RV Parks that take older rigs

[GotSmart]

If you are willing to put up with the YARC crew we have a spot in Kentucky from about the middle of April to late October. Friends stop by just long enough to stay good friends.

Power, water and dump.

If your lucky, you can park in the graveyard.

 

[Dingfelder]

I’m sort of watching what is happening with tiny homes and with many being built on basically flat bed trailers. Now they are being built for off grid and actually built, certified and licensed as RVs. At around 5,000 lbs. because of modern construction with panels of foam sandwiched between metal sheets they are easily towable. With big urban areas housing/rental property problems and the government having to house so many people due to increasing weather events I wouldn’t be surprised to eventually see more areas that change zoning and public land where parking one will be allowed. Sort of like when carpooling started out cities bought land with federal money to build parking lots or more parks develop. One is selling units with lots free for 2 years with $200 a month rent after that.

I wish I could believe that. But with corporations like Blackrock buying anywhere from 20% here in Oregon to 2/3's or more in some neighborhoods of existing housing in order to turn houses into rentals, the overwhelming corporate power brought to bear against tiny homes, along with that of the usual NIMBYs, to me makes it look like the current problems with getting approval for tiny homes is well set to continue into the future. What is the power of the tiny home movement against the bribes ... err ... lobbying ... that anyone from your average NIMBY to Blackrock, probably the most powerful and ubiquitous corporation in the world, has?

Pretty much nothing. The days of what the people want are over. Have been for a long time really; we're only just now sometimes realizing it too late.

 

[Dingfelder]

Friends stop by just long enough to stay good friends.

Sounds about perfect! Wish I could afford it. Maybe one day!

 

[bullfrog]

Tiny home people are starting to build with more modern light weight durable materials on sturdy flat bed trailers and getting them RV certified filling the need for something between a built out cargo trailer and a small cabin at a cost of just slightly more than a new Casita. With the number of people buying and owning expensive RVs and organizations established to promote RV life tiny homes that are certified RVs look to be protected under their umbrella.

 

[Dingfelder]

Tiny home people are starting to build with more modern light weight durable materials on sturdy flat bed trailers and getting them RV certified filling the need for something between a built out cargo trailer and a small cabin at a cost of just slightly more than a new Casita. With the number of people buying and owning expensive RVs and organizations established to promote RV life tiny homes that are certified RVs look to be protected under their umbrella.

It's not so much the practicality or usability of a tiny home I'm thinking of, along with RV certification, but that many districts insist on things like sewer hook-ups or a certain number of square feet on lots. They do that because they tax you on that basis, and they don't want to tax you just a little if they can get away with taxing you more. Municipalities, not just folks like NIMBY's and Blackrock, want you to have a bigger, more connected and permanent home.

 

[LargeMarge]

... power...against tiny homes... approval for tiny homes...power of the tiny home movement...

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Eugene, Oregon.
The 'downtown' are encouraging Auxillary Dwelling Units (aka 'ADU') such as:
* 'mother-in-law' cottages in the backyard
* attic and basement conversions
* RecreateVehicles parked on driveways and side-yards.
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In addition, 'downtown' offers suggestions to avoid triggering an audit of a residential conversion of a traditionally non-resident structure such as a shed.
Examples [note -- these numbers adjust at the whim of 'downtown', they could be 12x12 tomorrow or 15x20 next week...]:
* a 10x10 residential shed can contain a second-story loft as long as the loft cannot be stood in (<60"?).
* a 10x10 shed can extend the interior with a bay-window or 'window-box'... as long as the extension is self-supporting without a brace touching the ground/foundation -- and one shed can have an unlimited number of these extensions.
Some of their suggestions change that 10x10 -- hundred square foot -- foot-print to a magnificent mini-mansion several times bigger.
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Eugene, Oregon, has a severe housing shortage.
Accordingly, 'downtown' works with charitable organizations to establish, build, and maintain 'permanent' group housing alternatives.
These include open fields, fenced and secure, often with (eventually) common structures such as a commercial kitchen and showers, with residents living in rows of identical 'huts'.
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We worked a long time with 'downtown' to prove the existing community would benefit from our TinyHome group housing.
The challenge is getting so many independent individuals to realize the long-term benefits to not living out in the weather, expecting to come home to their camp demolished by bull-dozers, all their possessions lost.
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Our system offers stability and a sense of belonging.
It is not perfect, but it is self-policing, because all the residents realize the implications of getting closed-down and booted back out into the swamp.

 

[maki2]

Pretty easy to spot the RV parks that take older rigs. When you drive up the RV park itself is older and it has older RVs in it.