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04-26-2017, 04:42 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 57
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Originally Posted by Stu & Filo. T
Well you could always move to Vacaville , None of that stuff goes on here.
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Lemme pick my disabled $600 a month life up and bring my empty bus shell over there then. I'm about to be homeless within the next year, and I was counting on this conversion to be my ticket out.
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04-26-2017, 04:53 PM
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#22
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Originally Posted by AWebb3701
Lemme pick my disabled $600 a month life up and bring my empty bus shell over there then. I'm about to be homeless within the next year, and I was counting on this conversion to be my ticket out.
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An empty bus, a bucket, some tp and newspaper... Better than an overpass?
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04-26-2017, 05:02 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 57
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Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
An empty bus, a bucket, some tp and newspaper... Better than an overpass?
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That's what I mean. Even a shell is shelter.
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04-26-2017, 05:03 PM
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#24
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Originally Posted by AWebb3701
That's what I mean. Even a shell is shelter.
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Absolutely!
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I've totally been there myself.
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04-26-2017, 07:25 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,447
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AWebb3701
Lemme pick my disabled $600 a month life up and bring my empty bus shell over there then. I'm about to be homeless within the next year, and I was counting on this conversion to be my ticket out.
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Bring it to Oklahoma, I'll pay the rental space till you get back on your feet.
Totally serious.
Left California in '72.....
Didn't leave a damned thing there I need to go back for!
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I once complained I had no shoes....
Until I met a man with no feet
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04-26-2017, 07:46 PM
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#26
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Webb, where are you located currently?
We've all been there. I've been there several times.
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Robin
Nobody's Business
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04-26-2017, 07:53 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,447
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Originally Posted by Robin97396
Webb, where are you located currently?
We've all been there. I've been there several times.
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I'll be 52 in October...
I've vowed to never own or rent a house again!
As they say.... "Been there, done that, and have the shirt to prove it"
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I once complained I had no shoes....
Until I met a man with no feet
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04-26-2017, 08:04 PM
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#28
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by milkmania
I'll be 52 in October...
I've vowed to never own or rent a house again!
As they say.... "Been there, done that, and have the shirt to prove it"
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If you still have a shirt you're doing better than most!
I own a home, and no regrets. But I'm a bit different than most folks. I REFUSE to pay full price for anything unless I have to. Bought my lil block house in town when the market tanked and I was cash heavy. 46k and its holding up just fine 6 years later. I'd never finance anything big though, the way most folks do.
I'm fine with running up a Discover card to two or three grand. But a mortgage or car loan I won't do. If I can't afford it, I CAN'T afford it.
Why I didn't feel too bad for a lot of the folks who were crying when their quarter million dollar house ended up at its REAL value after the bubble burst. Why I don't feel bad for the student loan people crying about paying back what they borrowed and wasted.
End rant.
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04-26-2017, 08:20 PM
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#29
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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You're in CA if I'm reading things right? Yeah, $600 a month is pretty slim pickins. I'm vaguely better off on the same VA plan and living in a bus in the mountains, but I've got 15 acres of parking. Misery loves company.
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Nobody's Business
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04-26-2017, 08:24 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
You're in CA if I'm reading things right? Yeah, $600 a month is pretty slim pickins. I'm vaguely better off on the same VA plan and living in a bus in the mountains, but I've got 15 acres of parking. Misery loves company.
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Smack dab in the middle of the Bay Area, yeah. If it wasn't for medical benefits absorbing a lot of the cost of disability and family giving me a roof for now, I'd probably be dead already just by virtue of not being a functional human under stress. 
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04-26-2017, 08:36 PM
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#31
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,447
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Originally Posted by AWebb3701
Smack dab in the middle of the Bay Area, yeah. If it wasn't for medical benefits absorbing a lot of the cost of disability and family giving me a roof for now, I'd probably be dead already just by virtue of not being a functional human under stress. |
stress turned into depression 3 times for me, and made me non-functioinal...
once I developed a totally different outlook on life, things started getting a lot brighter. I really started working on what pleased me, not everyone else.
I'm only speaking of which worked for me... everyone's got to find what works for them.
best of luck to you 
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04-26-2017, 08:59 PM
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#32
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That's the ticket. Find what makes you happy and pursue it.
There seems to be quite a few of us here with very similar issues.
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Robin
Nobody's Business
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04-27-2017, 05:18 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 57
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UPDATE: I have less than 24 hours before this bus is towed, and every RV place within 2 towns is full and has a waiting list. I either need a private landowner to let me rent a spot for a while, or this thing is getting towed tomorrow morning.
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04-27-2017, 05:22 PM
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#34
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by milkmania
Bring it to Oklahoma, I'll pay the rental space till you get back on your feet.
Totally serious.
Left California in '72.....
Didn't leave a damned thing there I need to go back for!
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There ya go~
Take him up on it, he's even good at building. And he welds!
Gotta love the community here!
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04-27-2017, 05:23 PM
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#35
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
You're in CA if I'm reading things right? Yeah, $600 a month is pretty slim pickins. I'm vaguely better off on the same VA plan and living in a bus in the mountains, but I've got 15 acres of parking. Misery loves company.
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Sounds like an invitation to me!
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04-27-2017, 05:37 PM
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#36
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 19,736
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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why not take it to a walmart or home depot.. that buys you a few days at least.. and ive never heard of not being able to park on the street for 72 hour stints.. i guess california is much different than most places in Ohio..
an HOA can enforce various things related to vehicles on the deed restrictions..
no vehicle over 3 tons on the street? that means a regular dualie pickup truck would get dinged.. or a Suburban.. seems some wires crossed there...
-Christopher
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04-27-2017, 05:41 PM
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#37
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cadillackid
why not take it to a walmart or home depot.. that buys you a few days at least.. and ive never heard of not being able to park on the street for 72 hour stints.. i guess california is much different than most places in Ohio..
an HOA can enforce various things related to vehicles on the deed restrictions..
no vehicle over 3 tons on the street? that means a regular dualie pickup truck would get dinged.. or a Suburban.. seems some wires crossed there...
-Christopher
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Cali is supposedly a beautiful place, but probably last on my list of places I'd wana live. Good entertainment for the rest of us though.
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04-27-2017, 05:45 PM
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#38
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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Before I let it get towed, I think I'd drive it to a Wal-Mart and park it out on the edge of their parking lot.
I'd bet you could get away with leaving it there for at least 2 days while you look for a space to rent.
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04-27-2017, 05:46 PM
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#39
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cadillackid
why not take it to a walmart or home depot.. that buys you a few days at least.. and ive never heard of not being able to park on the street for 72 hour stints.. i guess california is much different than most places in Ohio..
an HOA can enforce various things related to vehicles on the deed restrictions..
no vehicle over 3 tons on the street? that means a regular dualie pickup truck would get dinged.. or a Suburban.. seems some wires crossed there...
-Christopher
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Haha, I see we have similar problem solving strategies.
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04-27-2017, 05:47 PM
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#40
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,826
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rameses
Before I let it get towed, I think I'd drive it to a Wal-Mart and park it out on the edge of their parking lot.
I'd bet you could get away with leaving it there for at least 2 days while you look for a space to rent.
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Yeah, or stay at WallyWorlds while heading to Brian's in OK. 
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