Today i attended the Tumbleweed workshop in Indianapolis. Jay Shafer pretty much taught me how to build a house. Pretty much everything you need to know is in his book "THE SMALL HOUSE BOOK" He knows a lot about the basics of construction and some ins and outs, tips and tricks of getting around problems. He did lack the knowledge of electrical and plumbing, he suggested hiring a plumber and electrician. I found some books and have been watching you tube videos for plumbing and hooking up renewable energy. I'll let you know if any resources are worth looking into or not.

Note: That when you attend the workshop you get his book "THE SMALL HOUSE BOOK" plus if you wind up purchasing one of his plans you will get a discount because you attended the workshop.

Jay talked a lot about zoning laws and building codes and ways around those as well. It will mainly come down to if you call your home a home, or a travel trailer which will determine weather or not it will need a building code. Also Zoning laws are different in pretty much every county you go to so you will have to do research on that. From my understanding, as long as it is movable it can pass a few of the codes and regulations, especially if you build it in a deep forest away from civilization or peering satellites which is one of the ways they find out if your in a certain zone or how big the house has to be. Again I'm not 100% sure on these regulations just because every county is different.

I thought the workshop was well worth the price just because i went into not knowing anything about constructing a house and came out confident that i could build this house. It is very gratifying knowing that you learned so much in just a little amount of time. Kudos to Jay for being such a great teacher.