Stealth Uhaul Camping at a Storage Facility with BLUETTI AC240

I sold my house about two months ago and just brought a new box truck. It is insulated, and wires are run. I built a bed and put a shower in. I did enough to live in and build it out as i live in it. Im working remotely and loving life. I have followed this guy for a while, and he has given me so me ideas to build my box truck.

Ive been stealth camping for over a year in a converted box truck. I have learned that it is easier to have a leveling system on my bed and on my hot plate, then it is to level the truck. As soon as you put those blocks under your wheels you are advertising that someone is living inside the truck. I built a sturdy box around my mattress and then use linear actuators to raise and lower the corners to get the bed level. For my hot plate for cooking I just wedge a towel under it to get it level.

My stepdad once told me to never park where you can't just pull straight out to leave, mostly because one night I went to emergency room and pulled straight into a parking spot that was headed downhill, during an ice storm, and when I came out, my car was dead, and ice had flowed under the tires. I called him to come give me a jump start, but he couldn't because I was parked with several cars on either side of me with the nose of the car headed down into the fence at the edge of the parking lot...and he couldn't push the car uphill, esp. on ice. We ended up coming back for the car later... Moral of the story is, back into dead end parking spot, for several reasons...

I've been full-time for 7 years in a 24' RV, lotdocking 100%. I think you worry too much about being caught. I've had two "knocks": Walmart in Albuquerque and Walmart in Virginia or Pennsylvania. For your stealthmobile, any stripmall would be perfect. (Though someone may siphon your gas or steal your catalytic converter.) Id recommend Rentacenter/ Aaron's/ Best Buy / furniture stores since they all have box trucks or snuggle in wirh Enterprise/ Budget/ Penske/ Hertz truck rental staging lots.

💡Also, just a note for anyone who cares: I have a friend who owns a couple of those storage facilities. The storage facilities will 100% know who comes and goes and when, what time, how long you stay etc. If you try to park and stay overnight every day or often. They will know. They know what’s happening on their property and when they discover / figure out that you’re doing what he just did, they will cancel your rental space. Sometimes they go so far as to red flag you so sister locations won’t rent to you. I will also say, sometimes you get a property manager who doesn’t care. They know what you’re doing and as long as you’re not causing a problem or bringing attention to yourself….they don’t care and won’t say anything to you. 😂💝

PLOT TWIST: he could have parked across the street at the rent-a-center stress free 😂

The leveling blocks make it easier for the catalytic converter thieves to get under the truck.

Everyone who says that using leveling blocks was a major blunder, was correct. NOBODY storing a vehicle levels it. It absolutely screams "person living in this allegedly-stored vehicle, at least intermittently". Everyone who says that cooking there was a major blunder, was also correct. Think of where the word nosey comes from. You could have completed the trifecta by leaving a row of 28oz PowerAde bottles full of pee lined up as a fence around the truck. Overall a very ill-conceived plan, basically doing something to violate a storage lease you presumably need/value. My deceased friend Glenn Campbell (the Area 51 researcher, not the singer) was the master of using self storage locations as a home base. Early on, he learned the lesson "Never sleep, camp, cook, do anything out of the ordinary, or spend the night anywhere that you actually store your stuff or care about keeping your space." In your case, that means pulling this trick at a storage place completely unrelated to the one where you want to normally store your truck. When they caught him (in a unit, but the idea applies to a stored vehicle also) they canceled ALL of his contracts for storage units and banned him from all their locations, permanently. So, he ended up having to move everything he owned to a different storage place with different ownership. Then he had to rent another unit in yet another place with different ownership from either of those. Then, if he got caught sleeping on the property and they canceled him, his stuff was still perfectly fine. He just needed to walk to yet another place/owner and rent a unit. His "base of operations" was Las Vegas, so there was no shortage of places to rent a unit in anytime he got caught. I had the honor of buying him a buffet lunch at Orleans, then dropping him off at his "base of operations", a storage place near his pre-divorce house, but kept as an "undisclosed location" until he trusted you. The one thing you did well, was figuring out the space was pretty sheltered from cameras. I once stealth-slept in a casino parking lot one or two weekend nights per week, for years, when hotel rates there were astronomical. I figured out which 6 spaces were most sheltered from their multitude of cameras and lights, and which one of those was best for drawing no attention for other reasons. It had to be a space which made sense to park in when the garage was almost empty, or choosing it all the time (and then having an oddball walk to the elevators from a seemingly lousy space with no good reason to choose it) might raise suspicion. I finally got a knock from security a couple of weeks before the casino got shut down for the pandemic. Pretty good timing to not get caught until 2 weeks before I gave up being a professional poker player. And it wasn't a big deal. I just had to leave or go inside the casino, and know they'd be more likely to catch me sleeping in the car from then on. Don't assume that the storage company contacted you just to get your registration info. It may or may not have been a shot across your bow, with them deciding to see if you repeat the sleepover. If they can solve the problem without having to confront and embarrass you, that is a good business decision. They can escalate if you don't get the hint. Not everything which seems to be a coincidence, is a coincidence. It won't be a coincidence if you do it again, and a week later a camera is pointed right at your space. Or if you do it again and they boot you out. Decide how much you value the space, and figure out a Plan B, C, and D if you choose to continue the experiment.

Great all you need now is to get a huge flag and wave it all around! Those attendant at the storage ride the property and it’s not to difficult to realize were the food odor is coming from especially seeing huge yellow blocks

As a garbage truck driver it’s pretty normal to have to really slam dumpster as hard as possible to get things dislodged. Usually large items like mattresses or couches that people jam in are sometimes impossible to get out but you still slam it like crazy to try.

I happen to be a manager of a major storage facility and yes we can tell when and who comes and goes at any given time , there are cameras you can see and ones you can’t , not only is it not safe it’s also illegal to do this and wether you have a unit or not if you’re on facility grounds after posted gate access time , facility managers can call police and have you arrested for trespassing , your vehicle towed and immediate termination of your lease .

Pointer! Use headphones when watching television and radio.

How come your truck had a California plate at Kroger, but a Texas plate when you got to the storage place?

Did just about 10 years in my van.. luckily have a friend who owned the storage yard.. did 2 winters there when there was to much snow on the pass.. thanks big D!

We have 2.5 acres with hens for eggs, a huge garden, and 4 sheep to keep the grass low, and we do meat chickens and pigs every year. We both work full time. It's a lot of work getting everything set up, but once that is done, the daily work is minimal. We process all the meat chickens ourselves. It takes one day and we have enough chicken to last all year. The pigs we have someone do for us. We get to pick how we want the meat done, and we get everything back in labeled packages, just like what you buy at the store. We do a few specialty things like Hawaiian sausage links and Jalapeno Cheddar Sausage links. I can't even eat store bought pork, chicken, or eggs anymore. It tastes weird to me. I'm in Northern California, about 40 miles north of San Francisco, 20 minutes from the beach. Our weather is fantastic, so our garden is year round.

This is by far the nicest box truck conversion I've seen

Another box truck tuber mentioned you recently in his post, ironically you posted this two days after!He is called Nomad Brad!

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cool video, interesting, informative and entertaining. for that particular storage parking spot you're better off backing in, for several reasons: 1. there's no "drop" from the driver's side when getting out (or climb getting in), 2. you can partially open your rear doors because they're not facing the public/cameras/road, you're facing the "backyard", 3. since you're in the box and it'll be pointing away (like in pt. 2) the noise you make will be harder to detect, even if just a bit. thanks!

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