Devonviolet Acres

[Bruce]

So, @Bruce, did you get any rain yet?

ETA - OOPS!!! Sorry @Bruce, I meant @Mike CHS !!!

I'll answer anyway We got about an inch 2 days ago. I'm not sure how you people live down there with excessive heat and humidity in the summer and excessive rain in the winter.

@Devonviolet 150' wide is awfully narrow for a 5 acre lot No chance the owners of the place next door would sell you another piece?

 

[Devonviolet]

I'll answer anyway We got about an inch 2 days ago. I'm not sure how you people live down there with excessive heat and humidity in the summer and excessive rain in the winter.

150' wide is awfully narrow for a 5 acre lot No chance the owners of the place next door would sell you another piece?

I totally agree. Since we were first time land owners, it didn't occur to us that it was so narrow. No, there is no way our neighbor's would sell us some land. Their house is about 50 feet from the joining property line.

We do have the hay field to the North of us, but at this time, we can't really afford to buy another 5 acres (150 feet wide - which is what I really want) from that man.

 

[Bruce]

50'?? With all that land he built the house 50' from the property line???

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Maybe a couple acres attached at the back to make your piece more of a “L”? Just wondering if you’d get a better price out of that neighbor than the hay field neighbor...

 

[Devonviolet]

50'?? With all that land he built the house 50' from the property line???

Yeah, right??? Actually, it turns out neither father nor son were all that bright.

He was building a good size two story house. He had a lot done, including the roof, interior walls and a concrete floor. When our new neighbor's brought their contractor in to finish the house, the contractor found out that the top of the exterior walls were a full SIX INCHES out from plumb. They had to raise the roof, to bring the walls in plumb. The sewer pipes under the concrete floor weren't level, so they ended up with sewage sitting in the pipes. UGH! The floors had to be broken out, so the pipes could be done right. It ended up costing our neighbor a pretty penny getting the house to the point that he could start finishing it!

He used about as much logic, placing his house, as his parents did placing our house - at the lowest point of a slope (where the rain water runoff makes a big mess) instead of at the high point of the property.

 

[Devonviolet]

Maybe a couple acres attached at the back to make your piece more of a “L”? Just wondering if you’d get a better price out of that neighbor than the hay field neighbor...

That wouldn't really work, in our case. The property is 150 feet wide and 1460 feet deep. Also, the back end of the property is even lower than the front and there is a swamp, from the rain water runoff. Of course the sellers didn't disclose that when we bought the house!!!

 

[babsbag]

Our house is on the top of our 5 acres and while level land is a premium I will never have to worry about my house flooding. The barn is in a lower spot but even that isn't level enough to flood and it keeps going down hill from there. The barn could end up with a river through it, but not standing water. And one well placed trench would easily divert the potential river.

But I really need to ask...what is rain? Seems that I heard about it once....

 

[Devonviolet]

But I really need to ask...what is rain? Seems that I heard about it once....

 

[Wehner Homestead]

That wouldn't really work, in our case. The property is 150 feet wide and 1460 feet deep. Also, the back end of the property is even lower than the front and there is a swamp, from the rain water runoff. Of course the sellers didn't disclose that when we bought the house!!!

I tried. Sorry!

 

[babsbag]

After our record setting winter rains last year this year is a bust. We have had zero rain this month. Less than 5" in Jan and .11" in Dec. This is drier than dry. Cold right now, hard freezes the last few nights. Broke a water line and my bees froze to death, but not a drop of moisture and the future looks bleak too.