He is saving about $6,000 in rent.

The Blaze reports.

See the Tiny House a College Student Decided to Build After He Was Frustrated About Rent Costs

The rent was just too high for one University of Michigan student until he decided to take matters into his own hands.

Christopher Cerk, a 21-year-old computer science student, didn’t care too much for the freshman dorms and spent $800 per month on rent last year. So Clark dished out about $13,000 on materials over the past two years and built his own small home to reside in during his final two years at U-M.

“Around freshman year I didn’t enjoy living in the dorms so I wanted to do something different,” Cerk told the Ann Arbor News. “I started researching different ways to live. I wanted to put all the money that would be going towards rent in Ann Arbor to something else.”

“I lived on North (Campus) last year and it was about $800 a month and that’s pretty pricey for living on North. It wasn’t just the money issue — it was also just wanting to do something different and live simply,” he said.

Originally Cerk, from Traverse City, approached his mother with the idea to live in his Volkswagen van for the final two years of college, but that idea was quickly shot down.

“I wanted him to live somewhere safe and normal,” Cheryl Cerk told the Ann Arbor News. “I knew absolutely nothing about tiny houses. I started looking and found they were big out West, but in this area nobody had even heard of them here at the time.”