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Tesla home building in Los Angeles California · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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  SPEAKER_00: You want to put one of those fifteen or thirty thousand dollar Tesla homes or some other manufactured home on a piece of land because you're trying to save money and trying to make sensible decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a possibility, but here are some hurdles you want to consider, and maybe they might impact your future choices with the political environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now it does take a lot of work to be able to take a piece of land, just a raw piece of land, and let's say the land isn't connected to power or anything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: No gas, no power, no septic, no sewer, nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's nothing, just a raw piece of land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's say for simple purposes the land is abutting some kind of a roadway, some kind of a public road.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now you have access.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have a problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you buy a piece of land that's within other pieces of land with no road access, then that piece of land is, of course, landlocked.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you would need permission from whichever owners you needed to get to make it from a main roadway through their properties to your property.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's also another option.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can get easements placed, you just have to get everybody's approval, and again, that's a long process.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the things I was looking at when it this was brought to my attention, and I was trying to do some uh informational study on it, looking at the regulatory approvals and permits are also something to consider.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for this particular piece of land, depending on where it's located, and more remote pieces of land, depending on where they're located, could create even larger problems because maybe there are no current studies as far as what that land might dictate.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do believe each individual piece of land that you purchase to be able to build one of these residences on or have a manufactured home put on it, I guess I should say, they are going to require particular applications, approvals, and permits.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first one to look at would be site inspection and feasibility studies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's going to be something that's going to cost money and it's going to check the zoning regulations, easement, soil conditions, utility access, and this is going to make sure that land isn't going to basically cause the home to disappear and just basically sink into the earth with liquefaction or something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that does have to be checked.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, that process takes time and it takes expenditure of money.
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  SPEAKER_00: The permits for manufactured homes, you're going to have to get something from the California of California Department of Housing and Community Development, HCD.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's going to be including building utility connections and sometimes environmental impact permits.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is going to require, at least for now, a licensed contractor to handle the home installation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zoning and building codes, that's something else that you're going to have to look at.
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  SPEAKER_00: Need to verify the land is zoned for residential use.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not that difficult realistically.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just something that whenever we find a piece of land that might be for sale or something that you might be interested in purchasing, we have to look at the overall picture and find out if it is for sale.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if it is, where did they include that particular zoning and will it work for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, to take a residence, put it on a piece of land, the land doesn't have to be big, it just depends on what you're looking to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five to six thousand square feet for a piece of uh property probably would be sufficient for a small modular home.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other thing that comes to mind is right now in Aqua Dulce and different areas here in Santa Clarita, there are houses that don't have sewer connection, so they use a septic tank.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that problem solved for anything that you're looking for to get rid of the whatever you're using up, consuming water, toilets, uh, washer and dryer, those sorts of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a septic system that you can have put in, so that would solve that issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the septic tank itself would have to be, of course, emptied when it gets filled.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, I've sold properties that haven't had a septic system service for 20 years, and they're still a viable good system.
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  SPEAKER_00: They just need to be emptied and updated a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as far as power goes, another option, maybe LP gas might take you a little further than natural gas.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've seen those large Tylenol pill, white Tylenol pill-looking tanks, if you're from the Midwest, I don't know if you see a lot of those out here in California.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: I really haven't seen many.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you take that tank and you fill it up and then you have an energy, you can actually power your house with that via one of those generators, a Nesraq or one of those other types.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that could be a potential way to power it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, solar with a battery wall might also prove to be super helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you could have maybe the LP or the gas as a backup system, or maybe just powering certain things.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have a non-electric water heater, maybe one of those tankless types, you could also get that electric as well, depending on how you want to defeat it and what makes most sense with what the cost of energy is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it does sound like depending on who the political realm will be in the future, whether energy is going to go down or potentially go up.
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  SPEAKER_00: If energy goes down, then this is really probably going to be a fantastic thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also if we have deregulation as far as what it takes to build a house on a piece of property, that could also help out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Looking at the the power issue, like I said, those appliances that you get, you'll need to be concerned about which type of power system would they use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they have a dual system with regard to the water and sewage.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are advanced sewage systems that allow the gray water, like you don't want your toilet water being recycled and used for anything potentially.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: But maybe you could have washer water that's used, or maybe the sink water, shower water that's somehow revitalized and used to maybe water the lawn and water crops.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's just going to depend on how that works out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't even know if that's a possibility, but I do know there are gray water systems that exist that basically utilize all of the water for its best purposes, so you waste none.
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  SPEAKER_00: The water itself, not as not a difficult thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have places now that don't have any city water access, nor do they have well water access.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they tank in their water, they have these 15,000 gallon three-tier tanks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: The big semi-truck, massive full of water, goes out, fills the tank.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you could, of course, have a filtration system from the tank into the residence, so you would be drinking pure water and showering with it and so on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are a few of the considerations and the construction process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Typically, they're going to bring this manufactured home in on a truck, maybe more than one truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these homes, the way that they're outfitted, I have not seen one in person, the Tesla houses or these other ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: They aren't huge, they aren't massive, but they seem to contain everything a person needs without much waste.
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  SPEAKER_00: That might benefit a person because it seems like the cost of that would be very inexpensive.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: You have the residence, you have all this approval process, that's probably where you're most, the regulatory, that's probably where the most cost is going to come in, at least up front, because you have to get the permits and all of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once you get all that done and you get the house placed on the foundation, a foundation, more than likely, after they do the soil impact study, you get all the approval and they haven't found some kind of endangered species that potentially your residence could impact and cause destruction of the planet, they might be able to then move into approving that particular build and then you have the house placed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if there happens to be something changing in the political realm where they relax some of these regulations, this could be an incredibly viable option for a lot of people when it comes to buying a place to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing to consider whenever you're buying whatever land it would require for you to put this home on, to make sure you do some study ahead of time so you don't buy something that they're going to deem unable to build on, a sand trap, something that has major liquefaction issues, something where the soil test came back, or something that might have protected species that it's going to create an issue with.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: I believe though that the political environment, if it does change, we might have a relaxation of those and people might be able to make this happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something to think about is, you know, a lot of times we're living places that are very big.
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  SPEAKER_00: We might not utilize everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine having enough extra resources because solar is the energy source for most of the power?
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  SPEAKER_00: You have batteries there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So basically, once you purchase the system, that energy is yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the other power supply, because nothing's being wired in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So realistically, this house is what they call off-grid.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: The gas would then be potentially backup or maybe even an additional fuel source for the residence to power those appliances, air conditioning, heating, whatever it may be, but you have those options there.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I believe it is quite seamless, but getting it all set up and put in place, that's going to be another story.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: I was talking about foundation earlier.
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  SPEAKER_00: The numbers on that, depending on the size of the foundation, could be anywhere from five to fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then that residence, fifteen to thirty thousand dollars.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: So realistically, you could get the land for another thirty, so less than a hundred thousand dollars potentially could be your residence, and it could have everything you need, and it would be a very economically based model where you wouldn't have to spend much money per month on expenditures of fuel or any of the thing to power the residence or any of those other factors.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: These are things that are going to potentially happen in the future.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: Then you take that money that you would have been putting, you know, paying five or six thousand dollars a month, you put that four thousand dollars a month that you have now left over because you purchased a more sensible residence, and then you use that to save your money, educate yourself, travel, uh, philanthropy, all of those things, it just makes the world click forward at a much better pace.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: But again, we'll have to see how this develops.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: But these are some of the things I've been looking at because it seems like the political environment is such that they want to make home ownership a lot more affordable.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think this is a better option than handing people money in that regard, maybe reducing what it takes to be able to take a$15,000 or a$30,000 home and place it on a piece of land and live there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Connor with Honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to still explore this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be out in future episodes.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: You can see Santa Clarita Openhouses.com for more information on my blog.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk to you soon.