I BOUGHT !) ACRES TODAY!

“YUP! 10 acres of KILLER heavily wooded land near lake sequoah, in the fayetteville city limets. all the good school districts we wanted. and we got it for $25,000 less than it was appraised for. we're not gonna start building till the spring. it's gonna be awesome. the house will pretty much be right in the center of the property, which is a perfect square. good buffers all around us too. there's neighbors but not any real close. i'll be tannin on da deck so honk if yer comin down tha drive! lol!”

“That's really cool stratdewed, congrats!

You ain't no kind of man unless you own land - O' Brother, Where Art Thou”

“It's always been a dream of mine to own land. Land where I could just set my tent up anytime of the year, and stay as long as I wanted. Somewhere where I don't have to worry about development coming in, and ruining everything.

Ahhh..... well....... it is but a dream.”

“At Stratdewd's next year!”

“LOLOL!! Gotcha!”

“LMAO @ raven! I love it, I'm there!”

“congrats on finding your place in the sun to nurture.
good health, peace and happy days for the statdewd family!

gotta warn ya tho......leaving to go off bping in the woods when you live in the woods already......hmm...”

“Frijoles frios, amigo! Congrats!!!”

“Very hip, Strats. I'm lookin' myself. Like to get 'round 10-20 acres, something close to the NCT in western Michigan. Have fun, dewd !”

“it still hasn't really sunken in yet. i plan on taking the boys out there next weekend and settin up the tent. we see a red fox almmost every time we go out there. he is beautiful! lot's of deer too.


TC3? BRING IT ON! i'll have my band play!”

“That is really cool! I hope to be following in your footsteps and buying some property in the next few years. Best of luck to you, sir stratdewd!”

“So I guess the closing went OK on friday. Congratulations!”

“SWEEEEEETTTT!!!!

I aspire to become a land baron. I'm not fond of having neighbors.”

“Congrats, Strat!

I'm in escrow on a house, myself :)”

“How cool!

Will you be doing any of the costruction yourself?

Maybe we could do a modern version of the old barn raising parties. Just say the words "FREE BEER AT MY PLACE!"”

“Can you imagine what his house would look like if this 'crew' were building it after having a few beers--especially the second day with everyone's hangover!”

“Congratulations, Strat. I'm intensely jealous.”

“Hey I have always thought of having a party you tell the guest they must bring some 2x4's. Have your house in no time.”

“Congrats Statdewd!”

“we wanna see them woods yer gonna put your house in!”

“Very Cool!! Congrats!!!”

“Lots of room to play your strat now.”

“Now let's get in there with a chainsaw and cut down some trees,excavator and dig the place up, and pour some concrete, cool!”

“congrats, sounds like a perfect place to raise kids.”

“You're gonna love it. Congratulations, Strat.
BTW, I've participated in a three-day barn raising. All goes well as long as the person managing the project stays sober.”

“fayetteville, wv? thats pretty awesome, i was in your neck of the woods memorial day weekend this year taking a beginning rock climbing course in the new.”

“That is so very cool.Are you going to make your own trail on the 10 acres???

If so what are you going to call it???

8)”

“lol mike. my wife was talkin today about making a jogging trail around it. we'll have to come up with a good name for it. maybe....the foxtrot. there is a small lake(bout 350 acres) about 1,000 yds away and we will definately have a trail going to it. it's plum full of crappie, catfish, lgmouth and white bass. no swimming allowed though. the lake is the first one on the mighty white river. we found a kindof cavelike place on it today. it's really just a small overhang but the boys will no doupt have a fort built out of it in short order. probably won't start building till the spring onna counta we're poor, lol. we have 2 builders picked out, but haven't settled on one yet. my mom and sister came over today from tulsa to check it out. they really liked it. hopefully next weekend will be nice so i can take the boys campin out there.

scoops, it's arkansas, not WV”

“anybody ever sell trees on their land? i'm gonna have to cut a few down for the driveway and the house and yard so i was thinkin i might as well sell the timber. i have heard that you can get some good money. we're gonna have a fireplace but there it TONS of deadfall on the land for firewood.”

“Yeah, WVa, HA!
You ain't no hillbilly!

If you want to burn wood, get a cast iron stove.
A fireplace sucks the heat out of your house and you can't close the flue until the fire is completely out.....it'll smoke up the house.
You could cut the wood up for fuel.
In a few years it will all be burned anyway.

Then again, if there is enough timber to make it worth while for a logger, you could sell it.
They pay by the "thousand board feet".
So you will need enough thousands to make worht while.

What kind of trees?”

“If you're any good with a saw you can turn it all into fuel.

And get a monster workout between now and the Spring.”

“well, probably 60% red oak ,20% hickory, there's some cedar(small ones) and dogwood, a few maples. most the big stuff is oak n hickory though. i am pretty good with a saw and i already have one budgeted. but i think there's plenty of deadfall for 3-4 years worth of firewood. i'm going to make some calls today to see if some timber company will come out and give me a bid. it may not be worth their trouble. i also considered cutting it all up for them and getting more money that way......if that makes any sence, lol.

i picked out a pretty efficient fireplace. it circulates air ander, behind, then over the flames, and then blows out into the room. it's not gonna be used for a main heating source unless the power goes out....which happens alot out there cuz it's outta town.”

“Ooo, like a fireplace insert?

A bit of wisdom about chainsaws from an old Vermonster(not me, I mean REALLY old......and I am a native of Old D.C.);
"What's the bestthing about a chainsaw?"







"When the Mutha won't start!"”

“can you use that wood in your building?
there is a huge downed (before i got here) cedar in my woods and I am taking down some gigantic hickorys right near the house that are making me nervous. There is a miller near here that comes to your property and will mill the trees on the spot with a mobile sawmill......down as far as veneer thickness if you want it.
$60 an hour with a 3 hour minimum
i think it would cost me much more than that for cedar paneling at the lumber yard. the hickory will have to cure a bit tho, but he stacks it for curing too.
maybe you can find someone in your area.”

“another good tip om. i'm sure your are corrrect. there are lots of furniture and cabinet makers round these parts.....”

“My father-in-law had a few oak trees in his yard that were dying. He cut them down and had them milled. Dried them in the rafters of his garage. Now we have a really nice head & foot board for our bed, plus a couple of other neat things. Made similar furniture for some of his other offspring.”

“A word to the wise for anyone buying this kinda property (heck, ANY kinda property)... CHECK YOUR PROPER ZONING REGULAIONS and know what's allowed and what isn't.

It could be the county that regulates the zoning. OR... if you're within two miles of the city limits (as I am), you could be under city zoning.

Be especially careful with county. The county I cover for our newspaper enacted zoning laws regulating new homes (hmmm... or is it just homes?? I'd need to look at it) to two per quarter-quarter section. That's 2 per 40 acres. If some people currently own property with the intent to build in the future, they will be SOL if the two homes are built somewhere else first on those 40 acres first.

Also, know the rules for a septic system.

If you live so close in to a city's boundaries, you may need to go with city sewer, etc... and possibly even rules as to what type home you can build, possibly even its COLOR!!!

Check it all out preferably before you buy, DEFINITELY before you BUILD!!!”

“this property is in a neighborhood association, whit TONS of covenants. we talked some of the neighbors and the main thing they are worried about is someone putting a trailor house with a meth lab out there.”

“Well, ya better be careful how you hide that meth lab then!!!”

“HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHANAWT!”

“think i'll take the boys out and camp on our new land saturday night.”

“Is !) acres big enough to camp on?”

“!) right it is!”

“Sure it is, but you gotta have a &* tent...”

“lmao violin, it's 10!”

“I know, I just had to ask.”

“right now, we're figuring out how much money its gonna cost to run 750 feet of water line from the city line to our house. the seller agreed to pay for half of the costs. my wife got a palm pilot and she's geeking out on it. she has a certifyable list disorder, so it's perfect for her.”

“Hah! A list disorder! It has a name, even if it means I'm sort of crazy!”

“it's true, ya'll would get along great i bet.”

“jeebalaba dubalaba”