There's been some activity at the property. They finished all the utility set up at the pads. They also put in this funny looking setup for the meters, big thing looked like something out of the Minecraft game. The waiting game is on for that, it will be a while before the power company does their thing and gets power strung to it.
I called the address company- they give addresses to properties that don't have one - and got that rolling. They said up to 10 business days. I would have done it sooner but their restrictions dictated a building or a power meter setup plus a driveway before they will give one. Well, I have the meter setup- they told me I didn't have to have power to it yet.
After all the calling around, I was going to pull the trigger on a building and get that going. Just need it on the property and need to get the interior set up on it and get whatever I want in it. But, this morning I was looking again on Facebook Marketplace. I contacted a person over in Louisiana - the state line isn't that far from me even tho I'm in Texas.
The man contacted me back later on and we talked on the phone for quite a while. He does not order pre made buildings from a factory. I builds them on site. With much heavier duty materials, much longer lasting setup. He says they build 5 of them per day. Those things really aren't that much, which is why I balked at the pricing and hence, the reason I kept on looking. I was at $6,500 ish range for a 12X16 with another company, the cheapest I had found and what I was going to just eat it and get it.
This dude? 12X20 for $4,100. The cheapest 12X20's I saw were in the 10 to 12k range. I did a lot of looking, this stuff isn't cheap even tho there isn't that much materials involved with it.
I was immediately sold on this guy's product. He was the first one that could go down a list of things that are wrong with the factory build stuff and the cheap materials they are using and he knew outright those lots selling manufactured stuff were far more expensive than his setups. Look, at that price? I'm good. No down payment and low monthly payments. I'm trying to keep as much cash as possible, but a building was not an option, I have to have one.
Oh, and the water department at the city told me they wouldn't turn on the water without an address. Period. It was the day after the contractor got the electrical done and got that meter setup going. Hence the fact that I am finally getting a street address, much needed, has been much needed and there was little I could do about it. I was holding out on a building because I really didn't want to pay that much money for one. I could have put a building up to get an address without any power setup.
Next, I found online a "thing" you attach to the back of your 4 wheeler that you drag behind it. It has tines on it and it digs up the roots of weeds. I want to try that before I go pulling the trigger on some expensive piece of machinery that I really don't want to get into payments on right now.
Tractor Supply in town supposedly has one, I'm going over there tomorrow to see. I have the rest of today - Saturday - off and all of tomorrow off. I intend on hooking up the trailer and going to Lowe's and getting the materials for the bridge.
OH!!! My AC on my vehicle! I took the SUV over to a garage after trying 2 other places to take it to - they were booked up for a week and called others. This guy put a vacuum on the system, got the air out and then filled it with freon. Walaaaah. It works! NO $1,700 worth of labor to fix it. The other shop? Were they lying to me? I don't know. The charge was $181 with this guy and so far, I have ice cold air on both air conditioners in the vehicle. It's a Ford Expedition EL - it's the long version, it has to have 2 AC systems to cool it.
Anyway, I'm being called by family to do something, I'll write more later.
