Building Our House

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 […]

We looked at one piece of land and drove past a couple of houses this weekend.  The houses were not worth numbering - a doublewide on 4 acres of bare lawn and kudzu-filled woods, a place on 2 acres that just didn’t speak to us next to a small industrial business (and has a pool, […]

We visited #8, the little house on the medium lot, this morning.
The house itself was actually nicer than I expected. Wood floors underneath the linoleum (in who-knows-what sort of shape of course), wood paneling walls (not the plywood-derived stuff used in basements, but actual pieces of wood). Windows all recent double-paned replacements.  Original wood doors […]

This land searching thing is just not going that well.  A real estate agent confirmed to Jeff that the available inventory of lots is as low as she’s seen in ten years around here.
So, an idea for plan B.  Buy a house with some land attached.  The house might be suitable for renovation into a […]