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What i learned 3000 miles in my tiny house

This is intended mostly for people who are not independently wealthy, people who have to work for a living, and have somewhere to be, and will be hauling their own THOW.

- you don’t know anything.  By which i mean: until you have lived in it, towed it, you don’t know what you don’t know until you come across it.  You’ve read a lot, toured them, and feel pretty damn comfortable, but there’s going to be a LOT come up that you just don’t have the answers to.  

- Enlist a good network of friends, family, trusted colleagues and professionals (auto and home) as well as any friendly looky-loos- don’t worry, people will stop by all the time to offer unsolicited advice.  Take it with a grain of salt but always take it kindly.  Many of these “full timer” RV people (retirees and such) have a wealth of knowledge that save you from having to learn from trial and error.   

- Check your headspace.  double check your headspace.  not just bridges.  but trees, low ceilings in filling stations, and trees.  did i mention trees.  it’s mostly the trees.  

- Learn to secure your load.  you know how in an airplane everything is strapped down or sealed in boxes?  imagine your kitchen cabinets, refrigerator door, and all your shelves bumping about or swinging open when you hit a pothole.  Silicone shelf liner (from the dollar store!) is your friend, you can cut it to size and it comes in many colors.  So are the little peel and stick hooks that you can remove (you can use rubber bands to secure two doors closed this way).  My next plan is to try baby door latches so they lock passively instead of actively so i never have to remember to /do/ anything to get them latched.  

Your load will always outsmart you.  something will be fine for days in a certain location, an then suddenly, you open your door after a couple hundred miles and it’s on the ground.  don’t ask me why. 

- you won’t like this last one:  It’s more expensive than you planned.  The gas (diesel) is more expensive.  you can plan for the difference in towing and not-towing, but you can’t be sure about the difference with the headwinds (i reduced my gas mileage by more than 12mpg while towing).  There are unexpected repairs.  prepare for it.  plan for the money you’d usually use, then leave an extra buffer of several THOUSAND dollars.  you might not use it.  then again- you might, and be glad you had it.  it sure beats being stranded in some no name town, especially if you don’t have much in the way of financial resource people to back you up to get you home/to your destination.  

Edit at 6000 miles.  

be prepared for standard maintenance.  If you’re not, the repairs will be more costly- and could be frightening. 

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