This title is kind of misleading, they're the tenant of a tiny rental, they don't own the place. The necessity of being free to modify and tailor a living spac

This title is kind of misleading, they're the tenant of a tiny rental, they don't own the place. The necessity of being free to modify and tailor a living space to the occupant increases exponentially with the inverse of ft^2. I live in a tiny space. It would drive me absolutely insane if there were a fold-out bed and other integrated amenities I wouldn't appreciate yet would be wasting precious space on. But since I own my place, whatever isn't working gets removed/changed and it's instead an iterative optimization process. There are some serious advantages to having a small space. Heating/cooling systems are smaller, so cheaper to acquire, replace, and operate. Cleaning the place takes a few minutes. The lack of excess space significantly deters consumerism and hoarding. Maintenance and upgrades have much smaller multipliers, the number of windows, ft^2 of roofing material, exterior finishing, flooring, etc. It's all significantly lower cost in materials, less labor costs or less work/time if DIYing. My property includes acres of buildable land, but I don't really feel all that compelled to increase the cost of ownership by building a larger home. The main thing I'm contemplating right now is building a second minimalist tiny home on the property for visiting friends/airbnb, and maybe for me to live in when I'm doing invasive upgrades in the other one. I value that that's not a particularly costly proposition, to entirely gut and upgrade everything in my tiny home. It wouldn't even take that long. Go price some nice windows on menards.com, lowes.com, or homedepot.com and see how much it would cost when you have 10-20 to replace vs. 2-4. This is the kind of stuff typical single-family residential home owners take out home equity lines of credit to do. I'd do it for under ten grand, no loans necessary, nor did it require a mortgage to buy this place to start with.