Meet the pro baseball player who scored a $2 million signing bonus and lives...
MLB pitcher Daniel Norris has always marched to the beat of his own drum.The 23-year-old lefty was baptized in his baseball uniform; he has never tasted alcohol or tried drugs; and the first thing he...
View ArticleThis couple travels the US in a tiny home they built for under $20,000 — take...
Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons are a "go big or go home" kind of couple. When Alexis wanted to simplify her life and her surroundings in 2015, they removed the clutter, stashed their old...
View ArticleHere's what a $39-a-night Airbnb in New York City looks like
New York City, in all its glory, isn't cheap.If you're visiting just for the night, expect to drop over $260 on a hotel room. You might find a better deal through Airbnb, where the average nightly rate...
View ArticleThis couple couldn't afford to live in San Francisco, so they're building...
In 2014, Heather Stewart and Luke Iseman could no longer justify spending $2,200 a month on rent in San Francisco. Fed up with the housing market, they bought a shipping container online for $2,300,...
View Article11 people who have gone to unbelievable lengths to save money
From making 713-mile commutes overseas to secretly living out of vans, people do crazy things to save money.We aren't recommending you do the same (there are plenty of other, less extreme, tactics to...
View ArticleInside the Las Vegas trailer park that Zappos' multimillionaire CEO calls home
Tony Hsieh has a net worth of $840 million, but rather than scoop up a desert mansion outside the Zappos campus in Las Vegas, Nevada, he's planted his roots in a trailer park downtown.In 2014, as part...
View Article4 ingenious designs for tiny homes of the future
Micro living has become more popular in the last decade and technology is there to help. These innovative designs find ways to fit furniture and other aspects of full-sized living into tiny...
View ArticleOne of the biggest cities in the US wants to put homeless people in tiny houses
More than 4,000 people are homeless in San Jose, California. The 10th largest city in the US has long run out of beds to keep them sheltered.A new law will make the city, located an hour's drive south...
View ArticleThis $86,000 solar-powered tiny house rotates to face the sun
More homeowners are investing in solar panels as a more environmentally (and budget) friendly energy source. But solar panels work best when the sun shines directly on them, which means they're only...
View ArticleThis floating UFO home lets you live underwater
UFO sightings could become a lot more frequent. Boating startup, Jet Capsule, has released this updated look at their Unidentified Floating Homes, futuristic houseboats that look like UFOs. The new...
View ArticleThis college student built a $15,000 tiny home instead of living in a dorm
On top of soaring tuition, colleges and universities often require students to pay huge sums of money to live in their dorms. Instead of living in a dorm, Joel Weber, a design student at University of...
View ArticleOnly in San Francisco — inside the 232-square-foot micro apartment that sold...
Heather Stoltz knows how to sell a home in San Francisco's hot real-estate market. When she put this micro apartment up for sale, she instantly had people lining up to view the space. It seemed that...
View ArticleThis tiny house fits into the back of a Mercedes-Benz van
This three-bedroom home fits into a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van. It was created by Jack Richens to be the perfect mobile home. He built it for only $18,500. Photos by Tim Hall PhotographyFollow Tech...
View ArticleThis futuristic apartment transforms five rooms into one
YO! Home is a modern convertible apartment, designed to compact a luxury apartment into a 40-square-meter space.It's the newest venture from YOTEL founder Simon Woodroffe and features a bed that...
View ArticleA pair of Harvard students have designed tiny houses that could be the future...
Sometimes vacations are more trouble than they're worth. You spend a lot of money, travel far, and leave stressed.Getaway, a hospitality startup launched out of the Harvard Innovation Lab in 2015,...
View ArticleThis tiny house vacation startup walked away from $500,000 on 'Shark Tank' —...
A Harvard Business School graduate took a risky dig at billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca on a recent episode of "Shark Tank"— and it almost paid off.College friends Jon Staff and Pete Davis...
View ArticleThis couple lived in Google’s parking lot for 2 years and saved 80% of their...
When Pete D'Andrea landed a job at Google, he and his wife Kara wanted to avoid paying the sky high rent in Silicon Valley. So, Pete and Kara decided to move into Google's parking lot. After...
View ArticleInside the incredibly narrow London 'Wee House' that costs £3,000 a month to...
One of London's skinniest houses is on the market — and it'll cost you more than the average price to rent it.The "must see" two-bedroom, two-bathroom "Wee House" on Clerkenwell's Laystall Street is...
View Article29 incredible tiny homes from around the world
Tiny homes are all the rage. Real estate is getting expensive, and younger people are more worried about paying off student loans than saving up for a house. Tiny homes offer a way to live somewhere on...
View Article9 surprisingly beautiful tiny homes you can buy right now
Your next home-away-from-home may come in under 500 square feet.The market for vacation properties reached an all-time high in 2015 and shows no signs of slowing down. If you don't want to go for a...
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