buying older TT...as tiny home

Guy Roan wrote:

mattbatson wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

mattbatson wrote:
So my plan is to buy a TT (5th wheel or bumper pull) that I will basically park full time on my mothers property and live in as my residence.
I will T off her well water, run electric from her service panel, and dig my own little homemade septic system. And will essentially live for free.
We are both in the house flipping business together and her and her husband are in 70's and not getting any younger.
I have a 8x20 shed to store much of my stuff in...along with her basement if needed.

thanks for reading and any feedback will be appreciated

Seems obvious to me your first concern should be whether this plan to park a trailer on your mother's property and live in it full time as you would a house is even legal. Should we presume you've already done this considering you're in the house flipping business? Not much point in proceeding any further with the idea if you're in contravention of any local regulations or bylaws. ;)

To answer the questions about code ...

There is very little code here in the backwoods of western NC...loose zoning laws and so on.
I come from Florida and am constantly amazed at what I see here.

We have looked at homes to flip and found no record of septic systems and asked neighbors and been informed most of the homes along that stretch just dump into the river !

and sure enough would go look down the bank of the river and see the pipe sticking out.
Absolutely crazy stuff.

my mom is a real estate broker and we are fully aware of what is allowed and what is not...and careful to no get her or her license into trouble.

You are completely wrong.
I have a summer cottage in western NC and they have very strict regulations on the building code and septic systems.

Also "straight piping" into a river is illegal.
If I saw any one who was doing it, I would immediately go to the county health inspector.
My grandchildren swim in those rivers !

Guy

As I said, we flip homes here and we look at and buy lots of properties...for over 15 years in the area.

on one stretch of a fork of the pigeon river there are about 10 homes, all built in the 40's, which have no septic and dump directly into the river. The basements floors are about 8 ft underground, and only about 6 feet above the mean river water levels...all these homes sit about 50 ft off the river.

there are so many other crazy EPA violations that I've personally witnessed in western NC that I could write a book.

If you live here you must know about it...Perhaps because of the nature of what I do for a living I see more of it then the average person...I don't know.

There are codes...but they are not enforced.
This is haywood county mostly.

Regardless...none of that has anything to do with what I'm talking about here.

Whatever septic I build I will be doing it right as I don't want to have to dig it up and redo it later on.
I'll be parking about 30 ft off the side of my moms house and neither of us wants human feces pooling up into our yard.

I'm sure it will all work out and will be done correctly.

thx