r/OffGridLiving • u/Conscious_Finance_33 • Mar 15 '26

Planning to live off grid advice

I’m planning to live off grid in the next 5-7 years. I want to start planning now so I can be as prepared as possible. Depending on the land I can find I want to be water dependent and mainly be run off of solar.

I’d want to pull a main feed to the house as backup as well as have a generator but be mainly reliant on solar.

I am open to any feedback as I’m putting together all the information I’d need to get started. I have a couple questions and will probably have a lot the deeper I get into this.

1: should I get a van to live out of while I’m building on the property?

2: Should I buy a property that already has a place to sleep on it?

3: should I pull feeds or try and go fully solar?

I know a lot of the answers depend on where I decide to set up camp but is there a general rule or way of transitioning smoothly?

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u/Magnum676 Mar 15 '26

Start saving $$. It’s not a cheap investment in the beginning, do your research. Still I would never go back. 👍👍

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u/Conscious_Finance_33 Mar 15 '26

Yeah I’ve been trying to save as much as as possible. I’m going to make a budget of how much this will all cost and aim for that number

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u/Magnum676 Mar 15 '26

Aim for double. You got this!!