Ok, so, I'm getting ready to graduate from high school, and I have this dream in mind. I want to live on my own plot of land, with my own energy, my own water, etc. I already have a lot of things figured out: How I'm washing my clothes, how I'm getting my electricity, how I want it to look and so on. But here's the problem: I don't know where to start, I don't know who to talk to for permits, I don't know who to talk to for taxes. I don't even know who to trust for buying the plot of land to even get started. I'm looking for someone to help me come up with a bullet list of things I need to do this, and the steps that need to be taken in order to achieve this task. Thanks for reading.
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That was the American Dream in the 70s, so you can get a lot of basic info from books and magazines published in that era. Al Lowry and William Nickerson published books about how to buy real estate. They meant rentals, but many of the principles are the same. There were Domebook, Domebook II, and Shelter (with Domebook III as a chapter), exposing a lot of the baloney so rampant in hippie thinking. If you search with google.com you can find ebook versions of those at low cost. Whole Earth Catalog (many editions) had a lot of useful information, such as how to build a house for 500 bux. The Mother Earth News was a magazine for dreamers. People who actually lived the life didn't read it.
You should take a civics class and a personal finance class at the local college. Ask the professor what other classes to take.