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That's awesome! If you ever have questions here let me know. Looking back all of the fears we had were just mostly fear of the unknown. It has been awesome but also challenging so expect challenges and try to setup expectations so that you can roll with all the unexpected things that pop up. Where are you moving? In state to somewhere else in Washington?

@@homesteadingbarndo Thanks for the reply! Yeah the unknowns are driving me crazy. Trying to keep things a bit more simple and just do one step at a time and let the unknowns just kind of happen as we get to each step. We are going to put an offer on the land tonight, so it's becoming more real pretty quickly. We are moving to eastern washington, in Kittitas county area. It's only 3 acres, but a beautiful spot with potential to expand later on. Took us a while to find land that didn't have a ton of restrictions. This spot only has 35ft height max for buildings and 25ft setbacks from property edge, plus no mobile or manufactured homes, but pretty much anything else is fine. It's sort of a neighborhood (shared private road) with 2 other families in trailers building their homes and only 1 home that is actually done and lived in so far. All recently bought. We have 4 kids, but there are at least 9 other kids on the other lots which is going to be great for keeping our kids busy. I've been making a ton of calls to figure out the initial first steps (water/septic/electricity). We are trying to get a kind of home office with washer/dryer (made out of a 20ft shipping container) onto the property as well, which would be great since I could use the space for a home office (I work from home). Called the county and found out we can live in a trailer for 6 months, but if we get an active build permit we can extend that to an extra 12 months (18 months total), so that makes me feel more comfortable. Anyway, I'm learning as we go. Assuming our offer is accepted we hope the owner lets us start getting stuff prepped on the land before closing the purchase. We've been shopping travel trailers the last few days and picked out a 36ft bunk house style travel trailer. It'll be a lot cheaper then renting. Hope you don't mind the dump of info here. I've been spending 99% of my energy on getting this plan into motion.

Sounds like you have a great plan and that's a beautiful area! If you ever want to talk shoot me an email at homesteadyrv@gmail.com and I'll send you my number!

If you got a dream go for it! It is INSANELY expensive, but don't let it stop you from trying. I think it is hard if you have kids because that increases the need for housing and increases expenses. For us it was about quality of life and wantign to do more than have to just work constantly to pay to live. Don't be discouraged, if you have a dream sacrifice and go for it

What else would you like on this and I'll make it

I'll check them out do you know if they lend in Idaho?

What's that?

What's mixed use, do you mean commercial/residential?

Yep it's crazy. You can do it yourself but seems like a steep learning curve

@@broc5224 yes I'm sure yours would be cheaper with less living space. I think if you did the work yourself you could probably be building for around 70-90 a sq foot. If you have contractors do it your looking around 160-200 a sq foot. If you're on a budget the more you can do the better. I just recorded a video that I'll be posting here likely tomorrow about some. Difficultly I'm having trying to get my place refinanced that I think will be really relevant and important for you to watch

who are those guys?

@@homesteadingbarndo report it. They do this sort of code to attract noise or steal content.

@@thenexthobby thank you!

@@JB-dh4sp thanks for commenting! I couldn't remember what hat I was wearing but that was one of my favorites but it got ruined doing drywall

@@coreybailey4173 no worries! I enjoyed living in the RV!

You can ask for a code guide from your city. We didn't do inspections but I used state standard codes

She is!! Thank you!!

@@0lbluec10 Tennessee is a great spot! You guys have a lot less snow to deal with!

Yea i have but I didn't think it happened to buildings! I came from SoCal where it is consistent weather

yep I just need 43K to do it :D

That's a good idea!

I wish i could do a swap, they're in florida so it'd cost a fortune to get them shipped back

She's bred to a black angus so she's growing us some ribeye right now :D

I think because we would likely have family living in this one at some point, most likely. We also kind of imagined that we would want a more traditional looking home on our property as well. At some point, it would definitely be nice to have more windows and a little bit more of a fancy design, but we're actually really happy with the barn dough and don't have plans immediately of building another house like we had originally thought. One thing that we do really want to build is a barn and so that's going to be our next big project

I've never heard of those, how does that work?

That's a good point they'd get stuck for sure

Glad it was helpful!

You win!

@@rickymcu grew up in Laguna niguel and Dana point what about you?

Thanks Nathan! I got another one coming out today finally

@@TehDubster seriously. How does it make any sense you cannot live in a RV on your own land. Same thing goes for tiny homes or shed homes. I agree

@@homesteadingbarndo Because their reasoning is that theyre afraid youre gonna dump the sewage on the ground. That fear alone shouldnt be the basis of keeping it illegal, just make it plainly illegal to dump on the ground. Im practically homeless right now. Im riddled with debt and was evicted from my apartment because I couldnt pay the rent anymore because they raised it from $1050 to $1450 per month. I needed to leave, so instead of being homeless, I picked up a cheap, $5000 camper to live in. Parked it on my parents property. Zoning laws in my town do not allow RVs to be used for "human habitation" So the way I see it, they would rather me be homeless on the street (Which is also illegal to live on the street where I live) than have a home on someone elses land that I have full permission to be on. Fuck the zoning laws, I live in it anyway. So where am I supposed to go if I follow the laws? I cant be on the street because thats illegal, I cant live in a camper because thats illegal, and I cant stay in my relatives house because they dont have the space to accomodate me. Its beyond disgusting that towns do not allow you to purchase an RV to live in, because they dont consider them homesteads. The law does not grant me any options. I'm damned if I do, damned if I dont. So I have no choice but to break the zoning laws. The ONLY way in my town that they will allow you to live in an RV on your property is if you remove the wheels from it, and pay upwards of $20,000 to the town to have them come and set up a way for your sewage to dump to the septic tank. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY TO THEM. Luckily, its pretty easy to get away with doing it. I've been living in it for 7 months now and have yet to have any problems. Luckily my house is not viewable from the street, so unless zoning regulation officers have a reason to come here, they wont.

@@homesteadingbarndo I posted a longer reply, but youtube is censorship heaven that somehow me saying that I live illegally anyway was too controversial to them and broke their comment policy. I absolutely hate youtube

@@homesteadingbarndo I had to leave my apartment because rent increased from $1050 per month to $1450 per month. I have so much debt that Im practically homeless. Its illegal for me to live on the street where I live, you cant set up encampments on the streets. Cant live in a camp in the woods because its town owned land, so I purchased a $5000 RV to live in. Parked it on my parents property. Only to find out later that zoning laws also do not allow me to live in an RV on family owned property. RV/Mobile Homes cannot be used for human habitation. RVs can only be parked or stored on your property. The only way zoning laws would allow me to live in the RV on my parents property is if I pay them $21,500 to modify our septic system to hook up to the RV as well, and they want me to remove all wheels from the vehicle. Just make it illegal to dump on the ground, dont make it illegal to live in an RV because you think someones gonna dump sewage on the ground. (Which whos gonna do that anyway? That would absolutely reek outside of your camper) I cant live in my parents house because they dont have the room to accomodate my wife and I. So to cap, its illegal to live on the street, its illegal to set up an encampment in the woods, only option was to buy a camper to live in, which is also illegal apparently too. So I literally cant live anywhere legally without breaking some sort of law, so as I said, live in it anyway. Its beyond disgusting that its literally illegal to be poor. You're not allowed to fix your life up unless you own a home or apartment.

@@TehDubster I feel you I had to live illegally in a tiny sailboat I bought for 300 bucks last recession in 09. The way to make housing more affordable is to allow for legit ways to do tiny housing/RV living. They don't seem to want to give you any way to save money or get up in life. If it helps there are often times rv parks that do monthly rentals and it is 300-400 a month with full hookups. When I was stationary living in a park it was 320 a month and they had wifi/electric and water included

@@alltruckeredout yep that was definitely the case. I think it is wise to live in an area and get to know people. In the past couple of years I've met some really great people who would have done much more honest work

@@homesteadingbarndo it's like the old saying goes... How do we learn to make good decisions? We make lots of bad decisions! But now you get to share your experiences with others to help them make good decisions. Great video. Thanks for sharing your experience.

@@alltruckeredout thanks for the reminder one of these days I'll be full of expensive wisdom 😄

@@homesteadingbarndo 😂😂🤘

@@devonceleon hey that's exciting!! Congrats! I'll be honest I miss living in the RV I really want to go on some trips with the family. Thanks for watching

Hey there! 👋

I have my design files you can email me and I can find them. They aren't approved or engineered though so use them at your own risk, my house hasn't fallen down yet though 😆

@@homesteadingbarndo how can I get in touch with you?

@@tehxii7706 email me at homesteadyrv@gmail.com