Has anyone ever bought commerical/industrial land for your truck to park?

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  1. OOwannaBE

    OOwannaBE Medium Load Member

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    I have been thinking about buying an acre of commercial land and add a fence so I can have a place to park my truck and trailer. Maybe even building a garage later to store my car. I suppose in the future if I ever want to sell that property it would be worth more, but it seems like commercial property is on sale for decades before its finally bought.
     
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  3. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Always looking for ideas of where to park my truck... Not many TS in this area.
     
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  4. Hurst

    Hurst Registered Member

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    I bought a house with acreage in an area zoned agricultural. Pretty much do what I want. Property tax is less for this house than my much smaller house on 1/4 acre in city limits. Messed up thing is I still dont park my truck here. I pay $60 a month to park it at a cement plant.

    Eventually when I finally get my out building finished and pave everything I will bring it here.

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    123456 Road Train Member

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    Varies by state, county and local areas.

    Check and then double check zoning laws.
     
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  6. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    I've got 20 acres but haven't sorted the access yet.

    I "rent " a 1 acre fenced yard with a building on it for parking.

    My "rent" is mowing the grass.
     
  7. sawmill

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    A friend of mine bought a building thats roughly 50' x 100' with office space and bathrooms and a massive shop area. It has a yard that is at least a couple acres. I think he gave $250K for it. I pay him $175 a month to park my truck and trailer, plus my motorhome and a car or two, plus I have access to the shop to do pretty much anything I want. He pays the natural gas and electricity bills (~$400/mo.) and I pay the water and trash service (~$45/mo.). Plenty of room even with his three trucks and eight trailers parked there.
     
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  8. flatbeb mac

    flatbeb mac Medium Load Member

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    I wanted to but, the property I wanted had a lien on the title, so that was out. Still looking though.
     
  9. Neverready

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    Check what was there if the property was used years ago as you may be on the hook for environmental clean up should the feds decide it was used to store or dump previously legal chemicals now deemed hazardous.
     
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  10. OOwannaBE

    OOwannaBE Medium Load Member

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    Yeah one thing I noticed where I live even abandoned buildings are blocked off and some even have 24/7 security guards for an empty building! A Best Buy shut down years ago with weeds growing through the cracks in the parking lot and I parked in the back out of sight at 2am and a security guard pulled up in his car saying I couldn't park there.
     
  11. Neverready

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    That may be more to reduce vandalism and lawsuits by those that injure themselves while trespassing or damaging property.
    One of the dumbest cases I heard of a construction worker on a building decided to steal the gutters off a adjacent building for scrap metal. He fell off building while stealing. Sued the building owners of the building he was stealing from for compensation for his injuries and won. I for got what the grounds were for his suit. My thought was if he got injured while stealing that was his fault and deserved.
     
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