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Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
When I converted my first bus I started out in my driveway. I put the house on the market at the same time.ni expected it to take months to sell. Three days before the listing was supposed to show up in the MLS an agent showed up with a couple who made a full price offer.
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This is my first house, so I've never gone through selling. Was selling otherwise painless? Did you have to do much on your way out?
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Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
After six years on the road is setup camp in northern Arizona, bought a lot and lived in the bus in the driveway while we built a house. I took a full time job and built the house evenings and weekends. We lived in the driveway for 18 months then moved into the house.
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This part is very interesting to me, more or less what I plan to do. I want to find myself 10-20 acres somewhere to build a yurt, maybe a really small scale farm.
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Originally Posted by banman
My .02c
I would move into the bus as soon as you can (before you have to sell the house) to work out the kinks of living small -- Make sure the bus is working for you.
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This was my idea as well. We've spent one night out there prior to getting our heating system in. It was kinda rough with just space heaters.
One thing that caught me off guard was the floor. Our bus is on a slab and it is not quite level- this made sleeping not unpleasant, but it was strange. Another is, our build being front bedroom we really need a way to wall off the driver's area for privacy.
Then there were menaces like the toilet not being installed yet, drainage not complete, etc. Nature's Head, but never got around to doing the venting and whatnot and the shower doesn't yet drain to the grey tanks. Still have some construction/design left to do in the kitchen.
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Originally Posted by banman
If you don't hate your current jobs, and the house is sold, continuing to work your jobs while working out the kinks of living small seems wise to me.
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We'd probably have a good chunk of change one way or another. I intend to work out all the major kinks before selling, we just wouldn't have all of the cash necessary to build out-of-pocket.
Still, its something I keep revisiting internally, seemingly with no answer.