O give me Land ...Losts of Land ....

JULY 2012 LAND IS PURCHASED !!! My thought is o.k purchase the land and then you can bug out to the location, camp, scream to the top of your lungs and nothing is going to hear you. I have Purchased 5 acres in San Bernardino County in the High Desert great price owner financing. ON EBAY! Before I submitted the first bid. I called the - Tax Collector - No back taxes / title is free and clear! I called the  Building and Safety Department of the county... Betty said that I can build out there and nobody is going to care ! Sweeeetttt I am excited 5 acre parcel for $3,500 dollars 0%interest about 30 some odd payments of 100 dollars a month! Yearly taxes on this parcel is a mear $30 dollars a year. My intention to create a retreat, get away in the middle of nowhere a escape of...

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Dwelling in A suv (back story)

So... 3 days ago I made a dicision to live in my suv 4 nights a week. This was based on 2 factors I work 120 miles from where I live becuase the job I have does not exist in where myself and my family resides. Housing is cheap in the county (rural areas) so I travel to the heart of the rich and famous by the sea. I was staying with a friend who was charging 200 bucks bi weekly or 400 a month that could go to other things not to mention gas money as he lived 30 miles from where I work. 30 miles one way x 10 times a week = 300 miles = another $ 60.00 in gas x 2 weeks = $120.00 in gas every paycheck plus rent total of 520.00  in gas and rent?!!. what if I was able to pocket that money and use it to pay off old bebt or take the kids to Disneyland or get the wife something... whatever....

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Going from gid to off grid

We live in a small 1100 sq ft home in downtown Victorville. We are a family of 6 that got in by putting down a large sum of money to a rent to own company.... They don't really care about credit checks they want you in.. In two years you have the option to buy... So from April 2011  we have been paying 800 a month for a 3 bed 1 bath and 6 people. This property and home is only worth 40k but we have  the option to buy in two years. We have to find our own financing or the current owner will carry for a purchase price of $160,000 plus interest after 2 years of renting. We had plans to fix it up and set roots... Then I saw container homes and it spun from there .then,  I saw off grid living and I was determined to get this rent / power bill...

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Rain Water Collection and Filtering

There is much talk these days about all the shortages and crises we are facing, both now and in the immediate future. On this list of coming calamities, there is one that is definitely not getting the kind of publicity it merits, and that is the comming water shortage. The collective aspect of the problem is not for us to solve, but the individual part is going to test our initiative. From a personal perspective, one of the smartest things anyone can do to increase your access to adequate water supplies is to set up a rain capture system (While this is a pdf dealing with TEXAS you can still adapt it to your application. that will allow you to harvest the water that falls from the sky for your own use. Of course, when you begin to collect rainwater using the basic,...

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GETTING A EVICTION!

October 2011 We love America and I must say that if you are homeless or have been in the past my heart goes out to you. I will make this short and sweet.. My mom rented from this scumbag woman that offered a 3 bed 2 bath home 5 years ago 2 years go by and paying 1800 a month the woman who received around 40,000 down with a rent to own option decided to refinance on the house my mom was in and they took all equity out. Not to mention my mom was getting evicted due to the person who owned the house defaulted on the payments.  My mom takes her to court and through the crazy process of over the years manages to win the judgement for the home and transfer of title. We filed and got the title to the home through the courts. We have all utilities in my mothers...

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