I help you buy, sell, and navigate tiny homes. Tiny homes are a new type of structure, and they can be very tricky to research and implement. This type of housing comes with a ton of misconceptions, and the facts aren’t easy to Google. That’s why I’ve dedicated the last five years of my life to working exclusively with this new type of housing. I work with anyone who wants to pursue a tiny home endeavor efficiently and effectively.

First and foremost, I am a tiny home dweller and have lived tiny for more than half a decade. Any experience I have to share comes through the lens of a woman living this lifestyle day in and day out. Additionally, for almost as long, I’ve been fielding calls from tiny home buyers, sellers, builders, developers, vendors, and municipalities across the country to offer guidance and troubleshoot tiny home problems. This means I know what’s working, what’s not, where the misconceptions lie, and how the tiny home world is changing.

I used to be a traditional real estate agent, but since 2020, I have worked exclusively with tiny houses. My background as an agent has given me insight into buying land, market conditions, and the risks and benefits of homeownership. In addition to my agent background, I’m also a real estate investor, which means I’m familiar with evaluating zoning opportunities, identifying target markets, and the importance of making ‘the math, math.’

Over the years, I’ve written numerous articles (most notably for Tiny House Expedition’s blog), and my story has been featured on multiple podcasts and YouTube channels. I’ve made TV appearances, spoken at and emceed tiny house festivals, participated in tiny house research and legalization efforts, and helped to create best practices within the tiny home industry. In 2024, I was selected to be one of eighteen voting members of the IS-OSMTH committee tasked by The Tiny Home Industry Association (THIA) and the International Code Council (ICC) to write a definition of and building standard for tiny homes. (ICC 1215 - Design, Construction, Inspection, and Regulation of Small Residential Units and Tiny Houses for Permanent Occupancy.)

Yes. The first step to working with me is to book an appointment. This allows us to do a deep dive into the specifics of your situation. Tiny homes are a new type of structure, and there is some fine print I want you to know about. A consultation costs $250 and will arm you with the knowledge you need to make educated decisions before you spend tens-of-thousands of dollars or more buying a tiny home or investing in a tiny house endeavor.

Yes, and I can help you in one of two ways.

1) If your home meets my listing criteria, I can market the home for you, screen leads, and help you every step of the way. For this service, I charge a non-refundable deposit of $557 + commission on the back end.

2) If you are up for putting in a bit of leg work, you can save thousands by purchasing my Tiny Home Seller’s Kit.

Click here to learn more about my options for sellers.

Yes, but let’s discuss how. The first step is to send me an email telling me more about your tiny homes and where you’re at with your business. From there, we can figure out the best way to work together.

Contact Me to get the conversation going.

Yes! When it comes to development, I am partnered with Dan Fitzpatrick, president of the Tiny Home Industry Association. I have real estate experience, lived tiny home experience, and I spend all day talking to builders. Dan, meanwhile, has decades of experience working in city/county management and planning, has tackled large-scale real estate development, and speaks “tiny house” fluently. He is responsible for much of the tiny home legalization that has occurred thus far. Together, we are the dream team. We have resources for new developers, and seasoned developers alike. We’ll help you avoid pitfalls, do proper due diligence, and deeply understand this new housing medium before you invest significant capital. 

Contact Me for more information on this type of assistance.

You will find tiny homes for sale at wildly different price points. However, much of what you see for sale is not built to code, not certified, and in some cases doesn’t even actually exist. I only help people buy safe, certified tiny homes. Micro units start around 50k, and larger luxury units could go up to 250k+. The tiny home you’re probably picturing is 85k-185k. Remember to factor in sales tax and transportation costs when running your numbers, and realize that interest rates for this type of housing average 8-10% with 7-25 year loan terms. Here is a loan calculator you may find helpful in estimating costs.

Yes, there is financing for tiny homes, but it works a little differently than getting a traditional mortgage, and if you ask a lender for a “tiny home loan,” you’ll likely confuse everyone.

Please note that the interest rates for this type of housing are higher (8-10%) and the loan terms are shorter (7-25 years).For this reason, many tiny home buyers pay cash or borrow against traditional real estate when those options are available. Here is a loan calculator you may find helpful in running the numbers for your personal situation.

If you’d like to learn more on this subject, you can download the free Tiny Home Financing Guide on my resources page. It will teach you the basics and give you a list of lenders you can call.

If you are open to parking in an RV community, your tiny home dream just got EASY.

Now, it’s just a matter of A) Using the right words to get an RV park to accept your tiny home, and B) Choosing a good house. I can help with both. Some RV communities are total chaos, others have fire pits, saunas, and puppy-themed happy hours (real thing). You’ve just got to shop around.

If you want to park on private land, it gets trickier.

A lot of tiny homes you see parked on private land are simply not parked legally, and the tiny home owners who live in them are just hoping the neighbors don’t complain.

The tiny homes that are parked legally are often in highly specific locations. They are often secondary units (ADUs), and are owned by people who have worked through considerable red tape and paid a good amount of money in permitting fees and utility installation costs.

Your risk tolerance, budget, interest in real estate development, emotional bandwidth for working with the planning department, flexibility with regard to location and personal definition of a ‘tiny house’ will all come into play.

If you’d like to explore you parking options, rough costs, and risks in depth, the best thing to do is to book an appointment for a tiny house consultation.

I would recommend one in most cases, but there are exceptions. Tiny home certifications speak to the fact that a qualified party has checked and approved of the builder, the manufacturing facility, the design, or the actual house itself. A certification isn’t a guarantee there is nothing wrong with your home, but it’s a step in the right direction. The more mainstream tiny homes become, the more lenders, tiny home community owners, insurance providers, and so on are going to be looking for ways to prove that your house meets basic safety standards and won’t be a liability. Different certifications have different advantages, but as a general rule, any certification is better than no certification. If you have questions about building standards and certification and how these things relate to zoning and legal tiny house parking, the best thing to do is to book an appointment for a tiny house consultation.

We’ll work well together if you recognize that the tiny home movement is still in a pioneering stage. We’re writing the book on this together.

I can’t promise your vision will be easy, legal, or inexpensive, but I can give you a much clearer idea of whether or not you want to pursue your goals in this space. If so, I can help you make a plan.

Things I can’t do include: make things legal that aren’t, do research on your behalf, or give you hyper-specific information like the setback requirements of a particular county in a particular state.

What I can do is help you ask the right questions, make educated decisions, avoid tiny house pitfalls, obtain a rough estimate of the costs and effort involved, choose a great house or builder, and brainstorm ways to make your tiny home endeavor safer and easier to achieve.

If that sounds helpful, let’s book an appointment.

Are you interested in working together? If so, I’m honored, and I’d love to hear more about what you’re thinking.

In the meantime, here are a few sentiments I’ll share to help you gauge if we’d be a good fit.

1) My commitment to this industry is based in quality and integrity. I’m open to new builders and media outlets, but I want to know that your heart is in the right place, and that our energy are aligned.

2) My brand is more geared toward ‘intentional living’ than ‘affordable housing.’ Both are massively important, but I think it’s important to be honest about that.

3) The work I do is fun, but it’s also… work. Speaking at festivals, participating in webinars, promoting brands, and keeping up with the ever-changing landscape of tiny homes takes time, preparation, emotional bandwidth, money, and sometimes travel. Expertise, experience, and talent also come at a cost. Please be respectful and do not ask me to work for free. I’m happy to provide current rates upon request.

If you think we could work well together, please Contact Me to share your plans.

The Tiny House Concierge is a tiny home dweller-owned, woman-owned, queer-owned business, and everyone is safe and welcome here. May we someday live in a world without housing discrimination.

My services and the houses I sell, are likely out of reach for some, which is heartbreaking, but also true. Tiny homes are simply too broad of a topic for me to service the entire spectrum, and my services are better looked at through the lens of ‘intentional living’ rather than ‘affordable housing’, though both are subjective terms with overlap.

If my services feel right, I’d love to work together, and if they aren’t, I’ll do what I can to direct you to resources that could help.