Today, I’m going to talk about the term ‘Off The Grid’.
According to the Webster’s dictionary, ‘Off The Grid’ means ‘a dwelling not connected to public utilities.
It can also, the term can also be more broadly used as a system or lifestyle designed to help people function without the support of remote infrastructure. So, if your small community has its own solar panels, and you guys share them, you guys are technically off the grid even though you have a mini grid, right? Many of you wouldn’t consider your home off the grid because it’s connected to your little mini solar power network, it’s off the grid because it’s not connected to the major power network in the United States, right.
So, there are many different ways to define off the grid, right. Even my house here in the sierra is slightly off the grid, it was built with two sources of gas; we have natural gas running to the property from the county, but it wasn’t used, instead an oil tank was installed on this property, a huge little tank; five hundred gallons double walled. If the whole place burns down, the little tank would still be here to supply fuel for the winter. So, my primary residence this year is actually slightly off the grid. We have the fuel delivered a couple of times a year to last us through the winter.
Now we have lots of redundancy, we have fireplaces, we have electrical backup, we are off the grid as far as our primary heat source to tell you the truth and we are very much connected typically as far as our lot. Some people like the builders of the home we ended up buying chose not to connect to all the utilities that are available and that’s what happened in my personal case.
The idea of living off the grid has been recently popularized in Television shows. The term has been used since 1978 to describe the lifestyle and the type of dwelling that I described that the Webster is trying to describe as not being connected to public utilities.
Today, the term is extremely popular though probably and the lifestyle is extremely popular. There are probably 250,000 off the grid-ers today at least maybe 300,000 and that figure is climbing rapidly.
The concept of sustainable off the grid communities is taking off self-sufficiency. This is all a movement, it’s the time that we’re living in and people want to leave the cities, right?
We’ve done some research here at Online Land Sales recently that shows us that 50% of the people living in the cities don’t want to live there. We also did some research recently that has shown that 37% of Americans want a rural lifestyle but only half of Americans actually have that rural lifestyle.
At Online Land Sales, we find this to be a pressure gradient that needs relief. That’s one of the reasons why we are in this business, we are hoping to help you move off the grid. We’ve been selling land for 15 years but now we’re trying to enter the off the grid world and help our customers actually achieve their ultimate dream with the property they buy from us.
We want to help people move off the grid and we are all about it. We are supplying a complete package. If you don’t know about Online Land Sales, check it out.
Online Land Sales is a complete package with the land, the financing, the customer service, the online land management, the best return policy in the industry plus a private social network for your subdivision and for off the grid living in genera where you can learn to develop your lot.
We’re offering a complete package taking you where you need to go. So, please check this out.
If you don’t know anything about Online Land Sales, we are facilitating off the grid living.
Thank you so much for joining us this morning, this has been a daily edition of off the grid tra
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