of a high school in Odaiba, had dinner with the deputy mayor of Yokohama, took part in discussions at the British Embassy Tokyo and had a whirlwind series of other meetings in the space of two weeks.
He also travelled to the city of Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, to meet the mayor and some of the 40 children affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis, of 2011. The children had travelled to London in July.
"We hope this will be the start of a very interesting partnership, and we plan to set up a relationship between the school in Motomiya and schools in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England to develop long-lasting relationships", Sweeney said.
Such relationships will be important when the Games start, he added, in encouraging the inevitably partisan home crowd to adopt Team GB as their next-favourite nation and to get behind the squad.
Sweeney is full of praise for the work that has already gone into preparing for the Games, echoing the International Olympic Committee's assessment in December of progress as among the best they had ever seen two years ahead of a host city's opening ceremony. Of the 33 venues, 17 are existing facilities that are being renovated and 11 are new spaces needed to promote sport in Japan. A mere five are temporary.
"From a cost point of view, this is a very sensible approach and, in this sense, the Tokyo Games are going to have a lot in common with London", Sweeney said. "We used 2012 to carry out extensive regeneration of Stratford and other areas of East London, while the Japanese are regenerating the bay area".
Tokyo will no doubt be hoping to emulate the £9.9 billion profit that the London Games raked in, with the legacy of 2012 still visible in the form of higher tourist numbers and new infrastructure improvements in the capital and beyond.
And as the countdown to the opening continues inexorably, Sweeney emphasised the gratitude that the British Olympic Association feels towards both the British Embassy Tokyo and the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
"The embassy has been extremely helpful, and we meet with them every time we come to Tokyo, and we have been working with Lori Henderson and the BCCJ team for five years now", he said. "It's absolutely critical to have experienced people and companies on the ground here who know the terrain and act as a bridge into Japan. That local knowledge is invaluable".
If you're interested in learning more about sports events around the country, make sure to visit Japan Sports Journey.
The Epsom Cup in Japan?


You love the idea of living in a tiny house so you can have a maintenance free lifestyle with super low expenses.
I do too, but where are you going to park it?
If you're like most people you prefer living in an environment where you can easily get to places like a park, grocery store, work, and neighbors.
It's nice to be able to hop over to a coffee shop or something when you don't feel like being home. After all, your house is tiny so you might as well be pretty close to the places you like to go to.
Those are my beliefs anyway and I am sure you have your own.
If you are buying your house ready made you really only have to worry about one spot which is where you are going to park it and live in it.
If you're building it yourself you need to have another place where you're allowed to construct it. Lots of times this might be the same place.
When posting on Craigslist I highly recommend using a photo of a tiny house so that potential land owners see what you're working with and understand that they will not be having to look at an eye sore beat up travel trailer, etc.
Renting land or bartering with business owners is a great way to find a solution. And don't forget to ask whoever you talk to if they know anybody else who might be up for the idea. I've found the best and most honest people to do business with just by asking person to person.
You can also search your local craigslist and look in your newspaper but I recommend for you to explore areas of interest to get a feel for everything and talk to people about what you're doing.
I think that the smartest solution is buying a house where you can park your tiny house in the yard. Then you rent the big house while you live in your little one. If you can do this you might find yourself in a position where you make a monthly profit from your living situation.
You're trying to do something that's completely different than the average person so of course you're going to encounter doubts and fears.
When you are trying to build and live in your own tiny house you are going to face criticism. You are also going to inspire many as you build. And that's when opportunities for parking your house usually manifest.
The most important thing you can do is keep a good attitude, ask the right questions to the right people and listen to your instincts. Avoid arguing about laws and instead focus on what you can get away with in your current situation. Generate that feeling within yourself where you know it's all going to come together.
Whether that's by focusing on the fact that it's no different than an RV, small mother-in-law suite, or just a trailer with a valuable load on it that's tucked away. Find your own spin for your situation and work through it.
Arguing about stubborn code laws and regulations is not the right thing to do if you are trying to get your house built and lived in. These laws are the reason that the idea to build on a trailer has become so popular.
If you run into a situation where you literally must move, you can. And your next stop will be waiting for you.
Let's face it some of your family and friends love your ideas for living simply while others think you have gone mad. This is expected.
If they are constantly bringing it up maybe they are a little bothered by the fact that you are doing something so drastically different and it has got them questioning themselves.
Bottom line is, don't worry about it. It's your life. They'll live theirs and you'll live yours.
If you'd like to go more in-depth as to where to find parking for your tiny house, consider reading Ethan Waldman's book on the subject.
Where can I legally build a tiny house in my jurisdiction?
How do I avoid brushes with the law or local authorities?
A crash course in zoning basics so that you know how to find your town's zoning bylaws and make important decisions about your tiny house.
Information about the legality of different types of tiny houses. Advice how to deal with the law (if you have to).
Exact requirements of what you'll need on the land where you live.
General strategies (and a huge list of resources) for finding exactly the right place.
What are your thoughts? And if you are building one where do you think you'll keep it? Speak your mind in the comments.
We have our small cabin on our 6 acres outside Palestine TX and have 4 spots with utilities that would be perfect for the tiny houses if anyone is looking for a beautiful peaceful place to rent.
Hello! I have 2 questions; how much would the rent be, and what is the weather like in Palestine?
Suzette. The weather is up and down just like everywhere in TX. It has been a very mild winter. You may write me at msdawn @ msdawn dot com Rent is $350 including utilities and use of the bath house/laundry room if you need it. Make it your own home.
I am looking for someone who might want to park their Tiny House on my property and perhaps help run the Hostel. I have gone back to school.
The location is 400 yards from a River in the Ozark Mountains.
Daniel, my husband and I wanting to downsize in the very near future and weighing all our options. Could you tell me more about your property, location and your Hostel? I see that you are looking for someone to help run the Hostel and allowing someone to park a tiny home there. Would there be internet access, running water and electricity? It sounds very interesting to me. Where exactly are you located? Thanks so much for the info!
Well, if I were to take the time and my limited funding away from converting my 12'x24′ shed into my actually habitable cabin, I could probably find a place somewhere on my 4 acres to park it. I COULD even build a tiny house onto a barge type hull and 'park' it on my pond. I live in a heavily rural area (some would call it the woods) and we don't have a lot of restrictions here. Drawback being not living in a heavily urbanized area where all those nifty conveniences you allude to are located. Oh well, I'm fairly happy where I'm at.
Where do you live? I don't want to cause a mob in your community, but areas like yours are hard to find.
I'm not in the process of building yet because I'm staying in a 600 SF apartment with my office in it too (for now).
I'm happy here because of the location.
But if I were doing it now I'd move, build and park the house on my in-law's property that's on 2 or so acres. Only issue is I'd be 20-25 miles away from where I'd rather be. Haven't explored other closer, possible neighborhoods in my area yet. Could be possible to do it closer….
Oh, guess I should have added that my family already thinks I'm nuts. But that goes WAY back and for far better reasons than my housing choices. My friends have mostly been accomplices and some are 'crazier' (or at least more extreme in their views) than I've ever been.
I am about to retire in a couple of months and my project will begin in ernest. I was fortunate to find approximately four acres of property in the Ozark hills in northern Arkansas bordering Missouri. The land had electricity, water and telephone aready in place. Thats where my tiny house is going to set right on the bank of White Horse Mountain Lake. Cheap land is out there if you scrounge around in all the hidden corners of the market.
Great to see this important issues being ignored less, so kudos on having the guts to try to face the harder issues. I hope you'll keep doing it, and I'm sure you will find it rewarding. I don't think this post is perfect, but everyone is learning here. I offer some constructive criticism.
I have a post I put up recently "examples of people living in tinyhouses and how it is working out for them"(or something like that) which is something that anyone who is interested in this might want to look at.
The problem is that the optimism you express in you post very much appears to be unfounded according to the evidence. For the 90% of us who cannot simply move to one of the few areas that permit tinyhouses, the legal and political barriers are unfortunately not overcome by the suggestions in this post.
Look I'm sorry if this is harsh, but I don't think it is fair to other people to give then advice that is unrealistic polyanna, especially asserting things like they are facts. What, for example, evidence do you have that the most important thing is to keep a good attitude? Where has that worked? Because it is in my opinion irresponsible to give out advice like that without any foundation. And who can afford to invest the sort of money we are talking about based on this sort of advice?
Secondly, arguing about stubborn laws can help you understand them. You should know your enemy, or you are in for a nasty surprise. We should also be thinking about changing the laws, unless you just accept the second-class citizen status the predatory class are so keen to impose on you.
I suspect that your outlook while writing this post was heavily influenced by the fact you had not seriously actually gone to try and do this. If you had you would understand that when push comes to shove it is not this simple, as explained above and on my blog in several posts.
I may try to find some examples of people living in RVs in the city and what happens to them up on my blog to try to provide a dose of reality here when I get the chance.
Gregor, I have to agree with you on many points that you make, as a tiny home owner myself. So here is a dose of reality. It is not just RV's in the city but RV's in very rural country areas as well as my tiny home parked on my acreage where I own another home and mind you, I pay almost FIVE THOUSAND dollars a year in property taxes. Next door is 35 acres with cattle living on the land and I own horse property out in the country in an unincorporated area down a gravel road. Even at that all it takes is ONE complaint. Just ONE phone call to the county for them to follow up and come to your property time and time again just to in force codes and ck up on violations, such as inhabiting your tiny home or 5th wheel _even for ONE night. Yep,, against the law here in King County WA, same county as Seattle. Finding a place to park a tiny house can become a HUGE issue. Some people might consider securing a spot to hide their tiny home before they build it. Hopefully city and county ordinances will change rapidly but in the meantime being a tiny home owner has it's own set of challenges. One thing you can do to stall such issues is to surround your land if you own it, with Constitutional no trespasser signs. They will have to make assumptions from afar or get a warrant to be on your land.
I agree, with Gregor. Wanting things to be different and even working hard toward that end does not change the reality of what is very much an issue. I haven't bought or built one because of the cost involved, if I were to find out I could not do this anywhere near where I live. Moving is an option, but I want to have a better idea of what I am getting into before I cut my ties here. As I learn more about the legal issues, I am not confident of my tiny home dreams, at least without moving. I called a local zoning person in an area of interest and was told bluntly by someone who is supposed to be a lawyer, no zoning variance would be given because if I did something like this maybe everyone would want to. I believe in equality and do I recall something about a Constitution, Declaration of Independence and other things we hold dear, in reality they are trumped by those who have the power. In talking to a retired home builder, I was told that minimum square footage requirements of roughly 900 sq have gone nation wide. So, if that is true how can any thing seen on this blog be legally allowed outside of some special enclave? Mobile home communities might be an option elsewhere but here those have a 900 sq minimum, also. I have heard that some locals get away with this hidden away on acreage, but I don't know anyone who would hide me and can't afford land and a home too. I want to do things legally and do benefit from living in the area, so paying my share is my responsibility. My tiny home dreams will have to wait or go underground. There are people who are good at working through legal issues, I am not. I have learned that living in a Walmart parking lot might be an option, but that might be apocryphal. Does anyone have more information as to whether it is true? RV parks might work, but so many local ones are not open year round. My plans might have to wait until I retire.
On Tonita's comment, now with hover craft and digital imaging technology-no warrant necessary to actually look, ethics and legality are different issues.
it's good to hear a dose of reality amongst this idealistic movement. i am building a tiny house to park at the beach and stay in while i work out there 10 days a month. um, you can't just "park" it anywhere. i optimistically took the same approach as gregor, receiving a lot of interest and options from landowners who were willing to let me rent space on their land. however, whether you are on county land or in any number of small towns along the oregon coast, you must comply with zoning ordinances and building codes. this is a harsh reality. my new reality is building a foundation on a piece of land i will only be renting… to anchor down the structure. this actually feels safer to me, knowing i won't be swept away in a flood, being along a river near the beach. all these photos of people "living" in the tiny homes on wheels… i don't believe they are doing it legally and there are fines and consequences for approaching this with gregor's naivety.
whoops, i wrote gregor, i think i meant alex, the original poster… i was glad to see gregor's post pointing out the actual complexities of going tiny.
It would be wonderful to actually have an ongoing place where people dealt with or talked about the many headaches associated with tiny home ownership. When you mention the realities of tiny home life, people think you are a bummer and they want to stay in that dream land that once you build or own a tiny home with no mortgage then life will be wonderful. Often times it is not even better than paying a mortgage, but few are interested in hearing of or talking about 'the other side' of the story or dream of living tiny.
Hello, thank you for being realistic. My husband and I are wanting to buy a tiny house but we have no clue where we could park it. We are in Snohomish County, WA. I have been reading ADU zoning laws for hours and about to start with RV's and it is so overwhelming.
Will you please post a link to your blog post you mentioned above? I would really love to see how Tiny house owners are actually doing it.
Yes, please post that link. I don't want to invest so much to find out it is all wasted. I have searched tiny home listings and some are really inexpensive. Maybe they are cheaply built, but it seems likely some took the leap before they should have.
I am in King county right now and looking both north and south for a place for my new tiny home (should be in November). In Shoreline WA you can't even put a storage/shipping container in your yard – very strict. I am think the best way might be to get several tiny home owners together and buy a parcel of land, do the necessary zoning and put in utilities and even at some point a communal area and shared garden. Very much like the intentional communities that are spring up here.
I agree w/ much of what you are saying Gregor. I used to love the show "Tiny House Nation". I still do, bu my perspective has changed. Every time they introduce a couple who is going to downsize to save money and be dept free, the words "Next Sucker" come into my mind. Why? You can't live a Monte Carlo life on a fixed income and be debt free. Those maxed out credit cards take a lifetime to pay and the bills just increase. Most space rent is more per month than renting a house. There are a lot of expenses that go with living on wheels that you do not have in a house and additional maintence, so you can ad that to your rental costs.
It looked great from the outside looking in. Now to reality. I am disabled and have been living off grid in a 5th wheel for 6 months. In order to make this livable for my health conditions, my credit is maxed out. Before I had a section 8 house rental, that the landlords were selling out from under me and nowhere takes sec 8 vouchers any more. So really this seemed to be the best option. things cost more than you expect, many times more. Not to mention all the !K purchases for things like a propane tank, as they don't rent, but need that for heat, fridge, cooking. Space rent is not cheap. There are SO many fees too, just for maintence. That alone comes to more every month than the total rent [before section 8 paid] on my own place. Think of all the things like water hose insulation, constant replacement of sewer hose and support and so so much more. It is going to cost me over $30 alone to get the dangerous screw removed from my ceiling and the sinking side of my bed re-supported. Then there is the price of propane each month and solar battery maintence. All so sky high. Of course the 200 watts that I am so much in dept for is not enough a lot of times to get buy especially in the summer.
Being disabled means you do not DIY and that is a lot of where the expenses come in. But in a rental house I did not see them. Also it means entitlement to a lot of extra services. BUT I do not get those services anymore, as I have fore-fitted my basic rights as a human being. The way I fore-fitted those rights was moving into a home that is on wheels. My expenses far outweigh the amount of my SS check and no there is no extras. Batteries, lights, cleaning items and food are extras!
I am in this life now and no turning back. I need for health reasons to be off grid anyway. If I had it to do over again I would have stayed renting and moved to this town I do not care for, where I could have used my section 8. Oh do I wish I could turn back time.
I just hate to see all the marketing about the TH/RV lifestyle being debt free and allowing one to save money, when in fact it has become a very pricey lifestyle. I think that is something that one needs to know before going in. Had I known that I would have made another choice. Not to say I would never have made this jump, just not this soon. I would have saved saved saved for many more years lots of money. Probably would not have gone this path.
I do find parking a really costly issue! I think people that are new here and thinking about this lifestyle need to know it is not cheap and a very expensive one. If you are disabled, even more so.
I do love the comments here about staying positive and things will fall into place. I keep thinking it has to get better. I am doing everything I can to get the bills slowly paid and maybe they will over the years. I have been told too that choosing AZ was not wise, but then I have seen them more open to allowing TH/RVs than anywhere, but yet they allow it but make your life miserable for doing so. About being positive there are a lot of pluses of this costly lifestyle that have been noted time and again here. I love having that closeness to nature, that pretty country parking spot. I feel like I have the trees in my living room. I like living tiny and have done so off and on in different places. NYC area is the queen of tiny places and so are most trendy art towns, though I have to say none is this costly. I also know it takes time for things to fall into place. After all it's only been 6 months and it's all still new and maybe I can figure out a better system that does not cost so much.
But be warned it is not the stress free inexpensive life that everyone claims and usually not dept free. If you missed the warning, then try to make the best of it and enjoy the good things about it.
When I was first introduced to the tiny house movement I thought it was a god save. I'm disabled and on a fixed income who could never in my wildest dreams afford to live on my own piece of land where I would have to improve it, set up utilities (septic and electricity), build large upon it, be taxed because of it and finance all of it. My family is dying off (I'm the youngest and 58) and will not be here to save me. Therefore, it became obvious that it was a tiny house or die on the streets.
Some have told me that I could rent an efficiency, but by the time I did that on my income, I would be doing little more than surviving. I really don't want to survive. I want to live. I want to really live while I still have a little time. Besides, even an efficiency that is affordable would be in an area that I could never feel save in.
Anyway, Before I took the time to research the laws, codes and options, I took a giant leap and began building my own little house. I sold what little I had which was of any value and maxed out my only credit card. It's getting near to being finished and looks great. So far I'm very proud of how it is turning out. You can view it at http://www.jeremystinyhouse.com .
I love it so much but a few people told me that I should sell it to pay off my debt and have the money to build the next one for me. I don't even have a truck sufficient to haul it yet. But I knew that if I didn't jump right in and build it, someone or something would talk me out of it. I felt building was the only option that I have to offer any feeling of security in my last years.
Sorry about the link. I couldn't afford to pull out the extra $100 at the time to maintain the domain name. The link is now mytinyhouse.webs.com . Also you can watch my You Tube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI8iO53xBFM . It has over 2 million views so far..
If you ever get that spectacular invitation – please let me know 'cause I sure as heck would love to watch those flowers grow in the sunshine!
how romantic!-power to the movement right-on!
Please post where you live, if you do that might solve the lonliness problem, and give you a different one. I prefer acreage for my tiny home dreams, but people of good will are going to have to band together on this issue, regardless.
I'm not so sure whether my future lies in a tiny house or just a small apartment down the road, but the future will reveal itself in due time. I nearly bought a small house in a city I'd like to live in a year ago. At around 1,000 square feet, not tiny, but if you took in a room-mate, then it becomes an okay use of space. At any rate, I decided to pass for now (and seeing what housing prices continue to do, I'm not regretting it!).
I'm hoping Jay's comment in a recent TV interview about Tiny House communities is a clue to some neat project coming, and hopefully the first of many Tiny House communities. In some places you could slip in through "mobile home park" zoning. That usually raises a grim image in a lot of people's minds but under the right leadership, it could be much different. Imagine a Co-op situation where everyone had equal ownership in the park? If I'm really dreaming big, imagine a network of them kind of like Thousand Trails and other similar RV passes where you can go from park to park in the network in your RV. But apply it to Tiny Houses. You decide to move to another state, just move into the next Tiny House community in the network. Who knows, could happen!
For every person who desires to set up their tiny house in the woods, there's another who doesn't set their sights there. There's a part of me that likes the idea of being off on my own, but I also think that our future energy situation, I'd favor being nearer public transit and not driving 50 miles round trip all the time.
I used that link in Google and it was not recognized.
I don't know, have you seen what mobile home lot rents are like? For that you really aren't saving any money at all compared to an apartment, considering you have to buy the RV. Something like this would work IF Big For-Profit Business didn't enter into it, and rents remained LOW and REASONABLE.
If all housing in the country continues to skyrocket, and homeless people aren't allowed to build anything to live in and aren't allowed to be anywhere, what exactly are most of us supposed to do once we get priced out??
I like a lot of these questions, no idea about an intelligent answer that hasn't been mentioned though. Homelessness and many other chronic issues would probably be less severe if tiny homes were allowed more widely. It seems to me that the rich and powerful don't want any such issues actually solved. They can profit from the hardships of others without having to actually experience the reality any closer to them than watching the news.
Check out Occupy Madison. It is a tiny house community for the homeless. Some people are starting to catch on. Let's hope for more!
Yours is the most recent comment here, going back 4 years or so. Wondering about more recent developments and offers. Wouldn't it be nice to get an update? Most of the links are obsolete by now?!
I would love to have THs in my mobile home community, but there seems to be a reluctance on the part of TH owners to live in parks. Some parks are awful and some parks are beautiful. Mine is the latter. You can live both legally and inexpensively in many communities and it is an option worth checking out.
Also on facebook. this I just looked up now!
There are a few places you can park your home legally,most of them are in the Ozarks,that`s why Scott Stewart is probably the only tiny home builder that is successful,you could build it to NFPA standard 1192 and park it in a campground, but very few of them will allow you to live there more than six months of the year and they are not cheap. That leaves illegal, you must hide it and that probably means off the grid. The only way to make it happen is to get the building codes and zoning laws changed.
Sense becoming disabled and widowed I have been in a travel trailer and spent time in several great RV parks. Most of them have had tiny houses come through and love them they "make the RV park nicer " and bring in people who are more "up scale" I have found if you talk to the owner/manager they will work with you on any projects you want to work on (and I have had some strange projects).You can also get some really reasonable monthly rates. Depending on where and who owns it you might get them to let you build a tiny house there if you agree to let them show it to others.
Its all about talking to the people around where you want to be. Be creative!! and up beat don't go in expecting them to say no.
These are good suggestions, esp if you don't mind being mobile. No parks near me are year round. Owning one on acreage would be nice. I want to be "far from the madding crowd". Things don't happen overnight, though. We have to keep up the pressure.
I LOVE THE TINY HOUSE MOVEMENT BUT!!!
Gregor, previously is very on. Have to look @ his blog yet, but living in a College town, traveling fairly in my life, and being in Real Estate brings real life to the picture in America. Even if you find a piece of paradise somewhere in the "plains" area, just for example, even if the Zoning & Codes haven't been invented yet, you will always want to get to know the people in the area before you are moving to. Most (Sub)urban areas may allow you to build & park your tiny house, but unless you want to always believe your neigbors won't turn you in, ususally you can't LIVE in it. Most have to be unoccupied. These codes are there for a reason, they were put there by people who moved there first, mostly to keep housing prices (which affect also tax base and needed amenities paid) up.
In very rural farm communities, definetly talk to the locals, depending on where you are. They can be suspicious of strangers, and MAY not want what they envision as whole movement of people where they are "to enjoy life" more, when they work from morning to night to eek out a living. Their families have been there for generations, and you will be the "new people" for 20yrs or more! If they choose not to like you, be ready to feel what prejudice is like, they won't help you, and you may need it in some rural localities, won't have pleasantries with you at the local little store, etc. They may not mind you, but anything that threatens scares people. Plus while it's mostly "nice white middle class" (just to put a bigoted description to it) america that is embracing this, THEY are envisioning what may & probably will come, the even more bigoted "white not-so middle class" tiny house people & what they will bring, if they change the codes. EVERYONE I FEEL, deserves to do & live how they want, but unfortunetly most of America is Zoned, etc., & if it isn't you may start it. Be ready for a fight in most places. It's unfair I feel this is a great option for homeless problem & others, but American's like an Idea as long as it's not in THEIR back yard to bring community or housing prices down (new prison or waste treatment plant for example). If you can find a more progressive attitude in the community, & explain even tiny houses can have their own zoning, codes, and regulations, you may get somewhere. Buyer Beware, or I should say Builder Beware, Real Estate 101. Also you may get further building them & moving it to a permenant foundation (building Size codes beware). Also building on muliti-family (unit) land will usually be much easier, and others could join, finding a piece, that larger complexes, etc. don't want because it IS a small site.
Plus I'm gonna put my own plug in for the "Pyramodule" as a permanant dwelling, the roof would be great for off-grid also, with doors reversed out instead of in-set personally.
I took an early retirement. The tiny houses are very intriguing. But I too wonder where I would put one. So, I have decided to live and wander full-time in a small motorhome. While traveling the country I will be scouting for a community I would like to live in…in my tiny house. I won't be starting this for about a year, but that's the plan.
I also could enjoy living in a community of tiny houses, maybe a coop. I'm just staying open to possibilities.
Meg I am also looking at retiring early. I also want to build a tiny house and would love to be in a coop. There has to be a way to have a tiny house coop. I would like somewhere to live permantely I don't expect to travel unless I split up 6 months at a time. I might have to do what u did buy a small motorhome until I find somewhere to put my tiny house.
I did not realize finding somewhere to put a tiny would be so difficult.
I keep hearing more about the Ozarks.
Thank you guys for the comments here so far.
@Gregor I agree with some of your statements. You have your thoughts and I have mine. I like to go about life in an optimistic way because it works for me. You can do as you wish for yours. I'm not advising anyone to do anything here, just giving you ideas.
@Gregor One more thing… not to be harsh either, Gregor… If "I were actually doing this" I would go and buy the trailer, lumber, etc, and start. Knowing that everything else will come together after others see that I am serious about doing it.
If you are just talking about it, focusing on all of the obstacles you have to go through… How are you ever going to get started? Do you even have the funds/resources to start yet? If not, maybe you need to focus on that first??
I am a land owner in Northern NY, 30 minutes from the Canadian Border, less than 2 hours to Ottawa, Ontario… not near NY City! I hae built one small house on a foundation already, with a building permit, 12x 30 with a 12×6 porch, on an anchored metal frame on a cement foundation, with septic and well water. I saw a person interested in finding a home for a Tin y House they want to build, (she listed a want add on Craigslist), and said I would rent a spot by a year round old fashion pump well – for $50/month – I rent the tiny house out so already pay insurance to have tenants on my property, so don't feel I need to charge more…. She will be 8 miles from a nice college town, but will be on 150 acres… seems ideal to me… We are building another 14x 20 with a 6×20 porch this summer… I hope we can find local people like many of you that will want to live in it!
Jeremy you are a perfect example of what I am talking about… Someone who just started and believes that it will all work out in the end. Kudos to you man. And I KNOW it will work out for you.
This is just an update on the location of my website. You can also watch my You Tube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI8iO53xBFM . It has over 2 million views so far.
Mark I think most of the people who come here share that dream of another version of a mobile home park but with beautiful well kept tiny houses instead.
I think it's certainly possible it's just a matter of time before it's done. I guess it has to make business sense for whoever puts the $$ in. Or make it easy to accomplish as a larger co-op of some kind.
I believe it's certainly something that's coming in the near future.
That's great! You're welcome. Talk to you later!
Every property is different. Some are more workable, than others. I see properties with alleys in the back, some that have space beside or behind the house that is within many setback limits, etc. I live in an area that would be great for a tiny, maybe that is part of the reason so many of the zoning rules that I know about have minimums of about 900 sq ft, with no additional dwelling structures allowed. Some of those minimums are in mobile home parks, as well. The powers that be know once people have a home like 900 sq ft placed, they will be less likely to move it. Some say the homeless are parasites, maybe so. I think zoning and tax authorities are pretty parasitic, too.
I'm curious about where people park their TH's and if there is a movement to establish TH's villages or communities around the country?
Twenty five percent of the population move every year, so that's about 75 million people moving somewhere, (even if it's across town) in the U.S.
I think a TH village/community would be feasible where there is a community garden, common room or community center with tools, maybe a pool or school or some sort of educational facility.
I am interested in initiating a tiny house co-housing community as you described. I have motivation but no land. Getting one of these up and running will require different skills and contributions from lots of different people- email me at [email protected] if you'd like to chat!
I am looking for a place. Keep me posted. Where are you?
We own over 22 acres and are acquiring the 34 acres next to us. I'm open to the idea of the Tiny House community on our land.
I cannot WAIT to get there full time.
Hi, Alex. I'm a disbled senior (?58) with a disabilility; your advice to keep a positive attitude really helped me. Such a process is a scary and multi-faceted adventure, so much harder than merely consulting the real estate ads. Pep talk like yours keep me from trashing this dream as impractical, given my constraints. So, thanks for all you do.
My name is Jeb and I'm new to this site. I read you post and was wondering if you knew for sure if Alamo River resort accepts tiny homes on their property (and if so, how long will they allow you to stay there). I emailed them yesterday and am waiting on a response. I live in Austin and am looking to have a tiny home built within the next 6 months. Have you had your home built yet?
My name is Jeb and I am new to this site. I read your post and was wondering if you knew for sure if the Alamo River resort accepted tiny homes on their property (and if so, how long will they allow you to stay). I live in Austin and am looking to build a tiny home within the next 6 months. I would definitely move to San Antonio if long term parking were available there. Did you ever get your tiny home built?
Hi everyone. I am new to the tiny newsletter and blog life, but I've been in love with tiny houses since I was a child (53 years ago!). There's something uniquely quaint about cozy wooden cabins, calming and refreshing escape from the rat race, almost as comforting as being coddled in mama's arms after you fall off your bicycle with a skinned knee.
For my midlife crisis resolution, I decided to take my life savings and buy a piece of land on a mountain in North Carolina. I also designed and purchased the materials for a 12x12x12 log cabin to stay under permitting regulations there. I've been trying to get back up there since December, but weather and finances have been obstacles.
As for the land I found, it started with the concept of returning to a more simplified life, a homestead, as it were. Someplace where one can unwind, roll up your sleeves & get back to nature. I come from a large family (not only the one I created with my husband, but also my roots) and we've all dreamed about 'some day' having a large piece of land and all living in our own cabins. Well, with my parents in their 80's, my siblings scattered across the USA with lives/families of their own, I don't see the family dream coming to fruition as such…enter my mid-life crisis mountain cabin solution…..After I get the first 12×12 built, I plan on building an outhouse, a workshop, a garden/greenhouse, a spring house (we found a natural spring!). Ultimately, I'd like to grow it into a homestead where tiny housers could come & rent & work with me. Just a dream at this point, but hey, last summer, I had no land, no trailer, no building materials, so ALOT can happen in a couple of seasons if you put your mind to it!
As for building codes, the land I have is unincorporated (outside city limits) and therefore if a building is under 12′ in any direction, it is outside of permit requirements. Also, the only restriction I know of is no mobile homes. But with our own spring water, and a few solar panels & batteries, and a gazebo by the creek, or an outdoor kitchen pavilion, who needs restrictions???
Just puttin' it out there…any ideas?
I love your dream! It inspires me to dream as well!
I lived in NC for 5 years in the mid 90's near the coast and it sure was beautiful. I'm a chicken when it comes to the cold weather so in my mind, you are very brave to rough it in those NC mountains!
Aww, shucks, thanks, Jeb. Once I get it up & running, everyone's invited.
I arrived in NC in mid-June 2013 and despite the rainiest July on record, I've made some great progress. I built all the walls & flooring foundation at my brother's house on the same road as my cabin site. We had a friend carry the walls down the road on his tractor & trailer. Then he used his tractor to push the walls up into vertical & we secured them into place. That was back on Aug 16th.
It is really coming along. Yesterday, Sept 11, we finished the roof! All tin panels installed & now we're concentrating on finishing installing the windows/doors I'd collected from Habitat for Humanity's Re-Store and then we're on to mounting the log siding. After it's all enclosed, I'm heading back to Florida to catch up on reality. Then I'll come back up in a month or so to do some interior work like wiring, insulation & wall paneling.
Thanks for dreaming with me!
THANKS for the congrats! Coming from you, that means something to me! I've been meaning to enter my progress photo link on tinyhousetalk.com for others to follow, want to re-post my 2 descriptions above to another thread rather than the "where to park" category? I don't know how to do it, but I'd sure like some comments from your readers as to how I'm doing or what improvements they may suggest.
My 'real' residence is in Boynton Beach, with 4 grown children, 13 papillon dogs, 3 puppy papillons & my husband of 27 years. Where are you in Fla?
Feel free to contact me via email if it gets 'too personal' to post here.
Looking forward to 'talking' with you more.
Sure I'd love to repost some of your progress/descriptions. Maybe in a new post.
Boynton Beach, that's great. I'm not far on the other coast in Naples FL.
Fantastic idea, and I believe that the groundwork is already in place for you to do it! There is a network of homesteads/organic farms that create a chain of locations across the country for people to come and work in exchange for room and board. It's called WWOOFing (World Wide Organization of Organic Farmers, visit http://www.wwoofusa.org/), and it's already well established. I'm about to embark on my first wwoofing experience in the summer, because I too am very interested in homesteading. In fact, my ideal situation is exactly what you're proposing- the wwoofing system of trading labor for room and board, but instead being put up in their home/barn/campsite, I'd love to find a place to park my tiny house for the 2-6 months I apprentice there! Then, together, we create a beautiful homestead!
Please connect with me at [email protected] if you'd like to chat. I'd love to help you see your dream to fruition!
It is pretty hard to communicate with people on these posts over a 4 year span. Links don't go anyplace. It is a waste of time to have all these dates mixed up, and looking for the most recent for needed info. So I give up because I'm out of time.
How is the build going? I am interested in simplifying my life so that I can focus on things that matter like my son, family and friends. I am not in a position to buy or build anything. I am interested in starting my simplification process by paring down my material possessions. Do you have any other ideas? God Bless!
I am purchasing land in New Mexico and I am very willing to share it. You will need an incinerating toilet as composting is not an option. Here is the link http://incinolet.com/. You will need to create a grey water system. They are very easy. You will need solar. http://www.altestore.com/store/Packaged-Systems/c447/?campaign=SolarPanels&gclid=COTpscKAuroCFc-Y4AodnBsA7A. There will be a community Garden involved. It is better to live in a small group rather than alone. You never know when you may need help. The idea is to look out for each other and still have your own space. Will be very happy to chat with you about the possibilities here. Have been told lots are about 17 to 18 miles from town. Will be going to Taos New Mexico area to look at the lots.
I am currently gathering information/ideas for owning a tiny home. I will want my tiny home located in central Florida somewhere near/around the west coast. Do you know of a place in/near this area where I can place my tiny home. I've thought of purchasing a small lot, say <.25 acres or finding a place that is not too expensive to rent. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Lease available for secluded acreage with power and water available in Hawthorne, Fl. It's 20 minutes to Gainesville and 30 minutes to Ocala.
DF, curious about the duration, cost and is there sewer in the lease? Tiny has been built, now looking to move to north FL and need somewhere to put the Rose Tree Tiny while we look. Please let me know. Thanks!
Buying a piece of land is expensive. You have to pay property taxes on it every year.. You have to have money to put in water,electric and a septic tank. You need to have insurance on your tiny home. living in a rv park is expensive too. you really have to weigh things out before you build or buy a tiny house.
Your point is well taken. There are always costs involved. If you own your own land like I do you still may not be able to live in your tiny house on your land. Bringing in utilities to undeveloped land is also costly but can vary hugely in different parts of the country. Then there is the option of just buying and already built very small stick built home in a state with low property taxes. No headaches trying to find legal parking, no rent to pay for parking and just a small mortgage if that. By the time someone builds a decent tiny house they seem to be spending in the ballpark of $20-30K for it. For about 50K ish give or take, you can find lots of little homes across America, near or in town and in rural areas for sale where you can own your own home and the land. Land /property taxes would potentially cost you less than renting a spot for a mobile tiny house. Lots of advantages to this like not having to move if your landlord sells the property you are parked on, no need to worry about a neighbor complaining. Work towards paying your mortgage off quickly and sleep in peace at night.
Maria your comment makes SO MUCH SENSE. And after owning a tiny home and not being able to use it on my unincorporated land in King County WA (same county as Seattle) that is a very private dead end gravel road with minimal traffic in the country which backed up to the woods at the base of Mt Rainer. Never mind me paying up to 5K a year in property taxes some years. Sounds like a perfect spot for a tiny home right? NOT- Not only a state that rapes you for property tax , but illegal to sleep in my tiny home even one night on my land. SIGH. I am not as big of fan of tiny homes mostly due to the headaches of finding a legal peaceable place to live in them that is NOT in a tiny house or mobile home community. They might work well for those that are not concerned about having to move once a neighbor or county official is on to you. Unless one wants to move their tiny home to different locations and start the looking for legal parking over and over then I agree with you that it makes way more sense to buy an already built small home on your own land. Or find a place that will allow you to build your own tiny or small cottage on your own land. I am shocked at the prices of some of the current tiny homes – you can buy a home on land for less than many of the tiny homes cost these days. Oh, and just because you buy un restricted land it in NO WAY means you can park and live in your tiny home on that land. Do your research before your tiny home dream is a headache.
I know posting here is a long shot, but I'm trying everything to find a place at least for building my tiny house around Rochester NY (though I'll eventually need a place to park it for living, too). Living in an apartment currently so I don't have the land to set the trailer on.
I sure hope that you find something! Let me know if you do – I need some home that this can be done in NY! I'd love to find a spot myself.
I dont own a home but I rent ( everyone I know with a house are up to their eyeballs with debt and are basically mortgage poor) I'm totally in love with the tiny homes and the ultra low maintenance on one. I'm planning on buying/building one in the near future – I hope!
I read here people wanting to live in remote areas, its a wonderful dream, but as you get older you need to be near doctors, hospitals and the like – this is something you have to seriously consider and A LOT of people dont add that to their equation.
First you have to build a tiny home on a trailer to get around home size laws. Then for the most part it sounds like you can't even live in it on your own land in most places.
And one commenter was offering space for $350 a month.
No seeing the appeal anymore. It sounds near impossible to find a place to park it.
If you ask me maybe the movement can change to a tree house movement.
Does anyone have land between Gaviota and Ventura California? This is where I'd like to put my tiny house, but I'm not getting a tiny house until I hae secured a space for it. This is a new concept for most people and it's frustrating as hell because it's such a simple easy way to live and I'm surprised more people haven't jumped on board but I have faith it will happen! If you have land available, Please keep posting it thanks!!
I am looking for parking in the Carpinteria area. Have you had any luck in your search? If you come across some place that doesn't fit your needs, I'd really appreciate you passing along any leads to me. I will of course reciprocate. My email is [email protected].
If anyone else reading the comments knows about land for rent or a few acres for sale just south of Santa Barbara, I'll appreciate your effort in getting that information to me.
I. have recently been introduced to the Tiny Home movement due to an article I read in the newspaper here in Toronto. Since then I have been steadily looking at photos and articles to gather more information for howI can manage going this route.
From what I have read its almost like you are an outlaw and may have to pick up an leave in the middle of the night as municipalities, townships, city's and states do not allow 'off the grid' housing.
I am fully aware that this would. not be an option for Toronto and never permitted and actually my goal would be to have a retirement property i. a hot climate, i.e. Florida, CA, etc and also safety would be of issue. I understand Florida does not allow off grid housing. I am looking to purchase the land and looking not to be in a trailer park situation, sandwiched between others. A beautiful setting is a must. I am open to anything safe, beautiful and though a tiny home would work, also interested in small with hydro hook up and hooked to well/sewage. I realize this is a more expensive route to go.
It would be gratefully appreciated any advice that can be given by those who have gone this route? I will need to find someone to build a home that would be affordable and usable. Camping cabin is not what I can realistically live in for 5 or 6 months of the year.
I loved this home and would be thrilled to have a tiny home like this one(though cant figure out how you save these homes from hurricanes)!!
any advice or referrals for how to buy land, build a tiny home, maybe on grid to make life a whole lot easier with the 'law' would be so helpful.
Long term lease available for acreage with power and water in Hawthorne, Fl. It's 20 minutes to Gainesville and 30 minutes to Ocala.
If everyone is having similar problems finding somewhere to "park" their tiny home, perhaps we could all try solving this problem together? My idea is not complete, and is probably quite naive, but maybe we could begin establishing tiny house communities where tiny house owners can live legally?
The benefits are that house owners can share building ideas, maintenance tricks, and spread the word of other tiny-house-friendly areas. As well as watch for one another as neighbors do, protecting against break-ins or, God forbid, fires.
I'm sure there are problems I haven't thought of yet, but I think communities like this could make tiny house living a little more practical.
I agree…let's establish tiny house communities. Please let me know what I can do to assist with this movement.
We own 22 acres and are acquiring the 34 acres next to us. I'm open to the idea of providing the land for a tiny house community. We are between Gainesville and Ocala, Florida.
I'm getting serious about tinyhomes now…have an opportunity to work with a mature TH builder perhaps fairly close to FL in TN.
I am trying to be "a marketing arm" for this gentleman..who builds really nice TH's…and I've seen them all.
Let's communicate. Have you gone though your township to see how "many hurdles must be jumped over" as yet for tiny living?
I know this is two years later – but did you ever buy that 34 acres and start to provide land for tiny houses? I am buying one next month and planning on moving to Florida.
Hi, guys! Building a tiny house is something I've seriously considered the last year or so and I'm hopeful but not quite sure if it's possible for me. Can anyone point me in the right direction and who I could speak with to see if it's a possible solution for me? I would be doing it mostly by myself with some help from a family member who is a contractor and realize it may take me quite some time to finish it. Thanks!
Hello Im new here-Im 52 and lost my home due to job loss a year ago (held a fed gov job since 2004) Beings its just me I'm avidly looking at the tiny home movement many questions as to where in OH IN or KY to park it? Toilets ones that flush or compost? I considered eventually buying a condo but if I can live cheaper with just the basics and eliminate luxury I'm fine with that too. You find out after loss you don't need luxury! And Im frugal so Id recycle old items to my needs I have also considered the metal shipping containers to make into a tiny home as well……..or an old silo as I like the round look inside and out.Any feedback is greatly appreciated on any tiny home subject!
I own a trailer park in NE Ohio and I would love to have Tiny Homes in my park. These are classified as RVs and I am allowed to have 4 of them in the Community. Many parks have no restrictions on the number of Tiny Homes/RVs they can have. For those of you who think trailer parks are awful places to live, don't paint the industry with the same brush. Some really are terrible and others are quite nice. Mine is the latter. As for lot rents, they reflect prices in the area. If rents and property prices are high, so are lot rents. Lot rent, if you own your home free and clear, should be easily affordable for most any budget. One advantage that trailer parks have over RV parks is that we operate all year with winterized utilities. Also, many of us have full concrete pads which is great for people with mobility problems. If you are interested in low-cost living in a small and well-run Community, check out http://www.wheathill.net. You would be welcome to live there.
My Community is in OH and I would love to have Tiny Homes in it. We operate year-round and THs are legal to park and live in. Check out http://www.wheathill.net and contact me if you have questions.
Check tinyhouselistings.com and ebay, if only for ideas. I like some of what I have seen.
Helloo, been planning for a year. Went from a 3bdr,3b 2700 sq ft home to a 2 bdr apt. Now I am going to remodel a trailer. I am a general contractor, had 8 homes as rental property. The trailer has 2 bdr but on wheels. I start this weekend 07/18/15. I am so excited that I could scream. Rent free. And then in one year I will build my own home on a trailer. If I can build a garage with ac/heat/bathroom. This is going to be great. Yes, I am a single female and I cant wait to do this.
At the end of this week, I am closing on 7.6 acres in rural West Virginia with a creek! Unrestricted zoning, off of a black top road, surrounded by tall trees.
My partner and I absolutely love the idea of a tiny house.
I am looking for a *property host*, one tiny house owner who would temporarily (up to 6 months –depends on person, haven't worked that thought out completely) lease a space on my property for only $250/month + work on the property.
Utilities: Electric only at first !!!
Permit for well and septic already obtained but will take a while.
Hello. We would love to hear more about your land. Looking for a space to put a cabin wall tent.
I will then provide my phone number.
We have over 20 secluded acres available for rent with power and water in Hawthorne, Florida. It's approximately 20 minutes to Gainesville and 30 minutes to Ocala. Horse trails, bike trail, etc. Adjacent to wildlife management area with 30,000 acres of deer, turkey, rabbits etc.
We a are interested. Please contact us with more info.
Send your email address to friendde AT gmail dot com. I will respond with my phone number.
Thank you for this site it has helped us tremendously !!!!!!
Hello we are looking for a property to place and live in a wall tent. Any ideas would be greatly appreciate. Has anyone considered Mexico or other countries. Wondering how hard that might be to find.
I'm on the side of moving forward and working out the details asking the way. I'm not afraid of blazing the trail. If there is a need to solve a problem, then work on it. Here is a great example of an entrepreneur that is building a tiny home community in Kingston Ontario. I'm interested because this is where my mother lives. Maybe we can learn from them. In then mean time, I'm meeting with Tampa Tiny Homes to build my tiny house. I pan to start in an RV park and go from there. If you don't start, then gotta can you ever accomplish your dream.
I am a single woman looking to retire in a few years. I love the tiny houses however; I want to be in the city. I have lived out in the country before and it is not for me. I need independent film, museums, international cuisine, etc. In addition, I am starting to look at micro apartments. They will have a better resale value. I for one could not live under the shadow of officials coming to give me sitations.
I live in Columbus, Ohio and I am looking for a place to park a camper (building a tiny house right now isn't feasible but I want to live tiny) obviously I would need an electric outlet and water spicket to hook up to. I would prefer a backyard or something rather than a trailer park and obviously I would pay rent, so if anyone lives in my are or has friends here please get back to me! Thanks All!!
There are tiny living vacation options on this site and elsewhere that you can rent to find out if it's for you. A free option, recommended on this site is to measure and mark off a space, using tiny home dimensions in your home and move the items into it that you would want/need in your home. Anything that can't fit must be gotten rid of or adapted to fit it in the "home", like using vertical space as much as possible, and cutting out wasted space.
I wish you luck, unfortunately, Michigan seems to be one of the most regulated states, based on my experience. I have heard that there are areas in Michigan, where if one has an agreement with a traditional homeowner, one can rent a space on the property. Maybe posting on Craigslist or in the paper would help open up options beyond your own networking. Some have suggested Walmart parking lots as free viable options, although not ideal. I would like to learn how things work out for you, to help with my own search for a spot to park a tiny home in Michigan. I am in Muskegon and there aren't a lot of option around here, so far.
Check out mobile home communities in your area and not just RV parks. Many communities are beautiful places to live and can accept Tiny Homes. I own a park in NE Ohio and am allowed to have up to 4 RVs or THs and I'd love to have them in my community.
I forgot to include campgrounds. I have a listing for them that can be found at MichCampgrounds.com. I found nothing in Detroit and nothing in the surrounding areas is year round. Leasing space on a commercial property may be an option, but neither of these ideas is likely to fit within your price point.
I'd like to do this, in America everything is positive you can do, but I have too many obstacles to overcome even here in Italy where everyting is difficult. But I am positive and I know that one day I could even realize what is on paper.!!??
I have property that I own and I am trying to establish a Tiny House community. I have septic, water and electric hookup for 3 houses and water and electric for 3 more; They would have to use a composting toilet. There is room for a community garden, community composting, etc. The property is beautifully wooded with dogwood trees and azaleas. I am located 12 miles from the Atlantic Ocean with many miles of beaches a short distance away. Currently we have one Tiny home and we want to add more. We are located in rural Eastern NC. If you are interested in looking at a space, please contact me by email at [email protected]. The land is zoned for livestock so chickens, goats, horses are not a problem. It may be just what you are looking for.
Your Tiny home My property- I have 65 acres halfway between Austin and Houston Texas. There are nice Live oak trees and a large pond 8 to 15 acres depending on rain.
Hi! Your houses look so awesome! Except, I live in Las Vegas, NV, and I want to move to southern Utah and am having difficulty finding a place to put it. I've tried several mobile home parks and they don't want them there. Help! Thanks!
Nice response in return of this matter with real arguments and describing all about that.
I am searching for a location to keep a tiny house in San Antonio, Texas.