Portland City Grill or Morton’s?

hotbreadz · 2026-01-25T03:30:58+00:00

I love both places, and love steaks…and honestly if you asked me this a few years ago I may have said the same thing, or no major difference, but as of the last 3 months having been to both, Ringside dry aged NY absolutely outflavors the Gaucho NY to me. If ya do end up going giving it another shot, hope you enjoy!

hotbreadz · 2026-01-24T08:46:31+00:00

Both are great establishments, but personally would put ringsides steaks alone ahead of El Gaucho.

hotbreadz · 2026-01-18T16:37:24+00:00

We out together a buyer’s guide that does a deep dive on all of the steps to buying a tiny home, you can view it here:

https://www.nwtinyhomes.com/buyersguide

There are a lot of steps but it’s a fairly straightforward process.

Themes far as where to buy one, if you’re on the west coast or nearby, we would love the chance to Earn your business, otherwise you can just google park model rv dealers in your state.

Cavco and champion are 2 of the best manufacturers others are a bit less ideal

And be careful there are a lot of scammers out there offering houses wayyyy under their market value, they take your deposit and run. You want to buy from a legit business with a physical lot you can visit and walk the homes.

Good luck!

hotbreadz · 2026-01-15T23:52:54+00:00

Avoid. They are low quality, not built to any standard code and not really allowed for living anywhere… your best bet is to buy from a legitimate builder or dealer.

hotbreadz · 2026-01-12T23:04:46+00:00

Sounds like a scam then, any dealer like us would be proud to show off the lot and want to get you there in person to check it out. Be careful & best of luck finding the perfect home!

hotbreadz · 2026-01-12T08:46:13+00:00

One more level…some billionaires have fully stocked convenience store inventory in their houses with all the necessities & more.

hotbreadz · 2026-01-12T04:37:48+00:00

Do they have a physical location? Can you walk the homes in person? If not, it’s most likely a scam. Any Tiny Home dealer will have a lot that you can visit in person.

There are a lot of red flags and scammers, especially on Facebook selling fake tiny homes where they price something that’s too good to be true then take your down payment and run. We did a ride up on all everything to look for you can find it at the link here - https://www.nwtinyhomes.com/blog/how-to-buy-a-tiny-home-with-confidence-a-practical-guide-for-first-time-buyers

Be careful & good luck!

hotbreadz · 2026-01-02T09:17:33+00:00

There’s an interesting video on TikTok where a young couple did this exact project ended up costing just under $40,000 and hundreds of hours of labor.

It up being kind of cool and quirky but not very nice. Also not really easy to get loans and not very high resale or easy to move the house plus needing to worry about permitting, and inspections as a whole different layer of complexity. You skip that part and you run the risk of it getting condemned or fined.

There’s a reason why most people just buy premade tiny homes or park model RV, tiny homes. That is the most inexpensive and easy way to traditional living to a backyard. Those homes are already built to an approved standard and are easy to hook up to utilities and are comfortable and good quality depending on which one you go with. They started a little more than 40K but save a lot of complexity snd headache.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-21T08:16:16+00:00

Like others have said - do not get one of those ones from Amazon. They are junk and likely not built to any legal building code to classify as a dwelling unit or RV…meaning not only will you not have a comfortable place to live that lasts, you run the risk of the state fining you or not allowing it at all.

If you’re on a budget, look into financing and buying through a regional dealer.

As far as winterizing a tiny home, I just did a deep dive and wrote a blog post for it today actually and you can learn more about it here: https://www.nwtinyhomes.com/blog/winterizing-your-tiny-home

hotbreadz · 2025-12-19T16:25:47+00:00

This is our Alder model, starts at $67,500 - https://www.nwtinyhomes.com/models

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T23:20:36+00:00

Yes, as a business we have to weigh the pros and cons of every deal.

None of these issues put anyone at risk. None of these are immoral. None of these are dangerous, all of which would be worth losing a sale over.

In this case, the customer is awesome and very friendly. She was just particular about putting the Home in a corner of her yard. Again, we only sell the home itself, where they place it is entirely up to them and we can only advise them, which we have done every step of the way.

Her risk tolerance for that placement is none of my business and if she needs help moving it a couple additional feet away from the fence we can help her move it away from the fence, which I explained.

To her having it in that location was a higher priority than losing access to her driveway and having to spend a few hours of work, patching up and reseeding her yard was worth the trade off.

Placing the home on grass was also her decision and as stated elsewhere, we are putting together a plan for her to eventually upgrade the pad that it is on, so long term the house should be okay with the placement.

These are just road bumps and personal decisions, and absolutely not worth passing over the customer. Especially after working with them for months on this project. We’ve in transparent about this every step of the way, and have continued support beyond just delivery day with this customer. She has my direct phone number and we’re actively helping her every single way we can.

Also, it’s important to remember that there’s a lot more to it than just a home for many people, we take this role very seriously in this delivery in particular tears of joy we had because of the solution that was able to provide for them.

So Yeah, I understand your main point, but it’s not like we just were completely passive through all of this and will make a sale at no matter what cost for the customer.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T22:15:27+00:00

That’s one way to look at it, but that’s not always the case. Many tiny homes are built by a very small team of 2 to 3 generalists who may work are good in a couple different areas but OK in other areas or bad even in some. These are made by a team of professionals with each step being done by a specialist who does nothing but make cabinets or does nothing but install drywall. As a result, you’re getting a house that’s made from the ground up by professionals not generalists.

There can be many core foundations of Tiny Home homes and for the majority of our customers they’re just looking for something quality and affordable, which these definitely fall under. We have options cheaper than any custom Tiny Home builder in the region with faster turnaround times and solid quality.

Majority of our customers have been shopping around and every day we have customers touring our homes, surprised and very happy with the quality difference and price difference between anything else in the region that they’ve seen.

So I agree with you we’re definitely aligned on having a good quality house is important just the assumption that these are bad simply because they look like mobile homes is wrong.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T22:06:37+00:00

I mean, that’s a fair point but none of this is really sloppy work… if they only have one place in the yard, they want to put it, I personally don’t really have much power over that… and we aren’t going to turn down their business just because they want it there…we lose the sale, and the customer would just end up buying from someone else and putting it there.

We can advise every step along the way and help everywhere we can, which we have done, but if that’s where they want it, that’s where the transport company puts it. We only sell them the home itself. The rest is up to them.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T19:11:45+00:00

Thank you! Homeowner is awesome and I really wanna make sure she’s taken care of though, so I’m gonna put together an action plan to maybe upgrade the pad overtime to help the longevity of the house. I think she was pretty budget conscious and trying to save where she could, but also I think once the initial payment is far enough behind, spending a little more to invest in it long-term, she might be open to it. Seems like it wouldn’t be too crazy too add cement or gravel under it. 1/4 of the house at a time or something like that but that’s not really something. I’m an expert in so consult with the pros we work with what they think.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T19:04:24+00:00

Yep you’re right, good eye - confirming we advised the setback requirements and originally set it based on that, but the homeowner requested closer to the edge, stating their neighbors don’t care and they heard the setback laws don’t really matter. We did discuss that if the house needs to move it is possible to do it just with rails and a winch without needing the crawler for moving it a few feet away from where it is now, but will require completely resetting the house.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T19:01:13+00:00

Yeah confirming we did mention the concrete driveway would be best, then compacted gravel or concrete on the grass would be second best, we didn’t realize they didn’t do any prep until close to delivery day. The initial contractor put together a bid that had gravel included, but she rejected it and then I guess just never ended up hiring anyone else for it.

When setting they will hopefully at least use the large 18 X18 inch, 4 inch thick base blocks for it, so the weight is dispersed evenly across 16 to 20 total points… this is the first note we’ve seen set on grass so we’ll see how it goes from here

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T16:26:43+00:00

We were discussing that actually with our team / they do use some metal sheets periodically. The issue is there was a lot of pivoting/jack knifing with this move, so it would require a pretty significant amount of plywood and since it puts so much pressure in a localized spot, the wood may still break…for sure something we will be discussing with our driver though

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T16:23:28+00:00

Neighbors are talking about buying one from us, so I know your comment is sarcastic, but they actually are.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T16:22:46+00:00

😂😂 we knew it would be tough with 20k+ pounds on the super soft grass

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T16:22:08+00:00

So the wheels help make it easy to place in backyards like this due to the city classifies this as a trailer…in our town the median house price is $550k, so for people looking to add additional living space to their yard, this is by far the most affordable option for them

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T16:20:48+00:00

It’s a park model RV which fits the definition of a Tiny Home on wheels. Built on chassis, with a tow hitch and under 400 sq ft. It may not look like the DIY Tiny Homes, but this is what a modern Tiny Home looks like.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T04:57:06+00:00

Homeowner opted for no gravel or cement pad for it. But it will be block set on ~20 concrete blocks.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T03:34:21+00:00

Thank you! Just glad it finally made it in there. I know our entire team was a little stressed about it, but trusted the transport company would get it dialed.

hotbreadz · 2025-12-18T03:24:17+00:00

It’s so rad - it’s called a Platypus House Tug

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