Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Searching, searching...

I feel like I have been around the world and back and still with no place to land and call home.

Abandoned adobe south of the farm

We spent yesterday driving by properties around Alamosa and north of, hoping to find something that felt right and that offers owner financing. As we look and look, at least our options narrow down to a small handful that is easier to deal with.

It turns out we still can't qualify for financing due to our foreclosure not being two years out yet. As you may know from previous posts, we abandoned our house in Fremont County, Colorado because of the fracking happening around there. Recent research has shown me 16 fracked oil wells around that house now. 16. Within 3 miles or so.

I'm not sad we left, but rather relieved. I hear there is a woman my sister (a nurse) works with who lives in that town we fled. Her four year old has cancer. Yeah, I'm glad we chose life over our credit.

But still, it makes things challenging, or more interesting, as it may be. I just think it gives the Universe more opportunities to create miracles for us. It sure steers me in the right direction as the choices are few and far between.

We have some ideas, still, and are working on them, as far as land ideas. It seems a house is out of the question for a while, unless we can find an owner finance house on land. Those don't happen very often, and they usually want so much money down...money we just don't have access to. So, we can continue to save, or we can buy another piece of raw land a little closer in to a bigger town, which is why we are looking around Alamosa.

Yeah, it's cold here, but it seems it was cold everywhere this winter. Really, really cold. Welcome to reality and the new climate. In this high desert, arid, frigid winter environment, I think we have to be smart and adapt to what is happening. We are reconsidering building an Earthship style house with Earthbags to fight the cold and to utilize the sun. The building codes around here are more open to experimental housing (Kelly Hart built his Earthbag house in Crestone, just one county over from Alamosa). At least the building department knows what an Earthship is, which is a bonus and a step in the right direction. There is no time limit on building either. We just need an engineer stamped set of plans to work from. Fine. We can do that. We can build it. We can even live in a camper while we do it. (Yep, searching for a camper again.)

Isn't life interesting? And even entertaining as we bounce around like a ball in a pinball machine. Where will we end up? In the unknown lies the excitement and the adventure.

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