Looking for someone that has experience in financing a yurt as a permenant residence.

[Ouryurtlife]

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for the help Jafo and amber! So, since I wrote this, I had a heck of a time with the banks... Here in my small town they were not so open to the idea of lending on a yurt, no matter what I called it, lol. So we settled, and found a beautiful (huge) old craftsman home in the middle of town. Put our offer in, and it was accepted. That was in march. It was a short sale (thank god) because after a couple months we realized it really wasn't what we wanted. We wanted to minimize our lives, possessions, not have a huge mortgage, and spend our days outside. This craftsman didn't have a yard, actually the neighbor had the land surveyed and we found out we wouldn't even have a driveway either. So... We backed out of the purchase last week, took a deep breath and purchased our 30 ft yurt from

pacific yurts

a few days ago. We have applied for a farmhand (immediate family) occupancy permit for us to be on my husbands families 60 acre farm for a few years while we save money (without a mortgage or land payment). I will be blogging our first year in the yurt through the process. We are currently dealing with septic and electric permits and praying it all goes smoothly. In the meantime we are clearing out a spot to build our platform and then planning on building our deck once we are in the yurt. We are hoping to build a sunroom off the south facing side for year round veggie growing and it will be another heat source if we leave the door open to it also I will keep you guys updated along the way!