Yes, it appears like this road will come to an end soon. I will put to bed after searching for the protege or others who want to grow Tiny Texas House communities.
For Sale: the land and building that houses the Tiny Texas Houses operations. I have tried my best, taking over a dozen years to nurture the concepts. With the end of my role in the arena of tiny housing manufacturing, I will offer the chance for someone else who may well be a better businessman than I was, as that is no longer on my list of things I want to do in life. Running a business is a demanding life and can pay well. Still, at 69, I have had my fill of running companies, having employees, and paying outrageous taxes for the privilege of having workers. I liked helping Americans overcome the housing crisis. It appears like the runaway train will not have anyone on the tracks to warn others or to slow the train down before it goes entirely off the tracks soon. Housing in America will reach crisis levels fast as the economy crumbles further due to the massive layoffs and industrial decline in progress.
The war-machine industry may be booming, but all others are suffering dearly and will soon lead to an economic depression unlike any in history, yet business will continue. The time to grow a business is historically during a recession or depression. I am not at the point in my life where I wish to do that again. I was pretty successful in my past businesses. Now I want to write my books to help others create intentional villages from salvage, to perpetuate the idea of healthy tiny houses for an alternative to the big shitrock monstrosities that fill subdivisions by the millions now at prices few can afford without enslaving themselves for a few decades to jobs they do not like. I will be selling off massive inventories if no one chooses to purchase the building with the potential to regrow the business now as I have no intention of cranking up a business with employees, taxes, and the many headaches of entrepreneurship anymore.
So, the property is up for sale. I hope to see a great person buy the whole thing, not just the land, but the millions in inventory that I will parse out otherwise worldwide. Why not check out the incredible financing I can offer on large orders of materials for projects, especially the development of tiny villages and communities focused on breaking out of the city life. Join the millions who are choosing to raise kids in a better environment while developing the food with gardens, farm animals, and the older style of healthy homestead living. I want the wealth of materials to go to these types of projects and will do all I can to help facilitate that. Let me know if you have anyone who you can connect me with to assist them in manifesting their dreams for a better reality than what many are facing today.
Do you need some materials for some big projects? Now is the time to look into it as I will be financing materials for projects too. Do you have a tiny community intended but have not found the resources to build it yet? Check with me sooner than later to make it happen. [email protected] for more information on the property or materials, the business for your future, or more.
I offered solutions to downsize in a healthy way and create a more reasonable living scenario for millions stuck in the city, aging out with no income increases that will keep up with living costs. Millions will go homeless before the end of 2025, and nothing is being done to offset a known outcome from the high inflation of housing and food costs.
This is not a short-term problem, but if the solutions are ignored in favor of building more housing that is too expensive, too big, and poorly constructed to be of great value in fifteen years. The unhealthy materials used for housing today make people sick without knowing why. Ultimately, when the costs of maintenance, taxes, and insurance are considered, all rising faster than the incomes of elders who occupy the houses, they will be forced to move out, sell out at the worst time, and most likely to giant corporations that will use the homes for rentals as they grow their inventories using unlimited bank loans and charge the interest for the takeover costs to the renters.
This is going to continue, and clearly, I am not going to make a dent in the problem, so I am shutting down the warehouses with the materials to build 500 tiny houses, a few hundred 400+ square foot houses with lofts that would serve many well… but no one is interested in helping to make that happen, especially the government that should be supporting. What will come of the future for those who are forced out into the cold and lose all their possessions, their jobs for lack of a home to live in, and ultimately, the destruction of many families who will never recover from the loss of their home? Unfortunately, my suggestions and solutions that could be implemented to create a few hundred houses and start the trend of building with more salvaged materials and smaller houses that suit the needs of many instead of just servicing the profits of the giant house-building corporations that have no concern for the public needs, just profits.
This is for the opening from the bath into the living areas so that air can flow to cool if needed or to let the sun shine in… lol
So many people do not know they could use antique windows to build a tiny house. There are no codes on portable buildings used as tiny houses you can live in full-time if you stay away from draconian cities and counties scattered across the land. How do you find such places? Where do you go to hide and do the things you want to without being dictated to and lied to when the public gets caught up in all the problems that must subside?
Would you use such windows in your house?
Congratulations if you can’t escape the trap at the gate that lets you live without rent or income. The other 99% must consider where to live and, with consent, even have to still pay rent at 69 years old or more. If not, they kick you out the door. How does this happen as Wii age at last and realize that the living costs are far beyond what Wii had planned and Social Security is not enough on hand?
There is a rapidly growing trend toward downsizing. Despite that, there is no decent tiny housing as an alternative to apartments owned by Blackstone and the gang of elites that control most of all the housing you can get. Houses must be built that accommodate the many singles and those who want a place they don’t have to share or fear they might be forced to move away.
Can we create villages where some can live and garden and raise the farm critters that feed their families and friends? If so, we must do so soon, or there won’t be near any room in the city for the many who cannot earn the insane costs now for rent in the cities where they’re stuck.
We should come up with other places outside the big cities for the many who are now retired and do not need to work. When the checks come in, grocery stores and a trip to town will get most of what they need around the first of the month. The rest of the time, they could garden and read, get exercise, and play with the kids who the elders are raising while the youngers work outside the place where they can hide with pride, an intentional community they all call home.
Solutions are out there everywhere to fix your problems soon. You could create a new career. Look into the future with new “I”s to grow and see what you can do to form the new “You” once you finally understand what you can still do. You are never too old to learn a trade that will be better than the one that has seen its better days. You can be nearly anything you decide to be if you do the work and focus on your goals, not the next party. Join the millions in the search for how they will fit in when AI takes their job or the stores never open up where they need a million people doing robot work again. Prepare for learning new ways to thrive and get along as the old days are changing, and you will not go very far if you are not changing with them to grow better by the hour.
Join us in the transformation of a fat and lazy nation. They will have no choice soon but to get up and get out to do what they once paid others for as their saving dwindles and the dollar loses value while the Bitcoin values are bound. What have you put away to save for the rainy days that came? If not prepared and getting scared about a job or worse, a house to live in and stay warm as winter is setting in. Beware of the cold and the heating costs as this year will be the worst in many decades since the snow came down with such great haste. Know that moving is a good thing, South the way to do so that you don’t spend your saving on heating oil when it gets cold.
When you get ready to be warm and come to Salvage, Texas, for the winter storms, know that you will do just fine and share our world of daily sunshine. Thanks for thinking of us when the feet of cold snowfall, and do not hesitate to think we will wish for it down here cause that ain’t gonna happen unless it is quickly gone. Wii don’t mind a few inches in the night and for it to last for days, but by the third day, it must melt and always goes away. Thanks for thinking as you look outthe windows at the snow. The view down here is better with the windows open still. The green leaves still hold birds; yes, they will be green all year. The grass may die off for a day or two, but I trust it will grow long before you see the ground in Michigan.
Yes, it is possible to have an incredible night of sleep, healing, and transforming into the amazing person you will become in the morning. Make yourself incredible by sleeping better.
In a room where I sleep, some things make it deep.
Are you hanging from the sky? Sleeping with the stars above or with the sunrise looking in your eyes at your bedside. This is my pride and joy, my bed that hangs there through each night and lets my breathing swing my bed to dream in great delight. What makes this so unique that few can know without sleeping for a night while swinging to learn of my delight? For ten years, I have floated deep throughout each night. I can not tell you of a time before that in my life when I slept and healed so well through my sweet nights.
There is no air-conditioned world, but with the air throughout the night that comes from outside where, the frogs and crickets sing to me throughout the night. Wii wonder as the dreams turn into days that amaze and thrill through the actions taken when I walk on the Earth for another day. The sunrise hits my eyes, and I charge up with rays that are the source of life. They ease my strife as I see it daily. I am so thrilled to go out into my future at the end of my night of floating in the air throughout another night. What will you make of the day ahead? A dream is fulfilled or an excuse when you end the day and pray at the bedside to do your best after one more night. What will you do when you get up and go to be the best part of tomorrow’s show?
Do you want to know the path to freedom and excellent health? Do you follow the sun’s rhythm that will make your life so grand when you charge up your sweet vessel with the sun that fills the land? Youthing is simple if you desire to live 100 years and never have cause to complain. Why doesn’t Wii teach it to the kids? More importantly, the elders wish to regain youthful living so their dreams can be lived out before their spirits move along. I live in a new truth that aging is a mental state. I have learned that you can bring decay faster if you disrespect the vessel that gives life as your body ages faster if you don’t respect it in your youth. Why not teach the old and young to remain youthful now instead? Start with how you sleep at night and wake to dream again. Love yourself and save your youth by sharing what keeps everyone healthy.
Be the example of what Wii can do once Wii get the calling and figure out what we’re here to do. Tell us how to make the future better for you if you are willing to do the work for those who live with you. Create the community and rebuild the towns. Form your future with the promise of what can come about. The community, with unity, can succeed in forming what it takes to build a village that all are thankful to be part of. Join Mii as I seek to help as many as I can to form the Outposts where the salvage can be reformed into the best houses for the future that are genuinely built the best, without the toxins and the imports, to last for a lifetime as the test.
If you want to help your town and your family or start an intentional community where the gardens can grow with the homeschooled kids into geniuses, I wish to lead us in the future. This is my mission and my prayer, that you might see and be inspired to start a Co-op there and create the houses of the future to be the very best that Wii can build together and know Wii have passed the test of proving what Wii can do locally, and thus do best. Please stop the madness of sending jobs to places far away and ship the products they create that take our jobs away. Stop the madness and the waste of assets here to grow your business, feed your family, shelter the masses, and know you are doing what God would deem the best in this life test. The hardship and necessity is the proverbial Mother of Invention on the way in the next few years.
Thanks for sharing all the information you can with those who want to do the work of salvaging or building the houses that the Baby Boomers need, like all the rest who can not afford the Blackrock prices as they control the rents. Strike out on your dreams to have a path to own a house instead. Join others in finding the land, building houses, and taking a stand for the future of housing that is made for the common man. For more information, for a building plan, for the parts and pieces to create your dream, and to send the rest of the people who will join you, follow us on Substack for the path to that sweet end.
A decade ago I attempted to help teach others how to become millionaires through salvage mining, building, and hunting the cherries often hidden in old houses, buildings, and barns.
Here is the example I created as a model. It was a successful adventure, but it was not repeated many more times after this video due to the logistics and lack of profit to support the seminars unless I were to take that on more frequently. I did not personally, as I accumulated too much inventory from salvaging and did not sell it right away but stored much of it for later. Have you listened to the Song of Salvage that was created for this video?
Today, I am preparing to release those many treasures back into the environment of people who now see the value better, want to build with salvage, and will perhaps carry on the torch of conservation and sustainable building without imports, toxic new building materials that outgas, or imports from the far sides of oceans. This is an accumulation of many decades of collecting for the times that the materials would be valued for their quality and longevity. No, it is easy to see the difference compared to expensive, new, inferior building materials that are imported, often toxic from the outgassing of chemicals, and a realization that all new building materials manufactured create more pollution. The only way to reduce consumption is to salvage, reuse, and repurpose all things in the creation lifecycle to disposal. Our goal must turn toward lengthening the life of products made for as long as possible instead of creating unrepairable disposable products out of plastics and other toxic materials once disposed of in the environment.
Here is an example of what to learn and know when doing salvage mining on old structures. It goes well with the videos on the El Campo Expedition and Salvage, a musical score that shows the action of 7 days in 7 minutes and the product, process, and success without drawing blood from the salvagers, the key important thing in the world of Salvage Mining. Join me to look at what you can do to grow your wealth, health, and homes out of salvage.
The El Campo 1860‘s Hotel Salvage Mine
Seminar #1: Salvage Mining Testing Waters for December 2011
Here is a Salvage Mining Project that I want to do as a seminar and volunteer operation during the Christmas school break since so many people have time off. Otherwise, it will be off in January 2012, possibly a bit colder by then. I have found a rare jewel of a Salvage Mine in an 1867 circa Texas Hotel. Entering is like stepping into a time capsule to see a hotel’s plain, straightforward interior from early Texas history. It looks like it was never redecorated in the century and a half since it was built. It stands bravely still while bearing the weight of giant Live Oak trees that finally leaned on its roof after growing up together side by side and shading their home from the harsh weather year-round.
I am calling to determine the interest level for participating in a holiday vacation Salvage Mining seminar on this opportunity. The location is 30 minutes from the Texas coastline in El Campo, Texas, about an hour from Houston, 2 1/2 from Austin or San Antonio, and 40 minutes from Victoria. A trip to the Texas coastline will be for nearly anyone who has not seen it yet but doesn’t expect it to look like the Pacific coastline. I will need a participation fee to cover the complexities of setting this up so far from our home base in Luling. Still, it is worth letting everyone who can share in this educational and inspiring experience. From the Hotel to the houses it forms with our imagination, I want to let some people with a passion for this come and learn, then take it out into the world and share it with others who will do the same. It takes volunteers and people who can afford to contribute money to make things like this happen, as well as time and effort in the form of human energy, to carry this concept forward. The individual sacrifice of time and money will make this a Pure Salvage Living solution more than just good conversation and fascinating coffee table books.
This “1800s Hotel is an incredible relic of the past that I hope some history buffs would want to track down, document, and even record stories from the old timers locally who will have some tall tales to tell, if I imagine right. I think past guests will come out of the woodwork to help put the past on record. While I realize some will want to keep it for its historic nature, that time is past, functionally obsolescent. It is a treasure of history that should be passed on and not be lost. It will be re-manifested as several beautiful Tiny Texas Houses that will live on for centuries if the bugs and fire leave it alone. Incredibly, the Hotel still has the original Milk paint on the beaded ceilings, walls, and parts and pieces for two floors.
There has been no re-muddling over the century and a half, just the original green milk paints and a few other great colors that most of us treasure and appreciate. It should be all square-nailed and have a quick takedown because so many boards are long runs and in good condition. The fire brick will be beautiful, as will the doors and the stairwell, which are original and clear for shorter-footed people than me. I am thrilled with this opportunity to share this trove of history, material, human energy, and future homes for generations to come. I have seen a lot of salvage, and this will be one of the cleanest, fastest, and most excellent materials I have done.
We have a unique opportunity to find a visually fantastic find from the “1870s,” with many stories to be found locally. I hope to hear and retell the tales of the life energies that passed through and walked on those 5” Long Leaf Pine floors. This simple hotel could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of guests. This Hotel was built from trees that were centuries old when they were cut down. The wood will all be Long Leaf Pine or Cypress, and we will find a good bit of both, which had to be at least 185 years old to be considered mature enough to cut. That is how long it took to instill the bug resistance and rot resistance characteristics of Cypress, as well as the unmatched strength of Long Leaf Pine. Given they were still abundant in the late “1800”’s, the quality will be unmatched by any wood found in stores today.
Fortuitously, there is a vacant farmhouse on the property with running water and electricity, so it should be possible to have an incredible camp for a fast takedown and a lesson in maximizing yield on a Salvage Mining expedition with minimal waste or hazard. Though it will need some cleanup, with water and electricity for camping out and having RV space and electric water connection for additional people, we should have some fun. Can I set it up yet? I’m unsure of that, but it is one of my possible realizable goals. It just sealed the deal on the house last week.
What it will take.
If we do a seminar and have 10 (=/—depending on the level of paid response based on resources needed to host it) paid people or volunteers, we could take it down over a weekend if everyone gets on it. The weather cooperates, nothing goes wrong, and we have the nail shooter or two to speed up the cleanup. Notice how that “nothing goes wrong slips in?”
Benefits will include:
Plans for the specialty tools used to take the house apart, The chance to get sets of plans as a package that the Hotel creates 1st chance to be part of a seminar on building a house from this material
Some parts and pieces of the Hotel to take home Certification for passing Salvage Mining 101 to become a Pure Salvage Miner To be a charter member of a movement that needs you to grow into a solution for our present world needs and preservation To contribute to creating a video, being in the credits for your work, and being a part of the action and dialogue in a Pure Salvage Living event.
They are shouting from the rooftops. Actually the ceiling of the second floor.
The seminar could include some food, paperwork, an early draft of parts of our Ebook, and plans for the houses that will be created from the Hotel we take down. That could be three or four Tiny Texas Houses or more before we are done. The package of pictures, plans, materials to be taken from the site, participation in tear down, and education should be worth the $495-$750 for the seminar, several levels depending on care, food, and package upgrades like the video. I aim to produce an informative and educational tool for each Salvage Mining student who comes for the event and an offering to what I hope will be a growing membership in the Pure Salvage Living world ahead. I am sure I will involve some volunteers who may see future opportunities evolve from this endeavor, such as careers and mentoring opportunities that will change lives before they are passed.
T-shirts, armbands, and a great El Campos Salvage Mine Poster since it is so picturesque. Imagine one showing it up in the middle and various stages coming down pictured smaller around the outer edge. The video and the accessories are worth $100 in such a package or more. Packages of nails, parts, and pieces will be marketed to help pay for production and get the story out to everyone. This is possible for volunteers, too, because I believe that taking home the parts and pieces will tell a story a hundred times instead of just a few and connect to the tangible memory we can easily share to educate and inspire the children who will live in these houses one day if I succeed.
We will include square nails, beaded wood, parts and pieces found along the way, and great memories that will last a lifetime for each participant in the package. The quantity recovered, and the number of participants will limit the gifts.
Scrap packages for making projects from your part of the Booty from the Salvage Mine. This is one of the best projects of my career, though it may look like nothing from the outside because it has:
Great pre-1900 circa materials, minimal updating over its life
Very little trash or waste from the project Nearly not obvious contaminants Easy takedown, Relatively speaking, of course. Easy nail removal due to having so many square nails. A nail remover gun will be on hand. Initially, they only had a few nails used as they were scarce.
The seminar fee would include some of the house wood and materials as part of the seminar cost, as in 15-25 square feet of the beaded wood or other packages that we will create as the desire for what people would like is clarified. Window sashes with blown glass, hand-made bricks, firebricks, and other treasures found will also be available for sale within the group first.
The chamber stove will be traded off or kept for the TTH community kitchen.
In a perfect world, we create some things to build from the parts and offer them in the seminar program as a parts package.
Short notice limited entry into the seminar, prepaid, nonrefundable. Reservation: 3 days, two nights, or how many days, or full project commitment?
Absolute Liability waivers signed …. required. We cannot be responsible or insure people against the many hazards of salvage any more than the drive or the airplane trip here. This is old fashioned being responsible for yourself if you agree to come, for though I will do my best to give fair warning about wearing the right shoes or gloves, or how things fall from overhead, I cannot keep mistakes and fate from coming into play. I don’t want anyone to come with expectations that I can ensure nothing will go wrong, so please don’t hold me to it.
By participating, you agree that Pure Salvage Living will keep the Filming rights and releases for use in our documentary about the project. Credits for all involved will be included in the film.
The dates and times need to be confirmed, but it is hard not to lean toward the end of the month due to the scheduling nightmare this will create at Tiny Texas. it would be a great way to bring in the New Year symbolically, out with the old, and in with the new. This will be a year of this metaphor taking hold of our world in a way we have never imagined. I hope my vision for a Pure Salvage Living Movement can be one of the many solutions we need to get us through it and on a better path as a nation and a world.
Copies of the filming of the Salvage Mining of our 1867 Texas Hotel will be available in DVD and accessible to the volunteers and seminar participants in
the film or part of the project. Participants are included in the credits, but there will be no future income from any video production if one happens.
Since salvager tools are not as common as most we offer:
Plans for the specialty tools used to take the house apart,
Sell sets of plans as a package that the Hotel creates
Have a seminar on building one of them, and 1st chance to be part of the project will include lessons on Flooring pullers. Beam bars Giant crowbars Med-small bars Crow’s feet and eagles claw 1890’s Nail pullersAntique Nail pullers Blacksmith tools that work New Nail Pliers Pneumatic Nailers make work fast and easy. I will show the best tools and how to use them. Techniques for different woodDe-nailing for the preservation of primary surface Using leverage for speed The Zen of Nail-pulling 101 Mind over Muscle and rhythm means higher yield and efficiency. Teach nail-pulling techniques that speed up productivity. Possible associated class: The 4-hour class would teach how to build all custom tools ✤ precut parts but do one, for example ✤ offer packages of precut parts for welding later. ✤ tools available for sale or order to be made:✤. Take orders for those we can fabricate ✤ possibly have some others for sale ✤ Memory specialized tools because we ✤ need more for use that could be sold at the end of the project ✤ Or give them away as prizes for the best user of each
Teach some of the terminology we use in the business: Tongue and groove
Board and batten Beaded wood Shiplap Dimensional lumber terminology, Etc
Talks about how to calculate quantities of materials Estimating Salvage Value Sorting for more value etc Appraising value after salvage
Marketing materials, if not needed for the project Bartering materials for the materials market
Talks on wood identification for Texas wood of the last century
Cypress Long Leaf Pine Black Walnut Loblolly Pine Mesquite (will bring samples) Red Oak White Oak Live Oak Cottonwood Cedar Fir (imported) >40 yr old Pines
Discuss the Sequence for tearing down a house of this type.
✦ roof or if raining ✦ inner walls ✦ ceiling down ✦ Discuss the various hazards of Salvage Mining, including war stories
Discuss the precautions people should consider taking and why.
Packing the materials properly on a trailer for transport
level load balanced load so as not tongue light properly strapped load sized sorted de-nailed flags on over-length loads
Proper materials storage for maximum lifespan
Stacking Covering Spacing from ground Spacing between wood types Shorts and Longs
Identifying wood damage due to insects and rot
Termite damage and type Wood Bores Wood Rot Dry Rot
Rodent Damage Water Damage
Corrections and treatments are needed for wood damage and issues. Antique Builders Hardware
Door Hardware of this period Window Hardware
Possibly a tutorial on inspection Cleaning Repair The terminology for working with builders’ hardware and paperwork is to be included in the package.
Much of this will depend on how much time the participants are willing to spend listening to me talk. I aim to record as much as possible so I don’t have to repeat it a million times. Then, everyone can appreciate the story this Hotel will be able to tell to billions of others down the road. I seek an inspirational example of what human energy can do. We can show it to people, plant the seeds of inspiration, fuel the imagination, and provide the spark to ignite our passion and wake up that fire within to save our world. It behooves us to save our past, to use it to build a new world that will look so much like the best of the old paradigm, to not only house us into the next century but remind us of the best parts of humanities past that need to be preserved as carefully as our planet.
If you can support us, either by being here as a seminar participant, donating to help make it happen (no, we are not 501C anything), in time, money, and support, Thank you in advance for your participation if you choose, but foremost just for having been interested in this dialogue, considered this perspective, and taken the time to read this far.
I intend to take what we have done so far and share the process and the results with the people it will benefit the most. This is the next mission in our growth. I believe the changes will come from planting the seeds and the visual images proving it can be done. Ultimately, it is the physical experience of what it feels like, not just on the outside, but on the inside, when you sense the energy of the materials and their past lives and know you preserved it for another century. This is an opportunity to change the world on an individual level and be part of the dialogue in our society through the actions we take in our daily lives, not the words we speak but never act on.
Interested? Salvage Mining Sponsors
Like-minded businesses wanting to help Salvage Tool Makers Salvage Furniture Makers Local businesses wanting to have people share their food and hotels. National Movements that wish to support Pure Salvage Living
Salvage Mining Mentors & Donors
Generous entities that support saving history, as well as the parts and pieces that made it all possible. Non-profits are interested in sharing the benefits and energy that unity can create for this cause.
Private people who are limited physically for any of many reasons but want to show their support, come watch and be a part of this, or get a package from it and learn about it afterward. People who are too far away to come but want to offer support to prove we can do the same near their hometowns and spread the Pure Salvage Living movement there, too.
Salvage Mining Apprentices (paying seminar attendees with benefits) Sacrifice to learn comes in many forms, but the time is hard to give anymore when the job calls, so paying for the knowledge on a crash course but not having to spend much time costs money. Please know that the seminar fees will be worth the experience you help make it be, and I will do all I can to make it life-changing in every way I can.
Volunteers, likewise, work pays for the knowledge and the time, but with slim resources comes slim opportunities. I sympathize and want to offer up some openings to overcome this problem, but camping, water, and space may be tight and space to work without hurting each other. Two shorter shifts are possible, and we could make it look like the magic it should be. There are lots of nails for everyone, and the volunteers must prove themselves to work their way up the Apprenticeship ladder.
I will offer up Salvage Mining Certificates at the end of the Salvage job for various positions and achievements with every Salvage Mining Expedition. I am sure these awards will always be the most prized and duly decorated.
Salvage Mining Veterans and Old Timers
If you have a history, recent or extended in the past If you know about how this was built because you did it once as a boy If you know your wood and grew up in the Lumber Industry when Texas was a forest. If you have the hotel’s story because you love the history, it is vital to respect salvage mining. If you wish to share the last vestiges of a time when we built with our hand tools, not electricity,
Suppose you spent your life Salvaging Mining as a business or having the opportunity to build a home for your family. Most have forgotten how many people were able to build houses in America with materials salvaged after storms, fires, earthquakes, and wars. It’s been a long time since they needed to.
If you remember building out of 99% Pure Salvage in the old days when every board and nail had a value that could not be matched by any reasonable means. Salvage Building is not a new occupation or idea.
If the weather and opportunity permit, I hope to assemble some real old-timers to tell tales in the evenings after the work day is done and the hammers come to rest. Since that will only be for a few hours, I would like to limit the number of speakers yet offer the chance for a number to come, especially the ones who can support us as donors and mentors.
Salvage Mining Support Services Food
Video Photography Internet support Editing support Event coordinating skills Waste and clean-up service
Salvage Mining Volunteers (can also be from the ranks of all above)
Physically participate in take-down Support help in food, sanitation, Nursing if we need it, as a healer, not a pro Cooks if we are to create an onsite fare for a variety Music, yes, there is enough space for a couple of styles of tunes.
I’m hoping for the best, and this could be the test.
If it works, we have another possible January date closer to New Braunfels and Seguin, Texas. More info on that teaser will come later. I’m glad you read this far.
Here is a very short, action-packed invite to learn more and see why.
Not long after this seminar, the desire for more ended. This was the first year after my son, Adam Brad Kittel, passed on to the other side of the veil of life.
I did have a couple more seminars, but there came a time after my son passed when the desire to work so hard slipped away to focus on other things. How do Wii take these treasures and put them back to use, except by convincing others that it is the right way to move again? Salvage mining, building, and hunting could provide millions of jobs, houses, and resources that would not have to be imported to build a new generation of housing where it is needed most, in the lower-income classes where mansions for their old age are not possible as it is for the 1% at the top of the economic spectrum. The time is here to develop new ways to create tinier housing that can be grouped on lands instead of lawns with gardens and trees growing all about. When will the world wake up?
I grew up liking cash, but it seems to be losing its luster as a fiat currency awaiting a Black Swan event, Brics hitting the dollar in the face, and then the race to dump them may follow.
Is Bitcoin the answer for a dying dollar? Once, I laughed like many when it was first being launched. I passed up buying it for a buck or two a coin simply because it was too hard to be sure I could set it all up. I see it now! It can be a viable way to transfer things from Mii to you, but I have some work to do to get up to speed. Therefore, I am just beginning to create the path for Bitcoins to buy products to build with; a million reasons for trading this or that in a cybercoin seems weird, but so does the rest of the world. I am ready to put up a couple of million for sale using Bitcoin and the launch of SalvagedBitsocoin.com soon as the vehicle for salvage to Bitcoin to take it to the next level.
Am I drifting into the haze by saying I will accept a million dollars in Bitcoin for a million dollars in Cobalt Blue Japanese tile, or Long Leaf Pine beams, fantastic hardware, and other rare architectural things? Yes, I am finally ready to believe that the coin can achieve a value that may last if I can keep from losing the wallet until I try to spend what I might make.
Please tell those who own Bitcoin I will help turn them into houses with parts as good as gold. Who do you know has a stash of Bitcoin? I have met a few lucky wise ones who invested their few dollars at a time when they only cost $1. So, I will post a few pictures of what could be bought with Bitcoins and see if there are people out there who own them and want to use them in such ways as might escape the gaze of those who wish to tax such things as barter and exchanges that have no value, technically, just cyber currency that no one can see traded for salvage; trash in so far as the government can see.
I am on a path to making the world safe and accessible. The IRS has never shown much concern for me except to overtax and spend it on wars and helping illegals stay free. I think it would be good to see some more supportive currency than one that gets taxed all to hell for using it to remain free as an American, earning the money it is taking to support 30,000,000 illegal immigrants brought here atop the cost of wars afar.
I want to see the world change and give way to the coming days when Wii, the people, can speak freely and stop the madness that Wii see. I want to help the others who desire to fix the things they screwed up in the last few decades, as the oligarchs just lost their heads. The Koch and Gates sorts, with their crowds of other global billionaires that want to kill us off, must go, and perhaps the good billionaires will do what’s right or know the world may take them all down, too. Maybe they will show up with Bitcoin to buy some things, and I can ask and let you know what I see. LoL.
So, if you have a Bitcoin and want to buy some things, I will figure out how to do such gigs. Please comment, share, and visit if you can. Stay a night and shop for what’s right, then Wii can do a Bitcoin dance and let your dreams come to show the value of the Bitcoins you were smart enough to buy when it was a miraculous bargain in comparison. I will crank up salvagedbitsocoin.com if there is a good response.
All who buy into the Salvage, Texas offer will include a buyback of three times the money in inventory if you choose to sell out your interest later. This is intended to assure any investor that they will get triple their money if they only want to invest and help for a couple of years, a year, or until they get land to move the house they could build in our facility to take to your property when ready. Not only will you get a bargain on the materials, but the place to build and a community that will help you create your dream home to stay and live in Salvage or to take away one day and cash out of your part in Salvage, Texas being manifested.
Please get in touch with us, regardless of whether you have Bitcoin, if you would like to invest, help create housing solutions, and possibly make it a career to share your talents with others in the coming years. [email protected].
You and the world around you will grow from a subscription to a tiny cottage, village, or more. It’s true. Why not consider this growing industry for a career?
Most do not believe they can achieve the dream of having three to five tiny houses in a cluster, call it an intentional village one day perhaps, that starts with just a few master suites hidden far away, with a kitchen and gathering house where family or friends can play. Yes, in a woods or mountain top, by a river, cliff, or more… your dream house can become more authentic if you begin to form it with the parts that come into your hands as if meant to be part of your dream. In the quiet of the night, in the morning, with sunlight, draw or sketch your dream and see that you can have it naturally. By slowly clarifying what you want to be spying you will soon find that the parts will come to play.
Important note for all who want to one day learn more or shop here: Please share and subscribe to support us, get gigantic discounts only to subscribers, and chances for free stuff, nights in the BnB, and the opportunity to open your Pure Salvage Outpost near you. NONE of that will be available if you are not a subscriber, Though you can use Air BnB without discounts, you do not even have an appointment to come to buy all the goodies in our warehouses, consult or take a tour if you are not on our subscriber list. We truly hope you decide to join, shop, share, and grow the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance soon to enable us to finish publishing the books, videos, and other resources that will enable many others to build a future out of Salvage.
This subscription to TinyTexasHouses.Substack.com as a source of materials, plans, and answers to your questions while creating your paradise is a precious resource. I hope you will join in supporting the dispersal of the lessons, the materials, and the network of elders I hope you will be part of or share the opportunity with so they can help the few kids and people who do want to learn how then do what it will take to Make America Great Again truly.
Will you have the etchings to help ease the itching for a tiny house you could build one day? Want to learn how to create a tiny house on a weekend or a week? Want the parts to be built without the toxins, imports, or unsustainable products that add to pollution and cost a big chunk of change? I would subscribe to creating your future by salvaging the best from the past. It is the only path that will get you to the organic life, the intentional community that does it all American instead of with Chinese imports. Better yet, subscribe here for the books on becoming a Salvage Miner, Salvage Builder, or Salvage Hunter for a career in the fun lane.
I ask these simple questions because some don’t know that manifesting takes a clear idea to set the stage. Then, on the reality stage, you can build your visions and be understood when you define them to the people you will see who can help you manifest them, thus making them come to be. Whew… yes, you do have some work to do… crafting out the things you know, like a wooden floor and antique windows, classic trim, perhaps stained glass, and if you can, why not have a blast and create a cottage you could live in for a lifetime if you feel it? A master suite gives you a place to sleep, to rest or write, to meditate, and a private and personal space. Sharing kitchens, even baths, is not the same as bedrooms; if one is looking to simplify, community helps unify.
Why have so much we can share with other honest people where you live together, knowing that your part is worth your “being there”? Helping grow the jungle of food with natural means letting the birds, the frogs, the fish, and the trees grow well without the world’s poisons is the only way to produce a space where survival is not just for the human race. So few think that to salvage all, they need to build the best of all without polluting, killing trees, or transporting ships across all the seas. What will you offer if you seek to be a part of a unique place?
How about supporting the network that will bring together the Carpenter, farmer, mechanic, or more? Your knowledge is valuable, your skills even more, and your actions that create things make you gold for the world of intentional communities where each person can bring talents that make launching possible by becoming part of a network devoted to salvaging the best of our past and teaching others how to thrive by creating an incredible future with the treasured parts of the past. The kids we teach today will inherit the Earth we leave them with and care for us when we need it later. Let us be sure they have the skills to do it right.
The beautiful colors of the past, like this milk-painted Long Leaf Pine, do not have lead-based paint to be concerned with, formaldehyde outgassing like plywood, the dangers of sheetrock, acrylic acid from latex paints, or gasses from vinyl that emulate estrogen when breathed in at night. It is actually possible to build a much healthier and Earth-friendly house from salvage than any other way and be more energy efficient in the building process and the life of the house.
Without the life skills that come with doing the work and making it happen, there will be little more than talk, plans, and wonder at the failure of the group to reach a goal. Tools, knowledge, materials, and human energy are required for any intentional community to form. Many people dream great dreams but do not know how to attain them, nor the people to teach them how. We want to change that, to give the skills, the means, and materials, and hopefully, inspire the support networks it will take to manifest a Pure Salvage Living Renaissance that will motivate many others to do great things in this time of great need. (“Song of Salvage” Mining Music Johnny B & the Apostles of Salvage) Please help us create this solution to the problems at hand as people attempt to rebuild after a crisis, storms, or life force massive changes without all the resources and help that many will need to rebuild. This is the time to act and become the best you can be for yourself and those in your community.
Thank you for becoming an active part of the solutions it will take to create a fantastic future from the challenges that will come from 2022. So many people will need someone just like you. I pray that you can do what needs to be done by preparing in advance, not just depending on chance, to save the day. Don’t think that things can’t turn out any other way than what you have planned. Many are learning in this day and age, there is no absolute security, no genuinely safe place that you might not be affected as the world goes through the throes of changes brought on by storms that no one can stop. Blessings to those in the path of the storms. May your future be brighter than the one you have lost.
Yes, you can earn commissions and referral fees for telling your friends about us and getting their name to us with yours before they come to buy what they need to fulfill their dreams.
It does not matter where you live but who you know. You could make tens of thousands of dollars based on who you know if you can connect them to us to find the materials they need to build an incredible home. It is not a job; instead, it is an opportunity to make a significant income. Better still, it could develop into a career in the world of Salvage. It is not hard, nor does it cost you a penny to consider and talk to your friends about, and if they come to buy materials, you will make as much as 20% commission/referral for your connections and assistance. We plan to empty most of the warehouses by spring. Be a Salvage Hunter and find what your friends want or need as they build their homes, intentional villages, or getaways.
This is my way to try and extend the sharing of the wealth to others who engage in helping to create another paradigm in building houses from the best of the past instead of raping and pillaging the future of generations ahead. Stop wasting the best of the past and create a healthy, sustainable future instead of bigger landfills. Fifty percent of the landfills are from building materials being thrown away.
Not only can you save your friends money, but you can also connect them to resources that will help them create incredible houses, communities, barns, or other structures made out of salvaged materials. If you contact me and register your name for the referrals you generate, I can track your success with the sales that will net you up to 20% of the sale, even if it is a hundred thousand dollars. Imagine the nest egg that could come from simply knowing who needs the parts and pieces in our warehouses and connecting us so they can get them cheaper than anywhere else.
The quality of the materials is exceptional, and you only need to look on the TinyTexasHouses.com site or the TinyTexasHouses.substack.com to learn more about the various things that you could be turning your future clients as a referral agent. You will register them under your name and be the connection to get credit for their purchases. Those who choose to help can live anywhere, at any age, and it does not matter about age, race, political preference, or other factors that keep many from getting great opportunities to make an excellent income.
It might be your parents, best friends, or the person you meet in line at the big box stores who buy vinyl windows instead of higher quality wood windows for the same price or less. You can help the people you know to find the materials for their tiny houses or big ones and make money doing it at your leisure, not on an hourly pay basis but on a productivity basis such that if you find the person that purchases some of the Cobalt Blue Japanese Roofing Tile that might net you $5,000 and save them as much as it costs for the tile, literally less than half the cost for their roof could save them $30,000 on a high-end home. Why not think about the people you know, especially architects and builders who might want to save a million dollars on project costs? Condos, big houses, apartments, or commercial buildings that want an incredible roof that looks not only great but also is durable, hail resistant, algae build-up resistant, and will last for hundreds of years, not just deçades.
There are so many ways to put the treasured materials back together to make houses that will last for a lifetime, not a disposable RV like so many pay over a hundred grand for without any home of them maintaining value or appreciating. Tiny Houses built from wood, quality glass windows, doors, and hardware will not only be energy efficient, healthy, and sustainable but also a treasured heirloom you can leave to your heirs with pride.
Besides the roofing, metal, windows, doors, trim, flooring, and other parts, like vintage hardware, are all on the list of things you would be able to make commissions selling without having to invest money or come into my offices to work. You can do this from your phone and contact the people you know who need some of the inventory we have in stock now. I’m Not waiting for the parts to come into the store from China or other places far away, but it’s all American-made and ready now.
This is the best chance many will ever have to take the big step off the cliff of conventional living, to leap the Chasm at the Fringe to a new level and life. Are you ready to change course to see if you can leap into a new reality that lets you make money like never before? Are you one of the people who knows many people with the money to buy some of the inventory? Wood, Long Leaf Pine, Cypress, and Mesquite, to name a few of the woods you could add to your home or that of your friends. Your parents may be your clients from whom you get the referrals, or you may offer a big discount if you want to give it to them. Disclose to those you offer to help that you will make a referral fee to help get them together with us so they do not get mad later because you benefited from helping them, or give them the referral fee as a discount if you wish.
Please get in touch with me if this appeals to you at BWK@TinyTexasHouses. com. I do not wish to have dishonest people involved and will screen the people a bit to be sure they are not out telling tales as you will not by my paid representative or employees but by independent contractors who will only get paid if you sell stuff, and possibly make a million dollars in the next few years as there is a few million dollars that need to be sold, but better still, open a Pure Salvage Outpost as a local co-op so that you and others could create a training center an supply the people who can build the houses that are facing a growing demand for quality healthy and sustainable housing. Please consider how you can help your friends and neighbors make a living.
I have over 100,000 sf of warehouses full of everything anyone might need to build great classic tiny houses and make an incredible income by selling locally so as not to have shipping costs equal to the cost of labor to build a house. The secret to cheaper tiny houses will be in creating them locally so that the money stays in the community you choose to live in. That is the best of all worlds: more skilled kids to build tinier houses that let people live well until they die in healthy houses, not one that gives off formaldehyde, EDCs, and other chemicals outgassing for years after being installed in your house. Please build healthy homes and help others do so, too.
Finally, I have admitted that I am not going to hire employees and run a business for the rest of my life. While I am thriving doing the things that I enjoy, it is time to sell my true treasures from the past.
Being born a poor and crippled child in my youth, I did well for myself after reaching my thirties and giving up on working for anyone for long. After 30 jobs, including my stint in the US Army after high school, I got my VA benefits. I was a child of the Army life, traveling most of it away from the USA in Bolivia and Germany, and only in our country for the times my father went to Vietnam. I missed much of the American Pie era, and by the time Woodstock came, I was working after school and on weekends to have jeans and afford anything. Eventually, I could only be a Yippee, a working hippy, which led to my being titled the Willy Wonka of Tiny Houses. I wonder why?
As I decide what to do for the next few decades, I want to travel again after 20 years of not leaving my homemade ashram to where I was dedicated to doing what it would take to show what Salvage thinking can Create. This will become an embassy for salvage learning and growing intentional communities. Still, the time has come to pay off the lingering debts, empty the buildings, and take them down to transform them into many homes, community houses, libraries, and other parts of tiny intentional communities that I believe will evolve. I feel it is being driven by the separation between those who want babies exposed to technology from birth, cellphones, TV, and public schools that do not seek to create all geniuses by maximizing potential instead of quieting those who excel get bored by being unchallenged and want to learn more.
I finished college and came to Texas, living in a School bus conversion in 1984, believing Big Brother was much further from our front door than the book foretold by that time. I had $640 to my name, a dream to make a million so I could write without worrying about making it pay. Say what I had to say. It took nearly 30 more years of higher priorities, of being a father, working endlessly to make the millions it truly took to get freed, but in the 25th year, I lost my son, my identity, and my drive to succeed financially for the sake of leaving my legacy. It’s been a while, though the time went fast, and my sabbatical from business will likely last, so I must divest myself from things I saved to build my dreams; too many for one man, and so I plan to share and then will see. What will others do with the treasure I found as I hunted on the days when there were not many other salvagers around?
Since then, everything has changed, and I am not happy with the products our society is manifesting at this stage. I think I will continue dropping out to form again, but to do so this time, I will have to clear some shelves, free up cash to cancel debts and leave a trust that can teach others this stuff with what Wii can put together on the way. Wii are the ones who can see that the need is here and clear. Tinier healthy houses that could be transported or stay near, but for all the best reasons, built sustainably, are clear. NO imports or Toxins were constructed into the home to start, but seasoned wood and windows that stood the test of a hundred years and prove that they are still apparent, not a single one fogged up, and the energy saved by not making glass every few years is far more than the E-glass is worth. I swear that in the last eleven years of living in my Tantra Temple, the discipline of my salvage-minded lifestyle has paid off with a youthful body and mind.
There are so many ways to create new housing, and I have proven it can be done with as much as 95% Pure Salvage, and look beautiful, be fun, and last throughout a lifetime through the cold and heat of our hottest sun. Please consider sharing and promoting Outposts Co-ops in your town to teach the others who want to build these fantastic tiny homes and larger ones that will work when done for the gatherings and more, the community that works together and becomes more robust and confident, empowered for the skills and the respect thanks to the elders knowing how people built houses in the past, a genuinely unmatched treasure trove. Can the people see the ways to make our way into a phase where the cost of housing drops because we change the way we create it all? Stop the madness of McMansions and concrete on the ground instead of lawns, let gardens flourish, and reduce the hunger for all.
This is part of the Pure Salvage Living ethos that seeks to show how to grow a community from the treasures right on hand instead of importing unhealthy products from the pollution to the chemicals that they bring for you to inhale. It’s nasty, but the profits are good enough for marketing, shipping across oceans, and paying those who carry and sell parts. Why not cut out all that stuff and salvage mine or build with the parts and pieces all around, like we once did and could still do? Few remember when we built with salvage materials, but the national code created by the lumber barons forced the new construction to use only new wood, thus the death toll. The salvage business died, and they thought it went to Hell, but the cost of the alternatives has opened up the door.
Rather than one guy working 80-100 hours to make millions over a couple of decades, I recommend using the opportunity for salvage to benefit many people working together rather than one and splitting most of the profits up with those who do the work. The employee model needs to be put to death, and a path to producing to get paid, and if you produce more and better, get paid more and better because that is how it is established, not wait for a raise. The more people who build an organization and make a great living, the more significant that industry can grow. There is so little competition for building quality and tinier housing than the giant subdivisions that want giant profits and work with banks that do not want tiny loans. I worked my son’s childhood away to create a legacy he did not live to see and to learn there is a better way to live and manifest this dream. It can not be done alone, but with hundreds given the chance, the good people who will be honest and create art houses for those they love and care about for all the right reasons. They will do well as the demand exceeds any hope of the supply coming along unless local Co-ops form to teach easy new skills to the masses who do not have them due to losing jobs they had for decades, leaving them without hope of finding the same again, especially if over 50.
Anyone can build tiny organic houses that will give them and others excellent shelter and a home to live in until the day they die. Extra houses for the others in your life can be nearby, as many as seven on an acre, and hardly see each other with gardens to share and other spaces like the library for Wifi or other gatherings. A big kitchen and place for relatives and friends to visit but not for the masses to fill in the beautiful space left for the birds, beavers, otters, fish, possums, and other critters of nature living alongside. Chickens for eggs, animals that feed on the grasses and leaves, each giving back to balance out what we need to create a tiny community. A model is what I dreamed of, but where and how to do, except to now sell nearly all to pay off the land and build what Wii can do, the few that choose to steward Salvage, Texas when I am gone and inhabit it when back from traveling to share this lifelong song.
Live in a wooden house instead of concrete or glass, and see if you do not sleep. Live much better, grounding through your feet with glass handblown to let light in and protect you from the storms. Unlike all the other choices that often lead to strife, why not live in a luxury that is truly built with simplicity and the promise it will last for life? Renting leads to nowhere but its true most have to do unless you leave the city life and change your future route, it will be hard to live that dream or ever get a start. Share with others who can do and prep the country life for you to join later and help to form the intentional community that may become the norm for the people who want to stay free of dictates and possible wars.
Once again, the New Year comes, and I face the leap that requires me to give up the luggage from the past and leap the Chasm that comes ahead. This challenge has come: the choice to go back or forward again. Join Mii in sharing the bounty of my past and help me feel free, knowing I stewarded with care the solutions that so many need now that the times have come at last. This is part of what I saw so long ago in dreams, yet now it is my reality, and this is what I have to give. I came to do what must be done and believe Wii will have won when it is done. Keep the faith no matter how hard the leap may be to become the best that you can ever be.
See the light and leap with faith to become the star and lead. Grow the Outpost for those who choose to live out where the animals and birds share the trees and still fresh air. Join Mii in developing the places to leap to once the others see the Chasm must have leaped to reach their Truths. Prepare the path, be the example, and let everyone know that the path you pick to grow solutions is the best that Wii can show without Global Intervention and their corporate feeding codes. Build with DC, use the sun and wind to live near free, by building livable houses without turning on the AC. There is so much to learn that can be done to create a better world. This is what I wish to leave, may you share and live well too. It could have ended long ago, but an Earthworm changed how things would go. Who knew God could look like anything with no rules?
Wii can come so far to do so much and become what Wii can not imagine when young. Do not fear change, but always consider being different is a way to live well, not just normally. I plan to free up the opportunity to establish a trust with the funds generated from the Living Estate Sale; even if it is my favorite thing in life, I am hoping that together with others who love salvage building, Wii will get it into the right hands before I am done.
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.
The salvage industry makes more millionaires than any other. If we teach the kids how to build with salvaged materials, they could create careers straight out of High School—no college needed.
When people finally see that the degrees they are paying for are not paying back enough to fund the debt acquired to get the degrees. Skills to make money other than with the degree are ignored, but the cost to the children who get out of college and are unemployed is devastating, and the damage can last for life. There is no way to dispose of the debts from college as the government guarantees the loans, who can take your tax returns, ruin your credit for decades, and keep you from ever getting out of the hole that college creates for most who go to college.
More people need to learn skills while young that will allow them to make a good living, build a tiny house, buy land, and thrive without getting into the bogus college degree scheme hatched when I was young that entices all kids to go to higher education thinking they will net more income over their lifetime. That is not true anymore due to the cost of the schooling and the lack of good jobs for the graduates in many of the degrees that are given by the colleges. There is no longer a great value in most of the degrees like there used to be for fresh graduates; even the high-grade-scoring students are finding it hard to get a job that will feed their debts and let them live better than those who became plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and other skilled jobs that are now paying $75-$150 an hour. Mechanics are in high demand, as are others who are good at doing the physical work necessary for our society to function well.
As we run out of skilled workers for these physically intense jobs is driving up the demand and cost and helping to inspire kids to consider once again developing the skills to build houses, fix cars, and many other fields of work that are in high demand, pay well, and do not require 4 years of college with a hundred grand in debt when done. Why not teach more skills in school, as was once the case when there were wood shops, mechanic shops, and ways to learn skills in school? Sadly, most were shut down due to the insurance costs and the school boards that decided to reduce the importance of producing fully operational adults by 18 years old. The education system no longer provides the education needed for a functional citizen by the time they get done with high school, many not fully literate or skilled in math by the time they graduate high school and have no skills to offer for employment so many feel college is the answer. For most, it will only add to their debt and make things more complicated throughout the time it will take to pay off their college costs, sometimes taking over 20 years with heavy penalties and interest rates that can be adjusted upward without the students being able to object.
Why not suggest that your town open a Pure Salvage Outpost that will provide a venue where kids and adults could go to learn how to build tiny houses, leading to building bigger houses if needed or more of them to create a compound of master suites and a shared house for the kitchen, dining, and getting together area. This allows for faster construction of the bedrooms the kitchen and growing the homestead in increments that allow for mom and dad to have a tiny house, the kids each their bedroom and spaces, as well as the common house where all of you share meals, love, and commune to bond and share your trials and success at the end of each day. Then, off to your tiny master suite where you sleep, get away from others with the person you love, and share the moments of peace a master bedroom should offer. Best of all, it is portable, and you could move on to another part of the property one day when you marry and start your tiny family homestead.
I would like to see more schools built with salvage to teach the kids how to develop American-made homes with sustainable materials, not imported new pollution products but the best of the past that can be salvaged and reused for much less than new products, and last longer. Why not teach logical ways to build inexpensively and grow villages, communities, and homesteads without cutting down trees and making new windows and hardware that can last another century? People have gotten accustomed to disposable products, cars, and homes now that they are all designed to break down in 7-15 years, even houses. I want to see us move back into a time and perspective when quality and lifetime warranties are possible because the product was built with a sense of pride, not just profits, driving the businesses that create our means of growing a great country. No one can build a great country out of trashy materials that are toxic and self-destructive in less than a decade.
Will you share the idea of creating PSO Co-ops and let others know that I will help by funding materials to the towns and communities that will make a place to assemble them and teach the locals who want to build houses the ways to do so now? Stop waiting for others to save the day with new stuff when you have this avenue to use for teaching the locals how to thrive while waiting for the government to make excuses for why it can not help, but also how they are going to stop you from using salvage to rebuild with. The building codes are the tools the corporations use to prevent you from using salvage materials to build with, not for logic’s sake, but for the profits they make, forcing you to use their products through code. Stop the madness and pass variances to the local codes so that you can build faster before the winter kills off many from flu, colds, and illnesses that follow when under the stress that so many suffer from storms and floods. Let us help them as soon as possible. I want to empty this warehouse, then take it down to salvage the wood and metal and use it to create more solutions for others. I want to show how this can provide millions with housing, with no imports from China required.
Please get in touch with me if this makes sense to you, and if there are people locally who can help you establish a Pure Salvage Outpost with the materials, I will gladly ship you the first houses. Do not let the codes and limitations of the government slow down your ability to create solutions locally as fast as possible. Time is not on your side if you do not have a house when the winter, a particularly bad one, sets in over the next month. This will get bad fast, and you can move faster if you wish. I will help in any way I can. Please let me know how Wii can work together to solve the problems where you are.
