Should I build or buy? (NC inland)

[NotCranky]

BG,
I built:(While posting on pigington’s for the most part)
1488 sqft raise foundation, which I tore down and stuck in 10 large dumpsters because a neighbor ruined it by setting it on fire.(Please don’t ask or blame the victim)
2280 raised foundation.
679 on slab
several decks/patios retaining wall,fences ect.
2 electrical services
2 septic systems.
1 detached garage
Well and storage system(well drilled by others)
2 pump houses.
Chicken coop.

I didn’t do evey single thing but most of it, both by man hours and dollar value of labor. More by dollar value of total labor, because I did almost all the high cost things(and too much of the low cost stuff).

The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.

I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.[/quote]

Wow, wow, wow . . . what a layout, Rustico! :=]

Could I ask, did your property’s recorded “Certificate of Compliance” list a right of “open and notorious use” of a strip of an adjacent parcel of land that may have been possibly “grandfathered in” from long ago?

That’s awesome that you were finally able to purchase your needed easement(s)!

[quote=Rustico]I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.[/quote]

That’s what architects and engineers are for. Expensive, but often worth the cost.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.[/quote]

Wow, wow, wow . . . what a layout, Rustico! :=]

Could I ask, did your property’s recorded “Certificate of Compliance” list a right of “open and notorious use” of a strip of an adjacent parcel of land that may have been possibly “grandfathered in” from long ago?

That’s awesome that you were finally able to purchase your needed easement(s)!

[quote=Rustico]I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.[/quote]

That’s what architects and engineers are for. Expensive, but often worth the cost.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.[/quote]

Wow, wow, wow . . . what a layout, Rustico! :=]

Could I ask, did your property’s recorded “Certificate of Compliance” list a right of “open and notorious use” of a strip of an adjacent parcel of land that may have been possibly “grandfathered in” from long ago?

That’s awesome that you were finally able to purchase your needed easement(s)!

[quote=Rustico]I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.[/quote]

That’s what architects and engineers are for. Expensive, but often worth the cost.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.[/quote]

Wow, wow, wow . . . what a layout, Rustico! :=]

Could I ask, did your property’s recorded “Certificate of Compliance” list a right of “open and notorious use” of a strip of an adjacent parcel of land that may have been possibly “grandfathered in” from long ago?

That’s awesome that you were finally able to purchase your needed easement(s)!

[quote=Rustico]I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.[/quote]

That’s what architects and engineers are for. Expensive, but often worth the cost.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . The original certificate of compliance was enough to get started w/o easements, which I finally bought two years ago. I now have access from the front and back of the 20 acres.[/quote]

Wow, wow, wow . . . what a layout, Rustico! :=]

Could I ask, did your property’s recorded “Certificate of Compliance” list a right of “open and notorious use” of a strip of an adjacent parcel of land that may have been possibly “grandfathered in” from long ago?

That’s awesome that you were finally able to purchase your needed easement(s)!

[quote=Rustico]I have a neighbor who is talking about building with my help on an amazing but difficult lot. Honestly, I think the idea is nuts.[/quote]

That’s what architects and engineers are for. Expensive, but often worth the cost.

[NotCranky]

There is nothing like the “open and notorious use” clause on my certificate of compliance. It did have a perc test waiver though, which was cool.I was surprised that the health dept. honored it, but they did for both systems.

I could have perfected the “prescriptive easement” access for cheaper than we paid for the back easements, but it is a cleaner shot in from there, and the new easements are theoretically good for splitting the lot. I could have never gotten that on the original road.

The people building now on the land where my easments are, will have to improve it at their expense.I’ll probably help them, but I don’t have to since the road is not being used to justify my building, as it is theirs.

Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :).
You can still buy fairly cheaply out here…there are always people for whom someone else’s house won’t do. For them there are expensive architects and engineers.

[NotCranky]

There is nothing like the “open and notorious use” clause on my certificate of compliance. It did have a perc test waiver though, which was cool.I was surprised that the health dept. honored it, but they did for both systems.

I could have perfected the “prescriptive easement” access for cheaper than we paid for the back easements, but it is a cleaner shot in from there, and the new easements are theoretically good for splitting the lot. I could have never gotten that on the original road.

The people building now on the land where my easments are, will have to improve it at their expense.I’ll probably help them, but I don’t have to since the road is not being used to justify my building, as it is theirs.

Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :).
You can still buy fairly cheaply out here…there are always people for whom someone else’s house won’t do. For them there are expensive architects and engineers.

[NotCranky]

There is nothing like the “open and notorious use” clause on my certificate of compliance. It did have a perc test waiver though, which was cool.I was surprised that the health dept. honored it, but they did for both systems.

I could have perfected the “prescriptive easement” access for cheaper than we paid for the back easements, but it is a cleaner shot in from there, and the new easements are theoretically good for splitting the lot. I could have never gotten that on the original road.

The people building now on the land where my easments are, will have to improve it at their expense.I’ll probably help them, but I don’t have to since the road is not being used to justify my building, as it is theirs.

Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :).
You can still buy fairly cheaply out here…there are always people for whom someone else’s house won’t do. For them there are expensive architects and engineers.

[NotCranky]

There is nothing like the “open and notorious use” clause on my certificate of compliance. It did have a perc test waiver though, which was cool.I was surprised that the health dept. honored it, but they did for both systems.

I could have perfected the “prescriptive easement” access for cheaper than we paid for the back easements, but it is a cleaner shot in from there, and the new easements are theoretically good for splitting the lot. I could have never gotten that on the original road.

The people building now on the land where my easments are, will have to improve it at their expense.I’ll probably help them, but I don’t have to since the road is not being used to justify my building, as it is theirs.

Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :).
You can still buy fairly cheaply out here…there are always people for whom someone else’s house won’t do. For them there are expensive architects and engineers.

[NotCranky]

There is nothing like the “open and notorious use” clause on my certificate of compliance. It did have a perc test waiver though, which was cool.I was surprised that the health dept. honored it, but they did for both systems.

I could have perfected the “prescriptive easement” access for cheaper than we paid for the back easements, but it is a cleaner shot in from there, and the new easements are theoretically good for splitting the lot. I could have never gotten that on the original road.

The people building now on the land where my easments are, will have to improve it at their expense.I’ll probably help them, but I don’t have to since the road is not being used to justify my building, as it is theirs.

Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :).
You can still buy fairly cheaply out here…there are always people for whom someone else’s house won’t do. For them there are expensive architects and engineers.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :). . . [/quote]

Well, Rustico, remember the old RE adage, “Buy the worst house on the best block you can afford??”

What’s happening on your “block” sounds like the reverse of that “old adage” here, that is, the “best block” is actually coming to your “worst” … lol, house, but the end result is the same! Your *new* neighbors will finish all their expensive landscaping, pools, corrals and portico driveways just in time to shore up your “appraisal comps” for retirement purposes. That is, if you decide to “fly the coop” after the kids leave the nest. Maybe you’ll just end up “retiring in place” there amongst the “well-heeled” set along with their “well-shod” equine friends :=]

I haven’t been out there in years, but isn’t there premium 18-hole golfing down the road at Steele Cyn? Is that course open to the public?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :). . . [/quote]

Well, Rustico, remember the old RE adage, “Buy the worst house on the best block you can afford??”

What’s happening on your “block” sounds like the reverse of that “old adage” here, that is, the “best block” is actually coming to your “worst” … lol, house, but the end result is the same! Your *new* neighbors will finish all their expensive landscaping, pools, corrals and portico driveways just in time to shore up your “appraisal comps” for retirement purposes. That is, if you decide to “fly the coop” after the kids leave the nest. Maybe you’ll just end up “retiring in place” there amongst the “well-heeled” set along with their “well-shod” equine friends :=]

I haven’t been out there in years, but isn’t there premium 18-hole golfing down the road at Steele Cyn? Is that course open to the public?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :). . . [/quote]

Well, Rustico, remember the old RE adage, “Buy the worst house on the best block you can afford??”

What’s happening on your “block” sounds like the reverse of that “old adage” here, that is, the “best block” is actually coming to your “worst” … lol, house, but the end result is the same! Your *new* neighbors will finish all their expensive landscaping, pools, corrals and portico driveways just in time to shore up your “appraisal comps” for retirement purposes. That is, if you decide to “fly the coop” after the kids leave the nest. Maybe you’ll just end up “retiring in place” there amongst the “well-heeled” set along with their “well-shod” equine friends :=]

I haven’t been out there in years, but isn’t there premium 18-hole golfing down the road at Steele Cyn? Is that course open to the public?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Rustico] . . . Other good news, the three people who have, or are building around me, are building upper piggington type country estates. I had planned on getting the worst house on the best block in this fashion. For the most part the “code nazis” have made it so that only rich people can afford to do what I did, and they don’t want no little 2280 sqft house :). . . [/quote]

Well, Rustico, remember the old RE adage, “Buy the worst house on the best block you can afford??”

What’s happening on your “block” sounds like the reverse of that “old adage” here, that is, the “best block” is actually coming to your “worst” … lol, house, but the end result is the same! Your *new* neighbors will finish all their expensive landscaping, pools, corrals and portico driveways just in time to shore up your “appraisal comps” for retirement purposes. That is, if you decide to “fly the coop” after the kids leave the nest. Maybe you’ll just end up “retiring in place” there amongst the “well-heeled” set along with their “well-shod” equine friends :=]

I haven’t been out there in years, but isn’t there premium 18-hole golfing down the road at Steele Cyn? Is that course open to the public?

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