So you are finally ready to buy a new home. Maybe this is your very first home to boot. The hitch is that you want something different. You want something that will make your homeowners insurance agent shake his head in wonder and disbelief. Lucky for you, we have a few suggestions.

The Tiny House

A tiny house is most often associated with a house on a towable trailer. Now, we’re not talking about a mobile home. We’re talking about a tiny mobile home. These houses range from sixty square feet to just under two hundred square feet. Some of the small palaces of love will fit on a single axel trailer. If you find a place more permanent that you want to live, these itty-bitty castles can even be attached to a permanent foundation. Just offer your homeowners insurance agent a beer when you’re trying to get it all insured.

The shipping container

The shipping container has become a more commonplace type of home. You may have even seen a few of these homes on the Internet. While these are often not cheap homes, they do offer up quite a bit of customizability. You can start out with one container, and then expand sideways or towards the sky. You could even tell your friends that your container came from some cool place like The Sopranos TV

A cave

Queue the Batman Music! Yes, there really are people who build their homes in a cave. You don’t even have to worry about that crappy shower-tiling job with this type of house. A house in a cave might be easier to justify on your homeowners insurance as well. Sure, you might have some issues with creepy crawlers or the occasional water leak, but this is all but a small price to claim you live in The Bat Cave!

Houseboats

Houseboats are common along bigger bodies of water. They are super handy in allowing you to get away from those noisy neighbors. Did you know that some people even bring those boats ashore and live in them? Oh they do. This might be a bit blasphemous to true boaters, but what better way to give a houseboat a proper burial? This does not only apply to houseboats though. Shipping boats are also suspect to this treatment. Nothing says unique like a boat used as a home in suburbia.

UFO Houses

Now let us not get overly excited here. These are not houses made of the leftover ships from ET’s last visit. These houses just kind of look like it. There are several of these UFO houses scattered across the states. Most look like the 1950’s UFO’s. When you go to get your homeowner’s insurance, just tell them you really, really like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. They might call you a dork, but you’re not living in a cookie cutter home!

Sure, some of these homes have been shown on television and run rampant on the Internet. That does not make them any less unique. The Tiny House or shipping container might cause your homeowner’s insurance agent to go into cardiac arrest, but in a world of ticky-tacky homes, why not stray and add a bit of chaos to your subdivision.

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