Dragons Lair Birds take flight, as Wii might have to do to in Salvage, Texas, our paradise is endangered.

Rising from a man-made ecosystem that nurtures beavers, otters, turtles, fish, birds, and more, Salvage, TX., is endangered by a potential development to be turned into a parking lot. Help is needed.

I realize this is a reality far from the daily lives of many who might read about this episode in the predatory lending tale that started nearly ten years ago. Now, due to my refusal to accept liars, thieves, and the works of those demons of the day that act like bankers and your friends until they see the weakness or the chance to take all that you own. That is indeed the case for Southstar Bank, once known as Lonestar Bank, also once known as Moulton State Bank, before they started playing chameleon as they ruined the reputation of each name. The battles are many, victories none, as the lawyers who want to charge the cost of a house to defend me are out of reach, so the battle was done solo, pro se, and lost miserably.

The next phase of this process will be to liquidate the massive inventory stored away with hopes of becoming houses for many one day, but now must be moved away. I am having a huge sale over the next few months that will dwarf anything in the USA for materials of vintage quality, and stashed away for the decades while new materials for houses deteriorated in quality and rose in cost to the point that I can now sell you quality stuff for the price of the garbage in the big box stores. Getting into your car or trailer will not be as easy as the lightweight imports of toxic gases from vinyl, plastics, and chemicals sprayed on things to keep them preserved until they can outgas in your home. Instead, you could do wood on the walls and ceilings rather than sheetrock for a couple of dollars a square foot, the price of putting up the unhealthy shitrock that most do not know is full of toxic waste. Why not build a unique, healthy house that will last instead of one made from plastic, vinyl, shitrock, and other low-quality parts? Why not have less square footage for a smaller home but higher quality, and one that will last for a lifetime instead of 15 years, as the new houses are intended to last for little more before needing new roof, AC, heating, windows that fogged up, and other materials that disolve over time, like plastics.

Suppose you are considering using quality older materials, such as wood flooring, beaded wood for walls or ceilings, or perhaps real wood trim around the doors and windows that looks good. In that case, everything will be on sale at prices comparable to the big box stores, except for much better-looking and one-of-a-kind stuff. There are doors by the thousand to pick from to use instead of a crappy hollow core masonite door that will come apart in ten years. There are many ways of looking at the home you will live in, but the most important one is how healthy you will be if you live there. Many of the newer homes, especially the modular and trailer houses are full of chemicals for the first three to five years after they are built as they leach out of the materials with the gases like formaldehyde that cause hormone issues, health issues for many that go undetected but the symptoms seem mysterious and are common, so many people put them off, not understanding the house is making them sicker by the day. Often, the cost of maintaining a home this big, taxes due each year, insurance that goes up yearly, and the cost of utilities… this size house will make you poor by the time you die, with few to share the space once the kids move away. These often became boarding houses once the economy collapses, as in the economic depression of the past or the present one facing many.

If you want to put vintage materials into your new construction, the builder must be on board with your plan, but if you get a good builder, that will be fun for them. They will produce something they can be proud of instead of a simple shitrock box that looks like everyone in the neighborhood. If you are of the school that you do not want to live in cookie-cutter houses repeating down the block in gated subdivisions, this may be a way for you to get all your parts and break free from convention to build a unique and sustainable healthy house to live in for life. While many will scoff at the notion, having your home be an asset to your health and longevity instead of the reason for your poor health and rapid aging is possible. Stress kills, and the costs of a house can eventually be the stressor when you age, which can lead to illness when you are least able to handle it. Downsizing to a quality, healthy house before that time is a smart way to extend the life of your savings accounts for retirement.

Until people realize that the place where they spend much of their time, the bedroom and home, makes many people sick, they will not find a cure. I have had women at my seminars tell me of their allergy to formaldehyde causing health issues due to something as simple as a bookcase that was made of particle board giving off chemicals so strong it caused blistering in her nose, ears, and throat after only two weeks of having it in her office after it came in the mail and was assembled. The doctor spotted the issue when she went in to be examined due to the discomfort it was causing, and luckily, she had a good doctor who realized external sources, not internal infections, were causing it. The new homes, cars, and buildings are full of chemicals in the air and when you breathe them in they become part of you, being absorbed into the blood, Cleaned out by the liver, if it is still healthy enough, and over time, the load on your system will cause chronic inflamation which leads to cancer. Turbo-cancer is on the rise, as well as juvenile cases that are on the increase in dramatic fashion since the V-factor for Cov was put into place. Now, the evidence is showing that the spikes increase the chance of cancer, so take precautions and minimize your exposure to the triggers by not having a house that makes you sick.

If you plan to build a home or a tiny getaway master suite or house, large or small, I want to help you create it in a healthy format. Please feel free to call with your plans and needs to see if we can supply you with what it will take to create a healthy house. I am going to be offering some packages of materials that will make it possible to build 700 sf houses with windows, doors, trim, wood for walls, floors, and ceilings, rather than shitrock, and for under $15,000 for a package that will be unmatchable anywhere in the USA. Anyone interested in what you can do if you have the parts to work with? We may even offer owner financing with a good chunk down and pay us over 5-10 years at incredibly low or no interest in certain situations.

If you are willing to build with old materials and supply healthy houses, we will fund your operations with materials on credit so that you can create and pay us when you are done. This allows more people to get into the healthy housing business. Will they? This is the chance to find out. Who do you know to tell me about this opportunity? Will you help start someone up in business, building sustainable houses locally, by starting with your own?

If you are at the time of your life when this article makes sense, please follow up with the call to see if you could create your final getaway master suite, too. I can design your home based on the parts you pick and even supervise your contractors from afar, thanks to modern phones that let us picture, video, and communicate from nearly anywhere without being there.

For more information, contact me at BWK@TinyTexasHouses.com or call us at 512-636-6756 to book a consultation, get assistance in planning your home, or help with constructing it where you need it. We do not build to ship anymore, nor will we ever again, so please take this opportunity to get your parts before I shut down the warehouses and move on down the road of life.

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

Becoming a “Renaissance Man”: once a goal for many young boys, now seldom heard of anymore.

Few of the children born in the last two generations know what it means to have skills like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical, along with cultural skills.

TINY TEXAS HOUSES NEWSLETTER

MAY 07, 2025

Why have modern societies lost the impetus to create genius children who will grow into genius adults, constantly creating solutions and helping lead the world to greater heights? Often, the consequences of great success and comfort are the downfall of the societies that find them. I think the evidence is now for high-tech education, and the tools that make life too easy are becoming the bane of the newest generations of children that society has created. Technology is making it easier for children not to use their brains to calculate math, write, or draw. Effectively, computers and cell phones, TVs, movies, and distractions have left children with little reason to develop incredible potential within their minds, rather than focus on distractions outside their bodies. The cost to humanity is greater than most have realized, but the price is becoming apparent and is being utilized by specific forces to control the population without their awareness.

Our American society had reached a peak of prosperity supposedly when most jobs were service industry oriented, such as big box stores, restaurants, hotels, banks, and associated services such as house cleaning, care, nannies, yardwork on nothing but grass, and few therefore have any usable survival skills. Now there is a shortage of work in the service industries as robotics and technology like checkout scanners take over the industries the masses once worked for. Retail turns to Amazon or mail order, as in the 1800s when Sears and Montgomery Ward, JCPenney, and other stores sold their wares through catalogs mailed out regularly to people who ordered things and waited for weeks to have them show up.

This included houses, babies, and anything you could imagine that was manufactured in the 1800s. Now we have the internet, global shipping, and suddenly tariffs that will pop that balloon and cause a new rash of ingenuity, manufacturing, and finding loopholes to profit from the public in all countries, so they can be taxed to fund governments. This self-perpetuating cycle goes on whenever you have governments, workers to pay for, and the cost of supporting a culture, a society of many cultures being the most difficult of all to make happy. America and other nations are facing extreme issues of conflict due to mixing significantly different societies through mass immigration without the education for integration rather than separation as they filter into towns and cities.

This created Chinatown, Polish, German, and other immigrant territories that led to the big battles of New York City, Chicago, Detroit, and the South. History erased many of the horrific massacres of black, Chinese, Native Americans, and others who did not fit into the democracy controlled by the majority in the area at that time. Sadly, few know of the many times that the few were erased from towns, whether the minority of race, religion, creed, or national origin; it does not matter when the ignorant masses take control and lynch or burn others at the stake.

Historically, these events fractured society through the cultural breakdown that made it strong. The English used this to break India centuries ago, breaking the education systems and the societal pride that kept them united. These methods of dividing and conquering through ignorance has become so strong that few seem to know the concept of becoming a Renaissance Man who has many skills, is autodidactic, thus never halting learning, improving, and growing up to mature at 66-78 and become a leader of society under incredible abilities to understand and operate in many disciplines.

This has been lost, as have icons of strong women figures who were educated and doing research in days past when they were not allowed to own homes, and were forced to be owned themselves by the males or their families if widowed with children in the pre-1960 era. Yes, times have changed, but people have gotten weaker and do not understand how long or healthy they are supposed to live. Is the trend in media and government going to be what we need to give children a higher expectation for their lives than the present generations are experiencing with technology?

Imagination let me create this canyon, solo, at 63 years old. I saw what it could be, water from below, a spring, and then did the work to make it Be. In two months alone, I carved an impression into the Earth that few could erase alone. Life is good, thanks to God.

Sweden is the first to stop the Technology based education and go back to teaching the kids to use their minds and memory foremost, then add technology later due to the crippling effects on the minds of children who have been trained with too much technology that leaves the brains undeveloped and unimaginative—the loss of abstract visualization and accurate recall due to poor short-term and long-term memory circuit development.

I advocate for learning from being born to at least 7 years old, due to my extensive experience studying and doing social experiments with people in real time. The development and dissemination of the internet, computer integration into our society, and the cost for my son and others since I created the Discovery Incubator in 1996 have given me a unique perspective. During that time I had visions, prophecy one might say, and saw the future of VR, computers, the internet, with the black hole it opened that would suck the lives and souls of many into the void, the mystical void much like the Ouija Board of my childhood.

Too many answers with AI that resemble what was found led to tragedy, yet through a simple-looking game, it becomes proof that there is an intelligence that is not physical and will mislead those willing to follow its suggestions or believe what it may say.

Wii, the humans that see this dilema and can say what needs to be said, offer solutions, and assist in the reorientation of our path as a society of free-thinking humans or under the threat of self-imposed stupidity due to the inability to use logic, mathematics, imagination, and the fantastic tools of the brain that require training and efficiency within the body, not dependent upon a smartphone, laptop computer, or the internet. People need to be taught to maximize their thinking and operating skills physically and mentally, then grow into society as a fully functional being that can contribute to creating a fantastic world. By teaching children how to use the amazing bodies God gives us a chance to occupy for an amazing lifetime, Wii can do incredible things as well as raise a generation of genius kids that have skills as well as the ability to use technology to do even greater things once they have the inner skills and health to full utilize them all. This takes time, not just 18 years but 50+, so don’t feel rushed, but blessed when you have the opportunity to learn more skills, be smarter, faster, healthier than the day before, every day of your life.

May 4, 2025May 4, 2025

I came to Texas with $640 to make a million, living in a school bus in 1984, determined to self publish.

Who could imagine that it would take forty years to finish writing and move on to the next phase of marketing a series of books around the globe to fulfil my childhood dream?

TINY TEXAS HOUSES NEWSLETTER

MAY 04, 2025

I arrived in Austin in 1984 with $640 to my name, living in a school bus I built after working through college in 1981. I had left on an escapade in my bus, dreaming of writing the great American novel and publishing one day. Then I learned how the publishing industry was controlled and censored, and in my twenties, I decided to make a million dollars and self-publish my works, market them, and, naively, write literature one day. Now I near 70 and reach that point that my books are readied for print, the words written, and a great life lived fully to base a story on that can help others achieve the high plateaus of success that come from following their dreams, passions, and doing the work it takes to manifest your goals in life. Are you free to chase your passions? If not, focus, believe in yourself, and do the work it takes to make your dreams come true.

It is up to you, and you must believe in yourself to succeed. I never imagined this was possible as a crippled poor kid. Still, miracles happen daily, and you are one of them, just waiting to blossom into an amazing human being who can thrive and lead others to a healthy, happy life. Here is a primer on how to do that. Start by believing in your potential to do great things.

I had no friends, family, job lined up, or way to do it. Still, I had a dream, passion, and with a motorcycle in tow atop a Dodge pickup truck, I snuck into the state on July 4th, 1984, with expired tags by two years, no insurance, inspections, and one foot longer than was legal with my truck in tow. From there, many stories over the years, but I made my first million on paper by 35, only to learn it was nothing once cashed out, and by then, my son Adam Brad Kittel was 5 years old, and I was caught up in making more millions. My East Austin career revitalized the French Place area from its low point due to crime and boarded-up houses closing in. I was one of the homeowners who forced back the Bloods, Crypts, and other groups franchising from California to Texas.

For over a decade, I was a real estate broker under the moniker Discovery Investments Inner City Home Brokers. I made my first million buying and fixing up the worst houses in my area, the 78722 zip code. I bought the condemned, boarded-up, and dangerous properties that no one else would touch for as little as $5,000 and sold them for $47,000-$67,000 in the 1980s, which would now sell for $670,000 for the same house. I was accused of gentrifying the neighborhood because the prices went up as the crime went down, and the remodeled and updated houses on the street inspired other residents to fix up their homes, too. I called that the “Jones Effect” as it was basically keeping up with the Joneses syndrome.

I specialized in classic old houses, which I fixed up, rented, and resold once I figured out that was a way to make millions. I also created the Discovery Incubator, the largest cybercafe in the USA, in I996, which was too early in the technology game to be profitable or viable for a few months. Then the Dot Com Boom hit, and by then, I had moved to Gonzales, Texas, to create the largest Architectural Antiques business in the USA: Discovery Architectural Antiques, which was on This Old House and other TV shows during my reign there.

Much of the story included going on to create Tiny Texas Houses, which is known around the world for the 95% Pure Salvage Building ethos, which has proven to be more than an idea, but a concept that could solve many problems for housing the many who need and want tinier, affordable houses that last for a lifetime.

Salvage, Texas, is an intentional village model for nature and people built on an industrial waste dump. It is meant to be an example of that intentional community concept with organic living, grounding, home schooling, healthy living as a group that can support each other as Wii travel the world to share this incredible health at later ages is possible.

I prove by example now at 70 in October, that men reach their peak at 66-78 years old, something unimaginable at 30 for me. I am in far better physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual condition at this great age, and finally, I am ready to market the books I have written. I type at 150 wpm and hope to begin marketing and traveling around the world and use ten million dollars worth of salvage materials I collected for building 300 tiny houses as a means of paying for publishing and traveling by expensing off all travels and lectures to help others using the profits from salvaging hundreds of homes and buildings when I was in my fifties. This means it will enable millions of others to benefit from this ethos and the Pure Salvage Outposts I hope to help create in towns everywhere I can reach. Salvaged materials can create incredible future careers and homes for millions of people… my mission is still ahead in this short lifetime.

This is part of the books that I am working on while figuring out where the people will come from to carry on the functions of sorting and selling the millions of dollars in materials that are stored in warehouses ready to build without imports, toxins, plastics, and with the longevity of houses that are still standing a hundred years after being built in Austin, Texas where I learned to respect these parts.

More millionaires are made from salvaging and fixing old houses than any other business in America. I hope to share this with others so they can thrive in hard times. This is the path to success for those willing to work and use imagination and loopholes to master the matrix. If you are considering that path to riches, I suggest starting small and working your way up, as there can be many surprises when you are remodeling a home that some think should have been torn down.

The objective for my next decade will be to share the path and means for others to follow and create homes from the remnants of those that can not be saved and must be torn down. Salvaging the parts of the many houses that are no longer servicable will open the door for millions of people to build homes without buying anything from a big box store but the screws, nails, and other parts that can not be found through salvaging other structures. It is much easier than people seem to think and far more profitable than nearly any other business someone can get into for a small amount of upfront investment.

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Success with Salvage: A Short Book on the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance.

Tiny Texas Houses and Pure Salvage Living…

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I have written articles on how to find houses, bid on salvage rights, and get the materials to build excellent tiny houses as alternatives to the big box houses that most are forced to buy because of a lack of other options. Tiny houses are a great path to financial freedom, rather than being indebted for life for a house with an enormous maintenance cost that worsens over the years due to the poor quality of construction. This path to self-destruction of our financial situation has been taught to people through the media, selling everyone on having a bigger house than their parents or their peers did. The illusion that materialism brings happiness has taken over most people, as if a big house or fancy car defines success. It does not work that way, but so many are trapped in the matrix of materialism that they can not break away or even imagine living a simpler life.

If you want to alter course and simplify your life, get healthier and more youthful as you shed the stress and burdens of servicing debts for things that do not make you stronger or better, and change your life. You can alter the course of your life by studying what you could do to downsize and eliminate the things that do not make your life better the next day. Stop the bad habits that destroy your healthy body or financial status. STOP the addictions to sugars, alcohol, or other things you put into your body that cause it to get fat, unhealthy, and age faster than you should. Become the example for children, demonstrating how incredible we can be as elders in a society that once considered us a burden on society instead of the leaders and assets that must be honored and cared for to keep a society intact.

If not, the family unity dies along with the unity in a community. Honoring and respecting our elders for their contribution to our world is essential, but so are the consequences of not contributing or caring for others in your community. Without a common bond, a unity that benefits all those in a society, people will suffer, be left out of the benefits that come from community, and rather than be an asset, they become a liability for the others who did their part, the work to make a community great.

Are you part of a community, or are you outside of society, mostly isolated in an apartment or home and using the TV for companionship? Many are caught up in the internet for their social network, not face-to-face relationships with people, causing our society to become detached from face-to-face interactions, which are essential for a balanced life. The need for this is growing as people suffer from the isolation that results from the detachment from living as opposed to vicariously experiencing life by watching others play sports, do the things that people want to do but get to lazy or lack the willpower to actually go out and do it instead of watch it be done. Sadly, many people sit on a couch or chair and get fat, unhealthy, and develop health issues due to a lack of physical activity and overeating foods full of sugars, toxins, and poisons that cause them to age faster and suffer sicknesses due to their diets.

Wake up if you are sleeping through a wonderful life and not experiencing the best part of it, being active and chasing the passions, the dreams you had as a child. Never stop being a youthful being growing stronger toward maturity at 66-78 instead of aging out early and dying in pain. Be strong with intention, eating well, getting your exercise, and living in a tiny house that lets you have the free time to live life instead of work and worry about servicing a debtload for crap you did not need to buy, eat, or wear on your body so you could think you are cool, part of the click you want to be accepted by. Be the example others will look at and want to emulate for all the benefits, and show the kids growing up that it is possible to be incredible instead of forgettable, and regretting your actions throughout your youth.

Savor the days of your life as treasure for your memories, your adulthood that will be incredible if you take care during your youth and honor your vessel, your body that Spirit occupies while on this planet. You are a miracle walking and can do miracles while alive, but you should know that your behavior determines your future health, wealth, and decisions. In contrast, youth will decide if you genuinely enjoy the latter half of your life, which I believe is far better than the beginning. The first fifty years are just the time it takes to grow into an adult, much to my dismay, for I thought I was an adult at thirty. Indeed, it is our nature to think we are mature early in life and know everything before we actually learn what we must to finally understand the meaning of our life, if we are lucky enough to learn it, and then follow it to a successful end.

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