Closing

Fri, Feb 16, 2018

We closed on the lot today! It’s ours!!

Now that we closed, I am going to send the seller an email and see if he would be willing to meet for lunch/coffee/a beer. We want to pick his brain and see if we can build on any of his experiences. Also, we need to figure out where some of these utilities are buried. I don’t want to put an excavator arm through a high voltage line!

The feasibility study was pretty fruitful. We have just about all the all the permits and forms in place we need before we can submit for a build permit. We just need an Adequate Water Supply certificate, and a Preliminary Site Analysis. The Adequate Water Supply certificate is mostly just a paperwork task. File the right forms, pay the fee, and we get the certificate. All the other permits/reports that are required for this certificate were taken care of by the previous owner. This certificate tells the county/state that we have a right to hook up to our shared well for normal water consumption for a house our size.

The Preliminary Site Analysis will have to wait until we have a site plan drafted up. The county wants to see where the house will go on the site, setbacks, distance from well, etc.

I have had concerns that since we are building on a slope, that the house will begin to slide downslope. The geotech report from the previous owner helps alleviate these concerns. It calls for pinning the foundation to the bedrock below. According to the seller, that isn’t more than a few feet down.

The original designer is interested in taking on our revisions, and the rates seems pretty reasonable. He is charging $2,000 plus however many hours to do the revisions, which he doesn’t think will take long, based on a few email exchanges.

We expect the snow will be melted in early April, and can start construction then. We’ve got about 6 weeks to get the design locked in, and a permit back from the county. The county says they will take 4 weeks to process permits, so we really just have two to get a lot done!

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