Gorgeous Tiny House Village w Sweeping Views Tennessee

We're here at Tiny Homes Village in Rock Island, Tennessee. The property is 45 acres and it has an acre and a half pond. The total lots will be between 100 and 200. We're putting together a rent-to-own option, so that's a great option for someone that wants to come in. And I'll share the secret with you. We're not filming, right? Hi, I'm Shane. We're here at Tiny Homes Village in Rock Island, Tennessee. We are three brothers and the spark started about what can we do together. And we started chatting of opportunities and all that. And I've been looking at tiny homes for many, many years. And I said, what if we do a tiny home community? Knowing that there is a shortage of them. And we're trying to get some affordable living out there. We started looking for land and that was a challenge. It took us actually three years to find this property. What we were looking for for a piece of land was something that was open. We didn't want that many trees, because one of our goals is to plant edible trees all around the property. So we wanted something as flat as possible. We wanted a body of water if it was possible. We got that here. And we wanted views, which we also got that here. The property is 45 acres. And in the back of the property, it has an acre and a half pond. The first phase is 16 lots. Right now, there's four homes. We currently have four more that are in the process of moving in. They're going pretty quickly. So what type of tiny homes do we accept? We don't accept RVs, just tiny homes. They have to be certified. The house has to be on blocks. It has to have a permanent skirting. And it can be on wheels. And it can't be on a permanent foundation. One of the things that we don't allow is Airbnbs or short-term rentals, because we want that sense of community. And having Airbnbs of people coming in and out every day won't help with that sense of community. Hi, we're the Akimpellos. And welcome to our tiny home. If you're wondering to yourself, wow, with all those three sliding glass doors, I bet it gets hot in there. And you would be right in saying that. But they also let in a lot of breeze, so it's pretty nice. Tiny living is very tiny. Two of my left, we have a tiny couch. It barely fits our family, but it's good enough. And I'll come into the kitchen. This is one of my favorite parts about the tiny house, if I'm being honest, is the sink. It's got a super deep, like, basin. And then you can, like, rinse your veggies in here and cut vegetables. And so we'll go and I'll show you the bathroom. It's also pretty small. And then the shower is actually a big shower for tiny living. And then coming out of the bathroom, this is the bedroom. So the lots, I try to keep it within 40 to 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep. The minimum lease is 12 months. It's 550 a month. And included in the rent is the water, the sewer, and the garbage pickup. Electrical is separate. Phase two would maybe be between 30 and 45 other lots. The total will be between 100 and 200. I try to kind of follow the contour of the land and try to disturb it as less as possible. And that will determine the final number that we have. So here at the entrance, we have a rolling gate, which used to be farm gates, which I welded together and put the track on, installed the track and everything, trying to reuse what we had. This is the garbage containment in the back. And this is the mural that my brother Jason is working with, an artist, to see what's going to come on this side and on the other side will be another one. So if we walk over here, the people will come down the road, go in that way with their cars and circle around, dump their garbage, then come right back out or back up the hill to their house. The walking trail will come through here. Down here between those two trees, there's going to be another fire pit area and maybe with another picnic table and some grills for people to enjoy in the community. This is our main road and the post office let us name this main road and we named it Tiny Homeway. Here are the lots. Each one of them has an electrical, water, sewer hookup. This one right here is available for sale. It's from Great Lakes. They're a great company. We're working with them. We're putting together a rent to own option and the basic numbers is we're looking at $3,500 down and then a payment of $1,300, $1,400 and up for 10 years. And that $1,400 payment includes the lot rent and the payment for the house. So that's a great option for someone that wants to come in and doesn't have that much money to get into it but can afford that payment. So more on that, you can visit our website tinyhomesvillage.com. There'll be more information about that on there. So let me show you the spring that I was, the natural spring of water I was talking about. Kind of starts where that big tree is. So what I'm going to do is going to dig all that up, fill it up with river rock and have that natural spring of water going down and it'll have a little bridge. That spring of water there, more than likely I'll put a spigot for the people living here. So here we are at one of the barns that we were talking about. And this was here, this used to be a cattle run and we obviously took all that out. And we put our mailbox here for now. We put together a small picnic area here with a grill and a fire pit. And also here's where we run all the electric for the first phase. So here there's the other barn, which this one is bigger than the first one. And this is where we store our equipment so far, the tractors and all that stuff. And this is the road where it continues for the next phase. That's where that's going to be. So let's go take a ride and let's go to the back of the property and show you the pond that we have there and maybe take a look at that church that's been there since 1860 I believe. So we're here now at the pond in the back of the property. So this will be for the community. We're not going to put any houses around the lake. We might build two decks off of the pond and then maybe some gazebos around with some grills and fire pits for the community to enjoy. If you liked this week's episode, make sure to like share and subscribe and check back soon because we're publishing more unique home tours every single week. And if you'd like to join our team, make sure you click on the join button below to get access to members only content and other awesome perks.