Location - Location - Location

There are so many things to consider when planning a tiny house. The plan for the house, the materials, furnishings and of course the trailer. We have owned 2 traditional homes one we built and one we bought. Each time the biggest consideration was the location. As we all know the three most important things in Realestate are location, location, location. The trailer is the location when you are building a tiny house on wheels. It's actually the foundation and the location, so it is the single most important component of the tiny house build.

We looked at all types of trailers.

This was originally a mobil home. Turns out it's to narrow and is not designed for wood framed walls on the outside edges. It would take a lot of work to get this ready for the build. Asking price $2500. But is was a really nice drive out to Jamul to an amazing home on the top of a hill with views deep in to Mexico and almost all of San Diego County.

There are other good options out there like traditional utility trailers and even other new trailers set up for tiny house construction. What we found was that almost all of these trailers were not designed for building a house. Some would require drop axles to compensate for having to build your subfloor on top for the deck, so would have to have extensions fabricated. After sorting though all of the factors we finally made our decision.

http://ironeagletinyhousetrailer.com/tinyhomes/

We decided to purchase the Iron Eagle PAD 24' trailer, an amazing trailer with an equally impressive price tag. Here's how we came to this decision.

1. Our Hikari Box house plans are designed around this trailer.
2. It has the most effective thermal break system of any trailer on the market.
3. It is designed for one purpose, a tiny house.
4. The design allows for a full 2x6 subfloor without sacrificing interior head room.
5. And most importantly; it's good to go day one, no modifications or fabrication needed, just park it and start building.

It is being built now and we will be taking a road trip to Northern California to pick it up in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned.