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Re:The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van by meritt on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:38PM (#15759243)
Unless the desire is around building it yourself, why not just purchase a small ~20 ft Class-B or Class-C RV? They have all the amenities built-in (including a toilet, shower, and waste storage tanks). Brand new they can be expensive ($50k+) but these depreciate quickly and you can find them routinely for a fraction of that.

If you're in the US, a motorhome counts as a house. Which means loans are mortgages: 15-30 yr terms and tax-deductions on property-tax and interest. (2018 may change that of course).

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Re:The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van by Noos on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:28PM (#15759695)
You then have to pay to park in campgrounds, and those fees are a huge added expense. Vans are absolutely horrid as houses, but they can hide themselves among normal vehicles to stealth camp on streets and same their owners money.
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Re:The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van by jandrese on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:43PM (#15760435)
How about a box truck? Seems like it would be a lot easier to hack up the box than a van and you start with much more usable space. They won't look out of place parked on a street either, especially in the lower rent parts of town. You also don't have to worry about cops looking in those pesky windows.
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