hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny homes and unique homes
in today's video we're going to meet one man who started from humble beginnings
building a tiny house in his backyard and now has become a true champion for the tiny house movement
building hundreds of homes over the past seven years we'll get an inside look at his workshop
take a tour of a few of his finished tiny homes and check out the tiny house village that he's
developed on his property so how did a guy who came from nothing end up with a tiny house empire
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hi my name is randy jones and i own incredible tiny homes
really it started in 2008 when the big crash hit the united states and really the world
actually had a log cabin resort and lost it all and 0-9 finally went out so i did everything i
could to make ends meet for the last you know five years between there my wife was saying hey
you know what they're building tiny homes for sixty five thousand dollars you know
and i said my goodness 65 grand so i said what can we do to build a tiny home for
less than that because you could buy a farm here in east tennessee for 65 grand back then
so ended up building a tiny home for a friend of mine so then from there i built another one
another one and another one and look where we're at that's where we're at
so the number of homes we build per year probably range between
125 to sometimes we just signed a contract with a developer of 50 more homes so we're hoping we're
going to hit about 225 this year in 2022. we got a little under 50 employees now it's just crazy
i mean started out with just me five or six years ago well how we price structure everything here is
we have certain models to choose from but these models are custom all right you can customize
these models in any way you'd like them so we still offer a home at twenty thousand dollars like
i started and i hope to always offer a home at a really discounted price for somebody that needs
something now it doesn't have all the amenities in it but we also build homes that are over a
hundred thousand dollars and everybody always says you're selling them too cheap too cheap
and there's just something about the tiny home industry that i don't think it should be super
expensive it should be affordable for everybody young people starting out people are getting a
retirement age i've always seen if i can make a living and i can sell an affordable home that
people can afford it's going to be easier for them to buy from me instead of getting
loans all this stuff and they're happy i'm happy and it's just a win-win for everybody
behind me is our building that we build most of our homes in
we have 34 acres here in newport tennessee we started out in this location about three years ago
we've been in business about seven we're starting to erect another portion of our building because
we just need to build more homes so inside we got about 10 homes under construction we've got
about another 10 on the outside and so what we're going to do is we're going to take you
through a tour here and show you exactly what's going on in a tiny home factory
one man builds this entire house sometimes we have a team of two but normally it's
one to two men we'll build this house this right here is a 30 foot 10 by 30.
he'll probably be on this about eight weeks and then we get it out the door also we build anything
so somebody might come to me and say can you build a two-story tiny home can you build a hobbit home
and of course you can see here's somewhat of a themed tiny home can you believe it we use trees
for rafters we use live edge logs for window trim and then we've also built our own circular doors
we take pride in the fact that our trailers are built very simple a lot of tiny homes are
over thought i've always said the tiny homes are overbuilt they think it through they make it too
complicated so after over 700 homes that we've built in the last seven years we figured out
that it doesn't have to be as complicated and we almost build them like you do a residential home
so you get metal you got your floor joists all your mechanicals are in the floor and of course
now they're beginning to sheet it and then you can see where we spray foam everything this is
a closed cell polyurethane spray foam when i think of a tiny home i don't think it should
look like a box i don't think it should look like a caboose it shouldn't look like just a square
figure right so right here you have it to where we try to make them look like a real home
this one actually has an eyebrow dormer reverse gables shed dormer it's got siding it's got bay
windows bump outs this is like a big massive home just shrunk down and has all the architectural
value that a large home would have then the other new invention kind of that we come across
is are called our esp tiny homes and this is an esp it's made out of steel panels
it's like old door remnants but we actually take the scrap of a company who makes steel doors they
cut it out for the glass they're going to throw it away we take that and we build homes with it
super our value ready we've been in doing it about a year it's engineered strong
we've trucked them across the united states we're able to build them faster and cheaper
than our regular stick build homes we could go on and on i think we've got probably 50 homes here
that are under construction that are being built finished up tightened up we got container
homes as you can see it's like where do we go what do you got what do you want to see right
so about two years ago as we were selling our homes and owned this 34 acres just building
homes we had a lot of people saying hey i don't know where to put my tiny home i can't put it in
my backyard the zoning and everything where i live they don't allow them do you have a place
to put them and i started thinking i thought well we got 34 acres and i stand out here in
the in the middle of this woods and i said you know what if anybody wants to live here
i figured it out it'd be about six thousand dollars per lot and i would say hey if you
want to give me a deposit of six thousand dollars i'll give you two years free rent you come here
that'll pay for the infrastructure and then after that you pay 200 a month to rent the lot
well we're now into our first year of their first free two years and as you can see we're sold out
and this is called the forest around me as you can see the homes walking up here all the different
colors the homeowners are putting decks on them they're putting skirting here's some folks here
that live here they work for us too a couple from maine they moved down to decorate for christmas
all right look at this place all right so this is 10 foot wide 26 feet long so it's
260 square feet this is the living room and i always stress to all of our customers when
i'm designing your tiny home or when you're designing it make sure that you leave a living
room area so they've got two beautiful lazy boy chairs these are full-sized lazy boy chairs big
screen tv fireplace and of course you can sell our beautiful decorations you got for christmas right
so then you got your other door that they've set up here on the side you've got their walkway
and then from there you go into their kitchen now the kitchen was a custom made kitchen
we built these right here in our shop this is a full-size stove all right full-size microwave
and then we've also got the panels on the door of the freezer let's see how we open this up
oh yeah right you can see all their food but right here you have these wood panels that match their
cabinets and that's a full-size fridge then you got a full-size drop-in farm style sink
so everything here you could have went to lowe's an appliance store bought it here and put it in a
tiny home and look we can still have two three people pass by each other right it's very open
and it doesn't give you that tiny cramped feel so then we go from there we go into the bathroom
there's your pocket door which is great right pocket doors are good from small spaces
full size washer and dryer stackable unit and then they've got a full-size vanity shower
toilet and enough room in here to actually get around then from here which is really noticeable
about this home is that the bedroom is upstairs and it's a full two-story home all right so before
i go upstairs i wanted to show you a little bit what we've learned in the log cabin business and
some other building we do so there's a bedroom up here as you can see and these are two little doors
that go up in and they serve as a couple functions they serve as well you can you know pass through
something if you like but it also has airflow so air can get up and out to the to the right over
here we have a fan and the fan there's only one heating and air source which is above the bathroom
and the air can blow through that door and out and if there's still not enough air flow we can turn
the fan on and it brings this air into the bedroom down the staircase and it just keeps rotating
over here you get this beautiful staircase and we try to make all our staircases custom because
there is so much space in a staircase for storage now i'm going to go up the steps and this is the
loft this is still 80 inches but it still gives us about six foot two headroom up in the bedroom
all right so here we are we're in the bedroom here the queen-size bed i bet you're probably wondering
where's the closet closet is over here they've got shelving places to hang up your clothes of course
just not a big walk-in closet here's the door that you sing from down below allows the airflow
maybe even keeping the lights downstairs it gives a little bit of light up here i think this house
is probably in the mid 70s maybe 80 000 if that's it i just can't get over to tiny home
so here we are at the beach community behind me
and we call it the beaches because in the future we're going to start planting frost
resistant tropical plants here bamboo palm trees all these different things that makes it look like
the beach it was actually built to be close together so the home sites are only 30 by 40
and we encourage everybody to have their porches and decks out front so it it instills community
awareness together talking to your neighbor and that's what the beach was all about
we were asked if we have airbnbs on our communities and we do have airbnbs we
encourage airbnbs so behind me is a 10 by 20. it's a design that we come up with we've sold
about 40 of that particular model but it's also one of our esp panel homes a lot of
people come here and stay in this when we're getting ready to design or build their home
and they can stay here and see what it feels like to be in a tiny home
so let me show you inside
it has a full kitchen full bathroom and what we love about this particular design it's 10 foot
wide only 20 foot long but it has a full staircase that goes up you can have a king-sized bed up here
and you can have a pull-out bed here so it's a great airbnb because you can sleep for folks i
live in a tiny home been living in it for years my biggest pet peeve is after years these homes can
start coming in on you there's too small you've got to step sideways to get through something
this here is a big enough room it can accommodate up to six seven adults easily and sit and not have
a problem in the kitchen what i like about it is there's enough room for two people to pass
i've got a full sink i got a cooktop range hood microwave i got all the room that i need to
function in a regular home the only thing is i took two steps from my living room to get here
instead of walking down the hall right that's the only thing about a tiny home i'm making
less steps and i've got the same amenities in the bathroom we still have a full shower
a full toilet you have a washer and dryer closet everything on this main floor 200 square feet
so there was 160 acres across the street we took in enough deposits to purchase the land
develop the land and that's where we're at right now so everything here is paid for there's no debt
and now we're taking the infrastructure money and putting the infrastructure in
so when we get done right now we're looking at 230 home sites and still got a waiting list and
sometimes you come up here and you can think cause like just three years ago
there was nothing there but concrete and what i'm proud of is just the fact that
it's it's the american dream i didn't have any money i didn't have all any investors no family
money or anything just had a will a desire and a passion to make something happen and when
literally when there's a will there's a way so everything you see there was built with no loans
it was a as a matter of of just proving yourself to people and being honest and saying hey this is
what i'll do if you believe in me this is what i'll i'll make happen and there are there were
several people that believed in what we could do what i could do and there you have it you
have 160 plus home sites another 160 acres here there's the great smoky mountains in the distance
you don't have to have a lot to get a lot so you can start at zero you can start with a surplus
i started with a negative all right i had no materials i had to borrow tools from a friend
of mine it was all i had the first building i ever built was a sawzall and a skill saw
and i think i just want to make sure that everybody realizes that that this came
from nothing and this is what happens when you work hard and you do what you promise
and you do the best you can you know and this is what happened
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because we have another video coming out featuring one of the residents of
the incredible tiny home village who lives in a shipping container home built by randy