In WNC haywood county. No debt and loving it!
Blane, your story is super inspirational to me. Thanks for blogging it!... Now if I could just make myself wait to build... 15 years or so for my boys to get bigger and I might be lucky to have a good right hand man or two as you did!
My homeschooled kids learned many life skills while helping us build our first kit log house 18 years ago. This past year my grown up son and daughter helped us work on our LHBA house. Next year my son is preparing to build his own LHBA house.uploadfromtaptalk1453919978412.jpg
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Hey everyone - I live in Virginia, near Charlottesville now but I'm looking for land in the Shenandoah too. I'm trying to start a diversified farm with veggies, fruit, pigs, chickens, bees, and whatever else strikes my fancy! Farms can't survive with debt, and so far all the farms I've found would require a mortgage. I figured a simple log cabin would help keep me from freezing my butt in the winter in a camper trailer. Even if I do end up buying a place with an existing house, once the cabin is up, the house can be rented out to pay off the rest of the mortgage.
Peter, working the dream
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I know that's the standard advice, and believe me, I want to avoid a mortgage if I possibly can. But I'm looking for a minimum of 5 acres of good productive land within reasonable driving distance of a small city/ big town, which in my area typically means about $8k per acre (if you weed out the people who overprice their land). Ideally I would like to have multiple families living on the land together to create community (we've been talking with some other people interested in this idea too). Rome was not built in a day, and having land with an existing house opens up more possibilities. My partner can afford the mortgage by herself as long as we find something within our budget. Then, once more housing gets built, other people can come on board to help. Honestly if it were just me, I'd be happy living in a tipi (well, until the cabin gets built).
We had a guy on here living in a tipi, I was just over in your neck of the woods today picking up my forklift in Orange, VA
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