State Specific Question About: OKLAHOMA (OK) This may have been asked before, but are tiny homes a viable way to rent to 1 or 2 people if they meet the minimum space requirements?

It takes a special mindset to live in a place where you can't stretch your arms out without hitting walls, having to not only make up your bed each day, but hide it, and getting rid of 3/4 of the things you own so your possessions will fit.

Personally, I can't think the rent would be cheap enough to justify. Maybe a no-frills standard sized house would be better.

So, for example, in my town, I can have a small stick-built house in R-1 zoning, no problem. It can be the main house, it can be an ADU, no problem.

However, with the tiny houses they sell on the side of the highway-- the prebuilt sheds or mobile homes on wheels-- it's considered manufactured housing, and is limited to R-2 or R-3 zoning.

So checking your zoning and local schedule of uses is important, especially if you're planning on putting multiple tiny homes on a single lot. It will tell you about distances from the front boundary, the back boundary, the side boundary if it's a street vs the side boundary if it's another parcel of land, the parking regulations, distance of one structure vs another structure, and so on.

If you're on unincorporated land outside of city limits-- you have a lot more flexibility!

Another example--

My friends and my husband have gone camping at a particular place every year for a week or two in March for the last 20+ years. The location where they camp at is next door to what used to be a commercial forest. Some of the commercial forest was developed into houses, but most of the lots adjacent to where they camp are still raw forest.

Rather than tent-camping, they were thinking about buying up a lot, clearing it, and starting to build permanent structures-- little cabins/tiny homes, a bathhouse, etc. They're also 20+ years older than when they first started, and they'd like a few more comforts! :)

However, the former-commercial-forest, even though it still looks a lot like a forest, is technically owned by an HOA. And the HOA has strict rules. You need to get permission from the HOA authority to even partially clear your land. No tent camping, period. No rustic cabins, period. Permanent stick-built houses only. Must be minimum of 1800 sf. Etc, etc, etc.

So while my friends were cool with the idea of paying annual property taxes, and donating $5-$10k each for a bunch of tiny homes they could make use of, they're considerably less thrilled with having to come up with $300k or whatever just to have use of it for a week or two out of the year.