(Photos courtesy of Kristie Wolfe)
By Zachary Crockett | The Hustle
You may not know the name Kristie Wolfe. But if you’ve used Airbnb, you’ve likely seen her properties.
Over the past decade, Wolfe has built some of the most popular and unique vacation rentals on the platform, including:
- A jungle treehouse in Hawaii
- A real-life hobbit hole in Washington
- A converted fire lookout in the middle of a forest
- A potato-shaped tiny home in Idaho
In Airbnb circles, Wolfe is a legend — not just for her creative builds, but for her ability to figure everything out herself, often on an impossibly small budget. She constructs most of her properties from the ground up, in off-grid locations, with the helping hand of her 70-year-old mom.
Less than a decade ago, Wolfe was making $13/hr working odd jobs. Today, her properties gross hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
