I'm not the type of person who can sit around and wait when I'm excited and anxious about a situation. So we started thinking a little "outside the box". Going into this we did not want a project. We wanted a move-in-ready home. But, sometimes life doesn't cooperate. Sooo we started to ask ourselves: What if we found land and built a house from the ground up?? Or, what if we rehabbed an old house??
Our realtor (being the awesome realtor that she is) had one other great idea. She decided to look up homes that had previously been on the market in the last 12 months and had been taken off the market without a sale for one reason or another. She actually went door to door and spoke with the owners to see if they were still interested in selling their home, and told them she had an interested buyer (us). She returned to us with a few "possibilities", but nothing ever resulted. I thought it was a brilliant idea and a valiant effort on her part!
We started to reach out to friends in the home-building industry to talk about what building a home would entail, and of course the most important fact: $$$$$. We gained an idea of what price range we needed to find land and we updated our search to include empty lots for sale.
Again, having such a small searchable area resulted in few options. We found one viable option that looked beautiful in person. The location was pretty good, it was flat, and the price was well, AMAZING! It seemed almost too good to be true. And you know what they say about something seeming too good to be true...it probably is. And, so this was the case. Apparently this land retained water and had bad soil. Following a rain it basically became a little pond. Womp, womp.
The search continues...
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