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Losing Everything–Starting Over with a Tiny House

Posted by Papa on Apr 5, 2012 in Building the Tiny House, Recent Posts, The Backstory | 14 comments

Almost four years ago, after the untimely demise of our start-up business, we came to a place of rebirth. Previously, we had moved closer to Mama’s family in Florida in order to get married and start our family. After purchasing and old wood framed two-bedroom home in a blue collar town, we embarked on an odyssey of home renovation and family building. Through our efforts at reconstructing the house, we attained fantastic equity in the burgeoning real estate market. Costs were kept down by my scavenging the construction sites I worked on and my willingness to do all the work myself. Before the real estate bubble burst, we transferred the equity in our home into the...