10-13-2013, 05:55 AM
There are plenty of subdivisions where you can do pretty much anything you want. Live in a yurt, a bus. A costco tent. I wish our subdivision had some basic CC&Rs but it will never happen and people are free to trash their places bringing down the value of homes around them. Shop carefully. If you buy a 2 0r 3 acre Spaghetti lot you can build deep, into the back, anything you want with little likelihood the county will do anything about it. People may disagree with me here but I work in the building trades and see it all the time. Just keep in mind that if it's not a permitted structure It won't be worth any more than the land it's sitting on. In addition to that. If it's permitted but not finalized, It still won't be worth any more than the land for Real estate appraisal purposes but the Tax assessors office will tax you on an incomplete structure anyway. Not at full value but up to 80%.
One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.