Raw Land, Now What??

After visiting the parcel we wanted to purchase at LEAST a dozen times, maybe more, between April and July, the deal was done, the contract was signed, and we could now do whatever we wanted with our land. (many counties in Missouri have no zoning, so the land is yours to do with as you wish, so long as you don't contaminate it). We do have a FEW restrictions on our parcel, as we are in a small subdivision of 5 acre parcels. Basically no junk cars, no semi trucks/trailers, and someone told us no swine, but that's not exactly what it says in the covenants and restrictions portion of our contract...it basically says not to bother the neighbors with obnoxious sounds or smells. We don't plan on any swine at the moment, but we did bring our 5 hens from our previous property with us, two horses, four dogs, a dozen cats, and a bunny rabbit, oh, and can't forget our two ducks!

So first things first, the property is ours, and we have a well and septic, SOMEWHERE in the mess of tall grass, briars and what looks like may have been a driveway...we don't have a tractor anymore, sold it a few years ago to buy a pickup truck, so called a guy with a tractor and bushhog. $300 later we can see that yes, there was a driveway at one time, but it was nothing more than a dirt track, going to need gravel. Found the well, time to get it set up to actually give us water! Found the septic, NOT where we thought it would be...the dreams of where we were going to put the house will need to change a little. Called the electric company and got our power on and a switch on the outside light pole to turn it off when we don't want to use it (sometimes we like to use the telescope).

Brought our camper out for the first weekend after the land was cleaned up so we could get working on that well and clean up all the brush and sticks that got mowed over. It was a hot summer day and we were glad we purchased the lot with the trees! We cleaned up what was to be our yard, cooked dinner on the grill, and then settled in for a quiet evening of dreaming.

Out dear God, what is that sound???! The junky place behind us has a big rig backing in, it's loud and sounds practically right on top of us. We keep hoping the thing will turn off...nope, it ran ALL NIGHT LONG! The next morning we got up from a NOT sound sleep, went outside and wondered WHAT had we gotten ourselves into?! We had done our due diligence, we'd visited the property at all times of the day, evening, weekends, visited the neighbors who lived in the area, and there was NO indication that we would be sleep-deprived upon purchasing this piece of land. :(

We packed up the camper, threw the dogs in the truck and headed back to our current home, wishing we'd not bought the place. Time to rethink this decision.

Basically you can see the beginnings of the well being put in on the right, and in the background to the left you can see the semi trailers on the property behind us.