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781. Posted: 21 Jul 2012 22:54 - Properties / NY: Where to build with no permit?
...emely difficult time finding a county in NY state where they are going to let you get away with a part-time use camp even if its under 144 sqft. I don't mind paying the permit fees and having a building inspector verify the work its the fact that you get your property assessment jacked and you end up paying a considerable amount more in taxes! Check around but in F...
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782. Posted: 21 Jul 2012 19:47 - Properties / NY: Where to build with no permit?
The reason you won't find real estate companies like that is because what you want to do is illegal. You don't want to pay for building permits and you don't want to pay property taxes. For some of us here it has taken decades of hard work and saving to be able to afford our cabins. Since you c...
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783. Posted: 21 Jul 2012 16:39 - Properties / NY: Where to build with no permit?
I wish there were real estate firms specializing in selling land suitable for building small cabins with no building permit. They'd be on high demand! Hey, greedy brokers where are you? I need you now! . Seriously... they coul...
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784. Posted: 19 Jul 2012 11:46 - General Forum / I wish..... (Shack Man)
Quoting: TheCabinCalls Raised the permit fee from $1500 to $7000. HUH!!!.......7k for a building permit?
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785. Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:20 - Cabin Construction / Very small but complete cabin
Looks great rif!! When I get to building my small cabin next year I will be going the "no permit" shed route, 100 sq ft. is the max for my town so very similar ideas will be the plan. Some ideas...
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786. Posted: 7 Jul 2012 13:36 - Properties / Building a cabin in Quebec
Tell me more about your frustration with building permits for val des monts. We have purchased a waterfront lot but are worried about the municipality and it's rules. Why did they give you a hard time? brko
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787. Posted: 29 Jun 2012 22:50 - Cabin Construction / Advantage of Concrete over Post
... for a pier foundation is to use the Bigfoot Foundation Forms in one of their larger sizes. If you read their information very closely you will find statements that make it sound like their forms are building code approved. However, if you talk to them and insist that you need proof that will be accepted by an on the ball permit department they will eventually admit that ...
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788. Posted: 29 Jun 2012 17:04 - Cabin Construction / Complete novice planning for a tiny shack
On the 12x16 the head room in the upstairs is likely such that you have to be on your knees, you cannot stant up. There is a Kenora I and Kenora II building plans on the internet for like $24. The one is 12x16 and has only enought head room upstairs to be on your knees without hitting your head. The Kenora II allows you to stant up....
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789. Posted: 26 Jun 2012 23:54 - Cabin Construction / How to prevent concrete around posts from cracking?
Thanks........alot of very helpful replies. I am breaking ground on my 16x20 cabin TOMORROW MORNING!! I am so blessed.......there are no zoning regulations here and no building permits required. County authorities told me to do whatever I want! So I am going to. Thanks again.
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790. Posted: 23 Jun 2012 05:03 - General Forum / This time it is final.
The first thing you need to do is to make a visit to your city or county halls building department. Find out about permits needed,restrictions etc....
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792. Posted: 13 Jun 2012 23:22 - Properties / Building a cabin in ontario (permits and fees)
Hi everyone and thanks so much to the guy who started/runs this site. I need advice. I have just under 3 acres in the Kawartha area in Ontario. I checked the building codes and I wanted to do the 107 sq feet or under thing BUT it says you don't need a permit for anything that size UNLESS one is living in it then you do! After...
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793. Posted: 13 Jun 2012 21:32 - Member's Projects and Photos / Central Wisconsin Cabin Build
...ver the top of it. When the inspector came to sign offon it he told me that I built the 2nd best outouse in the county, only beat out by one that had a chadelier in it! Now I had the sanitary ermit which meant I could approach the county to get a building permit. I arrived at the court house thinking I could just go in and pay the fee and they would give me a ...
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794. Posted: 11 Jun 2012 10:02 - Properties / Building a cabin in ontario (permits and fees)
I have found some more info about building in unorganized townships. The info comes from a realtor in the Port Loring area so i am not sure if it applies to other unorganized areas or just that one. There are no minimum ...
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795. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 20:42 - Properties / Mission Impossible: Land in upstate NY near public transportation (no car).
...r car insurance, which would increase, but NOT guarantee, our chances of getting a land with a small cabin. So I have these questions now, maybe you guys know the answer: - Can land with no official building (with small cabin instead) have an official address? Does one have to have a building permit to get address? If I had an address there, I could regi...
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796. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 19:44 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
just to let you know I live in Ontario and i have gotten building permits for my families projects and there quite reasonable. They basically pay for a representative from the local government (usually a former contractor) to come ...
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797. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 15:04 - Properties / Mission Impossible: Land in upstate NY near public transportation (no car).
...ar insurance, which would increase, but NOT guarantee, our chances of getting a land with a small cabin. So I have these questions now, maybe you guys know the answer: - Can land with no official building (with small cabin instead) have an official address? Does one have to have a building permit to get address? If I had an address there, I could regi...
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798. Posted: 7 Jun 2012 17:05 - Member's Projects and Photos / My build in Nova Scotia
...e composting toilet. plans are to put in a sink once I have a water storage container installed. The cabin was built to code, a necessity as the power company wouldn't hook up power without a building permit. The main beams are 3 ply pt 2x12's and the floor joists are 2x10. Over built but hopefully it won't go anywhere. In order to save money I used r...
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799. Posted: 29 May 2012 22:10 - General Forum / Anyone Going to thier Cabin this weekend?????
LOL!!! That was the good ol days when you could do more and nobody cared! I think that now that we have had our final inspection with the building inspector nobody much will care...at least that is what I hope! In our county(Douglas) all vacant land is looked at every year and appraised physically by the assessor. They are so d...
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800. Posted: 27 May 2012 15:20 - Member's Projects and Photos / 12x8 bunkie progress
I just happened to be browsing websites and links to suggestions for building a small bunkie, hopefully with a modest screened porch attached. I have a nice home on a small pond in Plymouth, MA with an extra lot that I'll be applying to build the bunkie o...
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801. Posted: 23 May 2012 16:56 - Properties / relaxed building codes (notheren NH, Maine or VT)
..."wink") without having to obtain a permit. My town also allows up to 720 sq ft "recreation" camp, for occasional use only, which does require a permit but does not have to meet all the residential building codes. BUT, the camp would require septic and well...so, I am going the no permit "shed" route...nobody ...
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802. Posted: 17 May 2012 10:54 - Properties / cabin build michigan questions
Quoting: yuanggitssaccan the township do anything if they find my cabin such as tare it down? Local zoning and building departments usually have the right to make the local rules more restrictive than the rules laid down at the state level. They can not make the local rules more relaxed than those ado...
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803. Posted: 17 May 2012 07:14 - Properties / cabin build michigan questions
...039;m in kalkaska and zoned recreational forest. I can build less than 500sqft as long as its called a hunting cabin and I do not use it more than 120 days per year. Call your zoning dept and not the building dept. MI new building code says you can build any out structure up to 120sqft without a permit and my zoning said for them it is 200sqft. The ...
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804. Posted: 15 May 2012 20:37 - Cabin Construction / What NOT To Do!
This is why they invented building permits (that and tax increases)
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805. Posted: 15 May 2012 14:28 - Cabin Construction / Take three! (foundation)
Have you run that by the building department? I recall from a different thread you had talked with them. It doesn't matter what anyone here thinks if there is a permit department and inspectors ...
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806. Posted: 14 May 2012 12:43 - Properties / what pisses me off!!
building permits and codes date back to the old slums of the industrial revolution. slumlords put up any multi family slums to make money and had no concern for safety. the c...
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807. Posted: 9 May 2012 18:45 - Cabin Construction / Ok, so on to plan D.
Just got off the phone with the building inspector, and it's not good news. Whatever we put up (even a yurt) requires a permit, and has to be attached to the foundation and the ground. We can either ...
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808. Posted: 9 May 2012 15:48 - Cabin Construction / Ok, so on to plan D.
...x20 with a porch, delivered, for about $3500. That's just a shell, so we'd need to unsulate and finish the interior ourselves, but that's not a big deal. The problem is with the building permit. For one thing, we have already determined that we are not going to be able to put in a poured foundation, so we're sticking with a gravel pad for whate...
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809. Posted: 3 May 2012 12:01 - General Forum / Giving up?
To Optimistic, There are SO MANY reasons in favor of buying or building your own Dwelling on wheels. First, it is CHEAPER. No real estate taxes on a mobile. Minimal exposure to building codes, permits and worst of al...
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810. Posted: 26 Apr 2012 14:44 - Cabin Construction / Foundation help
...nearly as much as some folks think. If piers must be used I like 4 feet in the ground for every foot above ground. Piers should have a concrete footing; normal size is 16x16x8. With a lightly loaded building smaller footings can be used, especially when the number of piers is increased, as then the load is spread out more. Perhaps another option should be explored; pole buildin...
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