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temporary solution. Not that I envy you the joy that will be taking your yurt apart again! (heavy sarcasm there, in case you didn’t pick it up)
    LUXURY BATH HOUSE: Always wanted a sauna or decadent bathroom? Put a smaller yurt in your backyard, attach it to the house with a beautiful walkway (covered or not) and make it your getaway from reality.
    MASAGE/YOGA SPACE: Provide more privacy and an additional marketing hook with a spa or yoga studio in a yurt. Go small or go big, either way, a yurt is the perfect space for either of those businesses.
    OFFICE SPACE: I love working in our yurt, and you would be amazed how many clients are practically obsessed with hearing about our yurt (and our chickens, but that’s another e-book!). Again, connect with your home using a walkway or similar, and you have the perfect commute!
    RESTAURANT: In Colorado, there are some backwoods ski resorts taking advantage of the yurt appeal, and are selling out every night. Imagine: an open kitchen, and depending on your yurt size, plenty of space for 2 and 4 tops OR, as is so very popular right now, communal eating tables. How fun!
    RETAIL SPACE: Perfect for outdoor rec retail businesses, but could also sell a variety of other products.
    ANIMAL RELATED BUSINESSES: Vets, doggy day cares, grooming…they could all benefit from the quick to raise yurt. Buy some property, put up a yurt and enjoy standing out from the crowd in your marketing materials.
    FESTIVAL BOOTHS: One of the big events in our area, Floyd Fest, uses rustic yurts for some of the booth housing…see above for massage/yoga/retail.
    CAMPING: This isn’t a new idea, but one that is gaining in popularity. Instead of rustic cabins, put up a rustic yurt. People are looking for more opportunities to stay in a yurt, they hear about them and want to experience it for themselves!
    LUXURY B&B: Same deal as the camping, not a new idea, but very popular. And so easy to fit into a smaller space (aka glamping).
    HUNTING LODGES: See above on camping/luxury B&B
    The list goes on and on…. if you need a structure with a roof, then a yurt very well might be your answer. It’s attractive to people (since we’ve moved in, we’ve had at least one visitor a day stop by just to see), it’s less expensive than stick built, quicker to build and has less impact on the land.

FINAL THOUGHTS
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We LOVE our yurt, as does pretty much everyone who has been inside!
    If your budget looks tight, plan to cut things or pad your budget with emergency funds. Our emergency fund was drained far before the project was finished. Always plan for more than you think you’ll need. Much, much easier said than done.
    Also plan to spend more time at the site, returning items to stores, calling customer service, being at the site for deliveries, etc. It’s a wonder that we got any work done during this process!
    Try not to schedule any vacations or new arrivals (pets, babies, etc) during the building process. Um. We did both. The vacation was at the beginning of the project, and we had booked the flight a year in advance….for 10 days. I suppose luckily for us, the project was way behind schedule due to the building permit and new electric lines being run. But that didn’t make it less stressful. And at the tail end, we had put deposits down months earlier (thinking, of COURSE we’ll be in the yurt by then) on dairy goats and a livestock guardian puppy. We pushed the pickup date as much as we could, but in the end, those animals had to be moved twice. Once when we picked them up and took them back to our rental. And then when we moved them all to the new place. Added A LOT of stress, both for us and them. Oh, and did I mention we got a puppy right after we returned from our vacation? No, we’re not animal hoarders…we had just waited for so many years to have farm animals and dogs, that it just seemed to make sense at the time. I don’t regret them, but the timing did add some stress. OK, a lot of