Story 2:
Can't tear down the trailer 'cause the bank owns it. Besides, we were living and working in the trailer. Can't afford to find other living situation and also pay off the bank to tear down the trailer and start to build - Those thoughts and processing took 6 months. ahggg.
So, find another spot to build - okay. We spent another 6 months working out ideas for the next suitable spot, even bought a $500. building plan only to discover our new location was just behind our septic drain field and we couldn't get to the house if we built there. Poof, another idea & 6 months wasted.
A few months goes by each time you shift gears and try to come up with another plan of attack. Other problems that halt a project like this is simply agreeing on a plan, a concept, idea, or investigating an idea for a few months only to have it rejected for one reason or another.
Anyhow, Back to the trailer spot idea. We found a way to get a loan to pay off the bank, buy a camper trailer, tear down the mobile and build.
| After another 6 months
wrangling with loan requirements we decided that the many restrictions from
any sources of financing we could get were strangling our desires or options
so much that, well, we just couldn't continue with the idea of restrictive
financing. Regroup again.
Meantime, Dee purchased $13,000. worth of man made Sing Logs to build with, and another building plan that came with them - which we couldn't use. I've also been scrounging a bunch of "stuff" for building that is sitting around the property and since we've been living here collecting stuff; you collect and, well, there is so much "Stuff" collecting that it's beginning to look more like Sanford and Sons junk yard all the time ! |
 It's
2003, and 6 years since we bought The TangleWoods.The building project is getting yet another run for it's money, rather our money - All Our Money. That statement is a scary one, for real. Keeps me awake at night. We finally have a plan. We even staked out a spot behind the mobile home to build. Space requires us to drop some trees which we preferred not to do. A few months goes by before Dee breaks down in disgust at having to drop trees, shove us further back in the property, etc. She was just appalled at the prospect of building there. Project halts again. We work through weeks of heartache discussing our building and if we really need to do it at all - again. The mobile home is near worthless, and will never increase in value, heck it's really beginning to fall apart and needs to be replaced. (pulling in another mobile home was also discussed many times). The property is the value here. We also have $13,000 worth of building material plus other building associated goods collected. Honestly, more than once we discussed just bagging this TangleWoods of piles and selling the place, but what we have found is that as the mortgage rates get lower it has made this property less and less desirable. Only One place will loan you money for this '69 trailer, and it is at a very high mortgage rate with a very high down. So, although it would be cheap for someone to buy this place, it would cost much more down payment, and could only be financed at the highest mortgage rate, etc. - It works out that a home buyer would be much better off and get better financing to buy any other regular house with low down, good mortgage rates, & operation costs. So, I think we are stuck with it - and we either do nothing and live with it, or we try to make something better out of it and BUILD DAMNIT.
Back to finding a space to clear and build. We
had red flags at every step of the way marking locations.
We ended up picking a small as possible footprint area directly behind the current trailer. Building there would require removal of our large tool and storage shed and small wood shed. The loss of space to work and store stuff would be an added hardship. I contacted a good ole friend of mine to ask him to be my initial building consultant. Thanks to Rod hobelman we had an outside experienced person to keep me doing the right things at the right time. We settled on a spot, settled on a basic plan, settled on a basic design. The dream had just turned into a Reality. We were going to build it! |
