QUICK SUMMARY: This blog compares the cost of buying a pre-built or custom tiny house versus building one yourself in 2025, offering real-world price ranges, detailed breakdowns, and hidden costs to help buyers make an informed decision. It also provides expert tips, including the importance of a quality trailer foundation and careful budgeting, to guide serious tiny home dreamers in … Read More
5 Questions All Customers Ask Before Buying Their Tiny House Trailer
Before anyone places an order for a custom tiny house trailer, the same handful of questions always come up, and for good reason. Your trailer isn’t just a frame; it’s the entire foundation of your home. Getting it right means everything else goes smoother. These are the 5 questions all customers ask before buying their tiny house trailer. Here are … Read More
Tiny House Insurance – Do You Need It?
Insurance isn’t the first thing you think about when dreaming of living in a tiny house. When Shelley and I first dove into the tiny house journey, we were busy thinking about floor plans, downsizing our belongings, and imagining all the adventures ahead. Insurance? It barely crossed our minds. However, we quickly learned that tiny houses have unique risks and … Read More
Top 10 Tiny House Trailer Accessories for Towing / Security & Setting
Before you start towing your tiny house or even before you start building on your tiny house trailer, there is no doubt you will need some accessories to make towing easier and safer. You will also need to keep your investment safe and secure when you are not present as well as some things to assist in setting up your … Read More
Tiny Houses on Instagram: Real Life VS Curated Accounts
By Jessica Mokhiber Palmer When we first began our tiny house journey in 2016, we began with research – exhaustively scouring YouTube, checking out books on tiny living and downsizing from our local library, and then, as a lot of people do for inspiration, turned to Instagram. I remember thinking, “Whoa. We should have checked Instagram sooner.” There are so … Read More
#1 Amazon Bestselling Tiny House Book!
Our Highly Anticipated Tiny House Book: “Tiny House Basics, Living the Good Life in Small Spaces” was just released on May 16th 2017 and we have already hit #1 Amazon Bestseller in over 4 Categories (Small Homes & Cottages, House Plans, Design & Construction, Green Housekeeping) Pick up your copy today to start your tiny house research off on the right … Read More
Buying A Tiny House Trailer
Who Is Tiny House Basics? We are Joshua and Shelley and we are Tiny House People with a extensive background in Tiny House Trailers and Tiny Houses. We design and sell the #1 Tiny House Trailers Available from Manufacturers that Have Been Building High Quality Trailers for over 30 Years. As Tiny House People ourselves our number one goal is … Read More
The Cost of Tiny House Freedom
Originally Featured in Issue 41 of Tiny House Magazine Written by: Shelley & Joshua Engberg We all keep hearing about the freedom that tiny living comes with, the simple lifestyle with less stuff to maintain and of course, saving the big bucks! But how true is it? Is it realistic to think going tiny will give that much more freedom or is it just … Read More
Find Land NOW For Your Tiny House!
How Do You Start Finding Land For Your Tiny House? Before even considering life in a Tiny House we realized our first step was to downsize. In the process of doing this, we decided to simplify a number of things. The first being cable television. With streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon it’s not that hard to give up … Read More
Tiny House Living: Water Usage
How Much Water Does a Tiny House Actually Use? For this post we are going to take a deeper look into our Tiny House Water Usage. When we moved into our Tiny House In December 2014 we brought our old habits with us. Not to say these habits were bad but we were already adapting to living in a smaller space. … Read More
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