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
