Have You Dreamed of Finding Land and Building Your Dream Home?

This blog will document our expericence of looking for a beautiful tract of land and the steps we are taking to build a home on it. Here is a picture of the property that we had long been searching for.

We had been searching in North and East Texas to find what we were looking for in a piece of property. We wanted a combination of mature woods, a pond and some open pastures. We had actually given up hope that we would find what we were looking for. For some reason, my lovely wife, Debbie, decided to search http://www.realtor.com/ in the Gainesville, Texas area. This was a new area for us to explore. Deb sent the listing information to me via email on a Thursday and when I saw the listing info on it, I immediately contacted the Realtor who had the listing and requested more information. We drove out to see it on the following Sunday. Within 5 minutes of actually seeing this property, I knew that we had found our land. Here is a picture of Debbie just minutes after we had started walking the property for the first time.

That is Debbie with her hands lifted up to signal that we had "found it!" We submitted an offer to buy it that night. We closed within 10 days and the land was ours.

In the following posts we will describe the process of getting bids on land clearing and fence building. We will also discuss what it took to get water and electricity to our building site. We were fortunate that we had two options on public water and that we had a power line running across a part of our property. We will also share our experience with deciding on a home builder and how we decided on our building plans.

The next post will be "What Do We Do With it Now?" which will also include why we are calling it "Oakie Nokey Farm".