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18 July 2024 | 0 replies
True, I never built anything more than a treehouse when I was eleven, but technically a treehouse is a house so…All I had to do was work with Honomobo to finalize the design, get architectural drawings, receive HOA approval, get a county building permit, get a driveway permit, clear trees for a build site, find a logging truck to take those trees to a lumber mill, find a mill, find someone to take the lumber from the mill to my house, dry the lumber, take a semester of woodworking to learn how to make furniture, engineer/permit/build a septic system, get a well permitted and drilled, install a well pump, learn what a pitless is, install a water line from the pump to the foundation, install a pressure tank, connect the house plumbing to the septic and pressure tank, get the the power company to permit and install a podium for power on site, run power to the foundation, connect the power to the house, engineer a foundation, excavate, get two different sized steel wet plates fabricated, pour said foundation with wet plates mounted all at the same elevation in twenty-five precise locations, hire a crane, hire rigger, hire a welder, build a retaining wall because the dropoff from house to ground level was higher than expected, insulate the crawl space on my own by watching a YouTube video to learn how to load .22 caliber cartridges into a ramstead gun and shoot two and a half inch nails through insulation board into my foundation, badger a supply company until they finally delivered the right insulation board, get them to take away the wrong insulation board they brought that was broken by the wind and scattered into pieces all over the property, find an illusive 3x3 foot crawlspace door, learn how to use a core drill to make a four and a half inch hole in my foundation to install a code required fan to vent the crawlspace that my engineer thought was a stupid requirement and failed to tell me about, figure out what the hell going on when the Honomobo project manager tells me the measurements you gave him of the now poured foundation are wrong, have a panic attack, review plans with engineer, realized the project manager was mistaken, scream into the void, get the last available short term rental license application that had a thirty-day expiration window to pass all inspections, coordinate all subcontractors needed on install day, check with the sheriff about parking semi-trucks on the road, rent a porta potty, rent a dumpster, have coffee and donuts for everyone, oversee the Honomobo install crew that didn’t need overseeing, pass a blower test, pass state inspection, pass septic inspection, build a wooden curb to cover protruding rebar for an unpoured patio, build a temporary front door landing that could theoretically be be permanent so as to pass final county inspection, get a certificate of occupancy, pass the county short term rental inspection on the very last day before it expired to get the very last available license so that I could rent the house to make money in order to no have immediately have to sell, pour the sidewalk and patio.
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16 July 2024 | 3 replies
@Renee Jones not sure how much you need but if you have equity in your home or another piece of real estate you could tap that.
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16 July 2024 | 3 replies
Vinyl plank is likely more durable than laminate and you can take up a piece and replace it if needed (get some extra when you buy it).
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17 July 2024 | 32 replies
Prior to this, I was looking into purchasing a piece of land and building a home using a New Construction VA loan.
16 July 2024 | 2 replies
AFter that you send out mail pieces and take calls positioning yourself as a tax councelor of sorts.
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20 July 2024 | 59 replies
When their vendors and employees want to get paid, they can't take a scissors and cut out a piece of the paper those assets are written on, and use that to pay them.Real profit is tangible, not virtual.
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14 July 2024 | 7 replies
I do have a failure to take occupancy piece in the lease, but the wording in it really is more geared towards a 12 month lease.Thanks for your advice!
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16 July 2024 | 15 replies
That piece of “obvious” information was worth more than paying a realtor.
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16 July 2024 | 26 replies
That will be a precious piece of knowledge for me.
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14 July 2024 | 7 replies
I feel like I missing a piece of information here.If this is accurate, these expectations are wildly unrealistic.