deciding where to build

Jim & I thought of a whole new angle to our search for a place to build our dream home... We've only considered the possibility of having creeks around our house up to this point. But what about considering LAKES?!

To help speed up the process, I'm spending some time going through the Williamson County Property Appraiser's website looking for vacant property in our favorite areas. You know, land that may have been passed down through the family, or that someone bought as an investment. For whatever reason, they have not built a home on that particular piece of land yet. The plan is to call each of these homeowner and see if they'd be willing to sell that land to us.

The one we like is on Oscar Green Road (technically in Primm Springs, TN... a very tiny community right next to Franklin & Leiper's Fork). The builder/developer met us there so he could show us the boundaries of the property. Good thing he did -- we'd never have made sense of those woods on our own. Anyway... It was SO nice!

After the bad news, we stayed and talked to the guy about a few other pieces of land that he knew were for sale. A couple of them are in some fairly remote parts of Leiper's Fork. We drove our Jeep to one of them today... pretty cool

Oh, the emotions -- the ups & downs, the highs and the lows of looking for property are beginning to take their toll on me. It's like a roller coaster ride & I want off!

You are NOT going to believe this! The 5 acres next to Smokey Joe's Cabin?... SOLD!

We spent the day looking at a few more properties we've passed while driving around Williamson County. But now... nothing compares to the 5 acres next to Smokey Joe's Cabin!

We went out to explore the 5 acres of land next to Smokey Joe's Cabin today. Wow!...

After he told us that Smokey Joe's Cabin was sold, we decided to meet with the developer/log home builder guy to try & get some ideas about pricing and the actual process for building our own log home. He's the expert... been doing it for 20-some years. Until now, we'd never even considered building a log home.

Small world... We met a key player in this process of buying (or even building!) a log home here in Williamson County, Tennessee!

For over a week now, I've rushed home from work most days so that Jim & I could go riding around looking for land here in Williamson County before it gets dark. Yep, we've spent most of our evenings...