Originally Posted by
eblend
Wife and I are members of the antisocial social club, so for her and I it's fine, and my parents keep to themselves as well, plus dad will have more land to grow his beloved tomatoes, which currently take up like 80% of his back yard during the summer. I have been all over the place recently, I am thinking best approach might be to buy a bigger plot of land and hopefully subdivide, so that they would be side by side, but considered two legal entities, we would have our respective buildings without a fence in between, and then eventually can sell a half off when the time comes. Many idea and back and forth on best way to proceed. Going to meet with my buddy who just moved out to an acreage and poke his brain a bit, and going to drive around and get familiar with the areas and see which area we prefer, so far leaning to the south.
Anyone have any idea how much it would cost to build a ~1500 sqf basic house out in in the country, for the structure alone? Currently my parents live in Silverado in that size of a house, and it's worth probably around $400k on a good day...if I paid for their land...is $400k realistic to have a house of same size build out in the country, taking into account the need to get septic/well/connect electricity/gas?
At the moment my thinking is hopefully a 4-6 acre lot, hopefully we can subdivide, and build side by side. I would pay for the full land + build new house for wife and I (nothing crazy, 2000 sqf or something + big shop) and on their portion would just be a house and whatever sheds/greenhouses my dad wants to build himself.