We asked twelve tiny home owners what they pay for their lot. The answers ran from $300 to $1,000 a month, and what that buys varies more than the number does.

Renee turned an $18,000 Arch Cabins kit into an off-grid arch cabin home she designed herself, cutting her bills from $4,200 to $1,600 a month. See how she did it.

It is the question a lot of people quietly run in their heads: keep paying rent on an apartment, or buy something small of your own. One homeowner we toured, Christy, put the frustration bluntly. She did not want to "make a lot of money to live in a crappy apartment somewhere and pay all this rent for nothing." So how do the two actually compare, on cost and on daily life? Here is the honest version, using real numbers from homeowners we have filmed. The Upfront Cost This is