off grid world

[Irving]

If you build a small cabin on skids, it isn't considered a permanent structure since it can be moved. Or so I hear.

[Great-Kazoo]

If you build a small cabin on skids, it isn't considered a permanent structure since it can be moved. Or so I hear.

PROVIDING it is not ON a concrete slab. Then it is considered sitting on a foundation. Our garage has a slab poured inside the pole barn. The county considered the frame , based on construction, to be a utility shed for tax purposes.
If we placed the pole barn on a slab, that was considered permanent structure / higher tax rate.

If you want cheap, buy a mobile home. Those have DMV titles. As long as the mobile home is not on a foundation and still has the axle, you pay the DMV / title tax yearly not residential / house tax. I was in business with a few folks who built around the MH and the cty considered those additions to be add ons, still different tax rate.

Buy a single or double wide. then add on from there, preferably underground. Fabricate an escape hatch from the MH, to the safe underground area.