Tink
23-04-2008, 02:24 AM
me and my OH have always dreamed of living in the woods in the middle of nowhere and out in nature..over the last year we've been "casually" in contact with a real estate agent about buying land..(four to five acres).
our plan:
buy land, manage another mortgage payment, take a few years to get it to be "livable" and build a house. and in the meantime, get a cheap mobile home and "get away from it all" on the weekends..once it's able to move in..turn our current house into a rental property.
well, we drove up about 1500 feet into the mountains and checked out this one area..it was beautiful..there were still some bits of snow in a few areas but very thin..i saw lots of animals (and kept squeeling like an excited child since i've always lived in the city)...there were waterfalls and streams and creeks and trees for miles...and wonderful fresh, cool air to breathe in. i fell in love. i couldn't walk five feet without stopping to explore little critters and parts of nature that have always fascinated me but i've only seen in books. i didn't want to leave.
i don't know if this will go through or if we'll still shop around..the three we've looked at all run around $100,000 for the land (no building..just acres of land).
the dogs could run for hours without neighbors complaining..i wouldn't hear the teenagers blasting their radio while they washed their car every sunday morning...my cats could have an outdoor run..and i could take the ferrets out on leashes to dig to their hearts content in real dirt instead of buying bags of soil at the grocery store like i do now. it would just be...amazing.
the view was trees forever..and mountains across the way.
oh, i hope our dream comes true one day.
i shouldn't get my hopes up, it may not happen for awhile...
but keep your fingers crossed for me.
our whole lives would change..oh, i could stay there forever...
our plan:
buy land, manage another mortgage payment, take a few years to get it to be "livable" and build a house. and in the meantime, get a cheap mobile home and "get away from it all" on the weekends..once it's able to move in..turn our current house into a rental property.
well, we drove up about 1500 feet into the mountains and checked out this one area..it was beautiful..there were still some bits of snow in a few areas but very thin..i saw lots of animals (and kept squeeling like an excited child since i've always lived in the city)...there were waterfalls and streams and creeks and trees for miles...and wonderful fresh, cool air to breathe in. i fell in love. i couldn't walk five feet without stopping to explore little critters and parts of nature that have always fascinated me but i've only seen in books. i didn't want to leave.
i don't know if this will go through or if we'll still shop around..the three we've looked at all run around $100,000 for the land (no building..just acres of land).
the dogs could run for hours without neighbors complaining..i wouldn't hear the teenagers blasting their radio while they washed their car every sunday morning...my cats could have an outdoor run..and i could take the ferrets out on leashes to dig to their hearts content in real dirt instead of buying bags of soil at the grocery store like i do now. it would just be...amazing.
the view was trees forever..and mountains across the way.
oh, i hope our dream comes true one day.
i shouldn't get my hopes up, it may not happen for awhile...
but keep your fingers crossed for me.
our whole lives would change..oh, i could stay there forever...