CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Baymule]

Hope you can close on the house and move fast!

 

[Pastor Dave]

Sounds promising Fred. Prayers for prosperity, peace, and patience.

 

[CntryBoy777]

We should know about the offer this next week....allowing 3wks for work to be done and then inspections by us, USDA, and Florida certified inspector....which is a part of closing....but then all the paperwork has to be processed thru each area and finalized for closing, date set , and sign more papers than ya have breath to breathe.....the agent guesstimates around 60-65days to closing from now....but could be sooner if work only takes 2wks as listing agent says and all goess well without any snags, hiccups, or sidetracks along the way.....but, once the offer is accepted.........there will be a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.........

 

[Rammy]

Not a faint glimmer......a huge beaming spotlight! Go, Fred!

 

[greybeard]

Do ask your realtor about karst/sink activity in that area. The area south of Webster appears to be reasonably stable but the areas to the west, North and East, not so much.
https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/11100/f11158/f11158.htm

This one is zoomable:
https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/11100/f11158/f11158.pdf

There is a known geological formation oddity (at very least by name) probably not far. Devil's Slack Tub. It's a karst sink that is believed by divers to lead into a larger limestone cave.
http://www.caveatlas.com/systems/system.asp?ID=250&rated=true#
(click on conditions)

 

[CntryBoy777]

Thanks GB!! I hadn't thought about that, but noticed the area we are looking at is south of Bushnell and north of the next dot down from it....and it is east of I-75....so, it looks like we are fairly safe from that threat....thank goodness....sure would hate to buy a piece of property and have it disappear right before my eyes.....

 

[greybeard]

All the little ponds and small lakes you see across a map of central Fla is from sinkholes and karst activity...some recent, some many decades ago. I traveled over a lot of Central and Northern Fla the 2 years I lived in pcola.

A little easier to read map and updated legend, but note the period is # of sinkholes since 1948.

 

[CntryBoy777]

There certainly is a bunch of them, for sure....and the property sits between 2 wildlife refuges, so have to make sure of any particular guidelines for landowners there.....the back property line butts up to 1 of them....so, it could be similar to yours there GB with the Forest as ya neighbor.....

 

[B&B Happy goats]

At least in florida if your home goes into a sink hole...it proves "you can die and take everything with you" , my sister has three sink holes on there property, so the saying has become a family joke... the sink holes have been there for years....

 

[RollingAcres]

Fred, fingers crossed and hope you'll close on the house soon.