off grid world

[RonMexico]

http://www.offgridworld.com

Does anyone want to sell me a few acres to build my own cabin or shipping container house?
If one was to make their own cabin or shipping container house and didn't pull permits, what would happen if a county inspector or a nosy neighbor ratted you out? I would like like to build something like one of these two, but I would use modern technology to accomplish the job.

Watch this guy build his own cabin from hand tools
http://www.offgridworld.com/the-perfect-off-grid-cabin/

This is my favorite: modern shipping container house
http://www.offgridworld.com/ugly-duc...on-the-inside/

have have fun surfing this badass site.

[Wulf202]

The cost of the shipping container around here is usually more than stick building a shed of equivalent size and then you have to deal with equipping it, leaks, snow load, etc. Typical prices are $2k/20ft $4k/40ft

You can get around most of the codes by calling them sheds and not securing them to the ground and make sure they're movable. There's some codes in certain areas that have minimum sizes for living structures. Look into the tiny home stuff online, houses built on car hauling flatbeds

[Irving]

If you build a small cabin on skids, it isn't considered a permanent structure since it can be moved. Or so I hear.

[Irving]

have have fun surfing this badass site.

Here you go, just for you.

[Great-Kazoo]

If you build a small cabin on skids, it isn't considered a permanent structure since it can be moved. Or so I hear.

PROVIDING it is not ON a concrete slab. Then it is considered sitting on a foundation. Our garage has a slab poured inside the pole barn. The county considered the frame , based on construction, to be a utility shed for tax purposes.
If we placed the pole barn on a slab, that was considered permanent structure / higher tax rate.

If you want cheap, buy a mobile home. Those have DMV titles. As long as the mobile home is not on a foundation and still has the axle, you pay the DMV / title tax yearly not residential / house tax. I was in business with a few folks who built around the MH and the cty considered those additions to be add ons, still different tax rate.

Buy a single or double wide. then add on from there, preferably underground. Fabricate an escape hatch from the MH, to the safe underground area.

[Irving]

If you just need dry storage, a used semi-truck trailer would work.

[RonMexico]

Thanks for all the help and ideas. Looks like a lot of the mountain countries' building codes are stuck or have rules against sleeping in makeshift cabins, everyone is worried about their price if the pie, damn tax nazi. I want this off the grid or no title/DMV or county taxes. Guess I better save 40k soon to make this dream possible.

[Wulf202]

I want this off the grid or no title/DMV or county taxes.

death and taxes.

Buy a 5th wheel and park it there, don't register it. You still gotta pay the county for the privilege to own the dirt.

[RonMexico]

I'll bump my own post instead of starting a new one. What about a treehouse for an off the grid site. Yes I understand a forest fires would destroy it in a heartbeat but I did notice a lot of municipalities have relaxed standards or rules when it comes to building a treehouse.

[Wulf202]

tree houses are not good for cold climates