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Developing Land
For most of my life I was interested in building my own home. I always wanted to buy land in the country, but never found a good deal. However, I met a friend at work, an older Italian Man in his 70s who owned a bunch of properties and he started talking to me about the benefits of owning land. I mean it was clear to me that he wanted to sell me his lot that was next door, but he was a great guy and I was learning a lot (no pun intended) from him. So after thinking about it, the price was very reasonable and something I could afford. The land I bought in hindsight now is worth a lot more than what I paid for it. So now I planned and started to develop it. My dream is to eventually build a house on it and have a bunch of fruit trees and other trees. My wife wants to maybe have a place for her mom or our kids to stay or at least when she or they visit. I actually like the idea of having our family close by and near for many reasons. So I'm starting to get the bug to build a new house. I have a bunch of different ideas about a pole barn with a lift to work on cars as a hobby as well as maybe apartments on the second floor of the pole barn shop for the kids to spend the night. So those were my starting ideas. However, to be more realistic as well as a better investment would be to develop and design a new home so that I can rent the one I'm living in now. So I called an architect friend of mine and I have started the process of designing the blueprints for my custom home. However, prices are dropping due to inflation and the increase in the interest rates. This puts pressure on the housing market and slows it down enough that the labor I would contract out becomes cheaper. I will probably start working on the roads and ditching and retention and work on finishing it up in the new year. First I have gotten the 6 lots Surveyed and that was roughly $6k. I know I will have to put in a well and septic as well as bring in loads of dirt for a good foundation to build a concrete slab, so foundation and the elevation of the pad will be key. So trusses are kinda on the backburner right now, due to prices dropping.
One of the things that I decided to learn how to operate is heavy machinery, in other words an Excavator to do some cleaning up on the property, make some ditches, put in a milling driveway and to backgrade the property. As well as clean up and move dead trees that have fallen. I got some tips again from my neighbor who is in his 70s, a really interesting guy. He taught me how to get a tree out and knock it down with a mini excavator on his property next door. There is a certain way to dig out the roots he explained so that you can push it over with the machine. You dig the roots out on one side and then on the other side and then you push it over. I've watched a lot of dead trees fall over on my property. So I decided to clean those up as well. I rented a 9 ton mini excavator to build ditches, grade land, and to move dead trees as well as to clean up the property. I also learned how to use a skid steer which was really helpful with the driveway tractorhoe. My favorites were the excavator and the skid steer. The more powerful the better. Oh and I rented a roller which I won't waste money on again because once you pack and drive on those millings with the track enough it does just as good. The excavator and skid steer was like a video game with the controllers and my youngest kid could operate it no problem.
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The property is pretty low and swampy like the rest of Florida with a low water table. So we have to build it up. One of the first jobs I did was to ditch the property. Florida means rain and sun, so there needs to be places for water to collect and it also helps to lower the water table. I watched my neighbor, work and clear his ditches. A lot of people think that once you have a ditch, that you are good. Since, ditches collect runoff and rainwater they also collect sediment and brush or huge weeds. So it's important to clear your ditches of overgrowth and brush. This is what my neighbor was doing. He was cleaning out his ditches so that when there would be a lot of rain, the water would go to the ditches and not on his land. You clear out small plants and you also remove some of the dirt. The ditches on the property are almost like a part of the year pond. In the rainier season the ditches don’t seem to empty and you get mosquitoes, tadpoles and frogs, lizards, and dragonflies. There are also surprisingly little fish from eggs from the bird pooping! Then in the winter they seem to dry up and all the creatures go away.
To ditch you really need to do it in the right areas which are usually around the perimeter of the property. In my case I cleared ditches already there, and made sure that they would lower the water table and keep the property freer of water. I also added a ditch near my neighbors property because my neighbor let me know the area flooded because of his experience with Hurricane Irma. It was great that I did that, because we checked out the property after Hurricane Ian that just came through Florida recently with a lot of heavy rain, and the ditches were working. It's good to check after it rains and you've made changes because then you can check where your property floods and then make adjustments. Since I want to build on the property I want to minimize flooding and make sure the property and house pad that I build up and other areas are not flooding. One thing I notice is that as you build it always redirects water somewhere else and hence the importance of ditches and proper storm drainage.
Ditching is pretty fun getting behind the excavator and driving it. If you haven’t had a chance and ever have the opportunity, I recommend it. I did struggle with the excavators a little and had to have people come to the property to fix it. I once lost the gas cap and that really stressed me out. We searched the whole property. I then bought a new one, so I wouldn’t have to pay when I brought it back, then of course miraculously found it when I was driving around the property.
To build up the land, I brought in truck loads of backfill of clean fill dirt and dirty dirt. haha , I never really knew there were different kinds of dirt levels. So I brought in tons and tons of dirt to build up the property and also the pad where I will put the house in the future. I used the heavy equipment to back grade the dirt as well as the surrounding property so that it drains into the ditches.
This excavator had some problems as well. There is a pin in the bucket and the vibration of the bucket pushed the pin out and the bucket came loose. The galvanized steel had to be replaced. You couldn’t easily replace the pin because somehow it got bent.
I also have made some nicer roads and driveways on my lot. What I did was,I got a hold of millings to make a milling road. How do you get a hold of millings?. You can usually buy millings from the yards where they dump the asphalt that gets recycled. Or you can speak with the person running the i-95 milling redo and cut a deal with him to drop the old millings on your lot for even a better price. Nice to get cheaper millings dropped off right at your doorstep. Millings are the ground up roads of asphalt base and other materials that gets scraped off when new roads are put down on Federal highways. The i-95 millings we got are even better than regular roads because the federal government has a higher percentage of new millings they put in when they redo the interstate highways. There is tar and asphalt in it and a bit of road base. Millings are like a gravel that gets put down and you should try to get those millings down in a few days when you start to spread it due to hardening. I wouldn't recommend adding diesel to reactivate the millings like some say because diesel breaks down the tar in them that helps it bond. You need to roll the millings and then let them bake in the sun and voila you have a pretty good road that won’t disintegrate too much and doesn't cost a fortune. Millings driveways last and they look pretty good if you ask me.
This was me starting at the front where you come into one of my lots by one of the road entrances.
Another project that I developed on the property was putting in a Solar Gate and a fence. The solar gate is pretty awesome. I purchased a gate and a solar opening kit and put the two together. I have a remote so that I can open it up. This kinda just blocks my property from prying eyes and keeps it private. I also was putting in a boundary fence for animals that you can’t see through around parts of my property. A pretty big border boundary fence that I always worry about when I think about the windy days and then I am surprised when we drive out to the property and nothing is wrong.
I decided to build a fire pit so we could have family parties out at the property, even if we don’t have a house there yet. We can sometimes have a cookout with the boys and every year we do a big fireworks celebration on July 4th. So we bought the bricks and dug a hole and built a huge firepit. My lady is the one who put it together. I love it out there. Also added some nice outdoor furniture and 4 picnic tables to eat and 15 chairs and lounge chairs.
I also built a shed. You can see it in the second picture. This is a wood shed. I put all the wood that is going to be burned in the fire. It is the storage for the wood. I like to cook on Oak and use old pine for warm fires. I also added close to 20 viburnum bushes on the property line of my closest neighbor which will make a great privacy wall, like a Trump wall. Or at least bigger than Nancy Pelosi's wall. I also have a lot of animals like deer, and hogs, and turkeys but that will be coming shortly in another blog. Till nextime. #borca
One of the nice things that I enjoy about the land I am developing . I do like driving around the property in a golf cart and having a coffee in the morning. Sometimes I drive along my property and just have a coffee and listen to the birds, the squirrels and all the chattering that goes on in the woods. It’s a relief to get away from the chaos at home.
How Many Lots?
I started out with one lot, then I bought 5 more. I bought the other lots that were all connected to my first one I started with. The 6 lots total 4.2 acres and have access to 3 different roads. Including a corner lot. A couple of the lots that I bought I hunted down the owners to see if they wanted to sell, I then made arrangements as well as the negotiations and closed. A quick side note about the millings, they sure do make for a great driveway base and hold up well. Just a side note, If you don't put the millings down thick enough and spread them thin to save money, they can get weeds that grow on the driveway somehow. But since I laid mine thick it's working great. The driveways I put down are pretty much hassle free and when dirt does get on them. The rain takes care of it and makes them look brand spanking new. I have used road base which is crushed concrete for $400 a truck load which is 18 sq yards but it's overkill for roads and works best for a slab base. Dirty dirt which saves you about $30-40 per truck load costs $180, and again is not that great either because it usually has chunks of concrete block in it and is pretty big debris to pick up after you spread and isn't worth the time. A quick story about the diesel I tried to reactivate the i-95 millings I put down, and when we were having our July 4th party the fire jumped the pit and started the driveway on fire. I started to panic and jumped in the backhoe to get it put out because water wasn't doing the trick. Lol. So i learned the hard way and realized that reactivating the millings with diesel is totally unnecessary and a waste and actually breaks it down instead of making it lock up. The sun is the best and time to harden!
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