Busy day but i feel like I got nothing accomplished.  I ended up having to go to the city and ask them to show me what is allowed where. I went to the property this morning, I thought even tho a few houses that are in bad shape in the area, I could build a long enough driveway to get that stuff out of view.  There are some  nice houses there as well.  The property is densely wooded, keeping those bad views out of sight would be easy.  probably 70% of the woods are small trees that would easily come down with heavy machinery.  A bit of a grade on the property, but not enough that an RV jack wouldn't be able to level the RV.

I found what was supposed to be a road according to GPS was actually a power line easement.  That would be to get to the landlocked property.  Besides not knowing if the public can use an easement, it would be 4 wheel drive material to get back there or an ATV.  

Anyway, I went to the city and it is zoned Residential and Agricultural. The man said commercial enterprise not allowed, nix that one off the list.  I had hopes for that land, especially if I could have gotten the price down a bit.  I then asked about another property the realtor had sent me, it is not in city limits, therefore there are no restrictions. I met the realtor there at that property.  It's the one that says it's half unusable because of a flood zone but that the front part would be great for building!  

Not so.  First off, you would have to bring in probably 50 truckloads of dirt to build a driveway in there, the embankment is long and steep. Second off, and the thing that told me no right off the bat - the entire front portion of the property was flooded.  No thanks.  I need more flat level ground with an entrance that isn't too steep up or down.  I don't want to spend a bunch of money on that kind of improvements.  

She then told me about another property.  It's right next to the local airport.  I went over there and there was an airplane revving up it's engines - extremely loud and noisy even tho it was probably 500 feet away. Plus it was also on a grade, tho nothing like the one I had just viewed with the realtor.  I thought the noise would not be so nice for people wanting to enjoy a wooded area out in nature, literally at the end of a street.  

So, I'm left with nothing to look at now.  At least, nothing in my price range.  I admit I want cheaper - this project doesn't have to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The cheaper part is the land, I just don't want to be saddled down with high monthly payments. This is potentially risky venture, what if I couldn't get enough people to park there to even pay monthly expenses? But, there is risk in any business venture.  I'm really sold on the idea of out in the county tho.  I passed by RV parks that had both mobile homes and RV's on the same lot.  The city won't allow that even if they did allow any potential parcel of land to build a park.  The beautify of the county - far less restrictions.  

I don't believe the dude standing on his porch just off the right to the entrance to the property by the airport was all that excited to see me lol.  And I think the road going through that property is actually an easement owned by the airport, there is an old gate at the end saying no trespassing airport property.  However, that easement would work as a driveway, so that wouldn't be a problem.  I'm going to think about that one for a while, but I guess I"d have to spend a day out there seeing how much air traffic noise there is. It's a small town, it would be hard to believe there would be too much of it, but you never know. 

It isn't really a let down that none of them work.  Well sort of is, but I'm in no hurry for the wrong property that won't appeal to RV'ers.  An ideal property would have a large pond on it - stock it with fish, plenty of trees and level, no extreme grades to deal with.  Not right off the highway, but close enough to not turn people off and a good rood to get in there. So I'm going to take another look at properties just for the fun of it, but the ones that might work are just too pricey, the down payment money is not available.  For example, an 88k property which would have worked well - also means a $17,600 down payment. Don't have that much.  And I don't want to take out a personal loan to get - a loan.  The thought of taking out a HELOC on my house in Phoenix crossed my mind.  

It would probably be the cheapest interest rate I could get.  Chase bank isn't offering them right now - that's the bank I use for checking and savings.  It might be a better idea than cashing out the 401k.  Probably could find one somewhere.  

Anyway, I'm coming to the conclusion the only good property I'm going to find is through the tax lien auction.  It's only like 5 weeks away, so unless something really good shows up I'm going to wait and see what that sale has to offer this time around.  

And so these people called back again.  I have NO idea why they want all of these people on the line, but she said she couldn't talk right now and that she could get everyone on the line at 6:00 pm today.  ???  I just wanted to ask what they are going to do with the property - if anything and what objections - if any - of me using it for hunting purposes.  I can't imagine what all of these people want to talk about, so I'll just wait and not speculate too much about it.  They can't tell me to stay off of it, they can offer to buy it out and I'd sell it to them - I'll end up with something sooner or later that isn't owned by a bunch of other people and wont' have to worry about dealing with them.  

Well whatever.  I come home from all of this, these contractors are in the house - no one else home.  Not a problem. I go into the kitchen, put some groceries away, they come into the kitchen, we chat a bit.  They go out onto the front porch so I stepped out there as well.  They leave. I didn't notice that this dude locked the freaking front door on me.  Unbelievable.  

With that, they're back and I'm going to go say something to them about that......

 So, I have to go back and look again. 

The accessible property - really need to put another set of eyeballs on, because the road leading into that neighborhood is replete with junk, rotting houses and slum like houses with garbage laying all over the place.  There is another way in there that I need to go look at this morning and see if it's any better.  I don't really want to sink money into a property that is surrounded by garbage, filth and puke.  Okay I didn't see any puke, but you get what I mean.  RV parks get rated - for better or worse - and they get published. A bad RV park is going to circulate around everywhere rather quickly.  The good ones do too, but the bad ones stick out from what I am seeing. 

Yes, I've been doing some research.   Definitely not sold on this property yet.  The landlocked one -apparently is landlocked. The GPS I was looking at showed a road going next to it, that road, however, does not exist.  

I also got a call back from the undivided property owner(s) yesterday, but - I didn't recognize the phone number so I didn't answer it.  This lady with quite the Texas drawl was on there - left a voice message - telling me she is on the phone with the other "heirs" of the property. She went on and on, then said she'd be waiting for my call back.  She apparently thought that she had hung up on me, for she started talking to the rest of the people on the line.  For  unknown reasons, they all want to talk to me.  These people are all related, apparently brothers and sisters.  But they couldn't agree on a time when they could all be on the line to discuss - whatever they want to discuss.  Perhaps they want to buy my portion of it back - which I would do at cost plus a fee since I went to the trouble of buying the land and dealing with my end of it.  

I tried calling back but they didn't answer.  I dunno, but I will continue on with my visits there with Addler to have a place to run free and sniff and do his thing.  They certainly can't stop me and this lady that called lives over 200 miles away.  I doubt she's ever been there, or if she has, at a much younger age.  From the looks of the property, none of them lives nearby or if they do, they have no interest in it.  I wouldn't mind buying them all out and potentially even building a house there and living on it.  That's 12 acres, plenty of space for kids to roam and not get into trouble - excepting maybe railroad tracks being right there.

Today is the big day.  Finally.  The floors in most of the house are going to be replaced, they are allegedly coming - at what time no one knows.  Seems like they would have been here by now to start on it, it's almost 8:30 am.  James/Taylor have spent days cleaning every thing up, boxing stuff and moving it out of the way.  The house should look pretty awesome after they are done. I am going to suggest a no shoe rule in the house.  It's the only real way to keep it clean, especially with all the rain we get and everyone tracking in leaves, dirt and water on their shoes. That suggestion may not go over so well, but if they don't do it, it won't take long for that suggestion to take hold.  

Oh, the group where the lady kicked me out. Yup, they are missing me.  She doesn't care but everyone else does.  To the point they are doing almost nothing in the way of moderating the group.  Now, she is mad at them, they just shrugged their shoulders and said all of that stuff Ben used to do, I (we) don't have time to do any of that stuff.  They're forcing her hand - not to try and get me back in, I don't really want anything to do with it now after all of what she said and did - but to get her to actually do something in the group besides putting up posts that say how wonderful she is and how great the group is.  The group is only as good as the people moderating it.  If no one does anything, trolls take over and the hate people start dumping all over the place.  If she wants to be the "top admin" in her words, she's gonna have to work for it - or - let the group go and it will return to the troll land it once was. 

My detention pay.  I was unnerved yesterday receiving the settlement sheet in email and it literally had nothing on it besides the letterhead.  A blank piece of paper.  I thought maybe my phone wasn't loading it correctly, so I got on the computer a few minutes ago and same thing. But after more research, they are dumping 2 paychecks into my account tonight.  First is my regular wages the second is that check with the detention and Christmas pay on it. So, tomorrow's pay definitely makes up for the lack of pay last week.  It kind of sucks that all of us drivers have to fight for our pay, keep track of literally everything and have to go after that pay. Otherwise? You are doing work that you aren't getting paid for.

Okay, well the county sent the final bill for the properties I bought. I knew there would be more, the judgements on all of them were either through 2019 or 2020.  So there would be more taxes to pay to get it up to current.  Only one of them is a bit high - the undivided interest property - and it appears they are making me pay the tax bill for the entire 12 acres.  I will be going into the tax office - maybe today - to ask about how this all works.  The other 3 properties are low - $32, $75 and I don't remember the third one but it's basically nothing.  Again, this wasn't unexpected.  I'll be good until next year.  I am hopeful by then I can get something going on at least one of those properties and that is another trip I need to make to the city of Marshall and inquire about zoning, permits and such.  If I could get a decent, older mobile for 5 grand, fix it up and stick it on one of them, that would pay all the money I spent on the properties back in about 8 months time.  After that, it's all profit.  There is a great lack of housing in this town and what is available is way over priced.  I could see charging around $600 per month for an older unit - in decent shape of course, they cover their own utilities etc, but that would be cheap housing at that price.  

I will also be going to look at another property today, it's just outside of town and right off Highway 59. A large portion of it is wetland designated, but there is still, allegedly, enough property to do "something" with it at the front.  It's 14 acres.  The location is ideal. Lots of traffic goes up and down 59 through this town.  I could attract travelers overnight and long term as well.  The price is a bit high for something that has a lot of unusable land at 40k, but it's been on the market awhile. If it were something that could work, I would offer 25k for it and see if they budge.  I mean, people that own properties around here apparently don't care if they sell or not, judging by the amount of time most of them have been listed.  

Well, that's enough.  I need to finish in the kitchen before these people get here and go get stuff done. 

G'day.