looking for Eastern Washington house or land, maybe garage conversion.

Well we are moving to help family. Near Wenatchee, looking for petaros, Chelan, orondo, Wenatchee area. We haven't found any affordable homes so far. My wife wants a turn key house, we haven't found many build on lot construction options. But I was thinking about having a garage built then converting it to a home.

We want a simple home with 4 bedrooms. I can complete alot of work. And have experience with construction, but my wife only wants a normal home. All the house designs have all kinds of fluff I don't want or need.

I understand there are code difference that needs to be accounted for. We do not want to keep any part as a garage. May build a barn for storage or skid sheds during the build. Just looking for a simple rectangle with roof, we would like a story and a half. Dose anyone know of this process or plans for this type of home. If we do this build we will start a new topic on it. And will use this topic for the search, and research of the process.

We have found lots with well for 50k-70k, and we have about 50k-90k to spend on a primary residence. We may still default to the property we already have. Which would give us 110k to build with, but it has no well or septic. It would  have to be off grid, and I have no problem that. But it puts us almost too far away from family.

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Brian
3HR

Still looking, considering a house in town. And with our 40 acres farther north, we will be closer so to have it be more useful. We can focus on tree crops and long term planning, and as a camping get away. May still be looking at a new manufactured home on a lot. But I haven't been able to find much info on using a garage plans as a house.

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Brian

Trolling, real estate sites and Craigslist. Driving around looking for houses for sale. It's 4+ hours to the area, and we have a absolutely fantastic agent Roger wells of Huber real estate. We have found a few 2 acre locations, but are still looking.


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3HR

Well I think we may have found a place. 2 acres with river front, just waiting for a response from seller. All the background came up good, have to see how it goes through inspection.

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3HR

Just found your post, glad to hear you might have found something.

In case it doesn't I wanted to post this link http://dirt-cheap-dirt.idxbroker.com/idx/search/basic

Which is how I ended up finding my land in Okanogan Co.

There is a a lot of ability to put in search criteria to narrow your search.

Good luck hope you get the right place for you.

Thank you Devin, another way to search always helps. We were able to go see the house today and have the inspection done. It a fantastic 2 acre parcel, mature walnut trees. Two barns and a shed, fully fenced pasture with irrigation water. My wife loves the house even though it needs work. Turned out to be bigger than stated, 1400sq with 1000sq unfinished basement.
          The best part is to come, 200 ft of riverfront non flood plain. We counted 6 types of birds, large trees on the river bank. The owner never used ac because with the river and tree canopy heat was never a problem. My wife is already planning my projects.

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3HR

Check out the new topic on the purchase and development of our new homestead.

https://permies.com/t/110258/permaculture-projects/home-HR-journey-freedom#902072

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3HR

We just launched The Permaculture Properties Project which lists properties of interest to permies. (I am not a real estate agent. This is a not-for-profit project).
It covers the US at this point. We will link additional page w/raw land offerings soon.
See link here: https://padlet.com/jmwallacephd/ppp
Anyone can post properties of interest.
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