This month marks 11 years since we started the journey on this property. After Ben's graduation in Nebraska, we knew we wanted to move back closer to family. We moved in to his old room at his folks place, got jobs and started hunting for land in the area. We had driven past this place many times before we decided we should talk to the realtor. It wasn't quite what we wanted and were sure it was waaaaaayyyy out of our budget.
The realtor, David, told us there was a sale pending on the property, but to call back in a few weeks to see if the sale had finalized. We continued looking, and almost put an offer in on another piece of land with a small house on it, but it really wasn't what we wanted. Ben called David back and discovered the sale had fallen through and we could make an offer if we were still interested.
So we went to take a closer look...off the blacktop was a huge plus, but there was no house on the property and for the price we really couldn't afford to put up a building. So my dear father-in-law suggests maybe we can remodel the corn crib to save on building costs. I resisted for quite a while...I admit it! I climbed up the little ladder to take a look around where the bedrooms would go. This is what I found:
AH! I wanted to run the other way! But my dear husband promised he would clean it all up, and I could do the floor plan and decor. He (and this crazy idea) eventually won me over. We put in an offer, contingent on the well being usable and the county approving a land use change. The land had been dormant for so long, it was no longer considered residential.
In late July the ball started rolling...and in October the sign out front changed from "sale pending" to "sold". We now owned 3.24 acres with a well and a corn crib and a file full of plans and ideas and a very unrealistic timeline!
Chapter 2: Demolition!
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