This is one of the mobile homes that has shown up on Facebook Marketplace since the hurricane. It is one quick solution to SOMEWHERE to live if your home is gone. 2 Beds 2 Baths Single Wide for $79,900 900 square feet 2 beds · …
A local Asheville company, Compact Cottages has introduced Relief Cottages, “innovative prefabricated home kits than can be assembled in just two hours.” Find out how you can get one of these house kits or help others needing housing. If you have space in your backyard …
Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina on September 27, 2024. The damage has been unbelievable. We knew we were in a flood zone when we built the house, but only by a few inches. We are in a 100-year floodplain. That means there is a …
The new Westwood Cabin is not in a flood zone and the area around it did not flood. The cabin got the rain and wind, but we had any trees that might fall on the cabin removed. Water rushed over the driveway, that’s it. The …
I lived in Meadowbrook Log Cabin from 2005 until 2022 and there were a few weather events that caused flooding and road closures in Hendersonville. Hurricane Helene flooded areas that are not in a flood zone and didn’t flood areas that are in a flood …
Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina on September 27, 2024. We are all fine. I’ve been asked how our 2-story Home Depot shed we finished did through the storm. (More than anything else) We don’t own the log cabin or the building anymore, but I …
Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina on September 27, 2024. There is a LOT of damage which you are seeing on the news. Friends and family have a lot of damage, are still without power and water and may be for a while. It was …
Someone sent me a listing for a modular home that is only $37,545. That is really inexpensive for a modular home! But it is still an awful lot of money to spend. She wanted me to tell her what I think. I do not know …
We drove by cabins for sale somewhere between Melbourne and Ormond Beach, Florida. Later, while fueling up, I opened Facebook Marketplace to see if there was something intriguing nearby. We were in no hurry. I immediately recognized the same cabins I saw. Same gravel lot, …
Sometimes you can find a deal on eBay where someone has bought a house kit and then their plans changed. Right now there is a 2400 square foot Barndominium kit that will probably be a good deal for someone. The kit is sitting on a …
I’ve been asked for a floor plan with a progress list with links, so here it is.
This is where we are at now. We have the CO (Certificate of Occupancy). That “releases the address” to have power.
They have flagged the route the underground conduit will take. They said it could be installed by day-before-yesterday. It wasn’t.
The grass is growing. We put in azalea and rhododendron down the side of the driveway.
But with a CO, Mom can start moving things in. Her home is staged and ready for the real estate photos. As soon as it’s listed, I’ll add some links to the listing here.
The next step when this was first posted was having the cabin delivered.
We were told we had to grant an easement for the water and sewer line. We own both lots, but we were told we had to grant ourselves an easement to cross our own back yard for the water and sewer. (You know somebody must have sued somebody sometime.) The plumber, Jeremy Dills, recommended a lawyer who can “draft a permanent easement” without a survey. The lawyer took forever to get around to it. Which was really frustrating, but then it ended up the city didn’t need an easement after all.
We also heard from the cabin company that we had to have a crane. There was not enough room to slide the cabin off the truck.
We did have to have a crane.
That’s where we were at when I first posted this, waiting to find out about a crane and waiting for a lawyer. The cabin was delivered the next week in horrible weather and we should have waited. But how were we to know it would take months to get water?