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When she was 12 years old she started building her own debt-free tiny house.
This all started around January 2013. It’s just about a year and 4 months later now and she’s finished the project.
Sicily now owns her own debt-free 128 sq. ft. tiny home on wheels that she built herself.
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Teen Completes Building Mortgage-free Tiny Home
And you won’t believe what she’s been through while doing it…
The biggest hurdle you can imagine happened.
Her father, who was helping her with the project every day, passed away in a car accident.
And she didn’t know what to do. Until she came to the conclusion,
“I realized I wasn’t going to be doing it with him,” Sicily said. “I decided to do it for him. I wanted to show him, wherever he was, what I could accomplish and what I could do.” (source)
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Check out her blog right here.
Read her story in the Access Atlanta article in Marietta.
Source: ajc.com/weblogs/buzz/2014/apr/10/marietta-teens-tiny-house-huge-hit
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