Here'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...
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With rent reaching astronomical levels across the US, more and more professionals are trading in overpriced apartments for vans, campers, and even sailboats.In fact, there's a whole community of tech...
View ArticleMeet 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...
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After being drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011, Daniel Norris' bank-account balance had more zeroes tacked on the end than he'd ever seen.The 18-year-old, straight out of high school, had scored...
View ArticleThese tiny homes cost £52,000 and can be built in just 3 days
Green Magic Homes are eco-friendly apartments that can blend into any landscape. They can be built in just three days and are resistant to earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and even snowfalls.Prices...
View ArticleThis couple lived in an RV in Google's parking lot for 2 years and saved 80%...
One Google employee brings new meaning to the term "company man": For nearly two years, he and his wife lived in a small RV in the parking lot of the tech giant's Mountain View, California,...
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 ArticleThis egg-shaped pod lets you have high tech living off the grid
Micro-housing is all the rage when it comes to sustainable living. But what if you want to live off the grid with all the creature comforts of home? This is Ecocapsule, an egg-shaped luxury survival...
View Article8 beautiful micro-homes that re-think traditional living spaces
If you're looking to scale down, a tiny house could be your next dream home.An increasing number of start-ups are creating designs for micro-homes, which they claim re-think traditional living...
View ArticleThese affordable tiny homes are made out of shipping containers
The next generation of the tiny house is the live-in shipping container.Imagine stepping through the front door of a crate that once shepherded supplies across oceans and entering a pint-sized home...
View ArticleDon't move to any of these 13 cities if you want a big starter home
You've heard of tiny houses, the small homes, sometimes on wheels, whose occupants have to creatively build to live comfortably.Most first-time homebuyers aren't looking for a tiny home when they first...
View Article23 incredible tiny homes from around the world
Small spaces are the next big thing in real estate, and with good reason. Real estate is constantly getting more expensive, and we're facing overpopulation and environmental damage. Tiny homes can help...
View ArticleThe popularity of tiny houses is beginning to have a big impact on the real...
It’s no secret that the counter-movement to big, sprawling homes has reached the mainstream – and it's known as the tiny home.Tiny houses are exactly as they’re described: small homes that are often...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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