How do we shift the lending industry to consider loaning on more tiny houses? Wii, united, can develop communities where people can own houses and lease land for life. Where?

Life Estates are a way for people to live on land they do not own for life. Future costs would cover taxes and land maintenance for the whole community. That would limit the potential for debt and expenses not to burden the community’s inhabitants when they age out of income earning and retire. Furthermore, houses could be moved away to upgrade to bigger or better homes grown by adding a second house up to certain limits and providing for all most people would need in life, besides the tiny houses that people would live in, sharing the entire acreage with the others to ease the burdens of lawn care, house maintenance, and mechanical, as much of those responsibilities could be shared or paid for by the community, into the community if possible. This village would also have all the desired support facilities, like a small library and office house, a laundry room, a larger common kitchen for events and gatherings, and other amenities like a workout room, trails, swimming, and gardening. I imagine the spaces for growing food, like chickens and other critters, fish, and the chance to create the organic food many inhabitants would be sharing too.

Is such a model possible to prove this concept is a path for the future? I submit that the path is creating communities where people could situate and habituate a great life in their tiny houses. This is not an RV park or trailer park, but instead, true wooden and earthen houses built from superb materials that will last for a lifetime and also provide a healthy living environment, unlike recreational vehicles, van life, or other forms of survival that many are resorting to as housing costs force them out of the buildings and onto rubberized living or homelessness. Once in a status of homelessness, getting work, staying healthy, and mentally able to work hard and build a life back is hard, and not all people on the streets are the stereotypical druggy that no one wants to recognize exists. Before people are squeezed out of our society like that, alternatives can be created that will allow them to not fall so far before getting back up and learning new trades or skills that will enable them to thrive with a way to feed their family and house them, to fulfill the responsibility of being a parent, or a part of society by contributing and benefiting while helping create a community. These are the objectives of the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance that I started manifesting over 30 years ago.

After having rehabilitated the worst of drug zones, gang crime neighborhoods in Austin, Texas, that had prostitutes on the street, standing in the doorways of the one-hour room rental motel across the street from my real estate office, I decided to take time off to be a dad. The times and ways to change things are different, but it is possible to turn around bad areas and make them desirable to live in again. That is called gentrification in the places where housing costs rise due to demand, the taxes on the long-term elders rise to where they have to sell out, and in a few decades, few of the original middle-income inhabitants remain. Only the higher-income people can afford to buy big homes, pay taxes, and live in those now desirable areas. I was accused of gentrification by the time I left Austin, a word I had never heard or understood before. I could not afford to live in that area now.

In 1995, I moved away to Gonzales, Texas, to raise my 11-year-old son in a country town, thinking it would be better for his development and view of the world. That was not a good decision in retrospect, as the schools were abysmally bad, and he had to take remedial math classes even though he had been in Honors classes for most of high school. I enjoyed a few years playing and being a father before Adam, like most teens, got into hanging out with his friends more, so I went back to my workaholism and grew Discovery Architectural Antiques into the largest salvage store in the USA.

Then came Tiny Texas Houses, a way to put all of the salvage to use positively, building tiny houses to build a community here at Salvage, Texas, one day. Many years have passed, and I put a million dollars into preparation to make this offer to others who will carry on when I am gone. At 69 years old, this time could come any day or be a few decades away, but I have no heirs to leave the legacy to. So, I want to set it up to benefit many when I am gone. Can you help by finding the people who will share in cashing out the land and then using the millions in inventory on hand to create the rest of this example and help start up a hundred Pure Salvage Outposts as a co-op to help others do the same? If you can help or know someone who wants to buy inventory, have millions on hand to help fund this dream. It will take the right people and the support, but the final product is an example of what could be done, and the people will help teach it by coming in and sharing their wisdom. That is my dream.

The path to finding good areas to live in and raise a child, school them, and perhaps live out your elder years is not accessible due to the property taxes of Texas that do not allow for us to get old and stop earning income, but still get taxed as if we are since there is no income tax in Texas except property taxes. This should be changed to a sales tax or income tax on those with the income, not those who get old and thus are forced to sell their homesteads. I propose taking the ten acres that I have now established ponds with beavers, otters, fish, and miles of shoreline and woods, and a chance to prove that we can build the houses here, set them up with services using solar wind, and the grid to create a community that could go off-grid and survive well for a year or two without needing to ask for government help. It would have worked for those who wanted to use the Tiny Texas Houses facility on-site, which is full of materials and was mothballed nearly a decade ago, to await these foreseen times after Covid.

Some people are gifted with a foresight that can be tapped to make preparations for the future they see coming, though most of the public does not. There is no way to tell others without looking like a negative person, but the facts are easy to read, and the economy will not improve for a while. What are we doing now to anticipate the many forced to downsize and have no affordable housing or alternatives to look to when they are evicted from their large homes? People do not need as much space to live as Americans have been accustomed to since the 1950s when the average middle-income home was under a thousand square feet. People were happy, and families had extra income to vacation, have savings, and live well. That time has passed and more adult children are living at home with relatives than ever in the last 150 years, over 55% of families have reconsolidated to survive. If not for that, the others who have no families often end up homeless, not doing drugs or saddled with addictions, just unable to afford the housing in the city as Blackrock and Blackstone, as well as other elite corporations and people, buy up all the land, housing, and control the food chain too.

Too much power and money in the hands of too few people are leading to a global rebellion that is cyclical historically, taking down kings, queens, and empowers time and again, generally after wars that destroy the country and economy. These are typically governed by crazy people who lose touch with reality and the conditions of the masses. It appears to be coming to a climax globally as the masses demonstrate their frustration and riots ensue. I am hoping to help create paths for solutions to manifest locally where they can help ease housing shortages without selling out to Blackrock or other real estate giants that have credit lines due to bank relationships based on the elite buddy system and not equality or the fair distribution of the wealth of the world. How do we make it possible for the masses to live well without destroying the many systems that benefit the public? I hope there is a way, but I do feel that the salvage, reuse, and creation of intentional communities with salvaged materials and well-planned intentions that are long-term into the future based so as not just to boot out all the people for corporation shareholder profits as is being done to mobile home parks and others nowadays.

Will you consider helping initiate this final transition stage into a trust that can be used to build and demonstrate what is possible? I am seeking the commitment the money to buy out any remaining debt and set up this example called Salvage, Texas, to create the venue to come and learn how to build, set up your Pure Salvage Outpost Co-ops, and possibly intentional communities using this model and support from the warehouse full of the materials to make this happen already in stock. We have the windows, doors, trim, walls, siding, roofing, and hardware on hand to do this, stashed away in over a hundred thousand square feet of warehouses and a place to build. I need to cash out the debt and then Wii, all of the people who will join together to be a part of making this possible.

Once there is water to grow, life of all sorts, green or alive, thrives, like the beavers, otters, fish, and wildlife that have thrived since the land was remedied from nothing to being a premiere example of what can be done.

I will contribute my assets and land to make this work as my last big hurrah before I age into the later years when I may not have the time, drive, or means to do this. I plan to travel to share the books, videos, and lessons that will empower the many to do what I have proven is possible, but with the help of others, what can be proven on a community level, a way to salvage the lives of people who need skills, even building tiny houses, or creating chicken coops, gardening, and the many ways that each of us might be able to add value to the community and thus pay for our part of being there. Please share with those you know who might want to dedicate a portion of their land to creating retirement communities on long-term leases instead of selling off family ranches or farms, thus adding value, possible workers to help on the farm, and a community to support each other when times get hard.

This offer is being tendered to see if the people with the means to help to be part of this in a way that will benefit you, your families, and others who can become part of a larger community of PSO Co-ops that could benefit many communities. Thank you for helping get the word out and bring together people to help finalize the years of preparation and let the massive inventories readied to create some 300+ tiny houses and community centers which will help launch the revitalization of our society. Thank you for your help.

Brad w. Kittel

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