I live in the mountains of Idaho, so, yeah, I'm aware. I had friends in high school and in college in the 80s that did precisely this. As for taxes, we can ei

I live in the mountains of Idaho, so, yeah, I'm aware. I had friends in high school and in college in the 80s that did precisely this. As for taxes, we can either pay them on the front end by doing more preventative maintenance or we can pay them on the back end handling damages and knock on costs. In reality it will be a mixture of both, but the more we put up front the less we would (should) have to pay later. Of course, one stroke of bad luck can throw all our best laid plans to the winds.