State says we CAN'T live here...a STOP to our homestead tiny cabin.

We have run into a blocker with the state of Tennessee in building out our off-grid tiny cabin. Today we talk through what this blocker is, why it exists and what we plan to do. This is an unfortunate blow to the progression of our homestead but as always, thank you all for your support!

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[AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

I’m an Architect and lived in TN and got my degree there. It will become permanent doing 2 things. Fill your masonry piers with concrete and strap anchor the building to the piers. You can use Anchor Bolts too. Having permanent power is also another means of making it permanent. Finally if the county doesn’t have building inspections the code is unenforceable. The state doesn’t have code inspectors except for Electrical. They won’t illegally trespass either.

[oldelibertystructures]

As a shed builder and dealer. It amazes me how the government being so hard on these buildings for living units tells me they would rather have people homeless.

[mdawg]

The best Ask, Don't tell. When you try to do the right thing, you always get screwed.

[FilipinaAndTheForeigner]

Here's one take: You had lumber delivered to your property... it just so happened it came in the shape of a house.... now you're going to add more wood to it (AKA building it yourself) to the final shape that you want that wood to be, and then you can live in your own property that you made... and it's final shape that you made.

[resresres]

What's funny is that they would allow you to live out of you car or in a tent on your property, but not a "movable structure". How messed up is that?

[CarterQuillenP.E.]

This is exactly why I chose not to youtube about many of the interesting things I'm doing on my Tennessee homestead. It's a little too late for you guys but the best advice for others is simply don't ask, don't tell, do your own thing and keep yourself off the radar. You could write your congressman and try and get the law changed but that is unlikely to work since Clayton Homes is probably a large political donor and the one that pushed the regulations through in the first place. This is a classic example of the corrupt merger of corporate and government power that surrounds us everywhere in society today.

[rebeccawhiteofficialanoint]

Pour concrete posts under it to support it and bolt the building to the posts so it is no longer a ready removal building. :You may have to have the poured concrete posts inspected. This transformation will 1. Make the building safer in strong winds 2. Disqualify the building from falling under the ready removal code. 3. NOT REQUIRE any dismantling of the building. 4. Should allow you to legally live in it again. Alternatively, there are ready made piers in about 3 pieces of concrete that are a couple hundred bucks each and can be pushed down into the ground with a house jack (there are Youtube videos about it). All stick-built houses are bolted to their foundations to comply with codes (except maybe for some really old homes). S that is all you need-a permanent type foundation and some bolts.

[commonsense]

Here in Arkansas, we built our entire house with only a perk test for septic and septic plan needed...along with an electric inspection of our electric...no problemo. We love it here, it's "The Natuaral State".

[lecirquevagabond]

Moral of the story, don’t post every part of your life on social media. Lesson # 2 don’t give tons of little details that the state can use against you.

[FrankJohnson-hubh]

A friend of mine grew up on a farm. During WW2, his father was not allowed to put an addition to his house for his expanding family. The rules of war did allow him to build a chicken coop. So he did. Got his permits and everything. After the finished chicken coop was done and approved, he dragged it over to the house, attached, and moved in.

[gregoryalban]

My first thought: "Add a concrete pad and anchor the home! Permanent!"

[PrivateMail-cm]

I think I finally understand what "Make America Great Again" means. . .

Like the time people could build a home for their family and live their life and nobody screwed with you.

[dobryden]

Moral of the story is keep the state and government out of your life as much as possible. They're scammers.

[starrystarrynight]

It’s amazing that we have people living in tents all over the country but these people can’t live there.

[debluetailfly]

Imagine if all the cabins of early settlers had been subject to 'codes'!

[Dave-hslj]

You can use mobile home anchors to secure the structure. They are essentially auger anchors that screw into the ground and have straps that can be connected to your existing floor joists, skids, and ribbon bands. Then install simple skirting using lattice to keep costs down.

[MrFozbear]

if you were to build a foundation, pick the building up and anchor it to the foundation, would that not constitute a a new build ? once the building is anchored to the foundation it is no longer a transportable building. Greetings from Australia

[mrr]

Just remember as nice as your community/ followers are there are always going to be someone that feels the need to involve themselves in your personal business and try to mess up what you're doing

[HeatherHolt]

My husband was our towns building inspector here in Tennessee for a little while and he says to pour concrete into the blocks and use tie downs or lag bolt the structure to the columns, plus putting a skirting or covering around the bottom whill make it a permanent structure and no longer mobile

[GirlNextDoor]

My elderly parents have a single family home on 30 acres of land in Wisconsin. When my dad was alive, he ran a sign painting business out of part of their house and a golf driving range on the land. I wanted to turn the land into a tiny house community, called the local zoning departments and was told absolutely NOT ALLOWED. I am not even allowed to place even one tiny house or park model home on the land, whether on wheels or no wheels. WTF!!! I cannot even begin to tell you how fed the crap up I am with the government refusing to allow people to live in homes just over square footage. We can drive whatever size car we want. I wrote President Biden over two years ago asking him to intervene to DO SOMETHING to ease zoning so people can start to have somewhere to live. Well, that was useless, as we can all see. I am someone who refuses to ever pay excessive rent extortion again, so since tiny houses are almost impossible to live in anywhere in this country, I’m doing a truck and slide in camper situation. And if the government doesn’t like it, TOUGH!