Hi everyone,
Lots of traveling lately. Colorado, Wyoming, and West Texas. I liked the colder climates of Colorado and Wyoming more than I thought I would. In mostly dry states, the winter isn't nearly as bad. I felt quite comfortable even below freezing for a week in Wyoming with the sun out and no wind. Despite that and being so remote, it still has building codes, zoning, etc.
Colorado is probably going to be downhill with Polis (openly socialist governor) in office. They keep raising the minimum wage. It's an amazing state from a land perspective, but will probably fall sooner than other states. This could be a benefit or a drawback depending on how you look at it.
Brown recluse spiders took over my "remodeled" section in the trailer. They seem pretty avoidant, but in a 7x4 foot space I don't want to take the chance if I don't have to. Van Horn has reverse osmosis water for 35 cents a gallon. Much cheaper than buying water by the gallon and more convenient than a bulk water source. Couldn't see 5 gallon jugs, but figure I could buy a 5 gallon bucket just for water.
After being convinced I needed a shipping container for the longest time, I realized it may be cheapest to buy a moving truck (ideally on its last legs and cheap) and drive it out to the property. Not as strong as a shipping container, but quite possibly strong enough to hold up out there. I think whatever I use for storage needs to be gasketed so no rats and ideally no spiders can get in. A step up from the moving truck is a reefer truck. They are a little more money but insulated and may even have a working freezer portion that could possibly be turned into air conditioning. This would be nice if bitter cold or very hot, having a more moderate temperature for belongings or possibly myself.
For context, 10-14ft box trucks can easily be had between $2-4k that are running. A 40ft shipping container would be quite a bit more sizable, but delivery to a site like that could be tricky and very expensive. And even then, maybe only a 20ft would be able to make it.
My lease in San Antonio is up March 19th. Trying to figure out what to do and where to go. Might move out to West Texas, who knows.
Thanks for reading.
Hi everyone,
Lots of traveling lately. Colorado, Wyoming, and West Texas. I liked the colder climates of Colorado and Wyoming more than I thought I would. In mostly dry states, the winter isn't nearly as bad. I felt quite comfortable even below freezing for a week in Wyoming with the sun out and no wind. Despite that and being so remote, it still has building codes, zoning, etc.
Colorado is probably going to be downhill with Polis (openly socialist governor) in office. They keep raising the minimum wage. It's an amazing state from a land perspective, but will probably fall sooner than other states. This could be a benefit or a drawback depending on how you look at it.
Brown recluse spiders took over my "remodeled" section in the trailer. They seem pretty avoidant, but in a 7x4 foot space I don't want to take the chance if I don't have to. Van Horn has reverse osmosis water for 35 cents a gallon. Much cheaper than buying water by the gallon and more convenient than a bulk water source. Couldn't see 5 gallon jugs, but figure I could buy a 5 gallon bucket just for water.
After being convinced I needed a shipping container for the longest time, I realized it may be cheapest to buy a moving truck (ideally on its last legs and cheap) and drive it out to the property. Not as strong as a shipping container, but quite possibly strong enough to hold up out there. I think whatever I use for storage needs to be gasketed so no rats and ideally no spiders can get in. A step up from the moving truck is a reefer truck. They are a little more money but insulated and may even have a working freezer portion that could possibly be turned into air conditioning. This would be nice if bitter cold or very hot, having a more moderate temperature for belongings or possibly myself.
For context, 10-14ft box trucks can easily be had between $2-4k that are running. A 40ft shipping container would be quite a bit more sizable, but delivery to a site like that could be tricky and very expensive. And even then, maybe only a 20ft would be able to make it.
My lease in San Antonio is up March 19th. Trying to figure out what to do and where to go. Might move out to West Texas, who knows.
Thanks for reading.
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