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90 miles north, getting gas, checking tires. Doing well. Stage 1 of the Great Escape is going swimmingly
 
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the presumption is that the soil you've brought in has no weed seeds?
you concentrate more on weeding the bed vs everywhere, it's also less soil compaction, easier to get at, adding compost stuff you just need to do the beds.
 
It's been a long time since I've been in a house with a proper basement. You know just like workshop, pantry beer fridge, ratty recliner that smells like pipe smoke.

Everyone seems to get those finish your basement mostly for 10k improvements and it's all carpeted and shit.

My uncles basement was a small shop, and all kinds of mechanical books in an old style kitchen cabinet, a card library he got somewhere full of hardware. There was an umbrella holder full of small rifles, and a rocking chair covered in cushions.
 
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all this time you been in the trailer and theyre just now starting on it?
We got fucked by the bank, starting out. Construction mortgages require a bunch of extra work and a full BOM for the house from the builder and as-built appraisals and engineer stamped drawings and 100 other things. Got most of it done, but the bank kept delaying and shit kept expiring and we kept needing to get new pay stubs and bullshit and finally the bank said "we've decided to not do construction mortgages at this time, we'd rather rubber stamp cookie cutter subdivision houses for much less effort on our part, fuck off"

Then we went to a sketchy mortgage broker who was gonna use a private lender charging 20% interest over the build and flip us to a normal mortgage after, and I said fuck no. Then we found a small town credit union willing to take on the job.

Then the county spent a whole bunch of time approving our weird ass house and requesting more info and reaching out to other engineers and whatever because it's a weird ass house.

Then we had to wait for the end of winter and the ground to thaw for excavation to start.

And now it's going. Should be in there in October.
 
We got fucked by the bank, starting out. Construction mortgages require a bunch of extra work and a full BOM for the house from the builder and as-built appraisals and engineer stamped drawings and 100 other things. Got most of it done, but the bank kept delaying and shit kept expiring and we kept needing to get new pay stubs and bullshit and finally the bank said "we've decided to not do construction mortgages at this time, we'd rather rubber stamp cookie cutter subdivision houses for much less effort on our part, fuck off"

Then we went to a sketchy mortgage broker who was gonna use a private lender charging 20% interest over the build and flip us to a normal mortgage after, and I said fuck no. Then we found a small town credit union willing to take on the job.

Then the county spent a whole bunch of time approving our weird ass house and requesting more info and reaching out to other engineers and whatever because it's a weird ass house.

Then we had to wait for the end of winter and the ground to thaw for excavation to start.

And now it's going. Should be in there in October.
Dealing with cities/municipalities is a fucking shit show. We bought a property last year to renovate and move my wife’s business into, and we’re still waiting for approvals.
 
We got fucked by the bank, starting out. Construction mortgages require a bunch of extra work and a full BOM for the house from the builder and as-built appraisals and engineer stamped drawings and 100 other things. Got most of it done, but the bank kept delaying and shit kept expiring and we kept needing to get new pay stubs and bullshit and finally the bank said "we've decided to not do construction mortgages at this time, we'd rather rubber stamp cookie cutter subdivision houses for much less effort on our part, fuck off"

Then we went to a sketchy mortgage broker who was gonna use a private lender charging 20% interest over the build and flip us to a normal mortgage after, and I said fuck no. Then we found a small town credit union willing to take on the job.

Then the county spent a whole bunch of time approving our weird ass house and requesting more info and reaching out to other engineers and whatever because it's a weird ass house.

Then we had to wait for the end of winter and the ground to thaw for excavation to start.

And now it's going. Should be in there in October.

October 2024?

Building new is always a multi year process even if everything goes right.
 
October 2024?

Building new is always a multi year process even if everything goes right.

October this year.

It's a simple house that's designed to go together quick. Once the slab's done it's 4 exterior walls, 1 interior load bearing wall, prefab trusses and sheating. No big staircases or sections with sunken floors or 1000 surfaces on the roof or any of that bullshit, it's not a mcmansion.
 
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October this year.

It's a simple house that's designed to go together quick. Once the slab's done it's 4 exterior walls, 1 interior load bearing wall, prefab trusses and sheating. No big staircases or sections with sunken floors or 1000 surfaces on the roof or any of that bullshit, it's not a mcmansion.
Yeah but mcmansions are basically all the same house in any given development w/ options that have people working on approval all day.