crockett Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I'm not even in the mood to talk about all the bullshit that has happened on my end in the past few days. I'm just done with people. And I'm done with seeing people as soon as I open the front door of my house. And I'm done with people walking onto my property at any given moment while I can't even put up a fence / sign or anything due to HOA regulations. Just sent my old realtor an email and asked her to find me some land, 5 to 15 acres, residential and commercial zoning. Fully wooded so that I can build a custom shop / home in the middle, with no direct sight from any corner of the lot. Once she finds me something decent, I'll build a small and temporary wooden cabin within a week or 2, move in, sell my house, and have the custom shop / house build while being on site 24/7. Something like this... huge shop with one section build out to live in. All metal building, metal roof, solar on roof, off grid, no more cracks in this ******* useless stucco bullshit, no cheap as roof shingles that only last 12 years. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I see increasing numbers of non-traditional houses using post and beam and metal in my rural area. Unfortunately most houses currently being built are McMansions. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Best of luck.............. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Needs a lightning rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Nice lookin' house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 52 minutes ago, crockett said: I'm not even in the mood to talk about all the bullshit that has happened on my end in the past few days. I'm just done with people. And I'm done with seeing people as soon as I open the front door of my house. And I'm done with people walking onto my property at any given moment while I can't even put up a fence / sign or anything due to HOA regulations. Just sent my old realtor an email and asked her to find me some land, 5 to 15 acres, residential and commercial zoning. Fully wooded so that I can build a custom shop / home in the middle, with no direct sight from any corner of the lot. Once she finds me something decent, I'll build a small and temporary wooden cabin within a week or 2, move in, sell my house, and have the custom shop / house build while being on site 24/7. Something like this... huge shop with one section build out to live in. All metal building, metal roof, solar on roof, off grid, no more cracks in this ******* useless stucco bullshit, no cheap as roof shingles that only last 12 years. Seriously...I pray to god I will never have to live in another HOA Again..."Fifedoms", every damn one of them!!! AND petty as all Hell!!! Good luck finding anything like ya want unless you plan on goin to North Central Florida. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 Looks like this is a new trend, called Barndominium. Half shop half house, all in a commercial grade metal building. Makes much more sense than those wooden termite grocery markets they like to build. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 HOAs are evil. I’m a realtor and it blows me away when I had clients specifically ask for an HOA community. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Put in a FIREPLACE, run COLD water everywhere with small instant HOT WATER heaters....no waiting for HOT water in the shower, no paying for keeping 80 gallons of water hot all the time, HIGH CEILING in the workshop (for a lift) 1000 gallon PROPANE tank buried, GAS STOVE, WHOLE HOUSE GENERATOR...+++ If I was younger, I'd build....Shoulda' done that 33 years ago when I moved to FL COULDA' SHOULDA' WOULDA" BUT at least our ASSociation is not very picky, not a lot of rules...only 220 homes...and one thing I wanted GATED....NO ONE COMES TO THE DOOR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: HOAs are evil. I’m a realtor and it blows me away when I had clients specifically ask for an HOA community. Depends on the HOA some are run by people who never had control over anything and now have POWER (Condo NAZI) Others are pretty laid back....there needs to be SOME rules..otherwise people being what they are will s**t the place up 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Just now, DAKA said: Depends on the HOA some are run by people who never had control over anything and now have POWER (Condo NAZI) Others are pretty laid back....there needs to be SOME rules..otherwise people being what they are will s**t the place up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, DAKA said: Put in a FIREPLACE, run COLD water everywhere with small instant HOT WATER heaters....no waiting for HOT water in the shower, no paying for keeping 80 gallons of water hot all the time, HIGH CEILING in the workshop (for a lift) 1000 gallon PROPANE tank buried, GAS STOVE, WHOLE HOUSE GENERATOR...+++ If I was younger, I'd build....Shoulda' done that 33 years ago when I moved to FL COULDA' SHOULDA' WOULDA" BUT at least our ASSociation is not very picky, not a lot of rules...only 220 homes...and one thing I wanted GATED....NO ONE COMES TO THE DOOR Propane for cooking only, everything else will be electric. Entire roof will be solar panels, and I'll build my own Lithium battery bank. Did this in a small scale for the minivan camper conversion. Can be scaled up limitless. 100% off the grid. Shop will need to be able to house a class A diesel pusher, 4 cars / trucks / 2 lifts, tractor, several work benches, CNC machine, mill, etc. Looking at my current house, all but the master bedroom are tool, reloading and gun rooms. Should have moved into a shop instead. Shop needs to be in several rooms, not just one big thing. I don't want any dust from fabricating things all over the place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 40 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: HOAs are evil. I’m a realtor and it blows me away when I had clients specifically ask for an HOA community. They're not worth a **** about keeping the riff raff out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pima Pants Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 My HOA doesn't give a **** about much of anything. Not only 'laid back' but more like 'laid down'. I like it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, crockett said: Looks like this is a new trend, called Barndominium. Half shop half house, all in a commercial grade metal building. Makes much more sense than those wooden termite grocery markets they like to build. My house I built in 86 is 1700 sq ft and the garage is over 1000. I don't plan to build again. I also own a 2000 sq ft shop with an apartment attached to it that I keep a tenant in. No hoa's and not even any building codes where I'm at although I did build to meet local codes in the neighboring towns. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted October 25, 2021 Administrators Share Posted October 25, 2021 “Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close Said he couldn't go on the American way Closed the shop, sold a house, bought a ticket to the west coast Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.” — Billy Joel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat1 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Sounds like you have an excellent plan. Good luck with it! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 When you start working on it, post the cool stuff like you do with the van! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Mrs.Cicero said: When you start working on it, post the cool stuff like you do with the van! How bout just where ya fuckin BOUGHT that many acres in Florida for a reasonable Price!!! My buddy's been lookin for "acerage" for a year.. 4-5 acres. Found one. An old cell tower site...fuckin concrete pylons all over dead center of the property. You can't blow those MF'ers up!!! Let me know what ya find Crockett... And Good Luck man! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 14 minutes ago, Swampfox762 said: How bout just where ya fuckin BOUGHT that many acres in Florida for a reasonable Price!!! My buddy's been lookin for "acerage" for a year.. 4-5 acres. Found one. An old cell tower site...fuckin concrete pylons all over dead center of the property. You can't blow those MF'ers up!!! Let me know what ya find Crockett... And Good Luck man! 5 acres for 225k. 24 min to the beach. 5 acres for 89k, 40 min to beach. 6 acres for 300k 10 acres for 155k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Lots of money to develop those parcels, but then you knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS_Rider Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I really like the 10 acre lot. The first 5 acre lot too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Power? Water? Sewage? Power and water are the most problematic. Septic tanks and leach fields are not as much of a problem. I worked on a house on the California coast once that was all 12volt electric power except for a Generator to run the washer and drier and it used te charge the 12 volt batteries until my bod and I installed the windmill . Refrigerator was a Servel and the floor was heated with hot water circulated though copper pipes in the slab and they had a wood burning fireplace insert. Deep cycle batteries were charged by a windmill we put together using a Chrysler alternator. The location was called Hurricane point Just north of Big Sur and there was always lots of wind. The windmill was mounted on top of a telephone pole sandwiched between two 4x12's sunk into a concrete footing that was ten feet deep and 6 feet in diameter and was hinged and could be raised and lowered for maintenance. Water came from further up the hill from a mountain stream that flowed down to the ocean. The job lasted about 3 weeks and was more like a working vacation than a job. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 27 minutes ago, Borg warner said: Power? Water? Sewage? Power and water are the most problematic. Septic tanks and leach fields are not as much of a problem. I worked on a house on the California coast once that was all 12volt electric power except for a Generator to run the washer and drier and it used te charge the 12 volt batteries until my bod and I installed the windmill . Refrigerator was a Servel and the floor was heated with hot water circulated though copper pipes in the slab and they had a wood burning fireplace insert. Deep cycle batteries were charged by a windmill we put together using a Chrysler alternator. The location was called Hurricane point Just north of Big Sur and there was always lots of wind. The windmill was mounted on top of a telephone pole sandwiched between two 4x12's sunk into a concrete footing that was ten feet deep and 6 feet in diameter and was hinged and could be raised and lowered for maintenance. Water came from further up the hill from a mountain stream that flowed down to the ocean. The job lasted about 3 weeks and was more like a working vacation than a job. That must have been a while back. LifePo4 batteries carry 6 times the capacity of lead acid / AGM batteries. They have up to 10,000 life cycles and a discharge curve that is basically linear. They get hooked up to a 6kW inverter. 120 volts everywhere and everything. The battery pack gets recharged by solar only. The batteries can bridge several days of consumption without any sunlight, and that is basically unheard of in Florida. Even on a cloudy day the array produces energy. My solar system will not feed anything into the grid. There will be no grid, no windmills, no gas powered generators. That's all tech from yesterday. Entire roof made of solar cells. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Walt Longmire said: Lots of money to develop those parcels, but then you knew that. Not much to develop. I'll keep most of the woods the way they are, not counting the area for the house and drive way. Will rent the machines and do it myself. I'm in no hurry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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