Buying land & living in a log cabin

kingslayer82

BillJones wrote: »

Because it's a ridiculous plan, and a user with a name very similar to yours is always spamming the forum with lunatic plans when what he should be doing is sorting his life out.

Your lunatic plan, and similar username, suggests that you are he.

Your not one of those are you who will go around and blame a random 'Dave' because another 'Dave' upset you are you? I'll say to you what i said to Colombo, paranoid much?

As for the rest what you put, doing a search on this forum someone made a thread similar to this a few years ago and a few people said it was a great idea.

So yeah it's not a "ridiculous idea" or a "lunatic plan" - It's just difficult to do because of reasons that people have mentioned here.

wotsthat

OP. Ignore the trolls. Your idea is great.

Buy the land and stick as many cabins on as you can. Don't worry about the lack of toilets - just stick a bucket in the hedge - I hear queuing for toilets is a wonderful way of meeting new friends.

Uxb

Note also that all land need maintenance - you cannot just leave it.
It needs fencing/security - particularly against deer as well as people/squatters.
It needs trees maintaining/inspecting/thinning/re-planting - particular if near to a public footpath.
It needs undergrowth brambles/bracken etc cutting back
You need to comply with the law in the event you get a proscribed weed on your land -ragwort is lethal to horses for instance.
Just holding land (even in the hope that in 10 years plus planning permission might be granted and you will make a million) is not cost free in the meantime.

System

Uxb wrote: »

Note also that all land need maintenance - you cannot just leave it.
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Presuming that the OP realises that, and has the knowledge and skills to cope, then it's not an impossible dream.

I know people who have done that. If the land is remote, preferably hidden in trees, you have no nosey neighbours, and you live quietly and unnoticed, you might get away with it undetected for long enough (4 years for change of use, 10 years for erecting a permanent building) to be untouchable by the local authority.

Obviously the OP knows how to dig a rudimentary cess pit, dig a well or capture rain water, and is happy with candles and oil lamps, or knows about off-grid living with wind turbine and storage batteries.

PenguinJim

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

Obviously the OP knows how to dig a rudimentary cess pit, dig a well or capture rain water, and is happy with candles and oil lamps, or knows about off-grid living with wind turbine and storage batteries.

Better (and not too expensive) to get a proper well sunk and a septic system put in and use a solar/diesel generator... assuming your land is zoned for living, of course.

Loughton_Monkey

I have a 12' by 8' cabin at the bottom of my garden. You are welcome to pay me your £10,000 and live in in for 2 years. After that it's £6,000 a year.

The other 9 Bulgarians in it would welcome a new tenant to ameleorate some of their own charges like the £50 a month fixed electricity cost for the 100 watt bulb.

Uxb

If you don't have a water bearing and releasing aquifier/strata below your land you can dig or drill down as far as you wish and you are not going to find anything other than some small amounts of brackish water.

shireknight

kingslayer82 wrote: »

Hi all I'm just wondering what people think of my idea.

I have around £20,000 to my name, I've seen some good land available 1.4 acres £10,000.

My idea is to buy land around that price and then buy one of these:-

simplylogcabins.co.uk/log-cabins-c1/multi-room-cabins-c37

For around £10,000, i then have a home on my own land at a cheap price, with a probably a lot better lifestyle than i would in terraced housing.

I was also thinking about buying more of these cabins and renting them out at a cheaper price than house prices and yeah developing an income that way.

What do people think of my idea?

Thank you.

Personally I thought it was a brilliant idea until other people started shooting it down, it wouldn't be hard to live with having to use a chemical toilet, bottled water instead of running water and a generator in place of a regular electricity supply, I could deal with this easily but yeah the planning permission side of things is the killer otherwise I'd do your idea myself.

PenguinJim

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

The well also costs tens of thousands to drill, depending on depth required, and needs to be a minimum safe distance away from the leach field to avoid contamination so you need sufficient land for that. If it runs dry, you need another one drilled. A friend of mine had a new well drilled for $50K recently.

Well prices have a huge variance depending on a lot of factors, but well costs should typically be US$10-20,000 in North America - and sometimes significantly less. Ruling out that your friend was simply ripped off, they must have had a well drilled to, what, 1,000+ feet for that price? That's extreme.

Before buying land, if you think a well is a possibility, you can often find information on the depths of other wells drilled in the area that give some indication of how much a well would cost. (If it's going to be more than $20,000, a rainwater system may be a more cost-effective system).

shireknight wrote: »

Personally I thought it was a brilliant idea until other people started shooting it down, it wouldn't be hard to live with having to use a chemical toilet...

Better than that, if you're using your land to grow food (as you should be in that case) you can use a composting toilet. Expect to pay around £1,000-2,000 depending on your setup, but then you'll be sitting on brown gold.