Coffee anyone ?

[Weldman]

How long since you tore it down? Did anyone have a clue to how bad it was?
And ….. whaaaa - you can only spend half of what you paid to fix it! WTH?! Is that to prevent McMansions

Exactly a year to the day yesterday, I have since taken the garage to the landfill and about half the house. Each load was about $200.
The reason for that is cause it's in a 500 year flood zone due to river nearby, once in 500 years it might flood that far inland. So they want to force people eventually build a new home to mitigate it. To build a new home requires a evaluation meeting of where the property sits in elevation, plan to build the house above their flood zone BS, ways to allow water to flow through your structure to not block any water, can't put your property too high to flood neighbors out and list goes on. Thank FEMA for this, one must have flood insurance too out here in this desert. Yes we bought the property cheap to flip it and then the BS rolled in.
Only reason house got tore down early is there was no building inspector to stop me to pay for permits for some BS. The next day they hired a inspector, I got word they were going to so I flattened the house a day prior.

 

[Alaskan]

It is laws like this that steam me...lack of logic...totally destructive to the do-it-yourselfer

Soon only huge corporations will be able to legally walk on the sidewalk.

 

[SageHill]

Oh good lord. What a freaking mess. You can't even do a tiny house using containers with those restrictions.

allow water to flow through your structure to not block any water, can't put your property too high to flood neighbors out

AH -- Here you go .............. probably out of the allowed $$
Tiny Container House built over a "dry stream bed"

 

[Weldman]

Damn flooding out here so much the cactus grows wild…

 

[Mini Horses]

Today. Some things got done -- some didn't

So far no more groundhogs seen, in traps, or sampling the bait. Goats have all been in for 11 days . Nice. Got 8 kids wormed today....10 more to go. Talk about fast and strong!! Geesh. Heavy, too.

Some garden work done. Much more needed. Errands done. Nap mid day. That's about it.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. @Weldman you can have a shot of bourbon in yours. What’s wrong with people in that state? From crazy neighbor to crazy cops and inspectors. How does anybody get anything done? Once cleaned up, what will you do with the lot? Can’t build anything new there due to the regulations.

 

[Mini Horses]

@Weldman around here, with inspectors abundant, the demolition permit would trigger a lot of viewings. And requirements to have removal completed in something like 60 days. Further in rural areas, might get by with double that time. They don't care about your other jobs.....just the one at hand.

Yeah, what are your plans for the lot?? Initially sounds like limitations make it worth way less than price paid, given house conditions making condemnation most viable option. Here, the seller & agent would have been required to reveal the structure damage as probable condemnation for habitat.

 

[Weldman]

Coffee is ready. @Weldman you can have a shot of bourbon in yours. What’s wrong with people in that state? From crazy neighbor to crazy cops and inspectors. How does anybody get anything done? Once cleaned up, what will you do with the lot? Can’t build anything new there due to the regulations.

@Weldman around here, with inspectors abundant, the demolition permit would trigger a lot of viewings. And requirements to have removal completed in something like 60 days. Further in rural areas, might get by with double that time. They don't care about your other jobs.....just the one at hand.

Yeah, what are your plans for the lot?? Initially sounds like limitations make it worth way less than price paid, given house conditions making condemnation most viable option. Here, the seller & agent would have been required to reveal the structure damage as probable condemnation for habitat.

This is a nationwide problem. If anyone in here tries to build a new structure in the city limits watch the legal hoops you have to jump through. This all leads up to where our housing market is now. I know of a guy in Washington state on the peninsula who bought raw land in city limits 3 years ago, this summer he finally got enough permits approved to build his house. I built this place in that time frame.
A lot empty like that one in prime market goes for $45k or more, we bought it for $15k due to the house/garage which we knew would need to come down. There is a housing shortage in this town and we could put a duplex on it, or rent it out to a couple of travel trailers for the wind farm workers that's an ongoing 5 year project or longer.
Building inspectors come and go out here, wait till gone and commence to building.

 

[Skiesblue]

Dune meets the Art of the Deal. yesterday Hubbs looked at a pick up. He had a close encounter with a branch last week that left his truck with enough damage to consider a different one. Salesman (dealership) was a young Arab guy named Muad Dib. I would not make that up although he may have. Test drives ensued and a suitable truck was found. An agreement was reached (no one spat on the table to seal it). Deal submitted and the general manager (whose stillsuit was apparently in a bunch) started yelling at poor Muad Dib who thankfully did not require martial combat to defend his honor. Manager left the showroom, loudly. Decaff spice coffee for him. This was the four and a half hour mark. Hubbs decided to shuffle on home. MD texted with apologies and counter offers as the asking price was in dispute, deal withdrawn. They are all meeting on Monday. Maybe to wrangle sandworms. Or fold space. Or something.
This post will sound weird if you’re not familiar with the book/movie Dune. I’m a sci fi nerd although not a very diligent one in recent years.

 

[Mini Horses]

Happy Father's day !!!