For educational purposes I did some MLS searches for any houses in my local area under $200,000. One of the two that turned up looked suspiciously like a houseboat. Slip #30 with a “bay view”, “deck”, and “cabin.” I did a little digging and found the page on the Docktown Residents website which lists the houseboats currently for sale in Redwood City. A little more digging turned up a nice little virtual tour of the houseboats up north in Sausalito (these aren’t for sale, but I wasn’t looking to buy one anyway). Some of them have around 2000 square feet of living area, which make them less “cozy” than our house. One of them has been converted into a floating software development office.