Jinkie Echols
We are honored to announce that Jinkie Echols, with Tiny Casa Consulting and Braveheart Properties Of Brevard has joined Tiny House Alliance USA as a senior advisor to the board of directors.
Braveheart Properties Of Brevard in Cocoa, Florida is a 501( c) ( 3) nonprofit that developed Peacewind, a tiny home community offering long-term solutions for affordable housing. Jinkie Echols is the founder and President. Peacewind is a legally zoned and code-compliant tiny home and small cottage community.
Jinkie wrote the codes and zoning five years ago and got it passed through their county in order to create Peacewind community as a legally planned urban development for permanent long-term living. There are 84 sites of a diverse mix of tiny homes on wheels, small cottages on a foundation that include both renters and homeowners.
Jinkie has a background as a multi-million real estate broker and is experienced in all aspects of property management. She is the founder and President of Braveheart Properties Of Brevard and is the Chief financial officer and is in charge of the supervision, design, construction, and property management for Peacewind.
Jinkie is a senior advisor for Tiny House Alliance USA, a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 public charity nonprofit incorporated in the state of Washington.
Jinkie is an invaluable asset to the ASTM Tiny Houses subcommittee E06.26 Tiny Houses and is contributing to the development of the new standard for tiny house communities.
Tiny Life Consulting
Kevin and Rachel Ophoff are the talent behind Tiny Life Consulting. Their goal with the website, as stated on the home page, is to help you make an informed decision about Going Tiny.
Kevin grew up in Michigan, but after visiting Colorado as a child, he always knew he’d call the mountains home. In the 70’s he moved to Aspen. Rachel grew up in Miami and never could stand the heat. She split for the Colorado high country as soon as she could. They met at work and soon realized they’d rather camp and ski with each other than anyone else.
Eventually they married, started a family, and began the journey of trying to make ends meet. With a little luck, a lot of hard work, and good credit, they were able to buy a home. See that story in their blog post Understanding Tiny Home Ownership: Tiny Vs Conventional.
Jewel Pearson
Jewel Pearson is a tiny house designer, consultant and advocate who lives in a 480-square-foot tiny home on a farm just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. She first started downsizing in 2006, wanting to live freely and to be able to travel and relocate easily. She began her tiny house journey with a mobile home Her space started out as a mobile home but she eventually relocated the home added additional space. Though she now considers the 17,000-pound home stationery, it can still be transported if Jewel ever decides to relocate again.
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John And Fin Kernohan With United Tiny House: Superhost Airbnb Consultants
Back in the days before we created our 16-acre
Tiny House Homestead & Stay, we would take our tinies out to local campgrounds when they were rented out through Airbnb! (Now when they are rented out through Airbnb, guests stay here at our tiny house community.)
Michele A. Williams Dr. Tiny Building Healthy Communities Consultant
Michele A.Williams PHD AKA Dr. Tiny is the Director of Cobra US, a nonprofit on a mission to Connect, Organize, Build and advance healthy community development. Michele is originally from Delaware and has relocated to Lewes to enjoy the Sussex County lifestyle.
Her expertise in research, real estate and strategy helps decision makers develop and implement attainable, sustainable, available, and affordable housing solutions, with a specialty in small scale development and Tiny/Small Homes.
Her research focuses on Where One Lives Matters…How one’s zip code can affect one’s health outcomes. Her dissertation explores the impact of comprehensive plans, zoning policies, and finance policies that promote or impede real estate developers’ decisions to build healthy communities.
Mark Willie Building Materials Expert And Tiny House Alliance USA Senior Advisor
Mark specializes in high performance healthy homes and is available as a consultant.
- Self Perform Design Build
- GC And Fabricator
- Specializes In High Performance Healthy Homes
- Off-Site Pioneer Of Building Science Products And Products
- Full Renovation To Existing Buildings
- New Construction
- Multi-Unit And
- Restaurant
- Passive House
- Net Zero
- Modular
- Pefab
- Modified Shipping Containers
- Flatpack
- Solar
Tina Francone With Straightforward Communication
Tina is a former Jefferson County Commissioner and a former RTD Director. Both elected offices required the development, oversight, and implementation of budgets in excess of $1B. In addition, policy development, implementation and careful monitoring of local, state and federal legislation was important. As a County Commissioner, Tina served on the Chatfield Watershed Authority where she expanded her knowledge of water and water infrastructure and broadened her knowledge and ability to identify critical policy issues affecting water quality, delivery and infrastructure.
Tina is also a NRA Certified Firearms Instructor and owns and operates one of Colorado’s leading firearms instruction businesses, Straightforward Shooting. A frequent voice on Colorado radio, Tina is a sought-after commentator and writer on local politics, transportation, water infrastructure, firearms training, and shooting sports. Tina and her husband, Frank are longtime Jefferson County residents and are immensely proud of their son, Frank, who is a junior at Colorado Christian University.
Steven Lefler Consultant Electric Power Research Institute INC.
Steven Lefler, a Nation Wide Speaker on Energy Efficient Manufactured housing and Zero Net Energy performance and is on the Tiny House Alliance USA ( THAUS. ) Senior Advisory Team.
Steven has relocated to Walla Walla, Wa. and is available for consultations.
His Expertise Includes:
Modular Construction
Manufactured Homes
RV And Park Model Standards
Net Zero
Solar
The Energy Code
Community Development
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