Category Archives for "Tiny Homes"

Bruce M Firestone, PhD, with help from tiny homeowners Ron Murray and Michaela Jurdanovova When getting ready to install your tiny home on a new parking pad, here are a few things to take into account— 1. Legal & Regulatory •            ☐ Ensure CSA Z240 or A277 certification for mobile units (if applicable) •            ☐ […]

Hi! As you may already know, Bruce Firestone, PhD, is a real estate and business coach focused primarily on growing revenues and business modelling plus helping you find your why, identifying the right pathways forward for you (and avoiding the wrong ones), establishing an entrepreneurialist mindset and then assisting you to stay on course and […]

If you’re a business or real estate client looking for transformative guidance and coaching, here’s what Bruce M Firestone, PhD, is truly good at: Business Coaching Expertise Real Estate Strategy & Innovation Affordable Housing & Agricultural Innovation Corporate & Property Advisory I coach energetic, creative people who are committed to making things happen—from startups to […]

How to add not only beauty to any property but make it more profitable too plus how to turn this into a personal business of your own *** Your instructor: Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD, Real Estate Investment and Business coach, Ottawa Senators founder, ROYAL LePAGE Performance Realty broker, https://www.linkedin.com/in/profbruce You […]

Are you familiar with the BBC series From Lark Rise to Candleford? It’s about life in two neighboring places in the late 19th century—one a poor rural village called Lark Rise where life is a struggle, and tother being a more prosperous town called Candleford. They are 8-miles apart with a muddy track the only […]

The smaller the house you build, the more creative you need to be. One of my daughters is moving into her own home that is just 192 sq ft. She’ll live right next door to a small workshop (about 350 sq ft) where she will design and produce high fashion custom clothing for glamorous women […]

Where do (good) ideas come from to start your own business? Well, if you are Ben Jacobsen, you marvel at the fact that your girlfriend is willing to spend $10 on a tiny package of bespoke table salt. So, he left Europe and moved back to the Oregon coast where he sampled seawater from 27-bays […]

It was cool to see a tiny house parked by the Rideau river yesterday at my old stomping grounds–near the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, where I taught for 14-years. But it would have been a heck of a lot nicer to see it inhabited. And for that matter, how about parking a few […]

Here’s a tiny house designed for a family of five with some notable features: -it has an outdoor shower in addition to its fully-equipped, interior bathroom -a ductless unit (for heating and cooling) -it will be used by the family as a temporary dwelling whilst their home is being built in Santa Cruz California -after […]

[How to really address unaffordability in housing] Newsflash Human beings living in LA, San Francisco, London, Vancouver, Boston, Portland, Sydney, Seattle, Toronto, and many other places where home prices are surging have forgotten how to build homes and apartments. They’ve lost their hammers and saws. They are short of nails and screws. It’s a national, […]

As expected, NIMBY (not in my backyard), BANANAS (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything or Anyone) and CAVE (citizens against virtually everything) people are torpedoing tiny home subdivisions as this AP article by Scott McFetridge makes abundantly clear.   Tiny houses are trendy – unless they go up next door.

Introduction If you are a developer, you already know that most cities expect you to build all the roads your new development/subdivision requires and then turn them over to them when completed for a dollar. We not only had to build all the roads around the Canadian Tire Centre (where the NHL’s Ottawa Senators play) […]