04-24-2008, 06:13 PM
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Originally posted by Hotzcatz
Ya know, there are old plantation houses you can buy or get for free and move onto your lot. See if you can find one and your costs should be way below the 70K, maybe half or less. Also, the taxes on an old building are extremely low it would probably be less than $500 per year and for a new house your taxes will probably be four times that.
Hotzcatz, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, there are a couple of reasons that won't work for us. The primary reason is that there isn't any way to get a house into our back yard/building site. Our house, which sits toward the front of our property, is in the way and there are houses on either side of it. In the back of the property there is state land with large trees that are in the way. The other reason is that most old plantation homes are larger than what we are allowed to build on our lot. We're building a one bedroom, although we are allowed up to two bedrooms. We just need a one bedroom and don't want a large house to maintain. It's a great idea, though.