It’s with excitement, sadness, and so many memories that we said goodbye to our tiny house on August 13, 2018. It’s the end of a tiny house chapter in our lives, and the start of new adventures as we adopt! We sold the tiny house to a young couple in rural Washington state who are planning to live in it and make it their own.
We want to say a huge thank you to our amazing family and friends who made our tiny house dreams a reality. They spent countless hours building with us and offering their expertise when we didn’t know what the heck we were doing! Our house certainly could not have been built without all of that support.
We spent 2 1/2 happy years living in our tiny house, starting right as we finished building it in New Hampshire and then honeymooning in it across the country to move to Oregon! We learned that yes, a couple can live in a tiny house and still be very much in love. It’s certainly not for everyone, but it worked well for us. The tiny house allowed us to own a home, have the financial freedom to pay off the house quickly and end up with some cash, and live simply. We’re grateful to have been able to build our own tiny house and have so much fun living in it.
Lessons learned about how to sell a tiny house
We learned that selling a tiny house is not simple or quick, despite all of the interest in small homes! Our house was on the market for about eight months before it sold. Here’s some tips if you’re selling a tiny house:
- Craigslist is your friend, and no we didn’t get paid to write that. Despite the other types of marketing we tried (mainly online) such as Facebook ads and tiny house listing websites, the vast majority of interest that we got from potential buyers came from Craigslist. We posted the house in a few metropolitan areas in Oregon and nearby states.
- Provide as much detail as you can about the house. Through this blog we were able to show the entire building process and we included plenty of specs, photos, and a video on our for sale page. Several people commented that they didn’t have many questions for us, since there was so much information already provided. This will also help you as the seller, since you’ll hopefully only get serious buyers asking for a showing since they will already know so much about the house. Which leads us to…
- Vet interested buyers before scheduling a showing. There’s a lot of interest and excitement around tiny houses, but only a very small portion of the population who would actually buy one. We asked potential buyers to answer a few key questions before we agreed to give them a tour, such as where they were in the house shopping process (make sure this isn’t the first tiny house they’re looking at, on a whim), where they would put the tiny house (ensures they have a serious plan), and generally how they would finance it (if they don’t have savings or access to cash, have they looked into a personal loan or other financing options).
We’re now signing off on this blog for now, thank you for reading! We will be back in a few years to share a future bus conversion and the year long field trip to be had! Best of luck to all those out there who are on tiny house adventures…
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