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15 Feb ’12
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man that would suck, I think it has been found, but how would you secure it so that it didn't happen in the first place?
A San Antonio man said his "tiny house," a project he had been working on for more than two years, was stolen.
Casey Friday reported his Spring Branch tiny house, about 228 square feet, was stolen in a profanity-laden blog post, saying his “heart dropped” when his realtor called him Dec. 20 to tell him a neighbor noticed his “trailer” was gone.
“My entire body was shaking as our former real estate agent gave [sic] me the neighbor’s phone number,” Friday said in the blog.
Friday, who lives in San Antonio and owns property in Spring Branch, referred to whoever stole his tiny house as a word that cannot be published by the San Antonio Express-News and said the trauma of someone stealing his home has discouraged him from pursuing future tiny house constructions.
Friday said in his blog he and his wife put about $35,000 worth of parts into the house, and estimated the resale value of the home at up to $60,000.
They paid more than $18,000 for the piece of property and spend thousands getting the land cleared and tree-trimmed, and Friday expects to lose money on the land.
One of the worst parts of the theft for Friday is that he and his wife never had the chance to live in the home, he said.
Friday left an editor’s note on his most recent blog post saying there were indeed more precautions put in place to deter the theft.
He recommended people interested in building a tiny house to not take on the venture alone like he and his wife did, especially since the construction process is time-consuming and complex.
18 Feb ’12
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I think I would at the very least boot my trailer. It seemed to work well on my car a few years ago.
15 Feb ’12
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that's a great idea
15 Feb ’12
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holy crap another one
What is this, a crime wave?
And what would you even call it? House-jacking? House-napping?
Moose Hempel's vacation cabin near Loon Lake about 30 miles from Spokane, Washington, was stolen off its foundation, as his family discovered a few days ago on one of their biweekly visits.
"It was really kind of heartbreaking," Hempel told Spokane's KREM 2 News. "It amazes me what people will go to to get things.
"They even took the steps and the paving blocks around the — I had a little deck out here. It's gone too."
The theft was similar to one in Texas that we wrote about a couple of months back.
And the Hempel case wound up about the same, too, because as the genius lawbreakers discovered (and please, would-be criminals, consider this a public service announcement to you): Although it may not be very hard to steal a cabin, it's pretty dang difficult to hide one.
"I was sitting here at my desk, and seeing the shed go by, thinking that somebody got their shed repo'ed," Linda Ritts of nearby Springdale told KREM. It was being trundled through town on a trailer in broad daylight.
"I didn't think anything about it, and neither did the neighbors across the street," she said, until they saw a TV report on KREM 2 News Wednesday night.
On Thursday, Stevens County sheriff's deputies got a tip that led them to the cabin on private property about 10 miles from its foundation. It wasn't too much the worse for wear, though some items inside were missing.
It had been placed on stilts, authorities said, and was apparently being lived in.
The criminals "might think twice about going through Springdale again," Ritts said.
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