A Dream Home Imagined

In life, we  need to have tunnel vision.  To see the end result and focus on the journey. It’s been the way I have lived my life and now I am going to take on a dream that at first appearances, may seem impossible. It might be.

Perhaps I am dreaming beyond my financial capabilities.  Perhaps I am not equiped to manage a project of building a new home, from a distance, while working long hours, and without a partner to assist.  In other words, at 63 years of age, I am going to take on a building project that will be my magnum opus. Hopefully not my magnum oops!

These are the steps, as I see them.

1. Decide where I will build this house. Where will I retire?
2. Find property I can afford.
3. Purchase property.
4. Research homes. What kind of home do I want:  cabin, Cape Cod, rancher, modular, stick built, adobe, yurt, teepee, cardboard box.
5. How much can I afford to pay?
6. Where do I start?  Survey property again, plan septic, build foundations?
7. Get building permits, local authority…hmm.
8. Plan building timetable.
9. Determine when to sell my house: prep house, decide price, pray market recovers.
10. Build a cadre of advisors.

Now that is the reason for this blog.  I really don’t know what I am doing and I am going to call on the resources of my friends, family and the world to tell me what they would do.

I will listen to all advice.  So, come back again often  and help me out on my journey.

This will be an adventure.

Carolyn