A few years ago my family bought half of the lot between us and our neighbor, him buying the other half. He's using the property to store his tow trucks for his towing business. We sat on the property for a while until my mother brought up the idea of putting a garage on it, somewhere to store cars, mowers, etc during hurricanes(almost yearly here). This lot is 5' higher than our home, just next door. The deepest flood we've seen in 44 years here was 9'10" and the new lot is 11' so we should be okay. If you're building storage, always build more than you need right? We're planning a tandem and 3 singles with potential to rent out the singles. There will also be an office with a full bath that can be used as temporary housing for a seasonal employee if necessary. The building will be 24' at the center of the arch so we can have upstairs unfinished storage.
Here's what the lot looked like when we bought it a few years ago. The truck down to the right shows the elevation difference of the land.
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For some reason the county said we needed a drainfield for a 4 bedroom house. That has since been fixed and our new drainfield plan is much smaller
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After hurricane Dorian last year, we lost a lot of trees on the lot so I started cleaning. I found some "gifts" from a previous owner.
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He was a fisherman and just threw his old nets onto the ground. Our neighbor helped me rip them out of the ground with his miniexcavator.
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This was about 1/4 of the nets. The vines really grow up into it nicely. Also found a few sets of tires, car doors, old septic system, batteries etc.
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Now we've got the lot cleaned up and our neighbor moved all his tow trucks onto his side of the line to prep for our build beginning
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Amazing how small a 36x60 building looks when it's all stacked up like this. Admittedly we're doing wood frame front and rear walls.
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And that's where things sit for the moment. We're waiting on a little sitework so we can get concrete then the building shell should go up pretty quickly.
I'm trying different image hosting, so let me know if it works.
Here's what the lot looked like when we bought it a few years ago. The truck down to the right shows the elevation difference of the land.
View media item 111957
For some reason the county said we needed a drainfield for a 4 bedroom house. That has since been fixed and our new drainfield plan is much smaller
View media item 111958
After hurricane Dorian last year, we lost a lot of trees on the lot so I started cleaning. I found some "gifts" from a previous owner.
View media item 111959
He was a fisherman and just threw his old nets onto the ground. Our neighbor helped me rip them out of the ground with his miniexcavator.
View media item 111960
This was about 1/4 of the nets. The vines really grow up into it nicely. Also found a few sets of tires, car doors, old septic system, batteries etc.
View media item 111961
Now we've got the lot cleaned up and our neighbor moved all his tow trucks onto his side of the line to prep for our build beginning
View media item 111962
Amazing how small a 36x60 building looks when it's all stacked up like this. Admittedly we're doing wood frame front and rear walls.
View media item 111963
And that's where things sit for the moment. We're waiting on a little sitework so we can get concrete then the building shell should go up pretty quickly.
I'm trying different image hosting, so let me know if it works.
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