We completed our first home on the property: a tent. We selected a nice flat spot in the middle of the land, by the old Pacific yew and Douglas fir trees that Karen is standing between. It was very quiet and peaceful... Karen did not wear earplugs to sleep, for the first time in many years.
After 6 years of thinking about it, 3 years of actively pursuing it, and lots of unusual paths along the way, we finally own Whidbey Island land as of today! And it's land we love, with a great ecosystem, pretty location, and a size large enough to have some fun and privacy with. It seems amazing...
We had a very informative and entertaining walk through much of the property with a Whidbey Island consultant who specialized in land evaluation, forestry, slopes, and pre-building site inspections. We learned a lot. He had a policy of not providing a written report, which was...
The title company had not yet sent me the preliminary title report attachments, so I requested that the information be sent to me via email. I was able to get into sleuthing mode detail, scouring the arcane language of surveys, easements, restrictive covenants, plats, and more. Some very...
Primary focus today was on providing lots of info to both the consulting forester / land use consultant that I am going to hire (Greenbelt Consulting) and the archaeology firm that I am hiring to perform the...
We have mutual acceptance!!! After three other failed attempts to purchase Whidbey land, and years of hard searching, at least this fourth serious attempt has moved to the first stage of mutual acceptance. I have a one month feasibility study ahead, and a lot of proactive work to do in that time.