Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast Making Your Home Unique: Tips from an Experienced Tiny House Builder
Kristie Wolfe returns to the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast with a conversation you do not want to miss. Her initial tiny house project in 2011 led her down a path she never expected. Kristie is passionate about creating unique, handcrafted experiences including a tree house in Hawaii, an underground hobbit hole in Washington and a potato hotel in her hometown of Boise. In this conversation we dive into Kristie's latest and most ambitious project to date, Moonpass Lookouts and the inspiration behind them. Discover the secrets behind her success and learn how she continues to dominate the Airbnb market. Get ready for an inspiring and enlightening conversation.
In This Episode:
- Unique Builds 🏠 : Kristie is passionate about constructing unique homes, like a fire lookout tower in Idaho, and keeping offerings original to maintain brand integrity.
- Pricing Tools & Crowdfunding 💰 : The challenges of pricing tools for their Airbnb and leveraging crowdfunding to fund large projects.
- Organization & Documentation 📚 : How a "house bible" will help keep track of maintenance, inventory and records of Kristie’s properties.
- Accessibility & Regulations 🚪: Kristie faces challenges in accessing funds from future reservations and adheres to strict regulations, like installing a fire suppression system, which led to the development of alternative solutions, such as fireball systems.
- Inspirational Projects 👀 : Being a judge in Airbnb's unique project competition and the contestants' effort into their projects, which ranged from a bunker remodel to a salt cave house in Africa.
Links and Resources:
- Superhost School on Youtube
- Moonpass Lookouts Indiegogo
- Episode #111: How to Buy Inexpensive Land, Build for Cheap, and Dominate Airbnb with Kristie Wolfe
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