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Anonymous ID: 7dc2b0 May 5, 2018, 10:28 p.m. No.1315722   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7022 >>6500 >>3781 >>7623

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lessons learned moving from city to country

  1. research pays off.

one property we were looking at had two adjoining 1.25 Acre lots, we had cash to purchase, no financing. dirt roads, and one lot had a septic a manuf home a garage a wood shed and a pump house. PROBLEM…tax map did not match what land owners thought were the bounary lines. 160 Acres in eastern oregon were off north to south by 100 feet, so according to the tax man at county, every dirt road was actually not the boundary but was down the middle of each lot…would have required a re plat and about 3000 per lot owner to redo entire tax map, people didnt have the money…only way i realized it was a NO GO was wen Title Officer remarked that NO BANK would finance such a transaction, but hey you have cash, buy it if you want…..POW we were out of there….

  1. Look for land 2 acres more or less, you need to be 120 feet from any adjoining property's well when you put in your septic system and 100 feet from your own well (minimum)

  2. look for land that had a home at one time, with existing power poles to re use

  3. the previous home septic tank can …should be abandoned and this will save you money in permit fees, ask for a replacement septic permit

  4. have a soils engineer scope out the proper soil for a standard septic system, dont just decide to dig aywhere, the county official might make you install an advanced 20,000 dollar whizbang septic tank, do the research on soil drainage and put in a much cheaper standard tank and leach line gravel system

  5. new manufactured homes are much better than trying to repair somebodys existing problems, old metal septic tanks rot out, substandard foundations, etc

  6. opt for 2x8 floor joists on new manufactured homes

  7. pay the extra 40 bucks for a few extra spaces in a 225 amp panel instead of a 200 amp panel

  8. get ceramic wall heaters installed in the bedrooms to meet HUD requirements, DO NOT let them install the cheap mexican central air heaters that have ducts running under and up thru the floors

  9. order your home without flooring, ask for the thickest OSB floor they can put down.

  10. coat every square inch of bathrooms, dishwashers and laundry areas with red guard membrane waterproofing, its around 50 bucks a gallor, and if your fixtures leak, it will save you thousands later.

12, put in vinyl click lock flooring.

  1. sub out the delivery, setup & marriage line, foundation, septic and well drilling

when looking for a spot to drill your well, look for natural ravines and depressions in hillsides, stay within 60 feet of the natural drainage path that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years…try to get at least 14 GPM for a 4 bedroom home

  1. if gpm is low, pump from well to 1000 gallon storage tank, black plastic about 650 bucks…float switches and then try to gravity feed to a small booster pump to your home

  2. test the well water for bacteria

  3. if sulfur smell exists, use spray nozzles ( spiral nozzles) in a manifold into the top of a vented storage tank to off gas the sulfur smell

  4. whole house aquasana well water filter system with UV

  5. go solar, but only enough KW to run your pumps for water, a fridge and a microwave.

Save money if the grid goes down, cook with a microwave or wood fire

  1. set up a solar thermal water heater piping system for grid failure, nobody likes cold showers

  2. put various loads on manual switches…break before make configuration, so you can choose to run the fridge for a few hours and then switch to the laundry machine, then back to the fridge, etc.