The houses on wheels are available to be purchased ready made and shipped to consumers, and are individually manufactured and customized for their buyers.
Tumbleweed was founded in 1999 by Jay Shafer, and originally focused on sheds and chicken coops.
In 2003, he was commissioned by Gregory Paul Johnson,[4] Small House Society co-founder,[5] to build The Mobile Hermitage,[4] which became one of Tumbleweed's first commercially sold homes.
That same year, the company began selling how-to books and hosting workshops about building tiny homes.
[6] In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a few were sold to Gulf Coast residents who preferred them to government-supplied temporary housing.