Tiny Houses (Texas Country Reporter)

Spur, TX is the first tiny house friendly town in the country.
Denise Rosner
Spur, TX
239-565-8172
Website: www.spurfreedom.org/
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TCR #1516, 09-17-2016

[@ThatBronxgirl7]

The rest of America should take notice and follow the example. You have people willing to spend money to move to the middle of NOWHERE. They build homes, pay taxes, possibly start businesses. Bravo SPUR, TEXAS!!

[@mistervacation23]

There are many miles of gravel roads In Spur and we drove around most of the next day exploring. One road was eponymously named Bomb Storage Road. The military had facilities everywhere and built roads to connect them. Ammunition bunkers, bomb storage, personnel housing, gun emplacements, fire hydrants, quonset huts, phone lines and poles; this is what you see wherever when your drive around Spur.

[@ladeene06]

let's hope other states follow. God bless Texas.

[@SigningWithTheByrds]

I love this and I never thought it would pass my mind moving to west Texas. Being a north Texas girl (4 hrs east), it would be unheard of, but....tired of renting and want something to call our own. It is prettier than I thought, definitely peaceful.

[@scruffy281]

What a great state.........Texas always seems to "get it". They keep it simple, keep it real and keep it good. God Blessed Texas with his own hands..........and I can't wait to get a look at Spur. Looks like a tight community that is getting back to basics. !! Thanks for sharing this information. Way to go Texas!!!❤️❤️❤️So fun!!!!

[@sergedelval5373]

Nice place to be .... thank's for showing us the way ... Serge from Belgium

[@texashikeaholicsadventures5651]

Good Luck Spur Texas!! We wish you well!! Kudos!!

[@onesweetbob]

I see NO litter, NO grafitti...looks peaceful.

[@cameraman655]

Likely, not for long..

[@martadolls]

Sadly, vile people eventually ruin even the most peaceful little towns,

[@westexdad]

Actually there is one piece of griffiti

[@donnalouisebaza6570]

I Love the town it's Beautiful! rustic!

[@SacklunchShacks]

There are scores of places other than Spur, Texas where you can go tiny LEGALLY. The key is finding "tiny towns". In the USA there must be @ least 2,000 communities where you can do the same.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

Spur is the only one. As the land is Deeded to you. After you pay for it. Which is like $1500.00 for 20 acres. Go buy land that is deeded to you, free and clear. The city will take it from you. If you don't pay the taxes any place else... Read the Wall Street Journal. As other cities see Spur, Texas as a threat.

[@Kitty-ig4yh]

In those communities you don't own the land and have to pay an upwards of $600+ a month to park your tiny house. It's basically like elevated versions of trailer parks.

[@doeeyes394]

You go Spur Texas,!!!! I hope more places and other states get with the game!! I want to live in a Park Model!!!

[@michaelanderson8514]

thank god for the spur tiny home movement i hope more US towns will follow

[@nicoleterrell1098]

So happy to hear the news. I concur with the comment below, God bless Texas!

[@GREENLALI]

Can you do an updated on this?

[@mamalovesthebeach437]

Good for you Spur!!!

[@dannytavarez4837]

hope tiny home bring to san angelo,tx

[@Sky.Lukewalker]

the only place in the U.S. you can live legally in a tiny house?!

[@Laffy1345]

Who would want to.

[@gregoryhodge9452]

No

[@jamesdooling4139]

I've been through Spur. There is a great burger spot on the main street.

[@Followfbdamari]

Are you talking about dixie dog? I have family that live theyre

[@1timby]

Note, Only in TX. Not CA, NY, CO, etc. :)

[@Sunnyswamp]

Great story!

[@ravent3016]

Freedom and peace--smart woman!

[@rowenaphilbeck1919]

Awesome...love it and the people.

[@christinerazo7306]

I love your video and it made me cry I plan on going out there soon I want to be safe and free and know my neighbors thank you from the bottom of my heart love and peace from Cali.

[@madelinevegas8123]

I wish it was in Arlington Tx rent is so expensive I need 4 roommate

[@beckycats2000]

Just curious how much is the land tax for what the tiny houses sits on?

[@kevinswilcox]

I want a tiny house! San Angelo needs to adopt the same ordinances!!!

[@Woodie958.]

Amazing would love more information. 💗🙌

[@jasenalexmiller2149]

I’m very interested in getting a lot for $500, but the knowing of where to go to buy it, finding out if a lot is available, if I wanted to have the front of my lot to face the sunset, what are the names or proposed names of streets that I might live on, etc. Where’s the streamlined process to make this happen? I currently rent in a community that I call home, but the building inspector is way too cocky to, and as if the power to decide this, solely rests with his final decision, the house that I both want to own and live in. I get pressured to accepting the bare minimum of a two bedroom home. He and others say of what I can do with a second bedroom. I want a one bedroom home, that’s it! You go to a car lot to buy from what you assume are cars, but your only option and you must accept it or we cannot help you, is a huge, grand deluxe, two miles to the gallon, Cadillac. This is the anti-freedom attitude that I deal with. I cried with joy, how happy such sweet people as Denise Rosner and others, found their peace, freedom, and happiness to live in the home of their dreams without the crushing dream destroying codes that the rest of us live under. New here.

[@JAHDUBProductions]

www.landwatch.com I bought a lot from them for $900. Arizona. It's only a quarter acre though. You can find more, for less in some parts of Texas. I've seen lots in your price range in New Mexico. If I were a fan of Texas, I'd go. But I do love that there are no size restrictions or mandatory grid tied systems there. That's normally the main problem.

[@badalgayainsaan]

I love Texas ... Feel blessed living here

[@lukegeorge7384]

Another good story 👍👍

[@jaypino2642]

Love this

[@kennethlang7787]

sad that America has gotten to the point where homeless can live under bridge, illegals can have sanctuary but tax paying Americans have to build a specific house under specific rules on the owners own land.

[@toddfraisure1747]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[@cyrus1749]

Very clean

[@mymjctube]

where did kay buy her house? i love it!

[@harrisonsir1]

I would love to live here. Great destination for retirement.

[@mishawakapost2681]

(Music_ Town of El Paso)--Down in the small remote town of Spur, Texas: I (work in progress).

[@leeburchfeild7675]

I like small towns like this

[@teresajulieperez]

I have a question: Are there any tiny home rentals set on a lot ??

[@deletename7993]

I have seen a couple of the tiny homes that initially came into Spur being sold,....and did hear that once tiny home owners started coming to Spur that the local folks began to push back. Any chance of an update on this?

[@Polin-dx5ru]

I’m from Spur. I haven’t met anyone yet that doesn’t like the movement but I haven’t talked to every single person in town but for the most part they don’t mind it as long as people coming in are respectful the town embraces everyone

[@Kitty-ig4yh]

​@@Polin-dx5ru thats good to hear because I'm really interested in making the move to build my dream tiny house. Do you know if they still have $500 lots available? Building a tiny house isn't cheap anymore, so buying cheap lot would be such a relief.

[@dannytavarez4837]

nice place to be

[@careysharp8340]

That's a great idea. 👍

[@RyngKatBaDPhiTogetherwithYou]

Everything I need. That's my dream house in NE India but I owned a concrete small house.

[@nicolejennings8389]

Love it

[@Sky.Lukewalker]

I've seen some on-foundation tinies around Houston tx

[@daddymar6063]

Let's move in!

[@dandan3521]

TEXAS size heart 🇨🇱🤠✯ God bless the Lone Star State !!

[@pla4825]

I luv it

[@jbman413]

its a small start

[@Kitty-ig4yh]

Are there still $500 lots available? I want to make the move and build my dream tiny house.

[@bluefidle]

How much land do they have...?

[@genaroromanjr4977]

The new pioneers

[@GxxdGonzalo]

There’s four things that I need it’s Whataburger Chick-fil-A Target O’Reillys

[@thehomeconstructiontoolcha857]

For your own Good. Leave how you Voted in NY & CA Texas is a Great State with,. it's why you moved there.

[@PInk77W1]

I just bought a 400sq ft home in tx. $23,000

[@harrisonsir1]

Mortage free, strees free, free time to do you.

[@nancynancy8986]

Aanymore lots available? I'm from ohio...,

[@waterheaterservices]

Tiny houses are being built and trucked out of Luling Texas.

[@Shield.148]

We should re-purpose all the abandoned military bases into tiny home communities!

[@Woodie958.]

I have family in I have family in Houston would love more information

[@aw4895]

Can anyone from spur Texas help with my tiny house project ? Please contact me

[@BigBickBenedict_de_Texas]

Spur Texas hometown of Bud Davis.

[@agslifestrugglesexperience5438]

how to live there...

[@littlecasino60]

I wonder what was the lady's occupation that she was able to relocate from the Bronx to Spur. She didn't appear to be of retirement age.

[@GFRzeszutek]

A highly successful divocee'.

[@777hc777]

School teachers retire at 49 yrs old

[@JAHDUBProductions]

New York is so expensive that the move probably paid herself. I've seen people sell off what they had in New York, no savings, and went and bought 40 acres in Texas. I bought 2 lots in Arizona, from Pennsylvania and I'm just a musician who only works a couple days a week for a few hours. It's easier than you think. Plus, these days, any online business can take you anywhere. That's how alot of people are able to move overseas. Online business and go.

[@rawbacon]

Her house is actually quite large for 1 person.

[@JJoy-bk8yr]

Only town in US to allow tiny houses seems like a stretch. Portland, Oregon allows auxiliary dwelling units - basically one tiny house on the same lot as a bigger house. I've read that the Kansas City, Missouri Codes Administration Dept. is open to houses that are one room plus a bath, on a foundation, on a single family lot. There are regulations for bedrooms, main rooms, and kitchens, but if a single rooms meets all the regulations for each of those kinds of rooms it is legal. You would need to research those regs - a house could be less than 400 sq. ft. but probably not micro. I've seen new one-room houses in Austin, Texas too. (And aside from any city ordinances there are deed restrictions and governing covenants in many neighborhoods that don't allow any small houses so you would have to find a lot without those restrictions.)

[@Mlogan11]

They didn't say "only town" to allow tiny homes, but the only city with the least restrictions so as to actively encourage tiny homes being built there.

[@JJoy-bk8yr]

I listened again very carefully. I did overreact to one phrase and went too far. One statement said the only town to allow tiny houses on any lot in town. Another statement said the only town to allow both tiny houses on wheels and tiny houses on fixed foundations. Those points were worth having a story about. But then came the wrap-up, "the first tiny house friendly town in America." That was what I was reacting to. I should have simply said that other US cities are friendly to tiny houses too, even if they are not as permissive as Spur.

[@luckygirl5918]

Agreed - they kept saying the ON:Y town and the first which is untrue. However what they are doing is often.

[@luckygirl5918]

Walsenburg, in southern Colorado, is a town of around 3,000 residents. In 2014, the city changed its zoning rules specifically to allow tiny homes to be built on residential lots.

[@beamills9205]

i think what they mean is you can buy the lot and the tiny house in a package deal $30, 000, $35,000, $40,000...they build it.....or you buy the lot and build your own.....maybe, that's what they meant the only town that was actually creating a neighborhood,...???

[@Flexmeister]

sign me up

[@stratocaster1greg]

People in SE Okla. build what they want. Any goverment folks show up they disappear.

[@kathyscoppettuolo7168]

Hope that this town wasn't hit by the fires. 😢

[@Squarehead45]

Look how CLEAN the streets are,,and, no 24 hr stores,,that's the reason. No reason from crime and trash to gather.

[@shemanator247]

KRUM TEXAS HAS THE SAME COMMUNITY

[@terryclotf]

really easy if your retired. really that dude. seems like this has been going on for decades. most cities want more taxes.

[@midway241]

Excellent!!

[@CH-iy4go]

If you are interested, please call me - Danny [phone]

[@jamesevans1973]

usa used to be free doit anywhere push freedom build watt you want

[@jeffyjohn5673]

Yes I live in Austin and grew up here. I want to leave when I retire. West Texas is so large. I want to go somewhere where there are native Texans, not Californians, New Yorkers etc. No thanks Spur.

[@shaneb.3982]

Please leave your politics at the door when you come here to Texas. Please don't vote for what your running from.

[@waterheaterservices]

Socialism sucks

[@bycracky22]

One rattlesnake trap and you wont have to buy meat either.

[@kellykonoske91]

Im sorry, but they are far from the only people in the US doing that!

[@whisperingdeath308]

Look like mobsters

[@rosexavier7883]

It' a great movement, but the town is not for everybody. No mountains, no trees, no natural beauty. Looks very depressing to me.

[@Crazy-Horse-Tx.]

So sick of all these yankees moving to my state .

[@cameraman655]

Ditto......and they bring their 'leftie' politics and voting records with them. In 30 years, Spur may look like Silicon Valley...sad....

[@patfisher6217]

BigBrownNativeAmerican well move to your home town Mexico cross the Broder

[@doeeyes394]

BigBrownNativeAmerican ..... If you are Native, then you should know how being discriminated against makes you feel. Your Yankee statement just makes others see how stupid some people really are!! Not one single person can say that they made the decision as to where they were born!!! I'm from Ohio but married a man from Texas and I've been here almost 10 years now. I always heard of the so called Southern Hospitality.....but living here these past 10 years, I have never met soo many down right rude, judgmental and two faced people in my life!! I'm a female​ Army Veteran who suffered a broken neck and an internal decapitation and the locals are rude as heck to me!!! These old bitties talk about me like I'm a peace of crap! But everyone in this little town sure loves to say that they are Christian. Went to a Church once down here and everyone was Soo welcoming in church, hand shakes and hugs with everyone. Then afterwards...those same almighty Christians were flipping people off and cussing something awful...fighting to get out of the parking lot!! So much for these southern Christians. Furthmore, the last I heard Texas is part of the UNITED STATES.....I put my a** on the line for Every American, and not just for the Yankee's either!! You and your friend need to grow the hell up because every American is allowed to live anywhere they choose! Oh, btw... just a little FYI..... Not all "Yankee's," are from the "left," either!

[@kimsikorski5691]

Doe Campbell I'm from ohio and I just wanted to say thank you for serving our country. if it wasn't for men and women like you this country wouldn't be what it is today. God bless 💕

[@ALeCATteamSCAR]

I totally agree with you Doe Eyes

[@Janet_Price]

My concern with TX is all the fracking and ruined water. I'd love to move there, but the fracking and oil pipelines make it a no go for me! Even the Republicans are suing the Oil Pipeline companies! Spur, TX may be tiny house friendly, but not ecologically friendly. If you can't drink the water, it's just another FLINT, MI

[@MissAstorDancer]

Well, I'm in Midland, TX, and there is a LOT more oil production surrounding us here, that there is around Spur. Our water here is consistently awful, with notices in our bills several times a year about the water quality failing to meet safety standards. The crowding and the crime here is such, that I am starting to think much more seriously about places like Spur.

[@gschady]

running away from everyone who knows who she REALLY is .. OBVIOUSLY a phoney baloney

[@amafid]

Her house is for sale on trulia.

[@TXARMYVET89]

Liberals.

[@marleneschultz4773]

Where are the black people? Looks peaceful. Wonder what the racism rate is. It's Texas known for racism.

[@fortbenningmom]

Used to be so, but modern awareness and shocking tragedies in the news have challenged backward notions. I lived for a couple decades in Texas & I had plenty of friends who happened to be black. Yay, color for blindness!

[@rawbacon]

@@fortbenningmom You both sound like a couple of Gross Skin Color Obsessed Racist.