WOF and Rego

So you have bought your tiny home with a valid WOF and registration, parked it on your property - immediately put the registration on hold by going to the NZTA website and follow the instructions. While the home is not moving on public roads, the registration can be on hold.

When next you want to move the home, your first trip is straight to the WOF centre to renew the WOF and once done, you can renew the registration, ready for your road-legal home to be towed to it's next destination.

This does imply that you would need a road-legal tiny home, as a "site trailer" or "on wheels" as many tiny homes are advertised will never pass a WOF and therefore can not legally be towed on NZ public roads. Don't be fooled - many tiny home companies buy trailers with a registration and WOF already issued and then build a tiny home on them - these homes often do not comply with the NZTA criteria for road-legal and thus this trailer will never pass a WOF again unless you remove the home from the trailer. These tiny homes will need to be transported on a truck and as such will also require a building consent as they are not exempt from the building consent condition - for that, your home HAS TO BE ROAD-LEGAL.

If you buy a tiny home on a trailer and the home can not be towed by a vehicle with a maximum towing capacity of 3.5 tons (the maximum weight of a road-legal tiny home), you are buying a problem which will come back to bite!