Whooooooo!!!! Not quite a gloat, but awesome anyhow!

[Roger Shoaf]

If you like the neighborhood, give some thought to building on to your house rather than starting from scratch. It appears from your description that the house you bought was built to last.

[Prometheus]

Especially since Bloomer is right next to the Chippewa County forest (a huge hunk of undeveloped forest land for hunting, fishing and whatever else might strike a guy's fancy) I grew up tooling around that forest, and I've still never seen the far side of it, even on an ATV. The folks from the cities love that for thier summer homes, and they *do* drive up the prices.

My apartment had an unattached one-car garage, so I feel your pain! My solution was to get a mini lathe to put in the entranceway, and spend the winter turning. Of course, now I've got the whole basement to play with- I just need to get a dust collector to stick in the garage right away so the wife doesn't get tired of the dust.... of course, she *did* let me have a lathe inside our apartment, so she might not mind anyhow.

Thanks! Lots of looking, and lots of luck. The other ones we looked at were junk piles.

A wife, a dog, and a couple of cats. For now, we're still undecided whether or not we're going to expand the family unit (I've got some nieces and nephews I can borrow, and the wife and I enjoy our quiet and our hobbies)

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[Prometheus]

It sure is, and I may just stay right where I'm at- though I sure would like to design and build my own someday. Time will tell- and I'm not going to complain much if I never get around to it when I've got this place. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

[GregP]

It's sitting on top of clay slurry (that's why they sold it when it's -20 F :-)

[Silvan]

I'm thinking the same. I've spent a fair amount of time poking around in new construction lately, and I'm not impressed at all. Next they'll be building houses out of gobs of toilet paper and popsicle sticks.

[dteckie]

rotted

WOW!!! 75K for a shop with a Home. Major gloat to me!! Where I am can't purchase a 1/4 acre land for less than $100K. He sucketh big time.

[Prometheus]

I've been busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest lately, so this may be a little late- but I wasn't talking about paying someone else to build me a house- I was talking about literally building my own, so the er... "modern"... techniques of housebuilding are fairly irrelevant. Though I know this is a woodworking forum, I'd dearly love to make my final home out of quarried stone with nice stout oak or maple beams connected with japanese-style joinery for the interior framing. Probably not strictly necessary for a residence, but I'd dearly love to leave a home behind me that I built with my own hands that will stand for a thousand years (provided it doesn't get torn down to make room for a Wal-Mart, that is)

Everyone's got to have a goal- that one is mine :)

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[Robatoy]

And a noble goal it is. Godspeed!