Survey map of our lot!

Hello again!

I'm adding the survey map of our new lot. You'll see just how wide and how deep it is. There's what's called out as a "37-foot setback"; not only is that how far off the street we have to keep the house, but that also happens to be approximately where the woods begins on our lot.


In the previous post when we were at the lot we posted "Private property" signs near the trail, etc. got rid of some "farm-type" junk that was lying around in the woods (old metal scraps, barbed wire, etc), and cut some dead / leaning trees down.

This weekend is the summer Parade of Homes here in the Fox Valley. We'll be able to attend this time around and view homes and speak to builders with a lot in mind to be able to see how things would sit on that lot, etc. We have a few builders in mind that we are interested in possibly going with, and two of them have homes in this summer's Parade.
It should be fun! :)

If you are unfamiliar with what the Parade of Homes is all about, go here to the Fox Valley Home Builder's Assoc. website about it:
Parade

Then click here for more detailed info on all the houses up for show this summer:
Parade Homes

Paul

Our Lot!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to our new blog which we'll use to chronicle our home building efforts.

While we won't actually begin construction until spring of 2012 we found this lot and decided to jump at it! We signed the paperwork and closed on the lot last week Thursday, July 23 2009. (and yes, that picture currently in the header is from just inside the beginning of the wooded area of our lot)

The lot is 1 acre, basically fully wooded. It's in a quiet "country" subdivision in the Town of Greenville (about 2 miles from where we live currently). The lot is on the top/horizontal part of the "T" shaped subdivision.

There's no city water or sewer hookups in this area (and probably never will be), so we'll have to dig a well and build a mound system for our use.

There's a nice wide path leading through the middle of our lot which leads to a power line easement maybe 100' beyond the back lot line of our property. Beyond that is another 6 acres of wooded land owned and maintained by the homeowners' association (it has trails through it as well).

We weren't intending on purchasing a lot this early on in the process, but with the Town moving toward new land-use regulations which would prohibit lots of this size from being created in the future, we may well have been looking at one of the last few 1 acre wooded lots available in Greenville.
In the mean time we plan to continue attending the Parade Of Homes events put on by the Fox Valley Home Builders Assoc. twice a year looking for ideas, contacts, and information that we'll be able to use when time comes to build our home.

Our lot is about a mile down the road from the Greenville YMCA, and about 1 1/2 miles down the road from the Greenville elementary school and middle school. The schools are connected to the YMCA via a nice paved trail.

Here's a photo from the road in front of our lot...



Here's a pic of the girls and their friend Kaitlyn searching for frogs in the new dried-up small swampy area behind our property line (they didn't find any frogs... but did find several insects!)



....and here's Lyndsey on the prowl for insects....


Robin, Lyndsey, Rachel, and I are happy you are able to stop by every now and then and share this little journey with us!


Paul