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Here’s some good advice for anyone buying land for a home site, “Never fall in love with it.” Love hides flaws.
Below are some quotes from this two part article.
RIVER DEEP
I’ve never heard anyone say, “I want a home like a palace, and oh by the way I want it on low land, below a dam.” In this case, although it wasn’t on Mr. and Mrs. Seclusion’s list either, that’s exactly what they got.
“They spent the entire half a million, but the house is only one third complete. I tried to help ‘em but they won’t listen to anybody.”
PART 2 – MOUNTAIN HIGH
“Though the documentation had been included in the paperwork, at the official closing of the sale, it was a detail glossed over by their starry-eyed love of the land.”
“I don’t want to take every walk in my own backyard wearing an orange safety vest,”
“…..zealous hunters shouting, ‘I think I got another one, unless it’s that woman in orange, again!’”
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