Recent content by dover21

It’ll be a 50x80 slab. The living area will be approximately 2500sq ft. The second floor will have the extra 500sq ft. Sorry I wasn’t more precise in the overall description. That’s on me.

What I’ve seen in our local market is $150/sq ft for most builds. There seems to be threshold where that amount drops. Over 3500sq ft it typically drops to 135/sq ft give or take. Those figures go mainly for new builds including the lots.

I’m also becoming educated on wiring and other skills that will rack up money fast if left to subs.

The plan is for a 2 story barndominium. The roof line will probably be straigh, so no weird angles or height deviations. Our current house is 2600sq ft and we want just a little less, 3bed, 2.5ba, and a dedicated office/library. I sure as hell don’t want to become house poor so I’m looking at...

I did a layout on grid paper last night and was surprised to see how spacious 2000sq ft is. I believe I can easily fit our two daily drivers, a single vehicle in the wash bay area, a vehicle on the two post lift, and our power rack with deadlift area and rower plus bike easily. There’s still...

That’s definitely in my mind as the lot is relatively flat for this area. When my site gets cleared I’m definitely going to make sure that our pad is not low lying relative to the surrounding land.

My mother-in-law and I have contemplated getting a tractor for taking care of the enormity of grass that'll need to be cut. I could store it, but I think I might need an additional 400sq ft for that;)

I had thought about going to an empty parking lot and marking off the dimensions to get a feel for the footprint. I can't go out to the land yet because the peanuts are still in the ground. Should be harvested within the next couple of weeks.

All of the lots were listed at 65K. We got it for 63. In the neighborhood I'm in now 2 acres goes for 65K. The new lot is only 1.5mi away from my current house.

Will definitely check that out.

It's already been zoned as residential. There were 8 lots of 5 to 6 acres apiece that the farmers sold off for custom homes. Very few building restrictions exist other than no home smaller than 1900sq ft and no chicken houses or cattle.

We were with my mother-in-law looking at the neighboring lot she's interested in and I had my wife describe the red iron workshop on the adjacent property. It's owned by the people selling the lots by the way. She says it looks like 2000 sq ft. I told her that it was 50 x 80. She nearly...

We just purchased a 6 acre lot that is currently a peanut field. Within the next couple of weeks the peanuts should be harvested as well as the ancient chicken houses that still occupy a portion getting removed. This is in Coffee County in Alabama.

I'll swipe some graph paper from my son. He's not using it anyway. You guys are chock full of ideas I hadn't thought of. That's what I like about this forum.

The house and garage are attached to one another. There's not going to be a second floor to the garage area. We'll be looking at a slab of over 4000sq ft including porch areas.