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Well, as to be expected, I had a few negative comments to my video yesterday where I talked about how poor people could have a paid-for piece of dirt with a place to live put on that cheaply, no mortgage or with a very small mortgage. And most of the comments were positive, but I got a few negative comments. Not really negative comments because they actually asked real questions. I actually made a real point that I decided to go ahead and address here in this video. I should have talked about that in yesterday's video, but it never really crossed my mind because I never really had any problems with zoning restrictions and things like that. I never had any problem with someone coming in and telling me I couldn't live the way I was living.
And like I talked about in the video yesterday, the second property I bought was actually on the grid. So I bought the property from the bank. It had been foreclosed on. And there was already an old structure on that property, old mobile home that had completely fell in, completely molded over. It wasn't worth saving. It wasn't savable. So they had that put in and people lived there. So those people lived there before, they had already had the septic system, septic tank put in. So it's already put in, it's already inspected, is already good to go. They already had a water meter put in. They already had the electric poles to the property. So all the critical infrastructure as far as utilities goes was already there. So all I needed to do is just hook up to the septic, hook up to the water meter, and get the water turned on. No problem at all. Before they returned electricity on, they came and inspected that and it was temporary because it had a the plug outside, you know, on the pole. So, you could use that for a temporary type pole for camping. That's what I did. I put the temporary pole in. They came and inspected that and said, "Looks good. It's wired good. Everything's good to go." So, they turned the electricity on and I had to just take the cord from the FEMA trailer I bought and plugged it into the pole and I had electricity. So, everything was good to go. Already hooked into the water, hooked into the septic, hooked into the electric with minimal inspections. No one said anything. No one caused any problems at all.
And you can get some aggravation when you try to live in non-conventional structures, especially if you live or trying to live inside the city limits. But that video yesterday that I talked about buying property, cheap junk land type property, I call it junk land. It's not really junk, but it's land outside the city limits with no commercial value or anything like that. If you're going to try to buy land inside, you know, the city limits inside the town, you're going to pay more for it. And that kind of defeats the purpose of trying to have land, you know, for poor people because you can't afford it because you pay premium for these properties that are inside the city limits usually. So, you're outside the city limits, you're in rural areas, you really don't have a whole lot of problems and aggravation in most locations. Usually they're working with, you know, limited funding and you're not really all that important. So they take their funds to try to enforce other laws and things. So it's not really a big deal as people think that it is.
But sometimes you can get these people in government, these bureaucrats that want to cause problems. And there's ways and loopholes to get around a lot of those problems. And one of those is the camping loophole. You have your property, but you're not living there full-time in your camper. You're camping. You bought the property to use for camping. It's your getaway property. It's not your permanent residence. If they come and say anything to you about anything, you're not living there. You're just there temporarily camping. It's your getaway location. It's your campsite. And you put this travel trailer on here to camp. It's temporary. You'll be leaving in a couple of weeks. It's just a camping trip with your family or just a camping trip by yourself. That's another thing. If you have kids, they're more likely to try to enforce things if you're not up to code, not up to everything because you have kids. And even if your kids are well-fed, well protected, well taken care of, they still yet will try to force issues more when you have children. So living, you know, being a single man or single woman or just a man and a wife or boyfriend and girlfriend or whatever, you have less problems that way actually because they can't use the kids as an enforcement excuse. So you're there camping, you're there temporarily, you're not there full-time, you're not living there.
Another loophole is the under construction loophole. You have this outbuilding. You have this storage building. And that's what it is. You're not living in it. You have it there for storage. So, you have this travel trailer on that property for storage because you're thinking about building something there later on, but it's not a residence. It's just storage. You're not really living there. It's just storage. Sometimes you stay there because you're there and you're working on your property and you have a bed in there, but you might get tired. You might need to go to sleep. You know, you have some food in there because, you know, you're working on your property. You're cleaning that property up. You might get hungry. So, you have to have something to eat. So, it's just for storage. It's not a residence. It's just for storage. And a place you stay there sometimes when you're when you're tired, you go and you work and you know, you work, it gets late. So, you just go in the camper trailer you have there and the building that you put on the property. You have a bed in there in case you need to rest. So you're not living there. You're just sleeping sometimes in your storage building in your camper in your travel trailer that you're using for storage.
Another loophole is the under construction loophole. You buy your property and you move, you know, your travel trailer on that property. You may get a temporary electric pole put in, temporary electric pole put in because you are constructing something else. So, it's the construction loophole. You're living in your travel trailer because you're there constructing something else. You're building a a home on that property that it's going to meet all the codes. So, you're there and you're constructing something else. That's what you may not never actually build something else. You might have some concrete blocks there. You might have, you know, part of a foundation to show you're building something else. Under construction, but you had to stay there temporarily, you know, in your camper, in your building, whatever you bought as a residence, not as a resident, what you bought for yourself to actually stay in and stay out of the rain, out the elements in, you have to stay there because if you leave, you know, someone to come in and they'll steal your building supplies and things. So you're living there, staying there mostly temporarily. Mostly you're just camping there to watch over your construction site where you're building where you're working diligently to build this property. It's going to be up to code. So that's another loophole, you know, that you can use to live full-time permanently in a camper trailer. Even if they try to enforce these zoning regulations, which a lot of places don't really try to enforce these actually.
And guys, another loophole you can use is to actually have another structure on the property, a larger structure, like a garage, like a pole barn, whatever. A cheap structure you put in that's big enough that you can move your travel trailer inside of that and live in it that way. And that keeps it out of sight, out of mind. You have a lot less issues that way because there's your garage. It's a pole barn. You have that there, your your travel trailer or your small home is built inside of that. So, you can live there like that and get by with a lot more than you could and a lot less aggravation. Even in areas that try to enforce these zoning regulations and things, you have a lot less trouble that way because it's just a pole barn. It's just a garage. No home in sight. There's no you're not living there. You just have that there as a workshop for storage. Again, it also can tie back in together, but you're not living there permanently. It's just sometimes you're staying there. So, that's another loophole that you can use. You see all these, you see how all these kind of tying together.
Another one is temporary use zoning exemptions. And you can usually get these temporary use zoning restrictions. Go to your local courthouse and find out about these what you need. You want to try to do it on the books. You want to try to follow all the rules. You can get it temporarily zoned over and over and over again a lot of cases. So, that's another is another uh solution to look into depending on where you are and what you want to do. But don't that opens you up though. Actually, when you do that is you are saying, "Hey, look at me over here. Look at me. It's what I'm doing over here." So they'll watch you that much closer and you could have more than likely just moved on to your property and say you're camping say it's a temporary storage building. It's just temporary and had no issues, no problems at all.
Another thing, don't use the property as your mailing address. Have a different house someone else lives in. Say, you know, if you move on, if you living on your property or living there camping, don't have mail delivered there. Don't put, you know, a mailbox, a rural type mailbox down by the road. Have your mail sent somewhere else. Have your mail sent to, say, your parents' house, to your mom's house, to a friend's house. Get a post office box. Don't get your mail at the property that you're living on if you don't want to bring up if you don't want to cause any red flags with, you know, the authorities in any trouble with the authorities. So, that's a few ways to get by with living in unconventional structures like camper trailers, small cabins, tiny homes, converted storage sheds, buildings, things like that, even a teepee, whatever. You can get by with a lot of things if you do it the right way and use these loopholes. And especially the main one is to stay outside those city limits. And like I said, finding cheap land inside the city limits is almost impossible anyway. So the land you're going to be looking for is outside those city limits. So that eliminates in most cases pretty much all the restrictions, all the zoning, everything.
But if you still have problems, if you're in a county that tries to enforce these things because they're trying to get money how to show their authority and their power, you can say you're camping. Like I said, you're just there temporarily. You're living in your camper, not living. See, that's you got to keep it in mind. You are not living in the travel trailer. You're not living in the camper full-time. You're camping. It's temporarily. You're temporarily there staying camping. It's a weekend camping trip. You're going to be there for a couple of weeks and you're going to be going back somewhere else. You're just there temporarily enjoying yourself camping. It is for storage. You don't live there. You just have You just moved this travel trailer onto this property here for stores to store things in. You just moved this building that you bought onto this property for storage. You have a bed in there. You have, you know, maybe a refrigerator and that runs off propane because you get tired. You're working on that property. You're cleaning that property up and you have that bed there inside your storage building to go to sleep if you need to to lay down and rest. You may work go into the night and not want to go home. So you have that there for that reason. So it's a storage building. It's nothing permanent. You're not living there.
Under construction. You have that travel trailer on that property and you're staying there temporarily as you build this more permanent structure, this more permanent home that meets all the codes. So, that's another loophole. You have a garage, a pole barn, that bigger structure don't have to be much bigger, big enough built to pull your travel trailer inside of out of sight, out of mind. It's not a home. It's a pole barn. It is a garage that I work in a storage building. I have here. There's no home here. Look, it's a garage. It's a storage building. That's another big hole, like I said. And when you're not on the grid, it becomes much more difficult to enforce these things. Anyways, that's something else to keep in mind. If you're off the grid, if you provide your own power, your own septic system, you provide your own water catchment systems and things like that off completely off the grid, takes a lot of their power away. But if you're on the grid, like I was talking about earlier, you can do a lot of things and live in a travel trailer, even in an area that has all these zoning rules, regulations they try to enforce, you can use these loopholes to stay on it permanently, without any issues in most cases.
And guys, one last thing on this final recap here. Don't have a mailing address of that property. Don't put, you know, a rural mailbox down at the road and get mail there. Like I said, get that somewhere's else. Get that at someone else's house, a parent's house, a friend's house, a relative's house, whatever. Have your mail delivered there. Or better yet, get a post office box. Don't get mail delivered there like you live there permanently. Anyways, hope this helps. If it did, give me a big thumbs up. If you have any other suggestions, leave those in the comments below. Thanks for watching.