Last week we closed on four 1/2 acre vacant lots with city water, reasonable deed restrictions and NO HOA fees. Nice location within walking distance of public library, major shopping center, and easy bicycle distance (2 miles) to additional major retailers (walmart, lowes, home depot, etc.) and hospital (4 miles). Quiet neighborhood that had no flooding during Fay. Now I’m reading books on barrier-free a.k.a. universal a.k.a. accessible designs for our first real house (we live in the same mobile home we bought 30+ years ago). The plan is to build our modest dream house in the middle of two lots (effectively giving us a 1 acre homesite — we live on 5 acres now and 1/2 acre seems extremely small to us). The other two lots can be used as another homesite for our son or we might sell them later for a profit.

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