Well, they did it. The idiots made a Trailer park.
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For anyone who has looked at the idea of living in an RV, a trailer park in a nice area like this for only $650 a month with full hookups is dirt cheap. I can imagine these are going to become very popular as the economy continues to bite.
Most states and localities prohibit you from living full time in an RV on your own property, so putting it in an area that has been licensed for it is the only option.
Have you seen the number of Van Life videos on Youtube? This would be perfect as a home base. Huge business opportunity.
"Most states and localities prohibit you from living full time in an RV on your own property..."
It's almost like we don't really OWN property, isn't it? Still pay the g'ment yearly or lose it. Still can't live on it how we chose.
It's almost like we don't really OWN property
I thought that was pretty much an accepted truth at this point...
When I bought my place 35+ years ago, the annual property tax was less than a month's worth of groceries, back then. The town merged with a public school in a richer town, before that it was school choice if you were willing to drive your kid to another town. With that merger, which I voted against btw, the property tax quadrupled. The majority of votes were so they could be on the school board, but once their kids aged out, they did not care and the rest of us were left with this damn high bill every year. Now the talk is closing that school because there are no kids from this area to keep it open. I guess my money goes to maintaining the dirt roads and the snow plowing now. I cut trees down to have a view, put on a new roof, and they were raised again. I want to put up a small camper on a space I have down away from the house, a nice flat site surrounded by woods, but you can be sure it will be off the road and not seen, to avoid the Listers.
They drove into our property apparently, looking for I don't know what, and found an old trailer in the trees to charge us for... We've adjusted the cameras.
So...
buy land.. section it off.. put up utility hookups in each section.. profit?
If you can A) find a jurisdiction that will allow it, B) get it past all the zoning laws, and C) provide whatever environmental impact studies and reports are necessary, then yes. Not as easy as you would think though. Many areas simply will not allow trailer parks and require a minimum home size of 1200 sq. ft.
It can be done obviously, but not as simple as you would think.
I'll bet that a member of the council has to have a family member on the board of whatever venture you're starting, getting paid but not doing anything.
There is a campground up the road from me, and the guy did exactly that, he does have some seasonal people, but his base are some pretty interesting permanent non residents. It dwindles in the deep of winter, I am not sure where they go, but he has an assortment of van campers, tiny house people who hauled their cabins there, but left them on the flat bed. I keep my eye on it, only because of, well, you know, transients can be honest people who need some stability to get on, or, they could be druggies who have burnt all their bridges. The zoning in Vermont goes from town to town, it is not state regulated. He does share his Starlink with the farm across the road, and he hired all local men to do the site work and logging to clear it. Not sure how he operates though, seems since it started he is spending more than he is taking in. He is not from here.
The government won't let you do it, but you can if someone pays them to license it...... Tyranny!!!