Landowner builds tiny 10ft wide home on his lot ‘out of spite’ after millionaire neighbors complained they were using abandoned plot as an extra garden – as it hits the market for eyewatering price

In defiance of a nearby neighbor, a Florida builder has built a tiny, 10-foot-wide, two-story house that’s now on the market for $619,000.

a 1,547 square meters The house was built on an empty residual plot that was previously used as a garden by a neighbor Jacksonville Beach.

The ‘skinny’ 42 meter deep building has two bedrooms, three bathrooms and space for a garage for one car.

It also has a built-in dining table made from reclaimed wood from a local pier that was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

Apart from this, the house also has three-meter high ceilings on the ground floor and vaulted ceilings that reach up to three meters.

The ‘skinny’ 42 meter deep building has two bedrooms, three bathrooms and space for a garage for one car. It also has a built-in dining table made from reclaimed wood from a local pier that was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

This unique home went viral after real estate agent Ryan Wetherhold of Oceanside Real Estate revealed how it came together.

He explained that he and builder John Atkins initially wanted to make the house 15 feet wide, but building regulations required the house to have 8 feet of space on either side.

When the duo tried to change the rule, residents of the upscale neighborhood pushed back, saying they wanted the lot to remain open.

One of those locals had even planted a garden on the property and persuaded others to attend a public meeting.

“You get that mob mentality where it comes with it. The board members cannot then make a decision about this themselves.

‘If there are a hundred people who say no, and there is no one who says, “Yes, let’s do it,” then those people will bear that. Those voices carry power,” Wetherhold said Click on Orlando.

As a result, he and Atkins only had a 10-foot option.

He explained that he and builder John Atkins initially wanted to make the house 15 feet wide, but building regulations required the house to have 8 feet of space on either side.

“He got creative within the code and was able to make bay windows and fold-out chairs that really helped and that was the difference.

“He was able to use his knowledge within the building code to, quite frankly, make it a very user-friendly, beautiful, practical home for a buyer,” he explained.

Despite the size of the building, the property has received a lot of interest from people and even has a potential buyer.

‘Normally you get 50 views in the first few days, and this one had 1,000 to 2,000 in the first few days.

‘So when we put it on the market, we immediately knew it was something special, something unique and something that was definitely an eye-opener.

‘I put a lot of effort into marketing, and you hope to reach people in the normal way, just through your marketing.

“But (the buyer) did see it because of all the publicity it got,” Wetherhold exclaimed.

Wetherhold says the house is perfect for “someone who wants to live in a neighborhood with million-dollar homes, but doesn’t want the maintenance factor and still wants to live in a nice area and pay about half the price.”

But while the property may seem like an introvert’s dream, the estate agent has warned it could be difficult to store larger vehicles in the garage.

‘You can fit a truck in there, but to get the doors open and all that, it’s quite a tight squeeze.

“However, in our community we do a lot of one or two garage sales, and we find that no one in our community even parks in the garage. “What they put in their garage is golf carts, bicycles, beach gear and gardening tools,” he explained.

Still, he says the house is perfect for “someone who wants to live in a neighborhood with million-dollar homes but doesn’t want the maintenance factor and still wants to be in a nice area and pay about half the price.” .’