Hill Country Tiny Houses built the trailer and shell and Zach Griffin helped them finish it out on Tiny House Nation.
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Category: Tiny Houses
The company my husband and I started to work together. Our motto is: I dream it, He builds it. We make a great team.
17 pocket cottage neighborhood
They are starting to prepare the land right around the corner from where we live. It will be an adorable community of 17 cottages under 1,000 sq ft on just under 2 acres. Prices are $238,500-$262,500. More info here:
Review of Tiny Vintage
~Nikki & Skyler Moss
“Thank you so much for letting us visit your tiny home! We love the decorations and how you have utilized the space. This was such a fun experience! We will definitely be planning our future tiny home now, thanks again!”
From Todd and Shari: “It’s been a rough year dealing with contractors, land owners and business owners taking advantage of us. We’ve looked at each other many times and said, ‘Is this stress even worth it?’ We don’t mind the stress of the work: of running the business, or building the tiny houses. We love helping our clients get into their dream tiny home. But the bullies of business who manipulate and use you after you put your trust in them and their word make us not want to play in this game. Honestly, it made us want to run away! We don’t have to do this, we can go live a peaceful life on an island in a tiny house and live happily ever after with just our little family.
But then we sit with families like the Moss family and we know that we just can’t give up on them and on their dreams! To be a small part of strengthening the family unit, knowing it will decrease stress in their lives, improve their marriage, and allow them to stay home with their children pushes us onward and forward.
I am so proud of the Moss family. Skyler leads a marketing team for a large global company and works remotely. Nikki has taught school for 13 years. Their decision to downsize and sell their 3,000 sq ft dream home they had custom built for their family just 3 years ago in Katy, Texas, did not come easily.
jamboree, toured 40 plus homes, “Ah, now I can see our family living happily in this one”
When Owen, 3 years old, was told they were going home, he said, “No, I wanna stay here” zoo,
Quality Family Time and Freedom to travel and show their boys different states and scenery.
They love each other and want to give their children the gift of life experiences and memories, not more ‘stuff’!”
Turnkey AirBnb for sale!
Move to your land for a Turn key airbnb, full time dwelling, or instant rental income in your back yard. Or assume lot rent for $510 a month. Great solution for an aging parent or boomerang child!
Please refer to this link for all the details:
The Vintage Retreat Tiny House combines whimsical with minimalism to create a romantic design. The farmhouse inspiration was handcrafted by Hill Country Tiny Houses and voted “Best in show” at the National Tiny House Jamboree 2017. It was also in the top 10 most popular tiny houses on Instagram in 2017.
Features:
Custom built 40 foot bumper pull trailer with 4 axles, board and baton siding, and a metal roof
384 sq ft main floor and a 70 sq ft loft
13’6 tall, 102” wide, 20,000 pounds, requires one ton truck to pull
Two mechanical slide outs 9ft slide out holds the sofa and the 7ft slide out in the bedroom holds the murphy bed
8×8 kitchen
8×8 bathroon
10×9 private master bedroom with steel murphy bed
11×8 living room
2×8 master closet
Private first floor master bedroom with a murphy bed that can fit up to a king size bed – this room can easily be converted to an exercise room or office space when the murphy bed is up
Loft bedroom can fit up to a king size bed
2 vintage stained glass windows
2 antique barn doors
Barn wood and ship lap on walls
Barnwood ceiling
White farmhouse sink
Set of french doors and a slider off the master bedroom
2 fold down 6’x6′ decks
48? antique vanity with marble top
Full size jetted tub/shower combo
Hand made movable island with cherry butcher block counter top.
White farm sink
Kitchen Aid dishwasher, Kenmore Elite washer/dryer, 30” Frigidaire refrigerator, electric cooktop and countertop toaster oven.
Mini split AC/Heat model, tankless propane water heater, Sewer hookup, water hook up, propane hookup, black water tank
Standard flush toilet
Black water tank
Closed cell spray foam insulation ($4,000 value)
Space for up to 55” screen TV in living room and 32” TV in bedroom
Loveseat recliner, 1 queen mattress, recliner, barstools, folding table and 2 chairs, 42″ TV, window blinds and curtains, open shelves in the kitchen including IKEA rods/hooks/plant holders
There’s also bathroom shelves, an IKEA closet with lights that turn on when you slide it open, a beautiful chandelier, USB plugs beside the bed, deep storage next to the bed, and a storage space at the back of the tiny house (like a mini garage).
WANTED: Investors and/or Landowners
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If you’d like to benefit from Tiny Town as a resident, please submit a Letter of Intent.
If you’d like to benefit from the perspective of investor or landowner, we encourage you to text Shari at 830-285-5909 for details to see if
A. your land meets the qualifications or
B. if it’s a good fit for both parties.
If so, we can partner with you to complete a project or you can hire us to create a turn-key profit making development to your land whether for vacation rentals or full-time dwelling. Throughout history, those who took risks and helped solve very large problems for society reaped huge rewards!
Will you sit on the edge in your own comfort or will you dive in to help solve the housing shortage afflicting our nation, especially millennials and middle aged single women? We have a waiting list of qualified individuals ready to move in!
Our Tiny Town Model not only solves that challenge, but also the need for community and healthy relationships, a place to belong, sustainability, and total wellness for body, soul and spirit. The more people you serve and the better you serve them determines your level of success. Now is a great time to join our mission!
I’m not gonna lie, we’ve been very discouraged at the many challenges we’ve faced not only as entrepreneurs of a start up company, but as you know, the tiny house industry is a disruptive industry by it’s very nature and trying to build a community presents a whole new set difficulties…
The brave pioneers forging the way do not come out without scars from battle wounds. We get to talk with many leaders in the industry across the nation; each one bearing scars. Like a brave soldier, they keep going. Challenges come from the banking industry and the jurisdiction and zoning of land. Just this week, I sat down with the president of a large Texas bank (a friend of ours). He was very hopeful as they are a creative lender. Still, there are some hurdles to overcome. Our Tiny Town Model solves the problems for our clients and the banks. Yet, finding the right land is the last problem we have to solve.
The acreage in Kerrville we had already broken ground and were so excited about, could not be re-zoned to residential.
Our encouragement today came from a private meeting with the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Kerrville. They sought us out and asked for this meeting to discuss affordable housing. They gave us a free $600 membership as well. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Together, we will explore working with the city to solve their housing shortage. The pain was already great, but now with 500 new jobs coming to a town of 23,000, they know it has to take top priority.
We have such big dreams to create a sustainable community where tiny enthusiasts (including our own family) can live the life of their dreams and achieve total wellness and vibrant healthy relationships.
We promise we will keep you posted.
P.S.
We appreciate each one of you from the bottom of our hearts! You are the reason we don’t and won’t give up!! The next generation is the reason we must not quit! The legacy we can all leave is the reason we will prevail TOGETHER!! Fill out the LOI form below if you want to join our mission!!
Spring Cleaning Tips
It’s officially spring and the Bluebonnets are in full bloom here in the beautiful Texas Hill Country! Spring is by far my favorite Texas season; the gorgeous flowers are out, the smell of spring and new growth is in the air, and the temperature is divine. It also means it’s time for spring cleaning and de-cluttering.
Living tiny means prioritizing and only keeping items that are truly essential. Here’s a quick 4 step process you can put into place in your current life to de-clutter and free up space:
- Pick whatever space will serve as your starting point (closet, junk drawer, pantry, etc.) and completely empty it. Put the items on your counter, bedroom floor, or bed.
- Sort through the items and determine whether you use them daily or not – place the items you use at least once a week in a pile and the rest in a separate pile.
- Go through the less used pile and determine whether each item is crucial to your daily life – place items you feel are truly necessary in a 6-month box and donate/trash the rest.
- Put everything back where it belongs and appreciate the feeling of accomplishment.
The idea behind the 6-month box is this: if you don’t search for any of the items in the box or even notice they’re no longer accessible then they should also be removed. They obviously aren’t important enough in your daily life that you’ve noticed their absence and are only taking up space.
This whole process is a small snapshot of some of the things we did when preparing to go tiny. We also had to weigh factors such as where precisely we’d put each item, how could we downsize and maybe find items that were space-saving. For example, we sold our furniture and instead purchased some smaller items as well as furniture that could be easily stored. Our table is a folding table – we simply pull it out when we’re ready to eat.
CNN on tiny house village for the homeless
Our family got to volunteer here in 2017, it was absolutely life changing!
Read the CNN Article here.
New documentary about tiny house village for homeless people had its world premiere in March at @SouthbySouthwest in Austin @austinfilmsociety. It’s a beautiful community of love they have created! We got to meet the Filmmaker, Layton Blaylock, huge shout out to him for devoting two years of his life to this project! Read more here.
It was the first documentary I’ve ever seen that changed me forever!!
The documentary Community First! will be open to the public soon! Layton wants to work with us on our TV series project! We are so blessed!
Phoenix has a tiny house village for homeless too
What does Austin 360 say about the homeless village?
Building environmentally healthy communities
Todd and I just spent the most enjoyable afternoon with Perry Bigelow of www.bigelowhomes.com. He came to tour the tiny house we live in and shared a wealth of wisdom from his 40 year career as a developer of more than 2,000 homes in Aurora, ILL, San Marcos, TX and Kyle, TX.
Perry has received all kinds of national awards for sustainability, responsibility and eco friendly communities. He designs communities to foster relationships and raise healthy kids in a safe environment where the young engage with the old and children have safe park areas to play in with other children in the front courtyard space shared by the community instead of a high fenced back yard all alone. The children here actually prefer to play outside than to be indoors with their iphones and x boxes. Can you imagine?
We were blown away with the thoughtful design and psychology behind every detail in his communities. I think you will be too. Enjoy the video!
Excerpt from their website: “Imagine for a moment that you are in your new home. You step out your front door onto a large porch and look out to see children playing catch in a spacious green park or trying to climb one of the many beautiful trees. Your neighbors across the park wave hello from their porches while the scent of roses from the park drifts over to you in the breeze. Your friend next door steps out to walk her dog and you invite her to sit with you for a cup of coffee. You enjoy the friendly conversation while the sound of children laughing, chatter from other porches and the wind in the trees melds in the background.”
Top 3 out of 5 top Airbnb’s last year were tiny homes?
Tiny Homes popularity on Airbnb growing exponentially!
Tiny houses have become some of the most popular Airbnb properties. “Today, there are more than 14,000 tiny homes on Airbnb.” Between 2017 and 2018, the number of people staying in tiny homes more than doubled. “Three of the top five most popular Airbnbs in the world are tiny homes.”
“The beauty of tiny homes goes beyond the fact that every inch must be meticulously planned and designed,” Chesky says in the article. “These homes challenge our assumptions about how much space we need and open our eyes to what it means to leave a smaller footprint.”
Tiny homes have become one of the most affordable and lucrative investment opportunities. The maintenance required is minimal and they still hold curiosity and are a novelty for most.
At Hill Country Tiny Houses, we are leading the movement by providing turn-key Airbnb tiny homes for investors, developers and landowners. Todd and I have thoroughly enjoyed hosting families from all over in our tiny houses.
Don’t miss out!
Call Shari today at 830-285-5909 to discuss how you can profit from this movement!
to read the rest of the article, use this link and to read handwritten thank you notes from our guests,
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Welcome a fellow Minimalist
Last October, Todd and I had a fun conversation with Josh Grimley at the five star resort our company invited the leaders to for R and R, networking, and training. We were hanging out in the hot tub (Andrew was with us too) and Josh wanted to know all about our venture to “go tiny”. We could tell he was ready for a change and as I read his FB post below, just 6 months later, I told him I was so proud of his courage to downsize, and become a minimalist too!
“Kissing stress, overwhelm, high mortgage debt, wrong priorities and values goodbye was one of the best things we did as a family and we’ll never go back! It made me smile to welcome Josh and his family into the world of minimalism!
Will you be next? What are you waiting for? A whole new life can be yours for the taking.”
Josh’s FB Post today:
“I started my business 6 yrs ago; the last 3 have been on cruise control as I enjoyed being a stay at home dad with my wife. I made the decision to get back in the drivers seat and not only get back to my grind, but go 10X, eliminate all distractions from my life. My life consists of Family, Friends that add value to my life, and my business. I downsized and became a minimalist. There was so many things in my life I thought would add value that in the end doesn’t. I thought spending money like it’s going out of style would make me happy. I blew through a million dollars the past few yrs and realized I should have listened to my mentors, paid off all my possessions & mortgage to live a debt free life 3 yrs ago. I made the hard decision for my family to sell our big house since we weren’t using half of it & buy a house we would actually use. It wasn’t an easy decision as having a theatre room was nice for the once every few months we would actually use it but it really didn’t add value to my life. Every decision from here on out is, “Does this add value to my families life?” If it doesn’t, I don’t do it.
I realized money doesn’t make me happy. The more money I have the more I spend on things I don’t need.
What makes me happy is serving, helping and changing others lives. Giving them hope and bringing the sparkle back in their lives.
I built my business in the beginning to make money, lots and lots of it and I have. Now I am building my business 10X bigger and will make 10X more but not for the sake of money but for helping others.
Jacki and I have set up a non profit to help families going through medical trials such as Liver transplants, Cancer Treatments etc.
We will be 100% debt free by the end of the year including our mortgage.
Nothing brings happiness in my life more than helping others and spending quality time with my wife and kids.”
#Priorities #EnhancingLives #10X #FinancialFreedom #Teaching #LeadingByExample #Minimalist #GoBig #WarriorForGod
A favorite quote by Frank Vandersloot
“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
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