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Off The Record: Alex Moved into a Camper Van!?

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0:00 [Music] and welcome back to another episode of the careful boys and today we've got alex acosta in the building hello alex what's up what's up what's up man heard you had a crazy life update feel free to enter yes uh i moved into a camper outside of my mom's house like a rv a camper i called it an rv my mom got mad she's like it's a camper what's the difference i think an rv well rv you can drive i believe okay this one you can this is so it's a trailer basically well you can't you can't say trailer no i can't camper sounds better but cause cause you know how sometimes they have those like retirement center trailer parks right where like that's what you live in it's like mine does so i have it has two wheels because it has like a jack that you can

0:50 drive it around and stuff like that so is it one of those like like what do you call it like those air streams or something where you can hook up to your yeah so basically what it what it is it's connected to the power and the water uh like the main house so like i have full electricity i have full water um i do have to like the shower there's like separate tanks for like the shower and the sink water and then a separate tank for like the when i go bathroom how big is this wait you moved into a camper that's connected to the home so you moved out of a home to move into a camper yeah so like the guy i was living at uh i was living at a house in like over in san gabriel and the guy was starting to like just become too much like they were harassed me he claimed that my one single fan was raising the bill 300 bucks not a fan just like a normal fan and i

1:40 haven't been a vornado i i've been there for like almost like four and a half years and like you know we would get these new people in and all that stuff like that but i had done the same thing i had my little portable ac unit because they never turned on the ac in the house in the in the winter or in the summer oh i know the types so in the summer the room because my ac unit has like a temperature thing on it it used to get like 118 degrees in my room specifically like upstairs damn you know all the rooms were illegal so they had like four built illegal built rooms in the house uh the chinese guy owns this place and uh you guys say yes man yeah what the ████ i did come on i said what's it called and so yeah so just randomly out of nowhere like this fool just started like harass me like like two months before i left like oh the

2:30 electricity bill was higher so i need you to give me 80 bucks i was like the ████ because my utilities are included like on the contract sign and everything like that utilities are included so i come in so there's illegal rooms but there's still contracts exactly yeah hilarious we were only allowed to pay our rent in cash they never wanted like direct deposited or checks or anything like that gv baby yeah yeah but toadies are included though including electricity yeah dude do you know do you know how many bitcoin miners i could pack in that ████ place oh dude trust me i there were some times because he used to like because he was from china and he would have like his like family come but sometimes he used to divide the kitchen so i would come home and there'd be a curtain and literally people sleeping on little mattresses oh ████ i'm not even exaggerating or making it up yeah there were people sleeping there um and he

3:21 used to have like four people staying in his room and it was just like what the ████ that's why the internet was so s█████ because there was so much people in the house sometimes crazy that you go from that and now you're in the camp you're like this is the ████ life okay now you got privacy no but he was trying to charge me like crazy and then like he had me sign this contract like in march i'm gonna start charging you utilities this was in january i'm like all right whatever that's more than a month whatever whatever 50 bucks but then like a week pass and then he's like all right so you owe me uh 80 bucks for december and 60 bucks for january well why do you have to do it in a chinese accent though bro yeah is that chinese you were you were doing it i saw it can't be using your fingers like this all pro oh i saw what you were doing what am i supposed to do hey so you owe me mo ████ a 30 buck that's better do it like that yeah that's the south province yeah

4:11 but now so you try to do that ████ so i left right i said ████ you i'm not paying you you you literally telling me sign saying march but now you're asking me for december so mom's like yo i got a camper or we have the camper just stay in that she's like if you need to come in the house obviously you can come in the house so like when i poo i go into the house because that toilet toilet's really small but yeah it is i'm like i'm leaving this camper i'm like yo where's the orientation of that versus where the house is like literally like it's in the driveway it's in the driveway yeah so you're sleeping slanted always no no he's on that part of the driveway no they have like uh they have like uh like things to kind of balance it out but the bed is like a tempur-pedic bed oh bro i envy them dude ████ out of you right now as an ac we have like mesh routers all around so i have one in there so like my

5:01 internet's high speed ask you i'm like do you need to be like hard lined in yeah to get good gameplay yeah so like the internet in there is high speed i have a tv that's mounted how big is it yeah yeah i stream in there now so i'm able to stream again because the internet's good they have like a little like 24 hours in there bless you but like i was like it's like not even as big as my computer monitoring yeah if i get a trailer can i park it at one of your guys's place and come through we can be trailing we're gonna have trailer buds hey but honestly like what did we start a trailer park so my mom was like telling me all about jk trailer parts and like they have those big silver ones i think those ones like the airstream yeah yeah those are the same like now living in like this camper like because it has a closet for my stuff and it's not big you know but i

5:51 you know i have a closet i have a full sink i have a stove bathroom shower everything in it and then like they're selling a bunch of land out there i'm like damn why don't you buy some land let's do it bro and then oh damn that's a great you just gave me a ████ genius idea honestly if i didn't have a wife it's exactly how i would like me too yeah now so now my dad lives like this like even then like like at my old spot i was like i never want to bring girls over there because it's so like you know why do you take her to the trailer though yeah but i'll take it to the camper like that they shake all right you know what though these days that s███'s like you're minimalist you're but there's a name cool man yeah man it's cool being a ████ gypsy now domicile man yeah you're a digital nomad that's my thing is guys can live ████ anywhere dude we don't give a ████ i could live in a storage container yeah you know what a man guys can do that ████ watch i'll show you that's that's the camper oh sick can we show

6:43 that can we show the audience yeah it's just off my can kind of see it in the ears oh dude it's a little vintage yeah it's a little yeah it's an old school it's like i think it was in made in or it's like in the from the 70s my mom and steph that bought it they like revenge right like reamped it redid the shower everything like that how much do you think this is on some dream ████ to be honest how much do you think you could get it for like like how much you joe's gonna buy it from you i want one you wanna you wanna have an appraiser come back i have to ask my mom no no i don't i don't wanna buy it from you i'm just saying like like something like this honestly i think they picked it up i'm not lying i think for like 3 500 bucks don't ████ crazy what that's kind of like my stepdad's a handyman so we kind of just fixed it up oh bro yesterday on offer up there's one very similar to that but the door's a little ████ up hollowed out thousand

7:34 bucks a thousand dollars yeah like i said don't like the thing is you can fix some s████ for the bathroom right you have to there's like this whole mechanism you put a hose on it you know we put it by the like trees and then you pull it out it drains like the shower and sink water and like every like two three weeks you have to drain out like the bathroom so like it's like a whole different process it smells but honestly i'm like i was telling my mom this i'm like honestly like whenever if i get some money i might just think about buying some land get a nice little like air streamer like why not those those things are way bigger than what i'm living in right now and i have enough space for me and like sometimes my sister and my mom will just come in and hang out with me and chill in there there's enough room we bring my big old dog in there i'm like this is i like this you see the ones where the the wall like pushes out yeah exactly for the bed like opens the

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10:04 then these lots they got the hookup and all that stuff but they also have like a um like a storage and a shed but this lot would probably be like i don't know like 50 grand or something right and it's all like gated it looks nice and then the the people that live there they have those like trailers that that look like they cost a hundred grand or whatever and it's like they look like huge massive and then um there's a community center in the middle with a jacuzzi pool spa movie theater and then like all this stuff you can pool above ground please be above ground no it's it's a doughboy to me it looks like like a resort or motel or like not like a yeah like a hotel or something where like like when you know everything there's a thing in the middle where you could go there's a community center ████ like that right and i was like ████ dude that looks really fun um because then i can get that spot and

10:56 just get a camper and then come down to jk when i film and then drive right back yeah knowing you're gonna at least spend 30 to 40 grand on a camper i'm looking up these bad boys right now and it's like yeah the air streams like the all silver ones those ones are the ones that are more expensive but like i would do kind of like yeah they're sick as ████ and they look really nice they're really nice on the inside yeah but now nowadays that i've been doing this i'm like i kind of like this because it's like it's smaller it's not too big i feel like as i've gotten older the idea of having a huge house for me at least is kind of just like that's so much cleaning i'm just like just random ████ happens you're like why the ████ isn't the wall unit on right now like it's flickering why what's going on with it do they have to call guys i like i'm loving it you know at first i was kind of just like i wonder how this would go my mom's like you can come in the house

11:46 stay there for like a week because they have an extra room in the house but after that first week i'm like yo it's kind of cool what if we just buy a whole trailer park right kick out all the residents there the senior citizens and the people that are poor just kick them the ████ out gentrify bro oh we on the new management now boys [Laughter] ████ kick them all out right and then we clean it up and we just make it our jk haven how about that that would be great i would love it that would be cool but then we have to stack them and reorient them that's cool when i was growing up my friend he had he lived in a trailer park and like they had a trailer and it's one of those like deceiving ones where it looked small but it was a three-bedroom full kitchen full living room three-bedroom trailer yeah i was it was surprising it was like a harry potter tent

12:37 it was it was big i was surprised but it's also like in a s█████ ass neighborhood and stuff but yeah it's it's been really ████ cool you know where that atlantic movie theater was right there yeah um that used to be a big trailer park my friend lived there and then you know they got cleaned the ████ out and then they built a ████ movie theater yeah they just they just move those things right see like a different place i don't know i think the rest of it no it has wheels from learning what it is like for like those rv parks and stuff like or the trailer parks is that you can buy your own like trailer house or whatever like that but then you still have to pay like for your spot yeah it's like if you move in there so no matter what you're still going to pay like 1200 bucks a month just to be on that spot 1200 a month yeah but you know how expensive la is i was looking at trailer parks and um

13:29 you know the ones that look like actual homes but they're just like rectangle yeah they're stuck right that ████ was a quarter mil i was like what the ████ dude that ████ should be no more than a hundred thousand at least there's no housing bubble i know right good god dude when that thing pops it's gonna be wild yeah so i think the move is is like especially where i'm at now i'm over in upland san bernardino area they have a bunch of land like for sale like little spots of land to like 300 000 400 000 and just get yourself like a little camper and you're ████ good to go you're getting a thousand for land that's it huh how much land you get for and just to play the campaign i'm going off of one example that's buy our house so that that that spot was 300 000 but it was a it was big it was like a lot of you know you could put a huge house and like a lot of like backyard

14:20 you guys seen this ████ where you can like live at disney now what what they're building out like a ████ community and you could live there isn't that for like seniors or something like that well no they're building a new one now too they had yeah they had the old one then they're building a new one out too in anaheim like by disneyland i think it's in in world oh but it's like because there's so many acres there it's like a disney community but they're doing like a disney community but they're also gonna have like story themes inside of it so there's like active story ████ going on inside of your own community be ████ weird huh i love it that would be sick as well before it'd be it could be fun it could be could be i like it because it'll attract all the crazy people and take them there away from us okay i see and then just and then you just one bomb will solve it all the way well you're talking about the i know you're talking about each other you're talking about the disney carnies right yeah like the people who were there too much yeah the disney people oh they have like nothing

15:11 but pins covering their whole face it's a little wild would you be able to walk out into the park like that i think so holy ████ that's a pretty cool side of disney it's like for people who never have to leave disneyland it's not necessarily inside disney world but it'll be like connected where you can take like a tram or some ████ like that imagine inside disney world though by like the cars section or some ████ like that that'd be sick that was kind of fresh that is kind of cool that'd be dope if you just get like a ████ baby rv and you're just one of the autopia cars but no one can ride yours a kid's driving you around every day oh yeah you're just in it just living in it there's so many sick ass places to live though like i think when you get to our age right you get to see all the adult fun ████ right because like when you're younger you just kind of like you just live where your parents choose what about van life you think you do van life uh i tried it like i rented a i worked

16:04 with the van company and then we were out in colorado for a couple weeks and uh one thing would be the showers so we were in the middle of winter so it was ████ hard so we'll be like every five days we get a shower or something so like yeah that's pretty rough it's pretty rough and it was like a ████ van full of four dudes you know so like yeah i was at my neighbor's house recently and uh they live like so we have like a bunch of lakes in our community and they live on the lake and so you look through the backyard there's just this ████ lake there and they have like this um like they can just take a boat out and they're like yeah let us know you can use the boat whenever you want and it's like dude how the ████ did i get to a point in my life where i have neighbors who have boats and i can go to use their boat that's pretty crazy i feel like i'm like 57 years old and i'm like retired you made it dude i ████ did it dude you ████ ate it

16:57 but i didn't sell any crypto to get my place either so that'll be that'll be fun but um but no but having having access to boating and ████ and like having a fake that's another level of it's crazy it's crazy that's only for like older people or if you live in like well you can't get that in california because like like i was talking about you ████ spend 300 000 on land yeah that's true and dirt and that's cheap here too that's what's crazy about it have you ever heard of canyon lake that sounds familiar where's that it's so like by lake elsinore there's a city called canyon lake and it's it's pretty much like in this whole country it's the biggest private community so you have to like it's it's a gated city like the whole place what and it surrounds like this actual lake and it's got houses and it has like uh all the amenities and stores you need you never have to leave but like nobody ever ████ goes there or knows about it

17:47 look up canyon lake and look how freaking unreal realistically beautiful it is and it's like a best kept secret no so i got into the deep dive of like canyon lake because i was like what the hell is this so that i went to they have like a community youtube where like every week they make a youtube video announce what's going on in the city and i started watching them and i was like like a city hall meeting yeah i felt like i was infiltrating it all the announcements and there's two kenyan leagues there's like one in california and one like somewhere else but what the whole place is just put my my camper like right here so it's a it's it's a dam it's a community and a dam it's like a yeah it's like a manufactured city they built around this this like lake and you have to like because the reason i found out about is i was trying to buy this thing on offer up and the guy lived in canyon lake and he was like oh are you not a resident cause like i have my search thing all weird so i can't talk to non-residents he's like please don't

18:38 tell anybody right so he was like oh i'll have to i'll have to meet you outside the gate and i was like what like your ████ cul-de-sac and he's like no it's canyon lake i was like what the ████ does that mean he's like oh that's candy lane you're not a part of us is really ████ weird what keeps you in cali what's that what keeps you in cali businesses that i have okay yeah that's the only thing yeah how come you never talk about your own businesses to promote it he has photo studios where a lot of only fans come in and jack themselves off no like it's artistic it's a lot of cool ████ though it's a good place to beat off of her yeah i'm just ████ looking up airstreams now and they're sick like something like that on a piece of land just a little bit on a piece of land you have some electric hookup some water hookup and you're all set move to vegas live like a ████ king

19:28 with a piece of land that's cheaper yeah and you can go here this that that's my goal is i want to get land get one of these and that's where i'm going that was probably be more expensive than the land that you get in vegas probably yeah because these ones something like this is these can range from like i think this is a hundred thousand yeah sixty to like a hundred thousand depending on the size but look at that's the inside okay so it's like yeah that's basically what i'm living in right you can view view floor plans wow custom now now the video's over [Music]

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