Considered posting this in Vandwellers but that sub tends to be entirely pro-vandwelling so I thought I might get biased advice. I've posted here a few times regarding various situations, but right now I'm curious about this because my girlfriend brought it up last night.
For some backstory, my girlfriend and I have lived together for the past three years on and off, mostly either at her mom's house or my mom's house, occasionally couch surfing, and occasionally finding a short term place to rent out. I'm 27, she's 22. She has a disability and realistically couldn't work unless it was work from home online. She's been trying to get her GED but it's unrealistic she'd be able to unless she could do it online.
I've bounced from retail job to retail job ever since I graduated college, and I've been with my most recent job for the past 18 months and at $14/hr I have no more room for advancement or a raise. I'm not disabled but I have an expensive health condition, where if I'm not taking my medication, usually due to not being able to afford it, I can't work a normal job and am pretty much in the same boat as my girlfriend. (If I am taking my medication I'm totally qualified to work pretty much any job.) I have about $5k in an emergency fund and that's all the savings we have.
My family has a small plot of land in the middle of nowhere with a few cabins on it, and they've told me I can stay there if I want to live in a tent because the cabins need to be communal spaces and not co-opted by one person or couple. I can't install a cabin unless it's on a trailer or on wheels due to tax reasons, but realistically I could park a van or winnebago up there and live until the end of the summer. There's running water and electricity from May to September, the van living would just be for the two of us to sleep in.
Is this realistic or are there hidden costs to this that I'm not aware of?
Submitted April 18, 2017 at 08:18AM by _SPACE_WITCH_ http://ift.tt/2oHRKIK
