You’ve done the math on bus life, and somewhere between insurance quotes and registration fees, you started wondering what happens when tax season rolls around. Does the government see your skoolie as a house or a vehicle? No, you don’t pay property tax on a converted school bus. Your bus is classified as a vehicle, … Read more
This question comes up every time someone posts a build video with finished walls and a clean white ceiling. People see sheetrock and immediately start wondering if it’s going to crack, fall, or turn into a mold farm once the bus hits the road. (See our guide on How Tall Is the Ceiling Inside a … Read more
This is one of those questions that kept coming up every single time I was reading through bus life forums and watching build tours. You’ve got this big beautiful bus that gets you from place to place, but once you’re parked somewhere, you’re kind of stuck unless you want to fire up a 40-foot school … Read more
You’re looking at your bus and doing the math on headroom. Standing up straight inside a standard school bus means about 6 feet of clearance, and if you’re taller than that, or you want to add insulation and flooring without losing precious inches, a roof raise starts looking real appealing. (See our guide on How … Read more
You’re deep in your floor plan sketches and trying to figure out if there’s any way to squeeze a washer and dryer into a school bus conversion. It sounds crazy until you realize people are actually doing it. Yes, you can install a washer and dryer in a converted school bus. Most people who go … Read more
So you’ve got this big beautiful bus, and now you need groceries. Or you want to catch a movie. Or you just need to run into a store for five minutes. The question that hits everybody at some point is whether you can actually park this thing in a normal parking lot like a regular … Read more
This is one of those questions that comes up way more than you’d expect, and it deserves a straight answer because the people asking it don’t have time for fluff. Yes, you can absolutely live in a bus on a fixed income or Social Security. In fact, bus life might be one of the best … Read more
You’re shopping for a bus and you’ve got a preference — or maybe just a question — about whether school buses ever came with a stick shift. Yes, manual transmission school buses exist, but they’re rare and getting rarer every year. Most school buses built after the mid-1990s came with automatic transmissions, almost always an … Read more
If you’ve ever seen a double decker bus rolling through a city and thought “that would make the coolest house on wheels,” you’re not alone. It’s one of those ideas that sounds incredible on paper, but raises about a hundred practical questions the second you start digging into it. Yes, you can absolutely convert a … Read more
When I first started looking into getting a skoolie, this was one of the first questions I had to figure out. I kept seeing forum posts where people were saying they found a bus for $1,500, and then other folks claiming they spent $8,000, and I couldn’t figure out where the middle ground actually was. … Read more