Searching for land.

The frustrating problem with hunting for affordable land is: if it's cheap, there's a reason. Like, it's on top of a mountain and can only be accessed by helicopter, or it's in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road with two-foot-deep ruts, or it's on a floodplain that floods every year, or it's in on a lake where it blizzards constantly 6 months of the year. Or, if by some miracle it's sort of inexpensive and in a nice area, it's in a homeowner's association, or it's tiny, or the county building permits have severe requirements to meet that pretty much makes it impossible for people to build on their own. (Okay, because I know this isn't obvious: I am not talking about owner-builder or whatever, I'm talking about literally building your own house.) Or, it's on a beach on sand. If it was simple to build on sand my family could be living in Washington right now. :\

All those "ORs" aren't random. They're taken from properties we've looked at. :P