Geoff Daigle and Candace bought this ESCAPE eONE in November 2024 as a rental in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They’re fans of tiny-home efficiency. On Airbnb and VRBO it went to traveling professionals who preferred it over hotels, and to snowbirds who stayed a month at a time.
The RV park is no longer allowing rentals, so they are selling. The house is 408 square feet, fully furnished, and listed at $85,000. You can move it — or move into the Florida site at $575/month plus electricity.
A vintage 1965 Airstream Caravel — 17 feet, 2,250 pounds, all-new 50-amp electric and no propane — is listed for $65,000 just outside Richmond. Tiny Haven named her Sol.
Danielle and Jonathan renovated this one as a mid-century modern apartment on wheels: full kitchen, tiled bath, a custom couch that pulls out into a double bed, and all the decor. Let’s take a closer look.
If you’ve been waiting for a 2,000-lb hard-sided adventure trailer that a smaller SUV can actually tow, this is the one sitting in Boulder. It’s a 2020 AntiShanty AS-1 Plus, built in Utah by Spectrum Sports / AntiShanty, listed at $35,000. Pre-owned, no land, 60 square feet on the listing. The owner puts it at about 2,000 lbs with a 3,500-lb GVWR, electric brakes, a clean title, and a single owner. New AS-1s start at $39,900; this used Plus is listed under that starting price.
Most camping trailers ask you to own a truck first. The Urbanoid Booba starts from the opposite end of the problem: it was designed around the smallest car you might already have parked outside your apartment. At roughly 530 pounds empty and just 54 inches wide at the shoulder, this glossy little clamshell can be pulled by a Fiat 500 — including the electric one — and it happily follows quads and trikes too.
Urbanoid, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, calls what the Booba does “tenting” rather than caravanning. Closed, it looks like an oversized automotive suitcase: fiber-composite shell, a ribbed lid, and a chrome strip that would not look out of place on a scooter. Open it, air up the tent structure, and you get a two-person bedroom with a real mattress base, a wraparound dinette for four, and enough headroom to change clothes standing at the doorway.
The trick that makes it interesting for small-space enthusiasts is what happens when the trip ends. Roll the Booba onto its optional stand and it stands upright, about 7.5 feet tall on a footprint of roughly 46 inches — a slice of wall in a normal single-car garage, next to the car that towed it.
Images courtesy of Urbanoid
Caitlin wanted to build her own home — and her dad, a carpenter, was all in. Starting in 2014, they spent about three years crafting an off-grid tiny house on a 24-foot trailer. She found land next to the build site, towed the house up a dirt “road” with a small bulldozer, and settled in. Materials came together over time (she didn’t keep perfect books), but the whole project landed around $30,000–$40,000. Eight years later, she’s still there: a huge covered porch, sweeping views, and a house full of Caitlin and her dad’s woodwork.
Most park models ask you to make one big compromise: you get the extra width, but you give up the charm. The Daphne, built by Teacup Tiny Homes in Calgary, Alberta, is a 378-square-foot park model that refuses the trade. It is 36 feet long and 10 feet 6 inches wide, which is two full feet wider than a road-legal tiny house on wheels — and every inch of that extra width goes somewhere you can feel it.
What makes the Daphne worth studying is the layout. There is no loft, and there was never meant to be one. Instead of stacking a sleeping platform under the roof, Teacup ran the volume upward into a vaulted ceiling with clerestory windows, then put a real, stand-up, walk-around bedroom at the far end of the home. It sleeps two comfortably, with room for two more, and you never climb a ladder to get to bed.
Images courtesy of Teacup Tiny Homes
This tiny house is for sale in an actual community, not a driveway and a hope. Lakewalk Tiny Home Community in Greer, South Carolina puts homes on wooded lots with a hiking trail, a dog park, gathering spaces, and Lake Cunningham nearby. The house itself is a 285-square-foot 2016 Sprout by Mustard Seed Tiny Homes, and the $500 monthly lot rent includes electric, water, sewer, trash, yard maintenance, and taxes.
It’s listed for $84,500 (make offer) at 198 Lakewalk Dr: one bedroom, one bath, pre-owned, listed by Karen on May 25, 2026. Let’s take a closer look.
After a major life change, Eva didn’t want another apartment that felt temporary — she wanted something that was completely her own. Starting with little construction experience, a used white box truck, and help from a friend, she built Box Truck Betti: a solar-powered, off-grid tiny home packed with carved wood, space-saving tricks, and the freedom to roam. In this ~17-minute tour from Tiny House Giant Journey, she walks the exterior, the cozy interior, and the systems that keep Betti rolling.
For years, the biggest obstacle to putting a tiny house in your back yard hasn’t been the house. It’s been the zoning map. Even in places where a small second dwelling made obvious sense — an aging parent who wants to stay close, an adult kid saving for a down payment, a homeowner who could use the rental income — local ordinances often made it functionally impossible. Special-use permits, owner-occupancy affidavits, family-relationship rules, five-figure permit fees. Death by a thousand conditions.
Virginia just changed that. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Senate Bill 531 into law in April 2026, and starting July 1, 2027, every locality in the Commonwealth has to allow accessory dwelling units — ADUs — by right in single-family residential zoning districts. No discretionary approval. No public hearing where one angry neighbor can kill your project. If your lot is zoned for a single-family home, a second small dwelling is now on the table.
An ADU can take a lot of forms: a purpose-built backyard cottage, a garage converted into an apartment, a carriage house, an in-law suite carved out of the main home — or a tiny house. Which is exactly why this matters to anyone reading a site like this one.
The Nanostead ADU cabin in Weaverville, North Carolina — the kind of purpose-built backyard dwelling Virginia’s new law is designed to make legal. Image courtesy of Nanostead.
