Lot Secured

In the 2013 home lot draft, the Wills have selected lot #3. No one guessed that. Seriously no one did. You can’t really get a feel for the neighborhood or lot without touring it, so I fault no one but the internet. Here is our best attempt to walk the lot with you.

Once you get over the slope, this is the brush. I believe most of it will have to be cleared when they do the dirt work for the house. Although I would love a lot with a ton of trees,  I want an unobstructed view of the front of my house more.

This is the back right side of the lot. You can see the neighbor’s fence. (They have a pool so maybe we don’t have to compromise on the community pool thing? Okay maybe a little.) The bigger trees in the background are about where the lot ends. There is a house way back there, but they are too far away to spy on us.

This is the back left. There isn’t a house on the neighboring lot yet, but it is sold and they are somewhere in the process of building. Maybe the design phase? I really don’t know. It doesn’t matter too much they won’t be crowding our space.

This is the view across the street. There are just a ton of trees. We didn’t consider that lot because it would have required a retaining wall which are a considerable amount of money. We are talking $10,000 starting point for a small one. Hopefully no one ever builds here, and we get to look at the trees from our porch(es).

Nick actually instagrammed me when he was standing at the back of the lot before we even announced anything about our future plans. Honestly we didn’t really have future plans at that point either!

Here’s the main reason we decided lot #3 was it.

It’s a neighborhood thing. This is a small neighborhood. It’s gated which I forgot to mention yesterday (oops). These are some of the houses that are in there. Notice how they all look different. Most are Mediterranean in style, but none of them look alike. The other neighborhoods just all looked the same to us. The house we want to build would look out of place and be over built for the other areas.

When we first pulled lots, this one did not come up because we only wanted to look at lots under $80,000. So how did we find this?

We were getting discouraged at how out of place our house would be when Nick said what about that one neighborhood…where is that? We have been eyeing this neighborhood for years since my mom has sold several of the houses in here. I couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I somehow pointed him here. It was pretty much over then. Except that the lot price was $89,900 which was then raised to $99,900 while we were in the design phase. (Cue the Charlie Brown music.)

This lot is not the most expensive in the area, but it was more than we initially wanted to spend for a piece of dirt. All the remaining lots in this subdivision are the same price, but most require retaining walls which was a deal breaker for us on an already over budget lot. We were able to get it for $90,000 and know this is the place we are meant to be. There was just an huge weight lifted off us when we finally committed. We are really going to make this all happen.