Bold thieves are targeting tiny homes by stealing the entire house

In November, Monica Badzinski drove to the plot of land where she’d built a tiny home and found that her home had vanished.Thieves had broken into her lot, hitched the home to a vehicle, and removed the entire thing under the cloak of night.Thankfully, Badzinski hadn’t been living in the Sapulpa, OK, property at the time of the theft.Disputes over the zoning and safety of the home had forced her to move out earlier in the year.

But a neighbor caught the crime on video.“He has cameras.He says he saw four men in a UTV and a pickup truck,” she told Fox 23.

“They came to my gate, they had some kind of saw, [and] they sawed through my lock.… They came down here, they cut the straps to the home, and they cut the electrical.”Badzinski has offered a $500 reward for information related to the theft.While there aren’t specific statistics on tiny-home theft, Badzinski’s is one of several tiny homes that have been stolen in recent months.On TikTok, @TheBennettGang is a family of five who have been traveling around the country and documenting their lives in a tiny home for the past several years.In November, the family traveled from Ohio to Utah.

When they stopped to celebrate one of their children’s birthdays, a thief unhooked their custom-built tiny home from their car and took off with it.The family’s dog happened to be in the home at the time, and the Bennetts were able to use the dog’s GPS tracking collar to locate the stolen home.Unfortunately, the home incurred thousands of dollars of damage while in the thieves’ possession.In August, Karin Potter of Spokane, WA, had her home stolen from a storage facility.Security cameras recorded footage of a gold pickup truck driving off with the home.

The home was found a few days later.“It was built through community,” she told KXLY News.“I’ve lived in it in community, and now, it was lost and found through community.

That’s really moving, that’s powerful.”But a single ...