White Elephant

too larry

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I've said before that only two things scare me. To be old and poor and a woman with a gun. Yesterday I took steps that might make one of those fears come true. But let me start at the beginning.

In 1971 or there about my aunt sold 40 acres {minus the river} without letting anyone in the family know it. {the river ran through the land on the diagonal, so over 1/4 mile of riverfront on both sides} The 23 acres on our side of the river was sold to a retired Air Force Col. while everything across the river got cut up into lots. The Col. and his wife came to be good family friends. They both died in the last 15 years or so and their daughter has been living there since. Her husband died a couple of years ago, then Micheal wrecked this house, as well as her place on Lake Seminole. {she bought a tiny home and is living on the beach at Carrabelle}

She couldn't get anyone to cut the dozen or so trees on the house. It was about 6 months before that was done and it got tarped. She's 72 and not getting around as good as she was. As hard as it is to find trustworthy workmen, she figured she would never be able to live there again. A few months back she ask Sister if we wanted to buy the place for 60K. We said yes, but she wanted to think on it some more. We didn't want to rush her, so haven't been pestering her. But someone called her about a right of way, {there is 2 acres behind us that I'm going to try to buy} and made an offer of 85K. She said we needed to at least match that. We settled on 85.5K with 1.5K more for contents. Wrote the check and signed papers yesterday.

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too larry

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So it's 23 acres with the house? Does this property adjoin your current property? Can you rehab the house? Estimate?
Sister and I own the land to the north and south, each a 1/4 mile. So 3/4 of a mile of riverfront {minus the 2 acre triangle}. Right now the wife and I are giddy as school kids. We are talking of living on the river and leasing the house on the hill. The roof is the main thing that has to be repaired. I'm guessing around 15K for that.
 

too larry

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The pump has it's own meter. The cost is about 25 bucks a month, or 300 a year. It's about 75 yards across a slough, but I think we will run wire from the house. Might cost a little, but in the long run it will be cheaper. The well is artisan, so it will flow without power, but to get up to the house, the pump is needed. A tree took down the meter and the light company won't rehook it until we get an electrician to put it together and we get it inspected. I want to avoid all that.

The pump is about 8' off the ground, like all the others along the river. We've had 100 year floods every few years. The big valve that goes to the slough leaks, so this whole area was alive with bees in the flowers.

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too larry

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The pump has it's own meter. The cost is about 25 bucks a month, or 300 a year. It's about 75 yards across a slough, but I think we will run wire from the house. Might cost a little, but in the long run it will be cheaper. The well is artisan, so it will flow without power, but to get up to the house, the pump is needed. A tree took down the meter and the light company won't rehook it until we get an electrician to put it together and we get it inspected. I want to avoid all that.

The pump is about 8' off the ground, like all the others along the river. We've had 100 year floods every few years. The big valve that goes to the slough leaks, so this whole area was alive with bees in the flowers.

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The pipe going to the house is busted, so I need to work on that next week. Also want to get the slough full of water as soon as I get it cleared out a little. I walked it today. Lots of broken cypress trees in the 25-30 foot range.
 
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