Barb -We have lived in our home in the country for nearly 23 years. Our home is a passive solar envelope style set among shagbark hickory trees. We have enjoyed the country setting at our spacious unique home, but the struggle to keep the downhill gravel drive plowed in winter and and all the summer mowing and upkeep is just that. Also, we don't need to be in a "midpoint" location for commuting to our jobs since we are now both retired.
After looking for already built homes for sale in three different areas in Central Iowa, we decided to purchase a lot in Marshalltown at Cross Country Estates. The lot will still allow us to have open areas bordering our home while also being in town.
We are working with a house plan that is a mix of two different layouts.
Ed - We have lived in this home for 23 years and tried to keep it up and nice. However, it takes 4 hours or more to mow and the driveway is 400 or more feet long. In the winter, the drive can take hours to clean. We have to do tree limb duty everytime we have a storm. We planted 6 apple trees and 2 cherry trees and now we need to do canning and freezing duty every fall. We used to have a 50' by 50' garden until that became too much to handle. Finally, we need to drive 40 miles round trip just to get groceries or go out to dinner. We are retired and want to move to town. Therefore, we have purchased a .75 acre lot in Marshalltown. The paperwork is in the hands of the lawyers right now and should be concluded in a couple of weeks. We have already contacted two banks for 9 month construction loans and are just waiting for cost estimates from the contractors so we can finalize the loan amounts.
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