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01 / 12 Confidential · Antler 2026
★ Pre-seed · Land + Operations + Data

SmallHome
Village

A repeatable model for assembling tiny-home creative villages on the landlocked acreage that tier-2 US cities can't densify.

Founders
Paul Walhus · Anil Pattni
Phase 1
Cedar Creek, TX
Round
Pre-seed · Q3 2026
02 / 12 Thesis
The thesis

The next housing wedge isn't buildings.
It's assembly.

Every tier-2 US city has a corridor of landlocked acreage sitting behind multi-generational family parcels — too fragmented for developers, too unlocatable for retail buyers. We've built the parcel-data infrastructure to map it, the operations to anchor it, and the network to assemble it.

Land assembly has historically required institutional patience, local relationships, and a 10-year horizon. We compress that with a county-GIS data pipeline that surfaces ownership clusters, a proven income-generating anchor that funds carry, and a 16-year resident pipeline already running in Austin.

03 / 12 Problem
Why this is broken

Three failures, one geometry.

What's broken

  • Tier-2 cities can't densify single-family zoning without political cost — creative housing supply lags demand by years.
  • Landlocked back-acreage stays idle: too fragmented for institutional dev, no access for retail buyers.
  • Multi-generational owners want partnership and yield, not exits — but no one's structuring the partnership.
  • Tiny-home / hacker-house demand outpaces local zoning capacity in Austin, Asheville, Boise, every comparable city.

What unlocks it

  • County-GIS parcel data is now public, queryable, and easy to scrape — the discovery problem is solved.
  • Affordability-Unlocked and AOS regs in TX (and counterparts elsewhere) carve real density windows for small-home pods.
  • Remote-work demand for maker/creative housing is durable post-pandemic — and the resident pipeline is provable.
  • STR economics on a proven anchor parcel fund years of patient assembly without a 10-year fund cycle.
04 / 12 Solution
How it works

Anchor · Assemble · Compound

A five-step playbook we run per corridor — each village a pod of 8–13 tiny-home units anchored by an existing income property, then expanded via option/easement deals with adjacent long-tail landowners.

01
Map
Pull county GIS for a target corridor. Cluster parcels by ownership family. Surface the long-tail.
02
Anchor
Acquire an income-producing parcel adjacent to a multi-parcel family cluster. Anchor cash-flows the assembly.
03
Structure
Long-term lease, easement, or option deals with adjacent owners. Partnership over acquisition.
04
Build
8–13 tiny-home pod, off-grid water/septic-friendly. Affordability-Unlocked compliant where applicable.
05
Compound
Repeat in the next corridor. Each village proves the playbook and grows the data + network moat.
05 / 12 Phase 1
Cedar Creek, TX · Phase 1

The 183 Clover
anchor.

Cedar Creek Corridor 183 Clover Rd 1.8 ac · Airbnb permit · existing well
Location
Cedar Creek, TX — 18 mi east of Austin Bergstrom, 1.8 acres on Cedar Creek frontage
Existing carry
Adjacent 8-unit STR compound at 180 Ladybug Ln clearing $12K+/mo on the same Leverence survey
Phase-1 parcel
183 Clover Rd — for sale, existing cabin, Airbnb track record, shared well + drillable
Owner-finance available
Yes — broker Matt Walker structures owner-finance routinely in this corridor
Corridor footprint
4,401 parcels mapped · 32 owner-stakeholders identified · Cedar Creek polyline + road centerlines
06 / 12 Traction
What's already true

We're not theorizing.
We're operating.

Everything below exists today — proven cash flow, mapped corridor, structured network, and a 16-year operator. The fund accelerates Phase 1; it doesn't create the model.

$12K/mo
STR cash flow · anchor
8
Units operating today
5+
Years STR track record
4,401
Parcels mapped · 6×6mi
32
Owner-stakeholders profiled
15
Families documented
16yr
Tiny Hacker House operator
$1.9M
Pod-1 dev cost (modeled)
07 / 12 Team
Founders

Two operators.
Sixteen years in the niche.

Co-founder · Anchor & Infrastructure
Paul Walhus
Operator of the 184 Clover / 180 Ladybug 8-unit STR compound. Built the BCAD parcel-data pipeline, the corridor map, and the owner-stakeholder roster powering the Phase-1 deal. 30+ years building distributed teams and web infrastructure.
Cedar Creek · Austin · 1996–present
Co-founder · Operations & Resident Pipeline
Anil Pattni
Founder of Tiny Hacker House, Austin — operating small-home / hacker-house clusters since 2010. Sixteen years of unit economics, resident curation, and a built-in pipeline of makers, nomads, and creative technologists for SmallHomeVillage Phase 1.
Tiny Hacker House · Austin · 2010–present
08 / 12 Unit Economics
Pod-1 modeled economics

8–13 units. $1.9M. Stabilized in 18 months.

Line item
Pod-1 (Phase 1)
Stabilized
Anchor acquisition (183 Clover)
$70–95K
owner-finance avail
Site work · well · OSSF
~$180K
one-time
13 container/tiny units (modular)
~$1.45M
$95–115/sqft
Permitting · soft costs · reserves
~$200K
contingency 10%
Total dev cost · Pod-1
~$1.9M
Anchor STR carry during build
$144K/yr
funds 75%+ of carry
Target stabilized cash-on-cash
12–18%

All figures Pod-1 modeled — based on Affordability Unlocked container-unit comps + Bastrop County permitting actuals. Phase-1 anchor numbers from active negotiation, not retail asking.

09 / 12 Market
Why this is fund-scale, not lifestyle-scale

The geometry repeats.

Cedar Creek isn't unique. Every tier-2 US city with a maker/creative-class influx has an analogous corridor — landlocked, family-held, under-mapped. Our data pipeline finds them; our playbook executes them.

Cedar Creek
Texas · Phase 1
Active. 4,401 parcels mapped, 32 players. Anchor in negotiation.
Asheville
North Carolina
Maker influx, mountain corridors, similar parcel geometry. Phase 2 candidate.
Boise
Idaho
Remote-work in-migration, Snake River corridor, county GIS open.
Bend
Oregon
Creative-class density, Deschutes parcels family-held.
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Tech-corridor expansion, river-adjacent acreage, friendly STR regs.
10 / 12 Moat
What's defensible

The moat isn't the buildings.
It's the infrastructure.

Anyone can buy a parcel. Almost no one can find the right parcel, structure the surrounding network, and operate the residency model from day one. That triple is what we're building.

Data layer

  • County GIS scrapers running against BCAD (TX) — replicable to any county with an ArcGIS endpoint.
  • Owner-cluster algorithm groups multi-generational family parcels automatically.
  • Mailing-address scraper resolves PO-box-only owners into real outreach paths.
  • Corridor scoring rubric (12 criteria) ranks parcels for anchor potential.

Network layer

  • 16-year resident pipeline (Tiny Hacker House) provides Day-1 occupancy.
  • Five-year STR operator track record gives lender + insurer credibility.
  • Local broker network (owner-finance specialists) for off-market structuring.
  • Documented neighborhood-association relationships pre-close.
11 / 12 Ask
Pre-seed · Q3 2026

We're raising for the first pod.

A pre-seed round to anchor Pod-1 in Cedar Creek, harden the data infrastructure, and prove the playbook for Phase 2 deployment.

$500K $1.5M
40%
Anchor + Site Work
183 Clover acquisition, well drilling, OSSF permit, site prep.
30%
Pod-1 Construction
First 4 units of the 13-unit modular pod. Bridge to construction debt.
15%
Data Infrastructure
Generalize the BCAD pipeline to 3 more corridors. Phase-2 scouting.
15%
Operations + Legal
Shared-well agreements, easement structuring, Affordability-Unlocked applications.
12 / 12 Vision
★ The 5-year picture ★

10 villages.
1,000 creative residents.
One playbook.

Every tier-2 city has a Cedar Creek. We're building the infrastructure that finds it, the operations that anchors it, and the model that replicates it.

SmallHomeVillage · Pre-seed · Q3 2026
land.wholetech.com
walhus@gmail.com