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Holy Cripes! According to this article at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, some people are actually trying to market downtown condos in Seattle that are around 300 square feet in size -- for $150K on up!

296 square feet -- but it's home
Tiny condos in Belltown to start at $149,950

Park two of GMC's biggest Sierra pickups next to each other. That's a lot of truck, but a small condominium -- at least by Seattle standards.

But a local developer is betting Seattle urbanites are primed to carve out their own two-truck chunks of Belltown. The moda condos, set to break ground in October, promise "New York-style living," with units as small as 296 square feet that start at $149,950.

"I think there's unmet demand for affordable new construction in downtown," said developer G. David Hoy, president of HMI Real Estate Inc. "I also believe downtown needs more diversity."

Debra Smith, who now lives in a studio apartment in Queen Anne, has already reserved a moda studio. She extolled the location, the price and even the size.

"I like having everything in just one room," she said. "I just think it's a waste of money to have all this space that you don't really need."

Moda is not Seattle's first small-condo project. The Montreux building, built in 1999 at 425 Vine St., has condos barely above 300 square feet.

Click for full-size Image Spending time on a boat is a lot of fun -- I used to have sailboats when I lived in Seattle and it was always a lot of fun to go and spend a few nights on them tied up to the dock just to get away and take a mini-vacation. But I always had a house to go back to. Granted, I like to work with my hands and have always had a shop of some sort as well as the music and electronics equipment but sheesh -- I can't even put my IDEAS into 300 Sq. Ft. let alone my living space. The word(s) you are searching for: Jail Cell