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This is the first issue of Tiny Edit, written for the 5,000 people who walked with My Tiny Home Hub through chapter one. We started with zero, bootstrapped our way into serving buyers from Florida to Hawaii, and proved that beautiful, fast, more attainable housing is possible. Now we are taking everything learned in the trenches and turning it into a weekly editorial designed to protect your time, money, and dreams.

For years, we imported prefab homes, weathered shipping chaos, and ate more than 40,000 dollars out of pocket so customers still got what they were promised. When tariffs spiked and manufacturers raised prices after homes were already built, some buyers walked, banks reversed payments, and for every loss a customer took, we often took three: chargebacks, unpaid builds, and storage or transport costs on top. The math stopped working, but the mission did not.

My Tiny Home Hub is no longer a home dealer. It is now a media and research company dedicated to tiny living: how to design it, finance it, legally place it, and actually enjoy it without getting taken advantage of. Tiny Edit is how that work reaches you, once a week, in a format you can read over coffee.

The first chapter of My Tiny Home Hub was intensely hands‑on. Every email, every call, every delivery route went through a tiny team that cared more about outcomes than margins. That care came with a cost: days lost to phone consultations with people who were curious but not ready, nights spent untangling logistics problems created by forces buyers never saw, and thousands of dollars sacrificed to keep commitments when tariffs and freight broke the original numbers.

Chapter two is about scale with integrity. Instead of trying to personally walk every interested buyer through the maze, Tiny Edit will distill the patterns: what actually works in 2025, what changed in the last 90 days, and where tiny living is truly worth betting your money and energy. The goal is not for you to talk to us on the phone. The goal is for you to feel so informed that you can walk into a lender’s office, a zoning counter, or a builder’s showroom and hold your own.

Growing this newsletter is also how unfinished business gets resolved. The more reach Tiny Edit has, the more leverage there is to secure better partnerships, better pricing structures, and better options for people who were caught in the crossfire of tariffs and policy swings. Sharing Tiny Edit with someone who cares about housing is a direct way to help close the loop and fund what comes next.

Over the last two years, imported prefab and container‑based homes have been hit by rounds of tariffs and trade actions that raised landed costs by tens of percentage points, most times with little notice. Those increases often arrived after contracts were signed and homes were already in production, forcing builders to either ask buyers for more money, eat the difference, or cancel orders and fight over refunds. ​

When buyers refused revised pricing and filed chargebacks with their banks, platforms often sided with the cardholder, leaving builders with unpaid units, storage bills, and transport fees stacked on top. That dynamic is one of the quiet reasons many serious players have paused or changed models in the imported prefab space. ​

Tiny Edit will use this section each week to flag similar money and legal shifts: tariff changes, zoning updates, financing rules, and scams or patterns showing up across the market. The aim is simple: no more surprises months into the process because a rule changed that no one told you about.

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This week’s layout is deceptively simple: a 20 by 20 footprint, 400 square feet total. On paper it is just a square. In practice, it is one of the most flexible tiny‑living canvases available. With the right plan, that rectangle can hold a full kitchen, living area, bathroom, and either a main‑floor bedroom or flex space, while still hitting many local minimums for '“temporary housing”. ​

Think of it as a “test bed” for tiny living. On a spacious lot, a 20×20 can become a rentable backyard suite or a place for parents or adult children to live nearby. On private land outside town, it can be a first home that later becomes a guest house as you build bigger. In future issues, this section will break down specific floor plans, but for the inaugural Tiny Edit, it sets the stage for the unit featured below.

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In the background, MyTinyHomeHub.com is being rebuilt as your hub for deep‑dive guides across Living Tiny, Downsizing Tips, Design & Layouts, Legal & Zoning, Financing Options, Mistakes to Avoid, What We’d Buy Today, and How to Vet a Builder. As each section goes live, Tiny Edit will link to the pieces that matter most so you never have to start your search from scratch again.

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