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Tiny Houses Featured in Costco Connection Magazine - March 2017
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CONTENTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3
INSIDE COSTCO
83 Costco Services: Home buying
and mortgage insurance
How to navigate a sellers market,
and how to protect your most
important investment.
87 Pharmacy Update
Statin advice, and tips for year She Sheds
45 . .
.round allergy protection.
92 Whats N e w
A sampling of whats in the
warehouses now.
97 Special Events
Exciting products offered for
a short time.
97 Focus on: Ink cartridge refills
Refilling your printer's ink cartridges
at Costco reduces waste and
saves lots of money. TMOTHY AYES
By Tim Talevich
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A F T E R T W O MARRIAGES and t w o She also shares her experience on her
divorces,MJ Boyle knew that life doesnt blog (gotinyorgohometom).
always goaccordingto plan. The empty Boyle started by acquiring 18 win
dows andawreckedtrailer, and she made
n e s t e r wanted t o p r e p a r e f o r her
retirement,but had no savings or retire the floor plans working with guidelines
m e n t money. outlined by the U . S . Department of
So she opted to downsize from a Transportation. She designed the living
BOATERS 1,600squarefoot rental home to a r o o m and floating storage stairs
204squarefoot t i n y home on around a 19405 credenza, and
Cheryl & Ron wheels, where she has lived, the kitchenwas built around
Roberts parked on an old Christmas a drainboard sink w i t h
tree farm outside Portland, matching 19403 refriger
Oregon, for m o r e than a a t o r and stove. F o r bed
Left to right: R o n Roberts, longtime friend year. She designed the rooms she designed two
Hilde Hill a n d Cheryl Roberts. lofts made of refurbished
house, w h i c h weighs
13,800 pounds and cost barn wood.
BOATERS FOR LIFE TINY HOME Boyle hired profes
less than $35,000 to build
IN M O R E T H A N 43 years of marriage, over the course of 15months, MJ Boyle sionals for the framing and
Cheryl and Ron Roberts havelived onshore and namedit My Empty Nest. the electrical wiring and to
for just five months, in 1987while they I built it to ensure I have a install the propane gas line, but
were having another boat built. They have home that isfully paid for and that she completed the rest of the work
been on their latest boat home for close to I canretire in, Boyle says. herselfwith the help of friends. She says
30 years. With no money to finance the project, the entire house runs off a garden hose
My husband was raised around boats she obtained 22 national and corporate and anextension cord. Expenses, includ
all of his life, says Cheryl. In high school sponsors, which financed 60 percent of ingrent, electricity, water and WiFi, are
he lived on his fathers boat, and hebought the build in exchange for social media less than $100 amonth.
his o w n boat when hewas 19,which helived exposure in the tiny house movement. A tiny house on Wheels appealsto me
on. Muchto her delight, Cheryl found that because it gives me a sense of home, but
she loved living aboard a boat aswell. OUR DIGITAL EDITIONS also gives methat real sense offlexibility
Whenwedecidedto start a family, we Click here for a video tour of aswell, says BoyleChristina Guerrero
,4 MJBoyles tiny home. (See
brought our son home to the boat from the page 9 for details.) - fi .
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