Show of HandsShow of Hands

PamGH December 20th, 2025 1:49pm

In Michigan, zoning laws generally prohibit living full-time in an RV on your own private property unless there is a permitted house on the land.

9 Liked

Comments: Add Comment

theNobamist MAGA morning in America
Dec 20, 9:11 pm

In CA, old, broken down RVs line the roads and fill parking lots as “housing”.

theNobamist MAGA morning in America
Dec 20, 9:12 pm

I’d like some way up get those cleared out.

PamGH SW Washington
Dec 20, 9:19 pm

That doesn’t sound like private property to me? Parking lots? Does the owners of the property not care if they are there? How about this as a compromise. Keep the law, unless the primary resident is the property owner? Would that work?

theNobamist MAGA morning in America
Dec 20, 11:44 pm

It’s a parking lot. Not a makeshift moto-motel. Essentially, a homeless tent with rusted hubcaps.

The public streets are lined with them. Among them, the roads around dilitante filled Stanford.

tr1plemm
Dec 20, 4:31 pm

Money grab. No property tax revenue from an RV, so they make you have a house so they can tax it.

Reply
ozzy
Dec 20, 3:33 pm

Well, they aren’t insulated so you would freeze in the winter

badattitude no place like home
Dec 20, 5:37 pm

I lived in a trailer in a trailer park in the snow in the mountains. It had a forced air gas furnace. And that was a 1959 Stardust model. We were comfortable.

ohm62
Dec 20, 2:22 pm

I can understand the state position if they come from a more permissive stance and got rattled by unscrupulous land&rv owners who did not follow simple rules of hygiene and dumped their nlack/grey water tanks someplace in their backyard, thus threatening the local water supply and neighbors' land.

Reply
ohm62
Dec 20, 2:23 pm

*black/grey tanks

Crawdaddy11 big TESLA fan
Dec 20, 1:42 pm

Who cares. You could get away with this for a lifetime and nobody would know or care.

Reply
CudOfCow Oregon
Dec 20, 12:13 pm

That wouldn't fly in Oregon.

Reply
FLSun Florida
Dec 20, 9:08 am

City dwellers deciding what’s best for rural residents.

Reply
FLSun Florida
Dec 20, 9:10 am

In essence, the case for Electoral College.

PamGH SW Washington
Dec 20, 10:37 am

You have a point. Two sides to every issue.

badattitude no place like home
Dec 20, 5:40 pm

They must have had a real problem with hillbillies living all over the place with trash everywhere.

FATSHADOW Cyborg Gorilla
Dec 20, 8:41 am

Unless a felony is being committed in that RV, the gov should mind its business.

Reply
ohm62
Dec 20, 11:38 am

Unsure how that would differ from felonies committed in a house ...

statguy North Central Florida
Dec 20, 8:27 am

My land. My RV. Come and get me.

Reply
badattitude no place like home
Dec 20, 5:40 pm

They must have had a real problem with hillbillies living all over the place with trash everywhere.

statguy North Central Florida
Dec 20, 8:42 pm

Then cite me from trash. Not for living in an RV.

badattitude no place like home
Dec 20, 9:27 pm

I understand. Just saying that Michigan must have had a problem and this was their solution. Obviously overreach.

tidford My little piece of heaven
Dec 20, 8:17 am

That's how you drive the cost of living up.

I was the youngest kid in a large family. When I went off to college my parents sold their house and moved into a much smaller home. There were no "extra" bedrooms. When I came "home" at Christmas the only room available was the small motor home.

Reply
statguy North Central Florida
Dec 20, 11:20 am

Similar for me. When I went off to college, my parents bought a house with one less bedroom.

Texas1 did not proofread
Dec 20, 7:48 am

Our forefathers would be stacking bodies over that issue, and justifiably so. Personally I can’t imagine such, the list of things I can’t do on my personal property is a short list.

Reply
PamGH SW Washington
Dec 20, 6:49 am

It’s bullshyt

Reply
ohm62
Dec 20, 2:24 pm

Perhaps more literally than you imagine...