hey there welcome to my channel where I take you on tours of tiny and unique homes in today's
episode we're traveling to Oakland California to meet anzel a self-proclaimed house hacker anzel
found a way to increase both his income and living space by fitting two tiny houses on his property
for guests but he didn't stop there he also renovated his garage into a beautiful backyard Adu
so in this episode we're going to take a tour of all three Living Spaces that he's created on his
property and he's going to share how he's turned these little spaces into a thriving business we
were told that a garage was for storage for storing junk but what if you could turn it
into living space I'm actually challenging people when they come into my spaces to rethink space and
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home hi my name is anel Troy and this is Tiny Oakland I'm from Oakland [Music] California I
call myself a tiny house hacker because I figured out a creative way to add more living space to
this property my home is 840 ft and then there's this detached garage at the back of the driveway
and then the tiny house on Wheels craze if you will started to pop off and I got very curious
I went out and bought my first tiny house and that's how the tiny house Journey got
started if you take one house and you add three houses to it in a creative way in a legal way I
consider that house hacking when I bought the tiny house in 2017 I didn't think people would actually
come to this area in Oakland and even though me and my neighbors are you know hardworking people
Oakland has a reputation for being a dangerous place I didn't think that people would want to
come here so when I listed it on Airbnb it was kind of like a test run and then when I got my
first booking I was like oh and then number two I was like oh okay I think we got something here
I was able to generate additional income knowing that the ROI would be amazing cuz I had already
purchased one business was booming I could add another one to the mix and I had the space for
it so I said all right we're going to do it again pushed one tiny house back and went out and I got
the new one my mortgage is $1,600 a month so if you can imagine if I'm making 6,000 a month
off of the tiny houses give or take my bills are paid paid and I can buy groceries and I can afford
health insurance so it's actually changed my life so much that it is my primary source of income
all right so we're going to check out what I call Soulful Serenity this is or used to be a garage or
is it a garage well I'm going to challenge the definition of garage I could store my junk in
here or I can store my junk in here and turn this into to a living space so let's check it [Music]
out it is a minimalist space with a spa type of vibe I turned this into a studio
back in 2014 it didn't look anything like this I said how can I make this into more
of an experience ripped everything out built up this base and now we have a bathtub right
here and a shower underneath this really cool Skylight that I installed myself and
it does not leak probably the scariest thing that I've ever done from a uh DIY
standpoint no shower curtain you should be very comfortable with your partner if you're in a
rented space we have this microtopping wall so everything that you see is a microt topping it's
like a c based product and I just slap it on with my hands it's kind of like an abstract feel I want
it to have some texture some character if I did it really smoothly it probably would have took
longer so I think it worked out better it was easier for me to just slap it on the wall and
now it has a lot of character and then we have the bathroom with a pocket door I will slide it
close slide it open we have the pocket door right here this is a regular flush toilet so this is the
only place where you can go hide both tiny houses have more amenities than this space all we have in
here is a microwave and a mini fridge coffee maker and this I got this on Amazon for like
200 bucks um just a stainless steel commercial kitchen like wash station but it works uh we
got hot and cold water here kind of like a hotel room your average hotel room is actually going
to be smaller than this it's not going to have all this it's going to have a bed it's going to
have a TV it's going to have a microwave these are just the basics I got one big piece of art
right here I really really just like this this piece of art I wish I was an artist maybe I am
an artist I did design in space am I an artist I got this really cool glass garage door and and
I wanted people to get as much natural light as they could so that it doesn't feel like you are
in a garage when you're in here you don't really feel like you're shut off from the world and you
have 100% total privacy and if we want to Black this out we can get rid of all the sunlight we
can do a little sunlight we can do a lot but the the goal is to give people the option to
have uh as much light as they want we have this humongous TV this is an 86 in TV with a soundbar
and you know people can pull it out and watch it while they're in the tub it's kind of like
a a theater SL Spa if somebody wants to sit down I have this picnic style chair um so they can sit
here if they want to and if they don't need it it doesn't take up space we just set it against the
wall we also have eating trays so what I lose in terms of not having a couch I gain that by having
these foldable pieces that you can put to the side or you can pull out if you want to but I really
didn't want to have this cluttered something else cool about this space is uh this record player
this record player is special because not only do we have the ability to play records we can play
cassettes I know uh some of you uh J zers might not know what this is this
is uh what we used to listen to on something called walkman's you know back in the uh the
1900s and so uh this is a com combination tape player record player it even has a CD
player yeah there's these things called CDs back in the 1900s we used to listen to music
on CDs this is a really really cool setup that I have it's kind of nostalgic where people can
come in here and play uh a tape this is all intentional because I want people to pull out
their phones and record themselves saying hey look at I got a tape y'all and turn on
and I want people to be like wow you know where'd you get that from where are you at
so everything is [Music] intentional I live on this property and so these are right on the side
of my house so I had to find some interesting components to make it work this is an 18-footer
by 7 1/2 it was built by a carpenter and his daughter we call this the tiny [Music]
Hotel so this is how we get into the tiny hotel and you enter through the bathroom in this one
got the propagation wall here it's really popular people love taking baths here and some people book
the space for photo shoots it's not too small not too big I also had to figure out a way to
uh set up a shower curtain and so I found these items online they actually pull down that allow
my guest to shower but not mess up the propagation wall and so we have two on each side you can take
a bath and you can take a shower and then you can keep the water from spilling out onto the floor
this is a really cool toilet this is a macerating toilet it literally has a blender at the bottom
and so when you flush it everything is mated and it's pumped out of the toilet through this little
pipe so you know waist pipes are usually like 3 to 4 inches I'm not a construction person so uh
don't don't don't don't Grill me in the comments so this is the way that I'm able to Plum this
traditionally it looks like a regular toilet it functions like a regular toilet just got some
cool technology underneath from the bathroom you walk into the kitchen this is a vintage stove but
it actually functions as storage and a sink and people love this it's got that vintage Vibe I have
a dual induction cook toop so if people want to cook they just slide this out this fully electric
and this will actually boil water quicker than a traditional gas stove so this is really cool
it fits like a glove we just slide that right in got the microwave on top the refrigerator is
a mini fridge with an ice maker and we have the C the coffee maker right here when we had a lot
of plants none of the plants are real I don't have a green thumb and I think it would be too
difficult to keep these plants alive but uh people love the vibe and with all of this natural light
stepping into the living area I think is very very calming I have top down bottom up Linds so
people can get some privacy and natural sunlight this canoe this is a handmade canoe I found this
online on Etsy a guy up in Oregon I saw this in a book this book right here called wild Creations
shout out to Hilton Carter this was inspired by Hilton Carter and uh it worked out perfectly
got some canvas art on the ceiling one of my favorite favorite pieces is this transparent
speaker it took months and months for me to get this and when it arrived it was worth the
wait I don't even have nice stuff like this in my house my house is not even designed this well
so these tiny houses get all the good stuff now I don't have any background and interior designing
but I used to sit in here before I uh finished it I would come in here and I would sit down and
I would ask myself you know how do I want people to feel when they step in here it's like how does
this space feel and I didn't put it on Airbnb until it really felt right to me all right so
this is where all the magic happens this is the Loft area and I got a TV up here and a low profile
mattress a traditional mattress would be Overkill up here cuz there's not a lot of head space this
is a queen-sized bed it's two mattress toppers inside of a mattress protector actually get a
lot of compliments on the bed all right right this is where it all started this tiny house
it's a 25-footer 25 by8 and this was built by a company in Sacramento called Forever tiny [Music]
hels I could totally live in this tiny house full time forever for the rest of my life it
has everything that somebody would need we're in the living space this couch actually doubles as a
bed and then we have the TV got a mirror on the ceiling so dangerous I love the dangerous stuff
super engineered and reinforced so it's not going to go anywhere we have a lot of artwork
I love hip hop and so this is like paying homage to a lot of the artists who passed
away Ray Charles notorious b I invested a lot in the artwork because I I want people to have
a unique experience when they come here moving along we have some Closet Storage and you can
put a lot of clothes in here got the ironing board in here and we also have a mirror in
here there's so much space this is where I store the towels and bedding so if I was living in here
full time I have ample space for my clothes and stuff underneath is the uh electrical panel and
also more storage under the stairs so we have a I have a a desk for the people that are working
remotely they can adjust this desk we have fiber internet here so the speeds are like
500 gab upload and download like really good internet and so everything is under
here and now we're in the kitchen if you want to cook a fullon Thanksgiving dinner you have a four
burner stove and oven we have the microwave up above toaster coffee [Music] maker dual basin sink
if it were me if I were building this for myself I would probably do a one Basin and a smaller
refrigerator and then add a stackable washer and dryer and this is where it goes down the
bathroom this is a smaller bathroom has everything you need this is a regular flesh toilet connected
to the sewer line um my house is sewer cleanout and we have a walk-in shower with a rainfall
shower head when you step in here here you realize like oh this is like bigger than some Hotel
bathrooms let's take a trip [Music] upstairs this is the bed area the same as the other tiny house
I like to put a TV downstairs and a TV up near the bed and all my spaces so people can just relax and
watch TV they don't have to be sitting on the couch kind of feels like you're at home if you
want to wake up on a Sunday morning and turn on some whatever your favorite show you can do it in
bed I also have a fan up here because it gets really hot in the Loft area especially in the
summer so the AC in addition to a very powerful fan get that air circulating we have a heater
up here and a heater downstairs and then I have this record player it's like a old school Vibe
you know people get to come up here and sit in the lounge chair and just play some tunes
some stuff you guys might be familiar with Let's see we got the roots what do we have up here some
Dr Dre Shaka Khan Stevie Wonder Adele I like her salt and pepper Annie the musical what y'all know
about that pump it pump up the jam Pump It Up this is the [Music] classic reimagining space
reimagining a garage like we were told that a garage was for storage for storing junk um but
what if you could turn it into living space we were told that houses had to be 12200 ft three
bedroomroom two bath um but we have uh 250 ft tiny houses and even smaller I'm actually
challenging people when they come into my spaces to rethink space and rethink what you need to be
happy and if you look at what I did with this 264 ft garage anybody could do this I have zero
background in construction I learned everything on YouTube I'm hoping that I inspire people to to
do something similar with their property I'm hoping that the world catches up and that we
allow people to be creative and house hack and do things with their property that will allow
them to affordably create additional living space for their families that are growing because it's
really expensive out here that's what I hope more cities will make tiny houses legal and I want to
thank the city of Oakland for making tiny houses legal even though they were illegal when I bought
mine thanks for watching this week's episode I hope you guys enjoyed it please make sure
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