Since we started our journey of purchasing a home again, we flipped back and forth on many things. At first, we were looking for a home with more than 5 acres and under $300K. Uhm, yeah…good luck with that in our area of North Carolina. That may have been the case about 8-10 ten years ago, but you would be hard pressed to find any homes with sizable land for cheap. With the influx of so many people to the area, it has become a seller’s market. People will pretty much buy homes sight-unseen by the time you realize a new home is on the market! Yep, a crazy crazy market it is around here. [Read more…] about Don’t Ever Buy Land That Won’t Perc
Decisions, Decisions….
Hey y’all! Deidra here. So, I wanted to share with you all a little of our journey.
We used to own our own home a few years back. Unfortunately, Antoine was caught up in the technology bubble bust and was laid off. While he had some time at home, he decided to build our first garden. We had two young children and a dog and we knew we had mouths to feed.
He was really good at it. He grew okra, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, peppers….anything that could fit in our square foot garden. I think that’s when the bug really bit him. From that point on, no matter where we landed we tried to grow something. [Read more…] about Decisions, Decisions….