Do Tiny Houses make good rentals?

[Jason Rowlett]

Can anyone provide insight on the Tiny House trend going on? I am considering purchasing land, have tiny homes built on it and rent them out. I would be investing in Austin, TX, where this seems to be a growing trend with the current tight inventory of conventional housing and lots of surrounding land. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Cindy Donley]

Tricky, to get people to move in, it would need to be accessible to transportation, town...but the city has not accepted them so much legally as a living space.  There are groups on meet up that are working on changing the regulations around this, city codes.  I also know of people who use them for airbnb.  There are loopholes.  I'm looking at a community for people to move into and support each other, move of a progressive retirement type community, but we will not be in the city limits.

I have thought about pulling one up beside my house and renting it;)