Lessons Learned While Shopping for a Tiny House/Homestead Property

So, as you probably are aware, the journey for Fy Nyth to find a permanent home, since I've always known my current location was temporary, has gone on for many years. After several years, finding a lovely property and then having a big issue arise with the attempt instal a toxic smelter directly upwind of that property as I discussed in the video in the last blog post. After waiting for several years hoping to find a resolution to that situation, I decided my time and effort was better spent else ware. I still wish everyone in that area the best with overcoming their own corrupt local officials. So the search continued, Clay and I purchased a place together, and now the tiny house is now going to be moving to that new home with in a week or so if the weather cooperates.

Which is super exciting! Overall, I spent about five years actively shopping for a property. Getting to various stages of purchases in that time on different properties. Some offers made and declined. Some made, accepted, changed, and declined. And so on. Through that whole process I learned a lot of things I didn't know when I started. And I figured some of that experience might be helpful to anyone else who is shopping for a similar kind of property.

First, in the video above, I tried to cover what I was wanting to do, and there for the property characteristics that I was looking for that flowed from that. As one person said, "no one actually want's a drill, you want a hole." So figuring out what I actually wanted to do was key for me knowing whether or not something I was looking at fit those needs or not.

Then I discuss some of the bigger issues I ran into on different properties that were things I was not really aware of before starting this process. And I figured a few other folks might be in the same boat and find my experiences useful. 

And lastly, here are some of the tools and such that I found very helpful in being able to find information and details about a particular property I was intersted in. 

If you too are currently searching for a place, best wishes with that journey! And now, the next post will be on to the place we actually bought and where the tiny house is moving.