It has always been a dream of ours to build our own house. We looked at several different options and decided to use Owner Builder Network (OBN). In a short summary, you pay them a fee per square foot, and they help you be the general contractor for your house build. They are there for […]
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Working the land
We bought our property in January. At the end of the month, our local master gardeners had a tree sale. We bought 1 of each navel orange, blood orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, apricot, pear, fig, avocado, and some blackberries. Around the last frost, we went and planted them all. Every few days, we jumped across […]
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There was much drama from the start of the culvert construction until the end. We contacted Henry in March. Between permitting and ordering materials and Henry accepting a bigger job than he could handle…construction started in July–4 months later. We could FINALLY drive onto our land mid-September. The county would not allow us to build […]
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When we tell people about our culvert, they cannot possibly understand what we are talking about. If you even KNOW what a culvert is, then you typically picture the round concrete pipe that the driveway goes over. Ours is a very special culvert. Just a review of our timeline…We bought our property mid-January. By mid-March […]
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As we continued struggling with our culvert, we proceeded to move forward with plans to build a house on our property (once we finally had access…). We put our house up for sale in April…had a contract on it in less than 3 weeks and closed the end of May. We figured that once the […]
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