[sudo-discuss] Bubble

Fri Mar 27 19:42:11 PDT 2015

You know, I have been building basic shelters for as long as I can
remember. When I was 13 I built a treehouse on a vacant property nearby my
home with debris found on construction sites. It became a clubhouse for the
kids in the neighborhood, then runaway kids started to show up and spend
the night there. They would tell stories of how they needed to escape from
their parents who did absolutely awful things to them. I didn't know what
else to do except lend an ear and bring them food and water. As strange as
it may seem, my treehouse was the only place of refuge these kids had. I
honestly don't know how I managed to gather all the materials and haul them
up into a tree as a scrawny little 13 year old kid. But I did it
nonetheless. Some pieces were quite heavy such as 3/4 inch plywood sheets
which I hauled up steep embankments from a freeway construction site to the
tree where I cut the pieces with a hand saw.

The notion of providing decent and permanent shelters for people in need
has stuck with me all my life. I am currently helping out some people in
need, including a brilliant young student who has a college scholarship
from the Gates Millennium foundation, but is still in need of basic
shelter. I believe I have developed a workable solution for housing
homeless or people who are otherwise disadvantaged and in need of basic
shelter.

I attached a few photos of a property in development in San Rafael, called
"Woodlands Sanctuary", and a photo of another property located further
north called "Juniper Sanctuary", which will be developed next.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Brandon Curtis <brandon.curtis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It sounds like you SHOULD teach a seminar on the subject.  Or at least
> write something up!
>
>
> * -- Brandon*
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My plan for an economic collapse scenario like this is to first get out
>> from under the debt/wage/rent slavery conditions that are prevalent in
>> society and then develop a self-funded product that generates income. So I
>> have been living for next to nothing in the bay area (Marin) for several
>> years now on land that is owned free and clear, in a modest home that I
>> built with my own hands with free or surplus materials. I realize that this
>> lifestyle may not be suitable or even possible for many people, but it can
>> work out quite well once you adapt.
>>
>> To do this, you first need to save some cash to buy land then have the
>> ability to find and evaluate suitable properties. Property tax foreclosure
>> sales are one possibility, another are properties that are abandoned in
>> some way by the owners. I have acquired many properties dirt cheap with
>> these processes in California and across the southwest, including farmland.
>>
>> To develop the property having access to a truck, car and trailer, or
>> other suitable vehicle for hauling is necessary. As you know there's a ton
>> of free building materials available in the bay area. To gain an extra
>> advantage I developed a browser extension that monitors free postings on
>> Craigslist and generates instant notifications when something comes up. At
>> this point I have collected so many free materials that I literally ran out
>> of space to store it all. I have stacks of high quality 100 year old
>> lumber, dozens of very nice windows and doors, redwood decking, gymnasium
>> flooring, shipping pallets, and so forth. With these materials I build
>> useful items like fences, habitable shelters, workshops and greenhouses.
>>
>> Since the laws are generally against people building a home without the
>> need for a ton of cash or bank lending, I create an alternative purpose for
>> the property. For instance, the cover story I use for the properties is
>> typically that they are being used by a non-profit for some social or
>> envirionmental benefit. Since I believe that many building and occupancy
>> codes are developed for the benefit of the banking/real estate industry,
>> and unjustly deprive people of the right to live in the world without
>> becoming a debt slave, I have no issues with stating that nobody lives on
>> the property. I simply say that I rent a small room somewhere else, but I
>> spend a good deal of time on the property.
>>
>> I have been doing this for many years now and have invested a ton of time
>> in research, skills development and uncovering creative solutions and
>> work-arounds. Honestly, its a lot of physical effort and I am not getting
>> any younger. I could practically teach a seminar on the subject.
>>
>>
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