Jay builds a house

While the land is outside city limits, it's within the city's water service area. That means that I get municipal water instead of d...

Here it's called the Community Development Services: the portion of county bureaucracy that decides who can build what, where, and how. ...

We walked the land the other day, and tried to get a better sense of its shape. Looking at pictures from the air, I see that while it is d...

Yesterday we came to an agreement with the seller on price and terms. The property is now "under contract". We have 30 days to p...

[reposted from  http://jbazuzi.blogspot.com/2009/12/weve-been-looking-for-house-to-buy-and.html ] We've been looking for a house to buy...