I Bought LAND as a VAN Life HOME BASE! Should YOU?
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Should you buy land as a home base for van life? Today, I'm thrilled to share a significant decision I've made on my nomadic journey - purchasing 20 acres of land in Northern Arizona to establish a 2-3 month a year home base. Join me as I discuss the four key reasons behind this monumental choice and why having a home base as a nomad for part of the year, might be a beneficial decision for you. Discover how owning land can provide stability and a place to return to while enriching your nomadic lifestyle.
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Having a home base can also help fight off Nomad depression too. I have a home base. It's nice to know there is always a place to go "home" to, even if I rarely go home. It's a mental thing.
I totally agree! I was a bit ahead of the curve! I downsized and built a tiny home base 25 years ago! I had camped and traveled sporadically for years. I knew full time was out ! 👍
Bob as for me, this is the most relevant video of all van life videos If I was 35 years old, I probably wouldn't have watched the whole thing.
I have rewatched it and taken notes.
Thanks for all of this relevant info!!!
Love your land Bob so happy for you and Cody
Congratulations, Bob. I’m so happy for you.
He definitely deserved it after all he's done for other people!
Yeah - me too.
Bob please do more videos on buying land that allows you to live on it in rv or tiny house,
That would be so much help for some guidance on that subject. Please do, if you would want to.
My exact sentiments
Search his vids. He's got a dozen land buying ones prior to this one.
Go to the description of this channel & he's got a podcast w/ 7 episodes on buying land.
Yes Please!
Howdy neighbor! I bought 18 acres in Apache County that allows van living. I love it! It’s also at 6,000 feet. My son, who is a van lifer nomad in his 30’s, bought the 18 acres next to me. It’s beautiful, private, much cooler in the summer than southern AZ.
How much snow do you get up there at 6 k ft and is there enough snow to catch an abundance of rainwater in the winter? Or do you go south for the winter. That's cool that your son is next to you.
What temperature year round
@jonathanbrotherton7769 You clearly didn't watch the video, and you sound about 12 years old.
Can you please elaborate on them letting you live in your van? Are there any restrictions? I looked into it, but seemed like only 6 months at a time were allowed. Thank you!
@@SheepishWilly In his other video, he says that Apache County doesn't really enforce the restrictions on the books.
My dad always said. Buy land because we are not making any more. Great idea to have a place to land.
And having trees is definitely a wonderful thing
Please plant more trees!
Branch out to unoccupied land, and plant more trees there!
It will help to reverse Climate Change: will attract rainfall, make oxygen, and COOL your lot, while the neighbors with their Forrest Gump yard are sweltering.
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Take care Ray
Congratulations Bob! You deserve this nice homestead, you’ve worked very hard for the van dwelling community.
Bob I have fallowed you for years now and it really hit home. I bought an acre and a quarter 2 years ago 5 miles from the river out in the country. Here in Alabama everything is trees and green. I’m from st George Utah. I’m 63 and am retiring at the end of the year, I’ve worked real hard to pay off my land. I also poured an rv pad, set up power and septic. I live in a no-nobo 16.8 on this land. When I retire only bill I’ll have is my Gladiator. I’ll be set to travel, I’m so excited to finally be free after working 12hr nights for 23 years. Thanx for all the knowledge and inspiration !!!!
I’m a retired trucker. Those boxes are called containers. They have a hardwood floor. They’re good for locking up your belongings.
Bob, I think it's a great idea to have land for many reasons and I will share mine. We own an acre in Pahrump. We actually are building a house, and our land was 25k , but we have water rights, and you can easily build on this property. Believe it or not, we have an awesome well. The guy that did our well said there must be a river going through our property. We bought this 3.5 years ago, and we live in a 30-foot shuttle bus on our land as we build our house. Our plan is to build our house and hold onto it for a few years since property values are going up fast in Pahrump and then sell and use the money to travel in our bus. Unfortunately, I ended up getting sick, and I ended up having 3 major abdominal surgeries. I'm so glad we had this land as a home base while I went through my surgeries and my recovery here. It would've been a nightmare if we were traveling while this happened and didn't have a home base to go to. For many reasons, it's good to have a home base, whether it's family you can go to or land. You never know when an emergency like mine could happen. I am very healthy, and I've always worked out and ate healthy and I was only 46 when I started getting sick, and this came out of nowhere. Be prepared for a medical emergency or any type of emergency as a nomad because you never know what life might throw at you.
Greets and love from Hamburg in Germany where the Hamburgers came from!
I am a facility manager building expert and Expedition-truck lover.
Allow me to give some tips:
1: Build your outdoore kitchen plattform over the earth if you have material there.
When storms bring floods of rains you can save your kitchen and you can work in it even if the earth is "flooded"- 10 cm or more. Check up the former rain ways on the land.
strong rains leave traces that you can see.
2: Also a good thing: As a prevention dig drainages around the kitchen with some %%% to lead water away from the place. ist old school boy scout trick for tents.
We learned that in the 70ths. We slept and lived in tipis for 12 souls with fire in the mitle.
around the tent we diged a drainage 30 cem x 30 cm to keep the floor dry. Rain was always there but we had a dry floor in the tents.
In Germany army you do this also around the tents.
3: The foundament for a plattform of the kitchen coud be used bricks minimal10 centimeter high or higher on that used palets.
2 sides of the kitchen windproove- against the storms from the norths?
Also palets with tarp.
4: IBC cons must be protected from UV sun. The plastik gets poröus dry and the water devolops fast bakterias.
5: Hose- security: After using the ose for water transvere- blow the water out of them!
Heng some in a way that the drops can get out of the hose.
Bakterias viruses legionellas can devolope in 24 hours if sun hits the hose!
That can kill. We had some cases where people got the legionella sickness and are handycupt today.
Blow it out dont use old hose or buy "food safe hoses" without cancer- softener
and bigger once so that you can cleen them desinfection...
6: Kitchen- why not buying a bigger expeditions tent for the kitchen? It protects the kitchen when you are gone from the dust sand and rain..and over the tent the structure with metal rove..
7: A car port would be a good thing you could build solar on it and your car is protected from the heat...
Frank
I lived for many years in a somewhat "Arizona-esque" region. If you were to be Rebuilding your "outdoor kitchen" with simple corrugated roofing iron and with rain capturing gutters, what you call "20 by 20" (feet) I would call about 6 by 6 metres. Which is 36 square metres.
Mrs Google told me that Apache County gets 12.6 inches annual rainfall, on average. So let's call that 333 millimetres (yes I rounded it up slightly, I'm doing the maths in my head here buddy).
So in an "average" year, the roof of an outdoor kitchen that size will collect (decimal point) .333 of 36 cubic metres of water. Simple math tells us that's 12 cubic metres or 12,000 litres, weighing 12 metric tonnes. Isn't the S.I. Metric system great !
(In dinosaur units that's approx 3,000 USA gallons or a few less in British Imperial Gallons).
That's about 12 times that large water container you showed on your trailer.
In many areas it is safe to drink rainwater stored in tanks without any extra treatments, but in some areas, some form of purification or sterilisation is recommended to avoid certain "desert fever" or other illnesses, spread by pathogens in those areas.
Rainwater harvesting system can be designed with an automatic overflow so that after the storage containers or tanks are full, any extra water is simply diverted onto surrounding trees. (Especially beneficial if you have planted and cultivated some more new trees, to improve he environment.
Remember also, the difference between a One Acre plot of land WITHOUT established trees, and a One Acre plot WITH trees, is that somebody hasn't been and done the task of planting and cultivating the trees on that plot yet.
@@KiwiCatherineJemmaHi, with the trees you mentioned…is that a bad thing?
Great advice!!!!! Important considerations all.
Congratulations Bob!! There's no place like Home 🙏👍 Home is where the Heart is.♥️
Bought a place in the sticks in Oklahoma. Much smaller than 20 acres! Septic, water, and electric are in and it's near Tenkiller lake.
OK is a great homesteader state. Better than az imo.
but can you legally just park an RV there
I love the lake ten killer area. I thought land would be to expensive there.
Were you able to get your land on low payments I have looking for a small piece of land in that area myself. Congrats on getting your land. Tenkiller lake is nice.
Bought land in OK mainly because mine has no restrictions. 😎👍
Thank you Mr. Bob. I have land with a home I cant live in cause the roof leaked for 8 years and it is emploding. Shelves falling off the walls, enough mold to kill a horse but it has been paid off for the past 20 years. My mechanic says, "As long as you have land, you'll never be homeless. Buy a tent & live in the yard." Well, I bought the tent but I'm also buying a portable building that was deliverer on Thursday. I figure if that one male nurse can live in his car and work his way up, I can live in a car in a garage until I figure out my next steps.
Yes, I don't remember his name but he is very self reliant!
Get yourself a 3,000 gal black water tank and build a shed style roof over the kitchen and harvest rain and snowfall. You'll have more than enough water for use.👍
How do you keep it from freezing in the winter time?
Rain? Arizona has rain?
You can bury it.@@polloggertie4376
@@polloggertie4376 I don't think it will freeze completely, but the valve on the tank and the water hose will definitely freeze.
I wouldn't fool with black water issues. I would just do a septic tank set set up and have the tank serviced every couple of years.
Congratulations! Great advice on buying land. There is a caveat, make sure the land doesn’t have restrictions that prohibit RV living full time. Some counties do not welcome RV living.
He's on his own 20 acres and but likely going to bother anyone.
I bought a couple lots for my motorhome to vacation on about an hour from my home after my husband died. It was too big for me to drive. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to the township rules and was forced to move the mh off as, even tho the lots were wooded and in a country setting, it was a subdivision and I was forced to move the mh off. Buyer beware.
This is a HUGE concern and the main reason I've never done this. I looked into it for a while, and every area I would've been interested in, doing this was banned. Not even just RVs. Tiny homes are banned many places too.
@@thecircledance Zoning is out of control. We tried to buy 5 acres in Red Springs near Lumberton NC but had the same problem. So many restrictions.
@@thecircledanceVery true.. you've definitely got to do a thorough research.. but it IS possible.
love seeing people evolve over the years as needs and circumstances change. thank you for being transparent and showing where the next step after van life could possibly be.
lol @ “Bobville”. You are such an inspiration!!
Very happy for you, Bob! ❤🎉
Don't be deceived, Bob's a tough cookie! I live in the state to the East. I see people come and go! Homes, trailers left because of water, alot of municipalities stop giving out bulk water permits, which leave you to small containers. The wind is relentless, the roads will murder your vehicle, they'll be no one to haul your vehicle to town, no one coming to work on your place. Unless you have the patience of Job, the ingenuity of Mcguiver and the grit of Grizzly Adam's! You might look for a milder climate and closer to civilization.
What do you mean by "bulk water permits"? If you haul your own water who is going to find out you have a 275G tote of water in your property? thanks for sharing.
My advice to those who don't want to become a touph cookie is this! The world is changing fast and it's going to crush anyone who isn't a touph cookie in the very near future. In fact it already is! Time to think about becoming a toupher cookie
Bob is different due to his extensive support network. He'll always have help around.
Awesome news! Several rural counties in Florida (I'm in Dixie) still allow a full time RV zoning exemption if your property has a well and septic. I bought 5 acres that had a delapitated old mobile home that just needed demolished for next to nothing in 2020. I have stayed off grid, built an outside kitchen and bath house and a 40' container was finally acquired this season for an emergency storm shelter/storage/platform for a killer deck overlooking the lakebed (deer stand if anyone asks) when I return next season. See you down the road Bob, congratulations on your new dirt and trees.
Four yeas ago I bought 2 pieces of land with old buildings on them as my base. Renovating one and demolishing the other. A great project when not on the road. The taxes are small and it gives me a sense of 'home' even without a big debt.
I wish you only the best all your days, Bob. You have made such a positive difference in so many lives. ❤
I’ve lost 2 homes in OR & 1 in CA to wildfires. Arthritis has gotten worse as I’ve aged in WA/OR. I’ve decided I’m a plant without deep roots. More of a dandelion blowing in the wind. I would, however, like a small patch of land with a shed or old trailer to just breathe. Nothing exciting. Few trees. Fire pit. Good to go. Love your land. Absolutely love Flagstaff. Reminds me of PNW. Take Care Bob
That is so heart breaking I am sorry 😔 it feels like it fallowed some people ...my mother in law lost everything in the talent Oregon fire ( Alameda fire )
Oh my gosh. So sorry. Hope insurance helped you get back on your feet?
Goddess Bless you and may you Be Watered and Nourished by Life
Congrats on buying land with trees. Pine Bark Beatles are a serious problem usually attacking trees stressed by drought. Have your larger trees evaluated and preventativily treated by an arborist. Treat any downed trees so beatles don't just move from dead to live trees. We lost trees and I learned the hard way to be proactive.
Absolutely. Pine bark beetles over the course of time will destroy all your trees.
Congratulations on owning dirt.
I love my van, but I love my lot too.
The garden makes me happy.
That's the one of the bigest things I miss about van dwelling, the other is privacy. Having your own space to go outside where you know no one else will be walking through to disturb your thoughts. I grew up in places where my parents owned between 15-22 acres. I didn't really like it because I would get lonely, but I always found something to discover. Now that I'm older I find I miss the peace, wildlife and nature. Even parks have people wandering around. I haven't gardened for the last 30 yrs, but I did have potted flowers and trees up till I became nomadic. It's becoming harder to find places to park because people are so intolerant even if you don't make a mess or even if you clean up after others. 🤷🏼 I don't understand why people can't just leave us alone. I do nothing to bother anyone, but apparently just the fact we exist bothers them? 🤦
Congratulations, Bob, beautiful spot. It's a smart choice having a larger piece of property because the smaller parcels, a couple of acres and smaller, often are part of "developments" and consequently have CC&Rs. With aging, a consideration is "where is the nearest decent hospital?" Also, a lot of counties are cracking down on nomads such as us and limiting the amount of time you can "camp" on your property. You covered water, sounds like you have a decent community well and some plans for cachement. Again, really happy for you
There's a guy near Phoenix Arizona that had wood chips distributed on his land, about 3/4 of an acre. He had about 3 feet of wood chips. Two years after he dug in the wood chips, about a foot and discovered a nutrient rich black soil. Just on three quarters of an acre he had over 200 fruit trees. Never needed to water his land because the wood chips retain a lot of water. You can see his video on UA-cam. It's called " From dirt lot to food forest."
Acquisition and complexity seem to be the "thrust" of the human condition. Even minimalism eventually gives way to these forces. However, with forethought and consideration we can channel these impulses into avenues that actually work for us. You have put much thought into living a mobile lifestyle that will not only serve you now, but into the future. None of us know how politics, climate change, and even aging will bring change into our lives. You have melded the best of the possibilities into what looks to be a sustainable life plan for now into the future. Thank you for being a guiding light for many of us.
As I was watching the video I was thinking about something along the same lines. It struck me that even the most steadfast of nomads, the King of Nomads himself, Bob Wells, has gravitated towards the homestead. It seems our desire for comfort (Nature is a relentless matron) drives us to settle down and acquire more things. Yet the acquisition of more things and settling down creates anxiety because the management and care of those things along with the settling down takes us away from our natural proclivity to wander. Humans are complex beasts. Forethought and consideration are paramount, I agree. Thank you for your comment.
Congratulations Bob! You really found a natural paradise in Arizona! Best Wishes Always!
Hi Bob.
I'm so happy to see you buying a home base with TREES!
A man needs his own spot and a place to work on his projects. You've done so much to teach people about van/nomadic life. I'm really glad to see you are getting a nice landing spot for refuge or recuperation, and that it's big enough to provide you some privacy when you want it.
May God bless you with all the years of travel that you want and a pleasant winding down time when you want to stay put.
Thanks for all you do. ❤
When I was in Colombia I visited a family who had the outdoor kitchen set up and it was very nice and cozy! It was built with some kind of sticks and had a grass type roof that offered great shade and cooling.
I just bought a beautiful piece of land 10 minutes walking to town and 10 minutes walk to the beach for 26k...in Mexico . Love it !
Yeah, but you gotta deal with the surrounding poverty, misogyny, and cruelty toward animals. No bargain deal will make me sacrifice my soul.
Congratulations on your 20 acre property, so cool!
I'm really happy for you, Bob, congratulations!!
OKOKOK. Just saw your One Acre Video. And now. here you are on 20 Acres. Wow. Thanks so much for sharing all of this. Just great.
I absolutely agree that a piece of property goes hand in hand with van life. In addition to always having a guaranteed place to break away from life on the road to recharge occasionally. You can legally put in buried caches in plastic buckets and drums containing essential tools, equipment, and supplies for survival in the off chance of an shtf scenario. I seem to have done it basackwards from old Bob here, however. I've got the land, and all the shtf essentials, now I'm desperately saving up for the van 😆😆😆
When you paint that tote of water put a strip of masking tape first so you can tell how much water is in it stick the tape back so you do not get alge !
Congratulations, Bob. Your outdoor kitchen will be fantastic once you get it all put together like you'd like. Your property looks so nice & inviting. I know you will enjoy it for years to come.
🦋So happy for you Bob, you are one of the most honorable, loving, genuine and humble people on earth. Thank you for all that you are🐦
Good job! Having bladed drive along with a 40' Conex is a big plus. 😎
LOVE the trees!
Wonder how the trees manage to live with no water......
I agree
Definitely love the trees ! My yard in Florida is full of live oaks !😁
Outdoor kitchen looks great! ❤ Time to tune in to Kent Rollins for some great outdoor cast-iron cooking!
Yup! He's a master of the craft for sure! 😁
Maybe get an old chuck wagon!!
Chef corso is awesome for ultralight cooking
Congratulations Bob I also bought 5 acres in Coconino County minus the trees I love it. Put a cabin shed on it Put a portapotty and a plastic shed for my shower house with a propane shower. I put plastic containers with cornmeal and baking soda and the mice eat it up and also put bucket traps with peanut butter Mice are under control here. Also make my own spray with Spearmint clove and garlic oil and spray around cabin and rv once a week
Can I ask what an acre costs there? Do you think it's prohibitively expensive for an area with trees like Bob found?
Did you have problems getting an address for the land? I tried to do the same but in NM and had issues because I didn't have a house that I was living in. So trying to find a more nomad friendly place
Congratulations Mr. Bob! Can't wait for this adventure for you and hope you will take us along! Congratz!
Congratulations Bob 🎉
Bob, I want to thank you for your years of beautiful and lovely content but I took this time that we admit that most of us can’t do this lifestyle forever. With everything that’s going on in the world right now I don’t think we have very long left so the best thing that we can all do is probably have a homebase or a small house that we can store a bunch of food water And other supplies to survive in case things go down. I started in life at first because I was homeless but then I continued it as a lifestyle to save money to live freely but now I see that it’s not going to be feasible for much longer. That’s why I bought the house and I’m working on it. I hope everyone’s well in the comments, be safe
Wow, wow, wow, Bob! You finally got the land you desired.
Looking ahead, at your life, this was a smart idea.
This, outlook of yours kind of reminds me of our Hippie lives, of the past.
The knock on the door is a pain.
I think others are going to consider this idea.
Having that container on the property will come in handy.
That side by side is your rustic golf cart.
Any time you have land and trees, you've got the whole world in your hands.
So happy for you.
Now, we can watch you with your homestead develop more in your lifestyle.
You are a great man.
Stay well, Bob.
Be happy.
I wish I was able to get into this lifestyle.
❤❤❤
Heather
Ontario 🇨🇦
You will spend more time on the land than on the road and it’s ok. Land requires work and time. Enjoy! 🤝
Some solid reasons, and it is easy and relatively cheap to get a piece to call your own. Having a nest to go back to can help with one's outlook as well. A place to recharge when the road gets too crazy.
Congrats, Bob! You've worked long and hard to have a lovely homestead to call your own. 🙂
My idea is to buy a small hobby garden of sorts, maybe 2000-3000 square feet, with a very small building on it (might be a garage or shed) that has water & electricity, where I put a washing machine, so I can use the garden as a home base for my van life. It would cost a fraction of a house but combined with the van it would almost be like a house.
Might also work with a small plot of empty land and sthg like a shipping container, the important thing is to have water & electricity.
Go Bob!!
I say plant some edible herbs , plants, bushes , trees, those that will take care of themselves, what ever works in your climate. Prep.
Congrats Bob! Happy for you!
Congratulations Bob. I’m so happy for you 🎉🥳
Congratulations! A base camp is always a great investment. You can improve the land to suit your needs. Outdoor Kitchen, a nice shower house, a Outdoor sitting area with a cover and maybe a tiny house for when you just want to stay a while - maybe a carport or building for a garage. That would make doing repairs easier for vehicles.
I love it! Congratulations Bob! You continue to inspire us! Keep up with your efforts!
Congratulations, Bob. We are happy for your beautiful find. 🤗
We are very happy for you! We too are looking for land to purchase! Being self sufficient & sustainable is our goal! Thank you Bob! Getting a clear title on a surveyed property in a friendly county is essential!!
Fantastic Bob. Good for you. I hope to become a Nomad in about 3 years. Maybe sooner.
Hello Bob, I am so happy for you. Bob I have a sincere question. I would like to do something along the lines like this also. But I worry about possible potential violators/intruders while snow-birding. Have you given any thought of some kind of time share like in general principle with your closest family/friends to be there while away? To make sure nothing walks off? That’s what concerns my wife and I; gone any length of time. The reason we ask is my wife and I had a chain link fence, shed and contents all padlocked. While we were gone, we came back Seven days later to find everything stolen. Literally the fence, shed and contents inside.
Do you have any advice about what you could have done differently?
I would worry about theft too --
Do you think having the locked container would be a better idea?
@@curious1366 he needs to have people on his land continuously. prob from the van network
Wow
Congrats on your land purchase! Northern AZ is a beautiful area. As former Alaskans, the first structure my husband/I always build is a sauna/steam bath!
Now you can host meet ups that’s a great investment. Having a home base is so important it’s a financial necessity for the future as well. The older we get the more we need local community support as well 😉
There really needs to be a legal way someone can get around requiring owning or renting to have a domicile address. The law needs to be changed to accommodate nomadic living. I'm sure owning this land seems like the right thing, but with it comes responsibility, property taxes, and a few other things. It does give peace of mind knowing that you have a place to go where people can't kick you out for no good reason. 20 acres is a lot of land, it should be fun but you're now a caretaker of that land too and with that there are legal requirements. Enjoy.
He's going to get too old to drive, just like every human being who doesn't die first, so having a place to live is common sense. Arizona property tax is cheap, less than $1200 on a $200,000 property, and Bob's land is way less than that. What are you going to do when you're too old or sick to drive? Hope family takes you in? Be neglected in a state facility? Not being funny but everyone needs to figure this out. Bob said he was going to buy land years ago and he has. He's a smart man.
A famous Beat poet bookstore in San Francisco kindly offers up its address (with a wall of cubby holes) to homeless folks for the same reason you bring up.
Also UPS stores offer their brick and mortar address to mailbox renters since some places will not deliver to PO Box addresses.
It totally depends on the zoning rights of the county. A lot no longer allow trailers on the property even if you bought the property. It’s all about the zoning.
Zoning are theft of rights from property owners and most zoning outside of medium to larger towns and cities, and especially on rural lands should be outlawed. A quite recent SCOTUS ruling may stop most communities from stopping people living on their own land, or make excessive requirements for them to do so.
Congratulations Bob🎉
Congratulations Bob 😊
Bobville looks beautiful! Thank you for making such inspiring videos, this is a much more achievable goal than mainstream home ownership for so many of us
Congratulations Bob. I did the same,12 acres in Northern Nevada for my home base. And travel with weather as I want.
I’m in Vegas and REALLY want to leave ASAP but want to stay in the state and gonna start researching different areas of the state...Nevada is a beautiful state and after living in Vegas for 46 years it’s time to get away from here and get somewhere where there are more animals that people 😂😂😂😂any ideas or suggestions would certainly be appreciated 👍👍👍☮️
Congratulations! Fun to get a tour from a nomad legend. I'm just starting to work on my minivan so love seeing the path of build outs, nomad life, and also what some do as they find a place for part or full time living. The security of ownership and/or and a place to settle for at least a while seems an important thing to consider especially for one's older years.
Congrats Bob, so bloody happy for you!!! Sending love from the UK.
Great piece of property! I’m sure you’ll have a lot of lovely times there. I appreciate the information you share.
Way to go! Such a beautiful place Bob.
Congratulations Bob.
Congrats, Bob!
❤it seems that a lot of van dwellers are doing this.
Being a vagabond is cool for awhile and a romantic idea…after awhile not so much. With age also comes medical needs…living remotely or a vagabond like this will eventually not become practical, especially at 6k elevation in Arizona…
Congratulations on Bobville USA enjoy your new space.
Thanks for this video! I really found it encouraging and helpful!
Woah! Bob this is so nice. Congratulations 🎉🎈🎊
Awesome! Good for you Mr. Wells.
Congratulations! Well thought out decision. Looking forward to future videos. 🙏🏾
CONGRATULATIONS, BOB! So happy for you !!
Thank you for this information. This was very helpful.
Yay!! Im so happy for you 🎉 congratulations 😊
Well done Bob , it's nice for you to have a safe place where your friends can bring their rigs to visit too
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This is awesome and wonderful news for you, Bob. Yay!! And I love that you are showing us next steps…options for the future.🌺🌸
Congratulations. 🎊🍾 Enjoy your new space!!!
Excellent choice Bob, you have a great place there.
Thanks Bob!
Well deserved Bob.. you’ve done so much to inspire and help others. Thank you for being your authentic self.. always ❤
Thanks for the info & the tour!
Best of luck Bob!
Your enthusiasm is infections and you deserve it brother! Great job on the purchase, may you enjoy it for years to come.
Congrats Bob. I very much agree that a small or bigger piece of land is a winning idea . You have quite a bit of land, but everyone to their own choice for their own reasons. One of my children owns 5acres in Colorado as an investment or might even build on it. And he loves it. I'm so glad that Cody is enjoying his land too. Great Video Bob. Thanks
Congratulations Bob. I'm very happy for you.
Im so happy for you! Great job! You are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing so much to help everyone. Take Care and keep enjoying all you are doing and all the people you are meeting.
So happy for you Bob. Well done.
Congrats Bob!
Great information Bob. Thank you!!
Congratulations Bob! Happy for you. 😊🎉💕
Congratulations. Nice summary video. That area remains cheaper. In our part of the Texas Hill Country, land is now $40000 to $75000 an acre. :-( Would appreciate another video on what you found as county use requirements, such as water, sewer, structures, power, trash, etc. With the addition of “Tiny Homes” in the International Residential Code, many nomads ca buy land AND have a simple structure when they come off the road. Thanks for sharing.