Ok, actually I guess it’s not really a “real” first step. More like lifting your foot and starting to move it in the right direction…
None the less though:
I am excited! Very excited!
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After 5 long years for waiting, searching and waiting some more, we found out land is finally going to be for sale a couple of towns over. The only reason we couldn’t build our house yet (as many of you know we already have it planed out with the building company of our choice) is the fact that there was simply no land for sale around here. (Ok, that’s not completely true, there was one spot in those 5 years – ONE! – right next to the cemetery. So yeah. Thanks – but no thanks.) And while Lillian’s idea of “just building the house in our basement” seems rather charming, I would really prefer building the house on top of some land we own. Building a house in the basement would probably not please our landlord. 😉
So here’s what we know so far (taken from our newspaper):
Picking land (things blurred out are simply street and city names. Since this is a public page I’d rather not have strangers know where we are going to live 😉 ).
What’s going to happen is that come summer this year (at least if they stick to their time plan) we will be able to apply to get a spot of the land you see in the picture posted above. Like Chris already explained in the post below this one, our city has a certain point system. If we have the most points, we get to pick first (probably not going to happen, lol). If we have the second most points we get to pick a spot second. You get the idea. Since we want a “stand-alone”-house and not one that shares a wall with the neighbors the 6 spots in the middle of the picture are not of any interest to us. Which leaves us with 8 spots to pick from. Let’s hope no more than 8 people apply for the land (kinda unlikely, huh?) and if they do, let’s hope we can still get enough points to get a spot (since we have 3 kids the odds aren’t all too bad).
The land for sale in the picture above is about 10 minutes away from where we live now in a small, little, sleepy but very cute village. We went to visit the land and it is flat (which is great) and right next to it are some tennis courts (also great cause you know you won’t get some huge building built there that will blog your view.). The streets bordering it are very quiet and there is almost no traffic. There are pretty much no houses around but a bunch of open fields (of course that can and most likely will chance in the future as people always build more and more, but for now it’s very rural). It sounds very, very, very good!
We are super excited. We’ve been waiting for this since we moved here (remember – 5 years!) and it seems like it’s finally happening. As more stuff happens we will be updating this blog, so if you care about this, stay tuned 🙂 And wish us luck for the application progress! 🙂
That’s all for now people. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the Happy Dance! YAY!
