The Christmas season brings a lot of enquiries as people look for tiny homes for vacations, family members moving out or returning from overseas, or simply a change of life.  Most people haven’t purchased a tiny home before so there’s a lot of unknown but important information that needs to be covered before clients are comfortable committing to a large sum of money toward their dream.

So, it’s good to see Stuff reprinting this useful article from Tiny Living Magazine about tips for safely buying a tiny home.

At Tiny Home HQ we’ve been building tiny homes for years and are one of New Zealand’s most trusted tiny home building companies.  As part of our commitment to providing certainty to our clients during the building process we take a couple of legal steps to protect their investments in case the worst happens.

Firstly, we mark your tiny home with a unique code specific to your building from the moment the first sub-floor framing is being laid.  This code is burnt into the wooden frame, and the code is linked to your contract with us and all payments.  Secondly, we can use that code to register your tiny home on the Personal Property Security Register (PPSR) which gives you a legal ‘financial interest’ over the partially built tiny home.  The PPSR supports the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA), a helpful piece of legislation to protect your property and, importantly, outline the priority of interests for the partially built tiny home.

After seeing the recent horror stories of people losing their partially built tiny home and having to take liquidators to court to recover their assets, we at Tiny Home HQ decided to be pro-active and offer this protection to our customers.