I think most of us are tax paying Americans and it is NOT rare.
I think this inference was in reference to the great number of illegal aliens getting everything from W.I.C. to free rent.
How much research did you do prior to buying that piece of land?
I had been working on the purcahase since the spring of 2013 , That makes it about 18 months
Can you take it off the wheels and put it on a foundation?
It is currently on 8 piers constructed of 16 x 16 heavy wall 2 void concrete blocks with protective caps of 2x12 southern yellow pine to disperse any point load that may compromise the block by creating a point load that may crack the blocks. The wheels could be removed this moment as they are suspended above ground they simply have not because if they were to lay loose they may be stolen. However , perhaps I chould remove them and store them at the house in a house to limit the possibolity of the county trying to remove it. Without wheels it might prove to be a bit more difficult.You may want to comply with the laws simply because should you want to sell that property, the evil financial institutions will not give loans for buying such properties, and buyers with cash are rare.
It will not be for resale as a home on a property should it ever happen it will be long after my death and I have little concern for the outcome. I was able to snatch up the place I now have a house on because I had enough cash. The rickety mobile home and unpermitted addition kept it to a cash only market. That limits the competition amongst buyers.
As was I aren’t we fortunate.
There's a bit more to it than sticking it to "the man" or to the lowly paid clerk who will be stuck dealing with the pocket change.
I am sticking it to no one I am simply trying to live frugally and without weighing heavy on mother earth. Do you care about your neighbors?
The corn field to the north the bean field to the west the factory to the east or the 4 lane road to the south ?.What do they think?
Well the corn is all ears but not talking. The beans don’t seem to give a fart. The road bed just lays there and the favctory just comes and goes a shift at a time just glad to be making a living and getting off for the day. Or is it a to heck with them I'll do whatever I want to do situation
? I would not have chosen this propery if it were not weeds to 7 foot , un loved and uncared for. It is within 2 blocks from my current work helping to minimize the green house gas impact of my current 50 mile round trip drive each day to work. I feel my motive have been far more pro than con
Pioneer spirit? Pioneers worked together quite a bit, or they wouldn't survive.
As I am asking my friends to help me??! Pioneers had a few rules to follow, look up the homestead act.
From our documents . gov Although this act was included in the Republican party platform of 1860, support for the idea began decades earlier. Even under the Articles of Confederation, before 1787, the distribution of government lands generated much interest and discussion.
The act, however, proved to be no panacea for poverty. Comparatively few laborers and farmers could afford to build a farm or acquire the necessary tools, seed, and livestock. In the end, most of those who purchased land under the act came from areas quite close to their new homesteads (Iowans moved to Nebraska, Minnesotans to South Dakota, and so on). Unfortunately, the act was framed so ambiguously that it seemed to invite fraud, and early modifications by Congress only compounded the problem. Most of the land went to speculators, cattlemen, miners, lumbermen, and railroads. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Another fine government program lining the pockets of the " haves" financed by the " have nots" !
They had committees, leaders, and rules. During the trip out here, a severe punishment was to be banished from the wagon train--forced to go it alone. We seem to forget those facts. Aren't you violating that spirit by asking for financial help, small or not ?
Were the pioneers violating the spirit by having a few of the women gathering together to help birth a baby, or when the men gathered together to shoulder a leaver to help one another to free a fellow travellers wagon from the grip of a muddy rutted path??? When the train was attacked did they not gather to defend it? When evil land barons demanded tribute or their barn might mysteriously burn down did they not rise together to rid the tyranny.
The engineering part of my brain wants to know what it would take to comply with the county codes.
The property lies in a corridor they have deamed a portal to the city and the demands are as crazy as most HOA A foundation? Hookup to a sewer or septic system?
I have promised to leave the land as is with reference to excavation. There is a well and septic system already existing on the property.
The things that MOST people, even those of us who pay taxes actually have to do?
And when you pay your taxes are you not expecting the benefits derived from doing so?
I'll confess. I retired after a long career working for the feds in the woods. I had to take crap from people and one gets deaf to hearing it pretty quickly. One memorable woodcutter informed me that after the next election, my job would no longer exist. He wanted to cut firewood in an area where no cutting was allowed--it was an actual law. Guess he was special? An anarchist? Most folks were nice, and easy to work with. I even had a few protesters appear when I announced plans to retire.
Makes you a great person with a fairly well protected retirement congratulations, wish I had been so fortunate.
The point is, if you cannot comply and if the rules are so unfair, you need to gather voters, not pocket change and go to the politicians.
I am going to the politicians they have turned a deaf ear to state codes that are in place granting me the right to live on my property in my home , be it ever so humble.
I am sorry you feel that gathering pocket change is demeaning . I saw it as a means to show support from far and wide that might speak volumes about the new way of a more simple and economic way of life.
That clerk isn't going to be able to do a darn thing, nor will their boss. In our area, it would be the county commissioners, who are elected.
Does you state laws not trump the municipal ones?
My advice would be to get your trailer parked legally
(By state code it is) and circumvent the clerks by going to the county commissioners,
That was the August hearing for the special exception for zoning. and if that doesn't work,
( it didn’t) run for office or try to get a sympathetic candidate elected. Isn't that the true "pioneer" spirit? It takes a lot of work but so did homesteading.
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Please pardon a few mispellings as I was feeling a bit put upon Bob
by Greg Barrick » Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:51 am 
