Maybe a trailer

There is the Perfect trailer for sale on Craigs list: 7x17 and most importantly no rail bars!

I have emailed the owner to see if it is still available!

While I still would not have anywhere to put it if I get, at least I would have a trailer to start.

(So it is a little longer than I was considering, I'll just add a porch! )

I HOPE I HOPE I HOPE!!!

UPDATE: October 1th 2011

Had an email back from the owner: No one else has even inquired at this point.
So if nothing goes wrong, i.e. someone else buys it in the next two days... I have emailed to make arrangements to pick it up Tuesday!

I have warned the landlady that I would be bringing it home for a week or so, if I can't find a place to park it. There might be a chance that I could park it at work, which is why I'm not picking it up Monday, because I'll have to ask permission first. 

Lighting a candle to the Goddess now!

UPDATE ON THE UPDATE:

Called the owner Billy and told him I could come out on Wednesday. And a friend with a house has agreed to let me park it at their place temporarily while I continue to try to find a place to build. And a third friend has an in with the High School welding instructor who loves weird projects like this for his welding students to practice on, so if I need any welding done.. Grin.  Plus, and I Really Love this part: Billy went out and took the sign off of the trailer today until I could take a look at it. :) There are days I REALLY LOVE TEXAS!

RAIN

OH THANK THE GODDESS!!

RAIN!!!

Hot in Texas

Well, not much to report at this post.

The weather continues with a drop in temps to the 80's this last week but those temps will be climbing this next week.

Emergency water rationing has been called in the city and what is coming out of the sink has a slightly brown tinge to it. And donation of water, gatoraid and eye drops are being taken at local area business for the firefighter still battling the blazes that have consumed some much land, and homes.

No success yet on finding a place to work on the vardo either, and my assistant has gotten totally sun burnt and I have to go to work this evening for her. 

So all in all a rather depressing weekend.

Finding an trailer for the Fall

So I've been trying to find a trailer to rent for this November for the Texas Renaissance  Festival.

Now on the interstate there is a little house with a little Casita sitting out front.

 

Casita Travel Trailers

It's a Casita Liberty Deluxe, I found out as I went over and asked if I could rent it.

The family that owns it, just laughed, they were worried that I wanted to buy it.

Apparently, I was the 15th person to wander by and ask about their little travel trailer.
While I was the 15th to stop by I was the first to ask if I could rent it. Out of luck there, they too are using it Thanksgiving weekend.

A good canvas tarp to put over my tent looks like the more economical option and as 8x16 is about 50 dollars. I'm thinking of going with that and a few inexpensive plastic tarps for the sides of my 10x10 gazebo.

Best I can do until I find a place to build my vardo.
 

Free from the Last Major CC

Ok, I'm freed from the last major credit card.

Send registered receipt mail!

I will save up and pay off the student loan within 3 months.

And have the savings account back up to a nice down payment shortly after that.

Which still leaves me without a Vardo.

Watch the tote board folks, I'll be purchasing the new vardo plans from PAD soon.

See you next week: Same Bat Time Same Bat Station.

Complete Bust : Plan B

The house is a complete bust. My realtor finally called.

Apparently, at one time the house was a HUD home, so the Bank decided to turn the whole thing over to HUD.

Which means that it could be 4 days from now, or 4 months from now or never before the house is released for sale. So basically, this house is foreclosed for the 2000 dollars that no one could agree to pay to the water filtration installer.

So, I still stuck in the house from brown and am currently moving my stuff back out of the storage unit I rented.  Still quietly, the landlady's son is still a scary dude. Three people have  moved out of their rent houses since I started living here.


PLAN B: PART ONE


I am planning on using the down payment money to pay off the last of the student loan, and the last of the outstanding credit card. I can then take the money I was spending on that and spend half on paying down the loan on the truck and putting the rest into the savings account. (That should make the mortgage people happy next time I go looking for money.) 

Next. talking to my realtor about finding a place that I can rent (cheaply) for a two or three months that I can do the build at. I'm not really feeling confident about finding a place, but I will ask.

Now Radical Concept:  Buy a commercial trailer and disguise it to look period.

NO REALLY I've FIGURED OUT HOW!!!!

First build a Viking Tent:

 

BUILD A VIKING TENT 

Then BUY: YES: BUY  

(Ok you can rent one if you can find one to rent.)

THE WONDERFUL ALINER TRAVEL TRAILER

 So Simply Park the ALINER, put your Viking Tent up around it.

And the PERIOD POLICE Can't Say Anything!!!!

Ok, so it's not much for a Plan B. But I'm working on it.

Prices have Fallen

I would like to point out that the Don Vardo from Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD), a tiny house construction company based in Portland Oregon.(Direct from the website tehe..)

Have dropped their price on the Don Vardo Plans AND are now offering a 12 foot version as well for only...

Wait for it...

$30.

I will have to check my funds because I just bought a new pair of sandals off Amazon. (Truly, my current pair are shot and I've been in them from three years so you can tell I need a new pair...) So if  I may have to wait until the end of the month and my next pay check to pick up a copy. 

DON VARDO from Portland Alternative Dwellings

So go check it. Out.

With both this version and the Tiny House version by Jay S. plus some idea I've gotten off the web and design ideas I have from a few books, and a offer to help from Old Ben, I figure I will have something to build. If only I had a place to build.

Still in legal limbo.