Future Home

For the past few weeks my fiance and I have decided we would begin building our home. I am a last minute decision maker, ready to go at a moment's notice type of person, so to come to such a momentous decision so quick is not unexpected. Let it now be known though that actually for the past few years I have slowly been preparing for such an action; carefully stashing away various items that I would need for this build. Various building materials and supplies that would help further the goal of home ownership. My goals for this project are:

-To provide a home for my lovely wife to be
-To build a home without the reliance on any borrowed money
-To build a quality home that is adequate for our needs yet realistic for our money

The first action has been securing the land. I owned for many years a five acre lot. I had sold it to my father a few years ago and now that I am ready I approached him about getting it back. Unknown to me though, was that my sister who owns the property next to that lot has also been after him for it. He said he would think about it and returned with the answer that he was going to hand onto it rather than create troubles with two feuding kids. Understandable but not what I wanted, but sometimes that does not matter and the patriarch's decision must be honored.

Needless to say, instead he has offered a forty acre lot within a few miles of the five acre lot. Most will say, forty! That's a lot of land, jump on it you fool, but there is more to it than just that. Forty is all fine a dandy, but it is also located a complete forty back from the main road where the electric line lies. So that is the conundrum- a lovely forty which already contains my paintball field (more on that later), but is not within a decent distance of electricity. Besides that, the road is a bit long, which though doable, is not the easiest. The only benefit for most of these problems is I have access to heavy equipment, so dirt work and tree removal should go apace with much ease if not muscle work. Future writings of course will detail if this ends up being the case.