How to Choose the Right Lot for Your New Home
on May 4, 2015
A few years ago on a nice February day shortly after my wife and I decided to build a new home, I stood up on our lot and surveyed the view. No new homes had been built, the development was covered in ankle deep snow and the view of the woods and lakes was awesome.While I knew the view would not last as homes were built and the development filled in, I didn’t account for one small aspect of our lot’s location. The lot is a pie shaped with the point of the pie curbside along the outside curve of the street. So what you say. What does it matter?
Here’s why it matters:
My 3-car garage requires a larger, wider driveway at the curb. In and of itself, that’s no big deal. What I DID NOT account for in selecting the lot was how the snow plow would throw all that snow on my driveway. Each time the plow comes around the curve, the snow literally flies of the edge of the blade and is piled high and deep on my driveway.A couple of days before I left to travel to the 2012 International Builders Show in Orlando, Florida, it snowed in Birmingham, Michigan. It wasn’t a lot of snow – maybe 6 or seven inches, but it was a heavy, wet snow. So wet in fact my super-charged 24″, dual stage snow-blower couldn’t deal with it. My kids and I ended up shoveling the mountain of snow at the curb by hand. I know, I know, it’s a sad, sob story.
But here’s my point:
Pick your lot and home plan very carefully! There are things you might not account for. Things you will wish you had known. Ask questions of your builder, your REALTOR, and your friends. Don’t end up cussing your choice every time is snows, rains or whatever.
If you have any other questions about building your new home, designing your new home, or just about anything having to do with buying a new home, please visit either my blog or our new home video library. Both are filled with useful information on these topics. Or feel free to contact me by email.
Good luck with your search for that new home. I hope this article will help you!!!
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