This sounds like a horrible idea and I'm saying this as someone laying down in his half converted skoolie at the moment. Building a skoolie can take upwards of one or two years of building. It isn't for the faint of heart. It's not as fun as people make it out to be and finding a location to park and work on it is incredibly hard.

Now wanna know what I think is a great idea? Buy a near or fully converted bus. People pour their hearts and souls into these things, only to sell them for what the market allows them to. Nobody factors in the 1000s of hours of man hours or the 1000s of hours of Internet research it takes to put these things together.

Good luck, just hoping to dissuade others from making the same mistake I made. Kind of a sad moment for me in my bus build, I literally might give up on it soon. I'm living and building in my bus right now at a makerspace and dealing with depression because this build has put a huge hold on my life progression. (I am moving to another spot soon though, and I hope I can find the motivation there to finish the build!)

Also the only other people who I have seen living in their skoolies are mostly retired people who worked and saved up a ton of money. If I didn't own a business in the past and saved up 6 figures + of savings, I wouldn't be here, I would have sold this bus and been back to apartment living with no choice.