Exactly, once we hit a low again then my tax assessment will go down as will materials and labor, that's time to build. In the meantime we paid it off and I'm working on many other projects around here, we have no plans to move and also have great neighbors. I cleared area for the pole building as well as leveled it, I have a few trees to take down that I want to drop into that hole, and I need to drop a few more for the drive that will curve instead of being straight(it will make it easy to sight side into the door when backing a trailer into the main bay. Main bay will be 48' off set to the right side(about 2' left of the right wall for storage) when looking at the 32' gable with a 12 or 14' door, then there will be 3 bays that will be angled off to the left from the main bay/drive in. It drives me nuts when someone had 4 cars in a barn and you need to get one of the back ones out and the others don't run, hopefully I'll never have them stacked up like that with this setup. There will also be two 12' lean-to's one will be for my tractor and all the implements as well as my mower and other yard type stuff and all my tree/climbing/rigging gear and my pole saw. The other will be half saw/sharpening shop and half parking for my wife with a door or doors(French, may be better insulated) between them so in the summer months I can open the shop up and do test cuts, run saws in there, and work on other small one off projects like sharpening my mower blades or working on a mower, I plan on having ac on this side only so...
You're not that old
. I got hit by the one in the early 90's as well, it's cyclical so if one is patient and plans well deals will be there to have again. Plenty of deals to be had now though too as people think these times will last forever and give certain things away for much lower than they should. As far as savings go you don't always save much by buying when the market is low, unless you have multiple places because rents will always be ridiculous when the market is doing well. I just want to be sure that when I build my barn that the tax assessment will be the lowest it can because the tax bills just keep coming
. Who knows maybe we'll just buy another house with more property and a huge barn when the market drops again lol.
We bought this one in 2010, foreclosure also, the Great Recession for some; I called it the half off sale, we got this one for a 1/4 of what it sold for in 1995
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