Plan C
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this idea of Jeff’s yet… Form a partnership with the architect and a builder, buy a bigger piece of land (like maybe the 14+3 with the bridge requirement), build our house on part of it, and make a little development of similarly-designed, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, don’t-clearcut-the-trees houses out of the rest.
This kind of terrifies me, but on the other hand, it might work. Jeff raised it with the architect via email yesterday and she didn’t shoot it down. So he’ll be talking to her on the phone more today.
Of course, this probably means that the other offer the listing agent said might come by today will actually happen and it’ll be too late. For this land, anyway. But, since we have no clue how any of this would actually work, we might need some time to figure it out anyway.
April 26th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
OMG you’d be a developer!?!?!
April 26th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Do you mean OMG Cool man!! or OMG what the hell are you guys thinking??
April 26th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Steph, that was my reaction as well when the idea was first floated :)
I guess it would be a case of “if you can’t beat them (get them to let you build your house the way you want it in their developments), join them.” Or maybe “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”
April 27th, 2006 at 10:26 am
I mean both, Jeff.
I don’t know….there seem very few ways to earn money in a way that isn’t whoring in this country….I mean, if you’re whoring in the right direction, maybe it’s not so bad. You’re developing land that would probably be developed anyway and you’d have some control….
And, yes, I called you both whores. On something both sets of parents may read.
This is your punishment for becoming fabulously wealthy before me.