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    Default Re: Finally Bought Some Land

    Update:

    Adjoining property of 48 acres (one of only 2 unimproved parcels remaining in the area) appeared on the real estate listings for sale. So based on the past experiences of several (as in 4) people we know who have bought land in the country only to wake up one morning to a bad situation growing on a nearby acreage they had a chance early on to buy and didn't, we are now in the process of buying it. We will have a lot of land, which is a headache all its own, but at least we will be making the decisions about what happens with it.

    Good parts of it are a large stand of mature white pine around 75-100 years old on a nice hill, a few nice old farm roads on it, and more of the creek that runs through the southern end of our property. Bad parts are an easement-holding 1 acre property within the 48 acres owned by someone who uses it to store old cars (8 of them) and an old gravel pit that was probably used to surface the farm roads but has been used a handful of time for dumping deer parts. Country living in other words.

    The "neighborhood" uses it as an ersatz park (farmer/owner is retired and lives in Florida) so a local handful of people and their dogs walk through it, enjoying the trees and roads and leaving not a stitch of trash, so it might be nice to keep it that way as long as things stay neighborly and no one goes in and clear cuts the pine or something. Conveniently the property is landlocked with no easy access to the town road that goes nearby. The farmer/owner sold off parcels along the road, effectively blocking off the property, except for the old "hunting" easement that runs from the road through someone's backyard and across the 48 acres to what is now the 1 acre dead car property and not deer hunting property.

    Anyway, seemed like the right thing to do for now. We'll figure out the rest later.

    Here are a few Instagram shots from the architects taken last week during their site visit with the GC. Looks like we may actually get the first layer of the slab done before the New Year. Still no power to the site, but the guys have been blasting rock so better they weren't there anyway. They are doing a really good job. The architects and the engineer both seem really pleased and impressed. In fact, the same GC is now also building a house for another one of the architects' clients about 15-20 minutes away in Taghkanic, NY.

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    The latest model drawings of what the house will look like eventually.

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