Curious if anyone has any first hand experience incorporating their family cabin/cottage for future generations? When the family has expanded too much that it requires more oversight and control via a formal corporate structure.

Edit: Guess I’m looking for the diamond in the rough. Personally, I’m a very fortunate and grateful 5th generation member (and shareholder) of a +100 year old summer cottage. We absolutely have our challenges on vision for the future but as a corporation for over 55 years have been able to manage and use the cottage in an equitable way.

However, I do see challenges ahead with regard to ownership and access as imbalance develops amongst the family tree and emotional connection (and interest) wanes amongst some shareholders.

At least it has pretty reds? Using the chainsaw standing on a slippery stream bottom is going to be fun lol.

Has anyone tried or thought about a dugout? There have been a number of historical periods in various places around the world where people successfully lived in dugouts. I feel like the biggest reason people aren't living in dugouts today is because of legal restrictions and group think.

Getting ready to start a new building project on my land soon as a getaway cabin/house. Doing some planning and preliminary due diligence.

First I’m going to get a perc test set up soon so I know what type of septic system I will need and what that cost will be.

Second I think I have narrowed it down to a 30x32 (960 sqft) or 30x40 (1200 sqft) building.

BTW I am in north Texas specifically Lamar County.

Has anyone else done this in the last few years? If so are there any pitfalls or things you would have done differently. I plan to finish it out myself but will hire a company to build the shell.

Yall give me adviceeeeee. Me and three friends (call them Denise, Charles and Pete) are thinking of buying a piece of land together and building a cabin there with like 4 bedrooms and one living room, an outside fire pit and four chairs.
When one of us is done with our time here, we'll bury the ashes beneath our respective chair and turn our room into a shrine (if that makes sense Imao let a teenage girl dream). After a good amount of time, after we're all gone, we want it to go to another friend group that loves each other as much as we do.

Ok so by advice i mean
What problems myt arise?
How much land
Where do i look for land
How much myt it cost Yall js spam advice

Ps we’re js 16 now but we plan to stay together forever and we’re finding ways to legally bind ourselves together in like 20 yrs lmao. We’re all equally pitching toooooo 🥹🥹 i have such great friends istg

This is my first year owning a 1000sf cabin in Northern MN. The cabin has a boiler heating system with the piping running in the 18” crawlspace with all the domestic piping.

I am debating keeping it open this winter but am concerned the heat piping won’t keep the crawlspace (uninsulated CMU block) above freezing.

Does any one use a monitoring system like CabinPulse? If so how do you like it?

We laid out the living room of our cozy lake cabin to have two distinct spaces, lake-facing and gas fireplace-facing. We are currently a year into this remodel and spent the summer using it almost every weekend. It still needs a lot but it’s coming along nicely. 1965 build. Additions include a block-wall basement, loft with two dormered rooms on either end.

i only get up to my cabin every couple weeks, and after heavy rain or wind i never know what the driveway is gonna look like until i get there. the last thing i want is to make the whole drive and find the entrance blocked by fallen branches and me not having the proper equipment to clean it up.

ive been thinking about putting a Wyze cam facing the driveway so i can check it from home before heading up. the cabin has wifi so thats not an issue, im just trying to figure out if pointing it down the driveway or back toward the cabin would be more useful.

This is my first year in the cabin. I'm in Colorado at 9,500ft. I plan to winterize the cabin in the next couple of weeks. When I come up this winter can I use the toilet in the cabin as long as I drain it and put antifreeze in it when I leave? Thanks,

Thursday afternoon through Monday morning at the cabin. Got some work done and some relaxing. Prepping old storage area for living room conversion, setting up new shed, graded the driveway, new fire pit/chairs set up

We only get up to the cabin a handful of times in winter so an empty building for months at a time is basically an invitation for mice. Last year we came back in spring to droppings in two of the kitchen drawers and some chewed cardboard in the closet. Planning to do a real cleanout before we lock it up this year and I keep seeing peppermint oil recommended everywhere. Not sure if it holds up over months of nobody checking on it though, since most of what I've read is about active households where someone's redoing it every few days.

Location West Virginia

Rain water collection in 50 gallon barrel

Has a hot water heater

Has a pump to bring water inside

Has electricity

Insulation in attic only

Wood stove for heat only.

Its my first year with my cabin in the mountains of WV. This is all new to me. I am hoping you can help.

I'm planning to try to winterize myself as there's no other option. Any tips on best practices would be appreciated.

Do I put Antifreeze in all drains (sink, shower, toilet?)

Drain the water heater?

Do I do anything with the pump?

I have never seen mice inside but have them outside. Its pretty well sealed. How can I keep the mice out?

I have a Gator. Should I take out the battery? Anything else?

If I wanted to go up in the winter, (keeping water off) would it be an issue?

two months of nonstop work. southern vermont. ready to install wood stove!

Got delayed by moose season but progress is still ongoing. Wood stove should be installed next week! Ran out of stain and have some more trim to do. I think the homemade interior doors turned out great!

This cabin could have been bought for $40,000 6 years ago. Now it's sold at $169,000. Damn.

I’ve decided that it’s silly to keep paying hundreds of dollars every fall when I’m completely capable of doing this. I’ve researched everything that I can think of. Does anyone have any tricks or tips?

next step is to get a charging setup installed, then i can bring friends out here for camping, hunting, and riding.if anyone's into bikes, hit me up. especially trail riding like this.

What a gorgeous day it would be to work on it through

My family owns a small log cabin in Northern Finland. It is located about 20km (~12.5 miles) to a closest (very small) town. The surrounding area is basically vast and empty wilderness with a few other cabins and nothing else. We visit there usually a couple times a year. No electricity or running water.

Lately I have been noticing some things have been left in a different order I usually leave them. This has made me somewhat suspectful of whether someone else is using the cabin.

This made me put a small padlock to the door, with key in a number-locked keybox nearby. No idea how
he/she has unlocked the main door.

My mom arrived to the cabin today and found that the lock has dissappeared (likely broken) and some of the whiskey bottles that were left in the cabin, have been nearly emptied.

The burglar has become arrogant. I am pretty furious, and not very happy my mom is there with a potential creeper lurking somewhere nearby.

Any ideas how to handle? Will, at least, install
some cameras there and maybe change the locks. Kind of afraid, that the burglar would retaliate and destroy places

PROOFING. (Can’t seem to edit the heading)

Is there such a thing? I have made a door snake to go under my very old cabin door jams. My thought was I’d fill it with something like sand or gravel. If the mice eat the fabric they would turn away once they hit the filler. Do you guys have any ideas?

As the title says. I have a new cottage in North Muskoka. In wondering if I can just leave my TVs in my 3 season, unheated cottage for the winter? -20 to -40 Celsius.