Why We Choose A Tiny House and RV LIFESTYLE : Not What You Think !!
Some time around 2013, in the process of me waking up from my sleep, I was kind of in a half sleep, ....
You know that half sleep right before you completely wake up...I was kind of in that state.
And then something happened that completely changed my life.
I know you guys are gonna think I'm crazy; I'm probably going to get a lot of hate in the comments, because I'm talking about this. But to me this is 100% No Bull-sh%# Completely Real.
What I witnessed or what I felt, this is how I describe it:
It was like a HAND made out of the Brightest Light that you could possibly imagine.
And this light reached in to my head part like - into my third eye here is what I have found out now - is what it was called. And it reached in; it GRABBED me by the SPINE - it felt like - and it SHOOK me, like this - like it was SHAKING ME - so I was like this -
Have you ever seen those Alien Movies - where they get Taken Up - and they totally lost all -
all control of their body - and just kind of like this...
Well that's kind of how I felt. I felt like Jerks - like this in my half sleep.
I didn't know what to make of it and I really didn't think much about it.
But things started changing after that.
In fact things completely changed.
I started going crazy; I didn't know where these feelings and thoughts came from.
I immediately had to reevaluate everything I've ever learned, everything I've ever been taught. Everything I believed to be true. I had to scrap all that. I had this hunger. This yearning to figure things out.
To ask questions. To find knowledge of ALL these different topics.
Where we come from. How we got here. What's really going on with our nation.
Everything that you can imagine, I started diving deep in and asking questions and probing and trying to get answers.
So after that HAND Woke Me Up. That's the best I can describe it:
A Ghostly Spiritual Hand Waking me up
Now that I look back on it, I'd like to think it was some kind of guiding force, some kind of guiding spirit, maybe my father perhaps, trying to wake me up and saying, "What the Hell are you doing with your life? You're becoming a complete alcoholic, a Wastoid, you're not doing anything with your life."
And I don't know if that WOKE UP - that waking up process - it was like a waking up process on Steroids....like I said I had to question everything.
Then I started doing research on youtube, trying to figure out what was going on with me inside. I was really - I felt all alone. I had no body to talk to about these issues. And I still don't really talk to many people about these things I'm going through.
That's why I never really talk about this stuff, until recently, on the "Where do I live" video. I never really got into these types of topics. I can throw some ideas around with ... but even sometimes then she kind of...you know it's kind of hard.... if somebody was coming at me with all this stuff... without having this experience? I would think that they were crazy too.
So when people tell me I'm crazy or I get that weird look from people, you know I can of just brush it off. I get frustrated sometimes that I don't feel like I have people that can relate to me.
But that's life for me right now I guess. So I gotta get used to it.
So I started meditating a lot. I started reading Occulted books - Occulted knowledge. All the Occult means is Hidden. Hidden books. Hidden Knowledge. Hidden information. And I did a lot of research on youtube. Just trying to figure out what's going on.
It just felt natural to work on my inner spirituality.
And along with that, I started questioning all these so-called Societal Norms, like keeping up with the Joneses type mentality.
I started really questioning why I bought that house.
You know I never really considered owning a house ever, until my father died and I inherited that money.
I guess I kind of felt that that was just the normal process - you make money, you get a degree - and then you make ... you get the degree and then you make the money...and you go and buy a house...That's what's everybody's doing.
So that's what kind of what I went and did. I bought that house. And after the three years I didn't feel right, like it was overboard - it was excess - like I didn't need this.
Not only with the house but it was the Whole Idea how everybody lives. I felt like I was living in a completely Inauthentic World, where everybody was focused on Inauthentic Trivial Matters. Facebooking all the time. Football all the time.
Before I was having these Enlightened, Awakening processes going on with me - I was a Chicago Fans - I don't even watch foot ball anymore. All these things I thought made me - they just started falling off.
I started Re-Evaluating Life.
Your "debate" with the building inspector - that got down to WHERE YOU SLEEP - is perfectly true. I discovered this SAME argument from a 1905 Legal book! https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/11/lawyers-reports-1905-legal-definition.html
"It is not a mere casual or occasional sleeping in the house that constitutes an occupancy of it....the house is without an occupant — without some person living in it. ... even though some of the owner's property may be stored there and even though occasionally some one may sleep there. If used for these last-named purposes it may be a place of storage or of temporary shelter but it is obviously no longer occupied as a dwelling"
"Unoccupied signifies not used as a residence... Hence...so long as it ceases to be a place of actual abode - a place really occupied - it is vacant or unoccupied....The element of a fixed abode is an essential ingredient for every concept of occupancy when applied to a dwelling house. "
Lawyers' Reports, 1905: The legal definition of a storage structure as a temporary shelter versus a residency dwelling as defined by Insurance
So I just talked to the county planner and he said he talked to his MANAGER and other planners and he said that as long as the structure is set up for dwelling then it's a dwelling and needs a permit. I said so I will just store things in there as a shed and as long as it is not occupied it's not a dwelling. I said that I use it for farming mushrooms and so I will not use it as a seasonal dwelling. He agreed that since the structure is smaller than 150 square feet then I do not need a permit to use as a shed and that if it is not occupied then it's not a dwelling. And also he said if I want a street address then I need to apply for a dwelling permit.
https://library.municode.com/fl/greensboro/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH22MAMOHO
It shall be unlawful for any manufactured home, mobile home or modular home to be brought into and/or set up for dwelling purposes in the town, until such manufactured home, mobile home or modular home has been inspected by the county building official or his agent, and a permit has been issued for such manufactured home, mobile home, or modular home.
So they mean a "dwelling unit" set up for permanent residence (sewage, eletrical, plumbing) because a lot of places don't have building code inspections but do have sewage and electrical inspections.
So by "set up for dwelling" they also mean "set up" for residential or "set up as a residence."
and then finally - a tent "Set UP ten tents for Dwelling"
He doesn't know that I did the legal research for this and "occasional use" does NOT mean "occupation"!! Here is the FINAL example I can find that clearly applies to what I was told (pdf):
So again by "Set UP" as a dwelling - they are inspecting the Electrical Code and then see if it also "set up" as a residential dwelling - not just "set up" for electrical.
Dwelling: A Set-up / Habitation
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cv/2010-n85-cv1519926/63719ac/
Farm Sheds are NOT covered by State Building Code due to the Federal Farm Building Code exemption...
These insulated temporary sheds are ideal as temporary structures in farming, construction, warehousing and many other industries as resting area, keeping equipments and products as temporary place.
In accordance with Section 102.3 effective September 4, 2018 of the 2015 Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (VA. USBC), farm buildings or structures are exempt from regulation by the VA.USBC. As such, the Building Code Office requires no inspections, and none will be performed. Also, issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy is not required, and none will be issued.
The State Building Code does not apply to agricultural buildings
1300.0220 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY.Subpart 1.Use and occupancy. No building or structure shall be used or occupied, and no change in the existing occupancy classification of a building, structure, or portion of a building or structure shall be made until the building official has issued a certificate of occupancy for thebuilding or structure under this part.
No structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered until a building permit is issued by the city, except for farm buildings and dwellings as exempted by the Minnesota State Building Code.
FARM BUILDING. All buildings accessory to the agricultural use, except the farm dwelling.
FARM DWELLING. A building containing 1 dwelling unit occupied by the owner of the farm or by a family employed on the farm.
Each state in the United States has rules and regulations in place that limit how large a dwelling one can build before needing a permit of some kind.
Also, obtaining Certificates of Occupancy (CO) could be a problem the closer you are to a town or city if you’re planning on living in a tiny cabin, as the cabin must meet building codes to issue a CO. The county will not issue a CO if your building is larger than their required dimensions. So, to avoid having to deal with that, the obvious choice is to build somewhere that they do not enforce the building codes and build smaller.
https://www.thepinesresort.com/images/minnesota-hunting-regulations.pdf
Constructing, placing, or maintaining any kind of road, trail, structure or other improvement is prohibited. This includes the use or occupancy of a permanent stand
https://archive.org/stream/lawyersreportsa01compgoog/lawyersreportsa01compgoog_djvu.txt CASES REPORTED IN LAWYERS' REPORTS, ANNOTATED, BOOK 30. 1905
https://www.turtleshells.org/setup/
the dwelling house covered by the policy was actually occupied by the appellee and his family as a place of abodethough he left in the house from which he moved a few beds and some trifling house- hold articles,this entire policy, unless otherwise pro- vided by agreement endorsed thereon or added hereto, shall be void ... if a building herein described, whether intended for oc- cupancy by owner or tenant, be or become vacant 'or unoccupied and so remain for tendays. "Within a week before the destruction of the house by fire a man in the service of the appellee spent one night in the house; and occasionally whilst the hands slept there one of the sons of the ap- pellee also slept in the house. During the whole period of time intervening between December, 1892, when the appellee moved out of the house and December 27, 1893, when the house was burned, the appellee's wife went daily to the house to get pro- visions stored and kept there.no evidence in this case that the dwelling house that was destroyed bv fire, as testified to, was occupied as a dwellingThe distinct inquiry is thus presented for the first time in this court, as to what is the meaning of the terms ** vacant or unoccupied.* as applied to dwelling houses under fire in- surance policies embodying a forfeiture clause of the kind we have said the policy sued on contains.or that it had been so occupied at any time within ten days preceding said fire, and that no agreement permitting the property to be vacant and un- occupied was indorsed [to inscribe (something, such as an official document)with a title or memorandum] or added to the pol-
icy of insurance offered in evidenceoccupation of a dwelling house primarily implies a living in it,such dwelling house while thus deserted, must be regarded as unoccupied— that is, vacated— if the word be given its natural and ordinary signification.Obviously the word ''un- occupied'' as applied to a dwelling house in a fire insurance policy, signifies ''not used as a residence ;*Hence no matter what other use it may be devoted to, so long as it ceases to be -a place of actual abode — a place really oc- cupied as a residence or habitation — it is va- cant or unoccupied according to the plain import of those words, and according, too, to the sense in which they are manifestly em- ployed in the contract of insurance. It is not a mere casual or occasional sleeping in a house that constitutes an occupancy of it. The element of a fixed abode is an essential ingredient of every concept of occupancy when applied to a dwelling house; and the term ** unoccupied" is employed to express the directly opposite condition.The insurance policy has a manifest reference
to a continuous physical condition of the house as a habitation, and not to the mental purpose or mere intention of the owner with respect to what he considers his residence. The prohibiting clause wasdesigned to be descriptive of the thing insured in a particular thataffects the hazard of the risk, and as not intended to have relation to the mere intent of the owner. If, therefore, the house be not used as a dwelling house in which people live and have their abode, it is unoc- cupied even though some of the owner's prop- erty may be stored there and even though occasionally some one may sleep there. If used for these last-named purposes it may be a place of storage or of temporary shelter but it is obviously no longer occupied as a dwell- ing house. This view is fully supported by numerous well-considered adjudications, to some of which we will now refer.
Residential Use – A category of uses that includes, but is not limited to: hunting shacks, residential dwellings ( less than five units or sites), seasonal residences and accessory dwellings and structures.
Dwelling Site -A designated location for residential use by one or more persons using temporary or movable shelter, including camping and recreational vehicle sites.
https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/LaConner/html/LaConner15/LaConner15110.html#15.110.030
15.110.030 Temporary structures.
Temporary structures shall be defined as any structure or vehicle which is designed to be easily transported or dismantled after its function has been fulfilled, and which is used for residential, commercial or office purposes except the following:
(4) Recreational structures when used for recreation in an appropriately designated area;
FOREST AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT DISTRICT (FAM) 1.Allowed - No Permit Required:
a.Agricultural Use – Class I
The committee has agreed that when an unimproved parcel of property (no permanent structure such as a cabin or home exists on the property) is simply leased for hunting purposes, it is an incidental use of the property and should not be the sole factor used to classify the property as Seasonal Residential Recreational. It is unlikely that the assessor would be aware of these leases that may run for a minimum of a day up to a maximum of a few weeks during the hunting season. Therefore, we believe that the assessor should ignore such incidental uses of a property.
Some examples of ancillary structures include small (i.e., 10’x10’) storage buildings, tool sheds and other minor, non-residential structures. In addition, use of the property for incidental camping purposes, would not be recognized in the classification and therefore should not preclude a property from being classified as rural vacant land.
https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/2011-11/acp_06_woodlands.pdf
So Residential = Occupied = more than occasional use over a ten day period = seasonal camping
Occasional Use does NOT mean occupy and therefore NOT a Residential dwelling.
MARYLAND COURT OP APPeaLs
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE COMPANY of Watertown, New York, Appt,,
V,
James K. HAMILTON, to Use of J. Thomas
C. HOPKINS et al.
https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/multiple-dwelling-law/mdw-sect-4.html
incidental and occasional occupancy of such dwelling unit for fewer than thirty consecutive days
https://lawshelf.com/coursewarecontentview/acquisition-by-adverse-possession/
Alberto owns a ski chalet in Vail, Colorado which is generally
only used during winter vacations. Assume that the statutory adverse
possession period in Colorado is ten years. Hubert uses the ski chalet
for his mid-winter vacation for ten consecutive winters. Hubert can
acquire the house through adverse possession because his use of the
chalet during the winter for the entire statutory period is considered
to be continuous use, even though he did not use the chalet all year
round.
If you only rent your property out for short terms on an occasional basis or as an isolated incident, you are not required to collect short-term rental taxes on those stays.
occasional (2-4 times per year),
An “occasional sale” is infrequent and does not reoccur with some degree of regularity.
In this analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), other vacant units include all vacant units that are not available for sale or for rent. The term therefore includes units rented or sold but not occupied; held for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use;
"Camping Unit" means any portable device, no more than 400 square feet in area, used in the Town as a temporary or seasonal dwelling, including but not limited to a camping trailer, motor home, bus, van, pick-up truck, or tent, but does not include a mobile home, manufactured home, or manufactured dwelling.
"Temporary or seasonal dwelling" means any dwelling, cabin, shack, cottage, manufactured home, manufactured dwelling, mobile home, camping unit, or similar structure constructed, installed, parked, or maintained on a parcel of land in the Town for temporary or seasonal human habitation, sleeping, lodging, shelter, or living quarters for recreational, camping, hunting, fishing, or travel on a temporary or seasonal basis.
"Temporary or seasonal dwelling" does not include any of the following: Any dwelling unit used for temporary or seasonal habitation less than 14 days in any calendar year.
So Occasional means less than 14 days a year whereas Temporary means MORE than 14 days a year.
https://dor.sd.gov/media/jrql35rj/2019-03-hotels-motels-and-campgrounds.pdf
The casual or occasional rental of a sleeping accommodation or camping site is not subject to sales tax.
occasionally= 14 days or fewer during the year
“Any structure will require a building permit,” he added, “but it all depends on what you convey to the permit office. There are creative loopholes. Call it a workshop, a barn or a shed.” With agricultural-type outbuildings, there’s no requirement for plumbing or winterizing. But if anyone is ever going to sleep there, common sense requires at least a smoke detector.
For other second-home owners, though, rough or rustic spaces are good enough. Converted garages, sheds and even parts of barns are often used to house guests at second homes in rural areas.In Sullivan County, N.Y., home to some of the most popular destinations in the Catskills and where it’s estimated that a quarter of the 100,000 residences are second homes, Dr. William J. Pammer Jr., the county commissioner for planning and community development, sees ways for people to build bunkhouses — often seasonal structures without insulation, heating or plumbing — even against the wishes of local governments.
https://thetinylife.com/living-in-a-shed/
I was wondering how you were able to get a permit for the shed without having a primary house on the property as they refused to permit me to do so? I own 14 acres and they would not permit me to put a 10×20 shed due to the fact that it would be my primary structure. I think that rule is plain ridiculous, its my land which I pay taxes and I see nothing wrong with having a shed on it.
And go ahead and SET IT UP FOR A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING - youtube vid
So this Builder explains in detail - he's just using a shed for a hunting camp and so he does NOT need a dwelling permit. But he says he's going to pay extra to SET IT UP (meaning as a permanent Dwelling Unit). But he said since he's using it for a hunting camp then he can do whatever he wants.
If you want to do a hunting camp that way? It's ok because there's really NO restrictions on that.
He says you need to use Rock Wool - that's what I used!! haha.
He said he didn't have a problem with a composting toilet as long as it is a Hunting Camp, Fishing Camp or WEEKEND place.
...are going to doing ours...It's going to be a CAMP, a place for like the Weekend or someone could stay for a weekend or a day or two. It's NOT going to be a Permanent Dwelling Place. Because it's not going to hook up to the electrical grid system - we don't have any rules or regulations - we're exempt from all that. If it's a hunting camp or a fishing camp - your exempt.
If I ever decide to make it a permanent dwelling place then I'll have to put in a working toilet in, a working shower and a septic system and all that stuff, if I'm going to be LIVING there.
In Wis. Stat. § 101.61(1), the law specifically states that a primitive rural hunting cabin is not a dwelling or dwelling unit.
And so in Pennsylvania?
CAMPS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL CABINS:
Certain structures that are used solely by an individual or family for seasonal recreational use, such as hunting / fishing camps, may be excluded under Pennsylvania law from certain construction requirements of the code. In order to be excluded from these construction requirements, a sworn Affidavit must be filed with the Building Code Official indicating the structure will be used solely as a "recreational cabin". When filing a Recreational Cabin Affidavit, all other regulatory requirements must be met, including zoning and sewage permit requirements.
Structures served only by a privy (outhouse), composting or an incinerating toilet can not met the plumbing requirements of the Building Code, and therefore, by default, must be declared as a Recreational Cabin.
Under state law, a "Recreational Cabin" is defined as a structure that is:
Utilized principally for recreational activity ONLY
NOT utilized as a residence for any period of time
NOT utilized for any commercial purposes, including rental units
NOT greater than two stories in height
NOT utilized by the owner, or any other person, as a place of employment
NOT a mailing address for bill or other correspondence
NOT listed as an individual's place of residence on a drivers license, tax record, car registration, passport, or voter registration.
Approval of this Exclusion is contingent upon the installation of at least one smoke detector, one fire extinguisher and one carbon monoxide detector in BOTH the kitchen and sleeping quarters of the cabin. AN INSPECTION OF THIS INSTALLATION IS REQUIRED PRIOR TO OCCUPANCY OF THE CABIN
It is very important to note that once a dwelling is declared as a Recreational Cabin, the limitations described above will follow the building to subsequent owners of the property. The Affidavit is recorded at the County Courthouse. Owners should be aware that claiming a structure as a recreational cabin may lessen the value of the building for resale purposes.
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