Open now
Retreat
Days to weeks · groups & events
Take over a whole house for a company offsite, a workshop or a startup sprint, with desks, call booths, meals and airport pickup for everyone.
Dwellers · La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Intentional communities
for tiny lifestyles.
Own a tiny home on a legal pad, with neighbors who chose to be there. Buy, rent to own or lease a home built by Nativo, starting on land in the mountains outside La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
Homes from $39,500, delivered and set up on your pad
The problem
Living small in a big city is lonely, expensive and loud.
Remote work was supposed to mean living anywhere. For most people it means a small apartment, a laptop on the kitchen table and nobody to talk to until the weekend.
- 01
Isolation
A remote job and a small place cut costs, and cut you off. No one at the next desk, no neighbors you know by name, nobody to have dinner with.
- 02
Cost of living
In the cities people want to live in, rent takes most of the budget before anything else gets a share. Then come deposits, utilities, furniture and a coworking membership.
- 03
Burnout
City noise and stress follow you into work. When the office is the kitchen table, the workday never quite ends, and work–life balance goes with it.
The solution
A small community, curated for you.
PODLife puts a handful of people who work remotely in one well-run place, matches them for what they're working on, and handles everything around them.
Save money
One bill covers the room, the desk, the fiber, the food and the cleaning. No deposits, no lease and no utility accounts in your name.
Save time
Everything a working month needs is already there, from call booths and backup internet to dinner at eight. You show up with a laptop.
Belong
Everyone arrives the same week, shares a table and stays long enough to know each other: neighbors who chose to be there.
Three ways to join
Bring your team, stay a month, or put down roots.
A PODLife community mixes all three: teams who take a house for a week of focus, nomads who stay for months, and dwellers who stay for years.
Open now
Nomad
Months · from 28 nights
The hybrid: longer than a retreat, without putting down roots. Stay a cycle or three in a pod, arrive the same week as everyone else, work remotely and move on when you’re ready.
Coming next
Dweller
Years · your own tiny home
Buy (from $39,500), rent to own or lease a tiny home on a legal site near town, or bring your own. Share the commons and help look after the land, for years rather than weeks.
Nomads · open now
Stay a month, on one bill.
The hybrid: longer than a retreat, without putting down roots. Pods run in 28-night cycles. Everyone in a house arrives the same week, so you land with a group instead of a rotating cast of strangers, and one monthly bill covers everything a working month needs.
Private room & bath
Made up twice weekly
1 Gbps fiber + backup
Starlink failover on site
Courtyard workspace
Desks, monitors, call booths
Breakfast & dinner
House cook, Tue–Sat
Housekeeping & laundry
No chores, no chore wheel
Utilities & water
Power, gas, filtered water
Airport pickup
From the nearest airport
Pod community
5–8 people, vetted, one arrival week
Open now
Mexico
San Miguel de Allende
Three colonial houses: two in Centro, four minutes apart on foot, and one out in the vineyards. Nomad stays from $1,950 per 28-night cycle, all in, and whole houses for team retreats.
- Casa Allende8 people · from $2,150
- Casa Olivar6 people · from $2,300
- Casa Cantera5 people · from $1,950
Dwellers · coming next
People want to live tiny. Finding somewhere legal to park is the hard part.
Dwelling is where PODLife started: land near town with legal pads for tiny homes, shared space for the work and the meals, and neighbors who chose to be there. Live in a tiny home of your own, stay for years and help look after the land.
Renderings: Nativo Tiny House
A home on site, three ways
The homes are built by Nativo Tiny House, with PODLife in between: buy one, rent it until it's yours, or lease it while you stay.
Buy
Buy a home through PODLife, from $39,500. We handle the order with Nativo and the setup on your pad, so there is one company to deal with from start to finish.
Rent to own
Move in and pay monthly, with part of every payment going toward owning the home.
Lease
Lease a home that is already on site for as long as you stay, and hand it back when you move on.
Already have a tiny house? Bring it and lease a pad.
See the homes at nativotinyhouse.comThe homes, and what they cost
Prices in US dollars to buy outright through PODLife, with the home delivered and set up on your pad. Every home arrives equipped and furnished. Your quote confirms the final price and any taxes, and rent-to-own and lease terms are quoted home by home.
Every price includes
- One contract: we order the home from Nativo and follow the build
- Delivery to the site
- Placement on your pad, leveled and anchored
- Water, power, drainage and internet hookups
- Permits and site paperwork
- A walkthrough at handover, and help with any warranty claim
The Nómada line
Built entirely in Nativo’s workshop and delivered in two to three months, on wheels or on a foundation.
- Nómada 01 bed · 1 bath · 164 sq ft$39,500
- Nómada 11 bed · 1 bath · 167 sq ft$43,500
- Nómada 21 bed · 1 bath · 202 sq ft$44,500
- Nómada 31 bed · 1 bath · 215 sq ft$47,500
- Nómada 41 bed · 1 bath · 344 sq ft$62,500
- Nómada 52 beds · 1 bath · 398 sq ft$71,000
- Nómada 6Studio · 1 bath · 334 sq ft$49,000
- Nómada 72 beds · 2 baths · 581 sq ft$106,500
The Nordik line
Larger homes, about 80% built in the workshop and finished on site in four to six months, on almost any terrain.
- Nordik 11 bed · 1 bath · 431 sq ft$71,000
- Nordik 21 bed · 1 bath · 457 sq ft$76,500
- Nordik 32 beds · 1 bath · 619 sq ft$103,000
- Nordik 42 beds · 1 bath · 560 sq ft$96,000
- Nordik 51 bed · 1 bath · 631 sq ft$109,000
- Nordik 62 beds · 1 bath · 948 sq ft$167,000
- Nordik 73 beds · 1 bath · 974 sq ft$170,000
- Nordik 83 beds · 2 baths · 1,201 sq ft$211,000
- Nordik 93 beds · 2 baths · 1,445 sq ft$266,000
73%
of Americans would consider living in a tiny home.
IPX1031 survey, 2024
75%
of Gen Z and millennials would consider it.
IPX1031 survey, 2024
65%
would consider living in a tiny-home community.
IPX1031 survey, 2024
Smaller house, bigger life
- Mobility
- A smaller carbon footprint
- Lower taxes
- Less maintenance
- No mortgage, little or no debt
- Self-sufficiency
Figures from IPX1031's survey of 1,010 US adults, February 2024. Reasons to go tiny: Modern Tiny Living.
Intentional communities
What makes a community intentional
People choose to live together around shared values. These are the eight PODLife is built on.
- Sustainable living
- Curated community
- Common values
- Co-working
- Holistic lifestyle
- Inclusiveness
- Safety
- Co-living
Source: Foundation for Intentional Community, ic.org
Where to find us
One site so far, more on the way.
Dwellers · coming next
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
The first Dweller land
Rural land in the mountains outside La Fortuna, a small town with a big expat community. It's set aside for legal tiny-home pads, next to neighbors already living this way. Buy, rent to own or lease a home there, or bring your own.
How dwelling works →The first pods are open.
Three houses in San Miguel de Allende take nomads and teams now. Dwellers come next, and so does the next city.