We were lucky to catch up with Brad Kittel recently and have shared our conversation below.

Brad, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Are you able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen?

More millionaires are made from salvage mining and can be made in the next decade from salvage building than any other business artists can start in America. Proven by the Tiny Texas House brand that created 80 examples of homes that were Pure Salvage Materials from floors, ceilings, walls, windows, doors, trim, hardware, beams, lumber, siding, roofs, and details galore. No one has matched the ethos of construction that can last for hundreds of years and be portable. That is a special tax advantaged class of house, not an RV, trailer, mobile home, but a house on piers that can be moved on a trailer with a big truck one day, if needed. I have created Salvage, Texas as a paradise example for this experiment and will offer ten spaces on 18 acres for the residents, part-time and full-time, to care for the land with ponds, beavers, otters, and deer, birds, fish, and so much more.
The school that could be on the front to teach the many how to use the tools and build the homes for their loved ones far away, then return with the parts, plans, and tools to do it right, create an Outpost as a Co-op, then do it over and again.

But I need to move very fast as there is a race. By November 4th, 10 $50,000 spaces and 10 $ 25,000 spaces to live in for decades will be available, with the materials to build a small, healthy house of the Tiny Texas sort. Healthy living for those who want to learn and teach #Youthing to the younger people under 70.

Yes, there are restrictions and benefits galore, but only for the right sort of people that Wii can all get along with each other. Coming and going, knowing all our pets, homes, and land are secure and cared for while gone for months on end. Likewise, a place to come and hang out until the end with service for those who need it, including Hospice for our friends.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

At the low point after graduating from college and heading off in a 66 passenger orange school bus to write the great American novel at 25 years old. I was eating out of dumpsters within a year though I had a degree, graduated with 3.6 average, yet I was in the midst of the 1981 depression coming on. My bus motor blew out while rolling out of the mountains, going downhill, and my life followed as I had $15 left after a 52-hour drive from Alabama.
Boing Lays Off 18,000 People was the headline on the newspapers in the box at the convenience store I found at the first stop.
From the deepest lows, I learned how to survive, but it took 45 years to finally finish the book, make the millions to self-publish, and take the next go around the world. Good thing males do not peak in our performance potential until 66-78, so that I am ready just in time, and fit more than ever.
My 70s will be great, but many a dark day in between now and then, even now, when God and Faith are what got me through what would have killed me without it.
I have songs and stories in music form too, The Book of Wibblry and Wub tells of the suicide and returning to create, to write, to one day share what I do now, but I never imagined that sickly crippled kid with a broken back, Marfan’s Syndrome, blind by 10, yet now, no way to tell.
Life is full of miracles, and in that short prelude to a book that took 50 years to write, with elaborate cartoons, and proof that Wii, all the “I”s that see can do miracles for nature and the world.
The proof is in the Salvage, Texas, real-life manifestation of my imagination in the largest Earth Sculpture in Texas, done by a single man in his 60s, no less.

I want to share, coach, teach, or leave behind proof that this is possible. Don’t commit suicide without knowing you have a purpose beyond what you can imagine possible.
Trash cans, dumpsters, yes… Salvage makes more millionaires out of people than any other business started by regular people without college degrees.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

If you look and find the many pages, documentaries, and stories from magazines, newspapers, and not just here, but in Italian Vogue, and videos as far away on cable networks in India, Berlin, and beyond, all with salvaged materials turned into houses you can live in or give to your children, mother, father, as master suites with common kitchens and places to share more things as a community instead of gated communities that do not know their neighbors. The buzz worked great until the internet started implementing censorship, traffic throttling, requiring pay-to-see, or, worse, pay and not be seen due to algorithms.
I had the first and biggest CyberCafe in Austin, Texas, circa 1996.

The Discovery Incubator was a great test right before the Dot.com Boom… two months too early.
So many ideas require money up front to get exposure, advertising being the hardest thing to pay for without knowing the return. I do not know the secret to getting past the system once it marks you as dangerous for empowering people to escape the system, often called the Matrix.
For the Pureblooded anti-vax group that wants a new community, I offer ways to create that sustainably and healthily with all the materials on hand, as I open the 100,000 sf warehouse full of enough doors, windows, and more to make over 300 houses.
Now, how to activate fast and get the funds to pay off the warehouses and enable long-term storage, spaces, and tools to build with, seminars, and more.

How Fast Can you guys move?

How big is your audience?

If you buy in as one of the Salvage Artists, tiny organic Home builders, and learn how to do it with salvage, you will inherit the opportunity to carry on a Pure Salvage Living Renaissance I have spent four decades creating.

Otherwise, I will liquidate it next year and call it a good life lesson on opportunity for a generation missed due to poor paths to the eyes and ears of those who care about these things.

Contact Info:

• Website: TinyTexasHouses.com
• Facebook: Tiny Texas Houses
• Youtube: Tiny Texas Houses

Image Credits
Brad W Kittel and Trinity Mires

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