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Feb. 24th, 2013 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariYesterday, my roomies took me to (what should be, fingers crossed) their next houses. One was a massive house out in the King County woods. The other, a nice two story house in a lovely small rural town. Between those two houses, Tess and her family buying one and my 40th birthday looming just a few years away, I'm beginning to feel a bit restless for my own.
I have a house I want to build there that I designed in drafting class in 1992. The house itself is a smallish A-Frame house, two bedrooms with large living room. The living room has a massive large window for overlooking the hillcountry, leading out to a good sized patio. It's pretty well laid out, if I do say so myself. Although the fireplace could use some moving around.
I do have a half acre of land, bought and paid for, in Kerr County. It's not exactly the most convenient spot in the world, being 100 miles from Austin, and 60 miles from San Antonio. The nearest towns of any size is Kerrville, with only 22,000 people. It'd a nice getaway spot, but hardly convenient for day-to-day living.
The property is very wild and native, lots of mesquite and cedar, minimal grass (mostly rock surfaces), but with enough cover to provide shade in the summer. I'd waqnt to build the house with minimal disturbance to the ecosystem around it, and tucked back enough from the mountain slope so that, while I still had an awesome view, looking back at the hill, you wouldn't see my house (nothing angers me more than houses ruining the view of mountains).
Even with the property paid for outright, the price of the house would be pretty large, and if there's anything I've learned, a large debt is not something I can really handle for long periods of time easily. I get laid off too often, or a budget collapses under the weight of cost of living. Especially for a custom built house however small. Not to mention other big purchases on top of that (a new vehicle is a must when I get back).
The only plan I can think of would be to try and hit the ground running in Texas. A month or two after I get a permanent job in Texas, buy a vehicle, and a year after that, begin saving up for a down payment on that house. Unless the job is telecommuting (which may be a problem as the only broadband I'd have is satellite), I wouldn't be able to live there easily anyway until I retire or find something in Kerrville. There's also the possibility that I may have to buy some of the surrounding land due to a requirement by Kerr county, and an easement on the property. All money I won't see for quite some time.
Some possible solutions - build it and move my parents in. They've been wanting a smaller house for some time, and this would totally fit the bill. Another would be to build it slowly over time, using the house as a getaway retreat on the weekends, to just get away from it all and write or draw.
But, really, all I really want a home in the Hill Country before I'm too old to enjoy it.
I have a house I want to build there that I designed in drafting class in 1992. The house itself is a smallish A-Frame house, two bedrooms with large living room. The living room has a massive large window for overlooking the hillcountry, leading out to a good sized patio. It's pretty well laid out, if I do say so myself. Although the fireplace could use some moving around.
I do have a half acre of land, bought and paid for, in Kerr County. It's not exactly the most convenient spot in the world, being 100 miles from Austin, and 60 miles from San Antonio. The nearest towns of any size is Kerrville, with only 22,000 people. It'd a nice getaway spot, but hardly convenient for day-to-day living.
The property is very wild and native, lots of mesquite and cedar, minimal grass (mostly rock surfaces), but with enough cover to provide shade in the summer. I'd waqnt to build the house with minimal disturbance to the ecosystem around it, and tucked back enough from the mountain slope so that, while I still had an awesome view, looking back at the hill, you wouldn't see my house (nothing angers me more than houses ruining the view of mountains).
Even with the property paid for outright, the price of the house would be pretty large, and if there's anything I've learned, a large debt is not something I can really handle for long periods of time easily. I get laid off too often, or a budget collapses under the weight of cost of living. Especially for a custom built house however small. Not to mention other big purchases on top of that (a new vehicle is a must when I get back).
The only plan I can think of would be to try and hit the ground running in Texas. A month or two after I get a permanent job in Texas, buy a vehicle, and a year after that, begin saving up for a down payment on that house. Unless the job is telecommuting (which may be a problem as the only broadband I'd have is satellite), I wouldn't be able to live there easily anyway until I retire or find something in Kerrville. There's also the possibility that I may have to buy some of the surrounding land due to a requirement by Kerr county, and an easement on the property. All money I won't see for quite some time.
Some possible solutions - build it and move my parents in. They've been wanting a smaller house for some time, and this would totally fit the bill. Another would be to build it slowly over time, using the house as a getaway retreat on the weekends, to just get away from it all and write or draw.
But, really, all I really want a home in the Hill Country before I'm too old to enjoy it.
