She Paid $83K Cash. Now She Only Works 3 Days a Week.

Her Builder: https://bit.ly/4uEyIkA Check out our other social media platforms! https://linktr.ee/tinyhometours Join our newsletter for all things living tiny! https://bit.ly/THT-Newsletter Take our quiz to find what tiny is right for you - https://bit.ly/tinyhomequiz Interested In Being Featured On The Channel? : https://bit.ly/THTTourApplication VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Lisa spent her weekends cleaning rooms she barely used, watching HGTV, and wondering if there was a better way. She designed her own 246 square foot tiny house on paper, paid $83,000 cash, and cut her work week from five days to three. Here's the full tour of Lisa's custom gooseneck home outside San Diego. Lisa wanted to work less, travel more, and retire earlier. Her favorite part of living tiny: the house is on wheels. Call a tow truck driver, hook it up, and take it with her. Her tiny house is a 29-foot gooseneck, 8.5 feet wide and street legal. She designed the layout herself: four sections almost equally proportioned instead of one big open room. Walking in, a living room and kitchen combo with high ceilings. Past the kitchen, a hallway to the bathroom, then stairs up to a gooseneck bedroom where Lisa can stand fully upright, plus a crawl-in closet above the bathroom holding the washer dryer and extra storage. Lisa split the living room into quadrants around a real, comfortable modular couch, not the small angled couches she kept seeing in other tiny homes. No loft, so the couch converts into a guest bed, with storage underneath and inside the cubes. A TV for sports, a fireplace for backup heat, and a mini split for cooling round it out. The U-shaped kitchen puts fridge, stovetop, oven, sink, prep space, and a half dishwasher drawer within arm's reach. Lisa loves to cook, so she prioritized counter space, and her two-burner cooktop and small oven double as her toaster and air fryer. Her cabinets, she says, aren't even completely full. The white, bright quartz counters were entirely her own choice this time, after living somewhere she'd decorated for resale. Before going tiny, Lisa lived in a two bedroom, two bath condo and worked five days a week in radiology, spending days off cleaning rooms she wasn't using. Her mortgage was $1,600 a month. She sold the condo, paid $83,000 cash for her tiny home, and now pays $1,000 a month in space rent covering water, sewer, trash, electric, and landscaping. She signed with Rocky Mountain Tiny Homes right before COVID hit, and Greg, the builder and an architect, turned her hand drawn floor plan into architectural drawings over FaceTime and Zoom. Cutting her expenses let her drop to a three day work week, and she now spends the extra time working out, hiking, traveling, and relaxing around the San Diego area. The bathroom was non-negotiable: a full bathtub with custom tile, a handheld shower head, and more storage than her condo had, including a large medicine cabinet. Vertical tile makes the space feel bigger. The trade-off was fitting the washer dryer combo into the closet instead. Up the gooseneck stairs, her bedroom has a door for privacy, room to stand fully upright, and a lift-up bed with storage underneath. Outside, an attached shed holds anything that doesn't fit inside. The home runs on 30 amp electrical with dual propane tanks, and hooks up to a gooseneck truck whenever Lisa is ready to move. THE DETAILS Home: Custom 2020 29-foot gooseneck tiny house Builder: Rocky Mountain Tiny Homes, Durango, CO (architect designed, collaborated with Lisa via FaceTime and Zoom): bit.ly/4uEyIkA Trailer: Trailer Made Trailers: bit.ly/trailermade Dimensions: 29 ft x 8.5 ft, approximately 246 sq ft All-in home cost: $83,000, paid in cash Location: Outside San Diego, California (private landlord lot) Lot rent: $1,000/month, all-inclusive (water, sewer, trash, electric, and landscaping) Previous housing cost: $1,600/month condo mortgage HER ADVICE "My advice would be to consider what's really important to you and how much space do you really need, because for me the most important thing is living life and having fun, not trying to make more money, not having a bigger house. On the contrary, scaling back to where I'm actually enjoying my life more and paying and working less." SHOT BY: https://www.instagram.com/abe.and.mel/ EDITED BY: https://www.instagram.com/filmbro_/ TINY HOME TOURS LINKS: Business Inquiries - [email protected] Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/c/TinyHomeTours Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Tinyhome.tours/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tinyhometours/ Newsletter : https://bit.ly/THT-Newsletter Podcast : https://bit.ly/tinyhometourspodcast Apply for a tour : https://bit.ly/THTTourApplication