Chris Montoya

Thanks for the replies.

Some observations...

So, it looks like a tiny home can either be on wheels or only meant to be moved by a company on a big oversize load truck, or it can be totally fixed to a foundation.
The 2nd option would require the mover to acquire a single or repeat or annual "oversize load" permit from each state that he needs to move the thing through. And then tow it according to the rules of the state. These permits cost from $10 - $100 per state - it looks like.
It's oversize if it's more than 8.5[ft] wide and about 13.5[ft] high (the height varies a little by state, but it goes from 13.5 - 15).

I really appreciate the replies.

So, I'd like to find a location within about 10 miles of Modjeska Canyon, CA.

I'd like to buy a "tiny home" (or "park model" home) which can be moved (like an RV) and not totally fixed to the ground. I'd like something around 400 sq ft. (I see a lot of "399 sq ft" tiny homes, so there must be some kind of restriction or building code that you hit when you get to 400 sq ft.)

I'm not sure what the deal is with the bottom side of these homes. Some seem to have more of a permanent wheel-base-frame thing, and others don't. For these "others", I guess you would somehow have to keep the wheel-base-frame-mover thing somewhere on your property and you'd have to slide it under your whole house and remove the cinder blocks if ever you wanted move somewhere else... Just trying to wrap my mind around everything.

I don't have a truck yet, but have some money saved up for a down payment - I was thinking about getting a 3/4 ton truck - but again, that depends on the house that I buy.

I don't know why it's so hard to find out this info on the internet. Just some basic questions...

I'm looking to buy a pre-built tiny house. I don't want to make it myself. I see that some are on trailers with wheels - and they don't have anything really jutting out of them - they are very much conformed with the boundaries of a street lane. And then I see some which are on land, but which are supposedly "mobile". I don't know how you get them off the ground and onto something else to move them. I don't know if you always have to use cinder blocks. I don't know how to get the thing onto wheels. I don't know if I would need that separate trailer frame thing to put the whole house on. And I don't know how that would be done, or if I would need to hire a company to do that, or if I could do that myself and just pick up and go somewhere else on a whim if I decided to.

And then, once I decide on the tiny house I want, what are my options on where I can put it? Especially how do I hook up black water thing, and the other hookups? Can I use a tiny house just like an RV? Are tiny houses not all the same in terms of hookups? Does it need a foundation? Who does that? Doesn't that take like 1 year to do? If so, then how come no one talks about this? The internet sites act as if you can just buy one and put it anywhere within like a couple weeks.

Just so many questions that no one talks about. And these are like the most basic things.

And I guess a mobile house is not really mobile. I don't know.