I Bought LAND as a VAN Life HOME BASE! Should YOU?

Having a home base can also help fight off Nomad depression too. I have a home base. It's nice to know there is always a place to go "home" to, even if I rarely go home. It's a mental thing.

My son bought a 4.3 acre parcel near Mountainair, NM for exactly this use. He passed away unexpectedly last September. There’s not as many trees as you have but it’s very much like the land you got. Same vegetation, terrain, limitations on water. We hope to eventually get to use it for a private family campground in my son’s honor.

Howdy neighbor! I bought 18 acres in Apache County that allows van living. I love it! It’s also at 6,000 feet. My son, who is a van lifer nomad in his 30’s, bought the 18 acres next to me. It’s beautiful, private, much cooler in the summer than southern AZ.

Bob I have fallowed you for years now and it really hit home. I bought an acre and a quarter 2 years ago 5 miles from the river out in the country. Here in Alabama everything is trees and green. I’m from st George Utah. I’m 63 and am retiring at the end of the year, I’ve worked real hard to pay off my land. I also poured an rv pad, set up power and septic. I live in a no-nobo 16.8 on this land. When I retire only bill I’ll have is my Gladiator. I’ll be set to travel, I’m so excited to finally be free after working 12hr nights for 23 years. Thanx for all the knowledge and inspiration !!!!

Bob please do more videos on buying land that allows you to live on it in rv or tiny house,

Congratulations, Bob. I’m so happy for you.

My dad always said. Buy land because we are not making any more. Great idea to have a place to land. And having trees is definitely a wonderful thing

Thank you Mr. Bob. I have land with a home I cant live in cause the roof leaked for 8 years and it is emploding. Shelves falling off the walls, enough mold to kill a horse but it has been paid off for the past 20 years. My mechanic says, "As long as you have land, you'll never be homeless. Buy a tent & live in the yard." Well, I bought the tent but I'm also buying a portable building that was deliverer on Thursday. I figure if that one male nurse can live in his car and work his way up, I can live in a car in a garage until I figure out my next steps.

Congratulations, Bob! I am so very happy for you! I am enjoying the small acreage I purchased a few years back. I also enjoy gardening and eating food I've grown. Above all, I've enjoyed the peace of having a place to call HOME!

Congratulations Bob! You deserve this nice homestead, you’ve worked very hard for the van dwelling community.

You can also build a simple pole barn on the cheap and have extra stealth living quarters and your van inside. The pole barn won't be taxed like a home.

There's a guy near Phoenix Arizona that had wood chips distributed on his land, about 3/4 of an acre. He had about 3 feet of wood chips. Two years after he dug in the wood chips, about a foot and discovered a nutrient rich black soil. Just on three quarters of an acre he had over 200 fruit trees. Never needed to water his land because the wood chips retain a lot of water. You can see his video on YouTube. It's called " From dirt lot to food forest."

I’m a retired trucker. Those boxes are called containers. They have a hardwood floor. They’re good for locking up your belongings.

Greets and love from Hamburg in Germany where the Hamburgers came from! I am a facility manager building expert and Expedition-truck lover. Allow me to give some tips: 1: Build your outdoore kitchen plattform over the earth if you have material there. When storms bring floods of rains you can save your kitchen and you can work in it even if the earth is "flooded"- 10 cm or more. Check up the former rain ways on the land. strong rains leave traces that you can see. 2: Also a good thing: As a prevention dig drainages around the kitchen with some %%% to lead water away from the place. ist old school boy scout trick for tents. We learned that in the 70ths. We slept and lived in tipis for 12 souls with fire in the mitle. around the tent we diged a drainage 30 cem x 30 cm to keep the floor dry. Rain was always there but we had a dry floor in the tents. In Germany army you do this also around the tents. 3: The foundament for a plattform of the kitchen coud be used bricks minimal10 centimeter high or higher on that used palets. 2 sides of the kitchen windproove- against the storms from the norths? Also palets with tarp. 4: IBC cons must be protected from UV sun. The plastik gets poröus dry and the water devolops fast bakterias. 5: Hose- security: After using the ose for water transvere- blow the water out of them! Heng some in a way that the drops can get out of the hose. Bakterias viruses legionellas can devolope in 24 hours if sun hits the hose! That can kill. We had some cases where people got the legionella sickness and are handycupt today. Blow it out dont use old hose or buy "food safe hoses" without cancer- softener and bigger once so that you can cleen them desinfection... 6: Kitchen- why not buying a bigger expeditions tent for the kitchen? It protects the kitchen when you are gone from the dust sand and rain..and over the tent the structure with metal rove.. 7: A car port would be a good thing you could build solar on it and your car is protected from the heat... Frank

Awesome news! Several rural counties in Florida (I'm in Dixie) still allow a full time RV zoning exemption if your property has a well and septic. I bought 5 acres that had a delapitated old mobile home that just needed demolished for next to nothing in 2020. I have stayed off grid, built an outside kitchen and bath house and a 40' container was finally acquired this season for an emergency storm shelter/storage/platform for a killer deck overlooking the lakebed (deer stand if anyone asks) when I return next season. See you down the road Bob, congratulations on your new dirt and trees.

Four yeas ago I bought 2 pieces of land with old buildings on them as my base. Renovating one and demolishing the other. A great project when not on the road. The taxes are small and it gives me a sense of 'home' even without a big debt.

Bought a place in the sticks in Oklahoma. Much smaller than 20 acres! Septic, water, and electric are in and it's near Tenkiller lake.

Just to let you know that Cindercrete is by far the best building material on the planet Cindercrete is a mixture of cinder cement and water mixed and poured into a set of reusable forms walls are poured from 12"to 24" thick Cindercrete is fireproof termite proof rust rot and mold proof non toxic and has a high R value and good sound attenuation solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls Cindercrete can be built for a fraction of the cost and time and cinder is a local building material Take care Ray

you are living the dream, Sir, I'm so so happy for you

Congrats on buying land with trees. Pine Bark Beatles are a serious problem usually attacking trees stressed by drought. Have your larger trees evaluated and preventativily treated by an arborist. Treat any downed trees so beatles don't just move from dead to live trees. We lost trees and I learned the hard way to be proactive.