Author Topic: It's Illegal To Live In An RV On Your Property In These US States Read More: https://www.jalopnik.c  (Read 124 times)

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This is a thing here. Since COVID, and everyone fleeing the cities, We've seen stupid growth and property costs responded accordingly. I paid 40  grand for this place in '12 now there ain't hardly anything under 250k, even damaged properties. Even bare land - By the time you get built, that's where you are.

So MANY are going tinyhome... Many are going vanlife/RVLife.

One of my good friends crapped out during covid, and took the last dough he had and bought a type C RV. He has been living in it ever since.

That would be typical if he bought land and was milling his cabin and so on - That whole process takes years, and a camper is often the temporary dwelling - but that ain't it. He's moving every 14 days on BLM land, and heading over to the high desert in Oregon for the winter. And he will probably do that till the day he dies.

He cant get back up. The price is too steep.

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This is a thing here. Since COVID, and everyone fleeing the cities, We've seen stupid growth and property costs responded accordingly. I paid 40  grand for this place in '12 now there ain't hardly anything under 250k, even damaged properties. Even bare land - By the time you get built, that's where you are.

So MANY are going tinyhome... Many are going vanlife/RVLife.

One of my good friends crapped out during covid, and took the last dough he had and bought a type C RV. He has been living in it ever since.

That would be typical if he bought land and was milling his cabin and so on - That whole process takes years, and a camper is often the temporary dwelling - but that ain't it. He's moving every 14 days on BLM land, and heading over to the high desert in Oregon for the winter. And he will probably do that till the day he dies.

He cant get back up. The price is too steep.

THank  you for this. Very interesting stuff. I mean, I can see local county's point, if they have no sewage where are they dumping their waste? Onto the property? We know that's not good for a myriad of reasons. But the whole state to not allow RV living at all seems dumb.

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THank  you for this. Very interesting stuff. I mean, I can see local county's point, if they have no sewage where are they dumping their waste? Onto the property? We know that's not good for a myriad of reasons. But the whole state to not allow RV living at all seems dumb.

Actually, most folks compost sewage off grid anyway. Most folks I know RVing or camping use composting toilets anymore anyway, too.

On a homestead scale, that's a 4x4 cube of pallets (or the like)... You dump the honey-bucket in it and cover with some kind of carbon-based... generally sawdust or straw. Done properly, it doesn't even stink. In about a year, that cube is full. Repeat 3 times.

In the third year you can clean out the first cube, because it's all gone to dirt. There are some that caution that prions might survive the composting process, so it is generally accepted practice not to use the compost on your gardens, but around fruit trees is alright, or dump it in a manure spreader and spread it on your fields.

That's a pretty environmentally sound method, very much the same thing as deep-bedding livestock. And it is probably better for the land than the sewage plant.