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Good luck!

The wind will have that in a day.

thanks for all the helpful information im looking to get into this and its helpful to understand the general costs

Every off-grid homestead needs a good back hoe, just saying.

In certain States if you paint the fence post purple, you are stating do not trespass. We have had even our neighbors cross over the property line and steal stuff off of our property. I had to contact the authorities about some stuff that was done.

Did they do any harm to your to you or your property? If not it should not bother you too much since yoy have no signs up saying private property, no trespassing in both English and Spanish

I think you mentioned plans to have an AC unit as a backup for temperature regulation. Have you looked into geothermal as an option? Digging the trenches by shovel would be really labor intensive, but if you could rent a backhoe or something it seems like you could install the pipes yourself, and get the same temperature for less electricity.

When I was 6, my parents thought we were on State property camping. The property owner came out and talked to us. He could have been rude. He wasn't. He showed my dad on his map where his property was and where the State property was. Actually helped all of us move our tents and stuff. That ended up saving our butts. The man came out three days later and asked if we had heard about the fire evacuations. We hadn't. He got our stuff in his truck while his wife and Mom got us children in the car and they took us to their house. We helped them get their animals and go bags and all left. They came and stayed at our house until they were clear to go back to their house. I know people that have been shot for trespassing. I still honestly believe that God lead us all together. We're all still friends. They were building their own house. It was amazing watching how it came together.

Build a temporary electric fence around the campsite and then put a mean ass bull in the fenced-off pasture.

With straw bale water is your enemy. I would highly recommend a 4 foot roof overhang around the entire house to protect the walls from rain.

Watched a couple of your videos first time today. I am a kindred spirit living on my little 20 acres of Peace in the Desert, about 175 miles to your east, 71 yo retired nurse. The best of luck to you is in making your dreams come true. I am now subscriber #442👍🧓 PS Check out a couple of your Cochise Cty homesteading neighbors channels: Tiny Shiny Home and Our Self-Reliant Life, if you haven't already.

There are some really nasty people posting comments here that are just chomping at the bit looking for an opportunity to express their anger by doing serious harm to others. Sad and Scary.

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borrow a manure spreader.

We did a shed to cabin and it was a lot more affordable than building with lumber prices. Had it spray foamed for insulation and finished inside completely with wood stove and etc . Very happy with the choice

Where the trees ???? That land would be a big, hell on for me. What's the good side of that land ? lol. High heat....is the bonus !!

The state won't protect your property, so you have to do it yourself. Squatters on rural property is a problem easily solved by a semi-automatic rifle and a backhoe. My backhoe is small and barely gets to 6', so I hope I never have too much of a problem. If the squatters move on as soon as they realize they are busted, that makes the problem even easier. I do hope you have notified the owners of the property they moved to. If you don't know who they are, they can normally be identified through the local property tax database. For better or worse, that is usually public information.

Does Jack come with it, lol? My in-laws lived in Parks, been there many times, but not in years. With all the illegals coming in, and seeing what they have done to the old ruins in the parks throughout the state, it has turned into a sh!t hole, literally! Made me change my mind about moving there, but I still love AZ. They do their business wherever and don't even bother to burry it, they should be rounded up and sent back, after serving time picking up sh!t!

putting up signs and taking pictures of the "no trespassing signs" because they will take them down. now if they squat again , call the law and you have every recourse to file and remove them.. it's happening all over the west. we had to put up signs on neighboring land around us ( with owners permission).. at our expensetake all the pics. it works....

So we you can see their sight, did you offer them their light back?

I stumbled on a fb group of soverign citizens who made a lifestyle out of taking over peoples lad for rv and camping permanently. The thought that they knew the law and could take the land. It is a aomewhat organ8zed movement

No point in putting up fences if you do not plan on being around. As soon as they see your not there those fences will get stolen along with anything else that you leave unattended for any lengh of time.

Along with your no trespass signs, a sign stating that you use this land for target shooing at random times night and day. Fire a few shots at random times and word gets out real quick. Make sure you talk to the cops about the target shooting A friend did that and when he found some squatters who refused to move a few rifle shots into targets near them soon changed their minds!!!

'You'll Own Nothing And Be Happy'. Be Patient.

Thank you for sharing that valuable information! Yes, it was very helpful. I know some things will be more or less depending on the county or my personal plans, but having an idea of prices and processes is extremely helpful. God bless you!

FIRE IS GOOD....EMPTY OUT EVERYTHING..😂

I get the feeling you are city folk.

I can’t imagine that would withstand Arizona winds for long. Oh, I see.

Thank you for sharing, God Bless you and prayers for your project.

This is why I havent built anything on my land out in Cochise cty yet...i figured squatting would be a real issue if I couldnt be there all the time. Not to mention the local thieves.

Tents burn well with a bit of liquid boy scout.

at about the 5.18 mark that looks like the leveque tower and the skyline of columbus ohio. am i correct?

“squatter rights” is the biggest oxymoron I have ever heard. Liberal mindset is a poison.

Hardware mess won't stop snakes...hate to burst your bubble.

Deben demarcar en su totalidad su terreno para evitar que otras personas compren y no sepan cual es su demarcación aunque no lo vayan usar x ro el momento

Great video! We live in a strawbale house in the NM desert and love it! Can't wait to watch as you move forward.

Love the video, very informative

The government is screwing with off gridders. They don't want you there. The fossil fuel people want to force us to keep using their crap and lying about global warming. I still have acquaintances who think climate change is not man made. It is. Off gridders should be welcomed and not unduly visited with state expenses when the state doesn't know what they are doing and who they are serving anyway. I know we need many new and different technologies to grow and it doesn't do a very good job when governments keep taxing and impacting experimental living arrangements. This makes producing data sets by experimenters very hard to accumulate and pay for. Projects like earth ship construction and all alternative energy systems need individual subsidization. The sheer number of these projects in a few years could definitely begin to blunt the effects of climate change...making it possible for us all to stay alive. Otherwise we will be having more Nazi Germanies, and Gazas and Pakistan floods and nuclear disasters (from sick nuclear power plants). We need an extremely large number of alternative operations world wide, not just in Paducah. These people need to take their taxing authority to the millionaires and leave good people alone. We have to get our government to stop printing money for crazy resource seeking wars. We need to teach ourselves how to survive this very tricky season. Our government and the corporate faction in America have not friends of the people for a long long time. We need to get started and quite giving our government commands from demented superannuated leaders.

That's what guns are for.

Yes you can do it.

Great breakdown. Money is something that very few homesteaders or off-griders seem to talk about, or when they do it is very vague, and they don't talk about where it is coming from. I know costs are often very relative to the area you are in, but sometimes when you're just starting out you have no idea what the costs will be, so even a general idea is better than none.

Get an Arched Cabin from Texas.

Hi. Thank you for the information on your homestead. It is very helpful indeed. This might be premature, but do have an idea of what your straw bale house will cost ?

Man they have figured a way to get every last dollar out of everyone. This is terrible.

Thanks, this is super helpful! Do you have a rough estimate of the sizes of the different things you've built (length of fence, area under carport, etc), so that if someone wanted to build a similar thing of a different size, they could scale the cost accordingly?

thanks

good job. Many people know they are on others land not public or their lands, and that is how they enter the USA that we all pay taxes not them to live in.

lookin great guys.....roofing tip...let the metal panels come out say a 1/4" so when u do gutters the rain will go into the gutter. my prebuilt shed was roofed even w the siding and i lost a bunch of rain water down the side of the buildings till i put a small piece of flashinf undet the roofing to bring out the edge to go into the gutters.hoping you planned ahead and can use the roof to mount some solar panels, will save building a separate panel stand later.

There seems to be a lot of videos around of people just going out to a remote area, assume nobody own it, and set up shop claiming they are homesteaders. They even find old buildings and cabins that are locked and just assume they are "abandoned". I agree with previous posters - fences and signs are the minimum to have., especially if you are a remote owner.