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It's on Aiken st (east side) and sold for $365k. The lot sold about a year ago for $45k and could have been a deal where you might have been able to build your tiny house for under $120k if you had been lucky/savvy enough to get the lot.
Perhaps you should have clarified from the start that you were talking about a "Seattle dishwasher". I doubt there's many dishwashers anywhere else in the country that make $44k per year and certainly not here in Charleston. Your question seems to have morphed into "how small a house will the city let me build and how small can an individual lot be"? I dont' know those answers but they'd be easy to find out with a call to the city.
Sometimes I depend too much on other people's ability to make the leap. $22/hr in Seattle or SF ought to be about $15-$17/hr in Charleston. That kind of pay scale is coming to restaurants. Watch. A city, no matter where it is, should have housing stock available for purchase to those who make that kind of money. A big house with quartz countertops? No. But something livable. Period. That is also coming soon to our society. Watch.
It's on Aiken st (east side) and sold for $365k. The lot sold about a year ago for $45k and could have been a deal where you might have been able to build your tiny house for under $120k if you had been lucky/savvy enough to get the lot.
NOW YOU'RE TALKIN'. I would have built a house on the same scale as the one next to it, only smaller. Those people probably would have appreciated my house more. So it seems those opportunities do exist. Thank you so much.
If I know how to copy and paste from Google Street View, I would provide a link to a shot of these men renovating a 'tiny' A-frame house on Aiken Street. Do people go knocking on doors asking who owns tiny little cute boarded up houses so they can buy and rehab them to live in? No, I guess you'd look up the property tax number and find out that way. Cool deal. BTW, when those old ladies insisted Charleston preserve its housing stock, I think they meant the little ones, too. I hope those little ones aren't being razed to make way for noodles in the sky.
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Perhaps you should have clarified from the start that you were talking about a "Seattle dishwasher". I doubt there's many dishwashers anywhere else in the country that make $44k per year and certainly not here in Charleston. Your question seems to have morphed into "how small a house will the city let me build and how small can an individual lot be"? I dont' know those answers but they'd be easy to find out with a call to the city.
And it would be a royal pain to really start chopping up parcels of land. First you get to convince the city to let you do it which would probably be "fun." They all need their own utility connections and surveys, you get to play with the BAR, then everything needs to have a dwelling built in a way that meets all setback rules.
The sad thing is, there are probably a whole lot of steps to the process that I'm leaving out.
Hell, the BAR would probably tell you no just because it was never that small to begin with. Remember, these are the people who tell you what color to paint your house...
I Google-Street-Viewed around Aiken Street and got the picture of how small some of the vacant lots are. I would buy the smallest available and put a 500-square-foot (maybe less, with ultra-efficient design) charming A-frame cutie on it.
I Google-Street-Viewed around Aiken Street and got the picture of how small some of the vacant lots are. I would buy the smallest available and put a 500-square-foot (maybe less, with ultra-efficient design) charming A-frame cutie on it.
Good luck with that. I just did a real estate search for lots for sale on the peninsula. The least expensive one is $79K and it quickly goes up from there (next one is $150K). That means you would have to build your home for around $41k to stay in budget.
Personally I have a problem with new residential construction in old neighborhoods being built out of scale. The BAR ought to quit allowing money to talk so loudly in that regard. Zoning could give the BAR that power.
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