 All right, so people have been asking for a lot of updates on the unibomber cabin How's that going along? How how quickly am I gonna be in a woods? That is if anyone doesn't know from my channel I have been looking for land the past couple of actually years I've been thinking about it for quite a while and for the past couple of months I've been looking into plots of land to buy and it's only very recently that I've been able to actually go out and Look specifically at the land that I've been planning to buy for quite a while so I am here in Southern Tennessee. I was about to say rural Tennessee. I mean it's sort of rural depends on your definition of it Not as rural as the rural I'm used to I'll just say that but so I'm here in southern Tennessee I don't want to tell you exactly where I am So just in case I buy one of these places you might know exactly where I am but um Anyway, so I have been here I've only been here a couple days but I looked at so many different lots with different companies and different people today and Now my goal is of course to buy a relatively inexpensive plot of land I'm looking for at least five acres And build a house on it build a cabin on it. I hate I hate the word Tiny home. I hate that term so much. I don't use it I cringe whenever I hear it Not one of them. I'm actually in a tiny home right now. Mind you I'm staring staying at some Airbnb. You want to see it? I don't know if you can't see it It's probably not light enough, but maybe I'll show it to you guys later But um, so I'm in this place, but I'm again I'm looking for a place to build land that is relatively Unrestricted so I can do pretty much what I want and hopefully on as little money as possible So that's the goal just to have I mean I've been moving around so much in the past couple years And I want a place I can just I Sort of want to say call home, but also like have a place where I can store the things that I want and You know a place to either vacation to or just actually just live at That's why I don't just want to have it a tiny little cabin But a place that I could have a whole whole family and I just don't need a McMansion Now anyway, so I've been here been looking at land and now for the first thing you have to realize about looking for land is You should expect this already now I of course knew this Before I came out here, but when you look at land at a real estate website You are looking at what in effect is the tinder bio with the tinder picture And of course it's not going to be exactly how it is on the internet in real life So you have to go out and see now I don't think anyone's actually gonna buy land without going there or at least if they do that's totally ridiculous But yeah, it is important like until you actually get to the place Even if it's it's not that like everything's bad on the internet, but things are just different like you I I made up a bunch of narratives in my head for a lot of these plots. Excuse me plots of land I was interested in uh, you know, I'd be like oh at this place I could do this or that because of this and then I actually see them and realize the the land is like totally different You know what I mean like um But anyway, I'll just talk about the the specific plots that I'm looking at just to sort of externalize my thought process um Now there are three main I now I looked at a lot of places But there are three finalists from today and I'll talk about them And now there aren't they of course aren't the only ones that I'm going to see Um, but uh, we'll just say today there were three now two of them. I met through a Um a real estate company that I contacted and their surveyor took me out to a couple places And um now these two play these two lots that I'm talking about that he showed me They're pretty close. They're sort of in the same neighborhood one is five acres and one is 2.5 Now as I said, I sort of won at least five acres. I could definitely do 2.5 I just might feel a little you know, uh a little constricted in what I do But the way he actually put it the the the surveyor is that you know, sometimes that can be a good thing It's less land to manage and depending on what you're doing You might not actually need all all that land, but I don't know. I I still am sort of vying for the the bigger selection But either way the the five acre place was about twice as much as the 2.5 as you would sort of expect Um, but of course, they're not I mean, they're not even the same in the same league Anyway, they're just different different places every every parcel of land is different. That's one of the reasons you have to see them Now both of these well, I'll I'll start at the smaller one now the smaller one I could buy right now if I really wanted I have enough money to just buy it outright And I could just move in there tonight. I wouldn't have any place to stay Maybe I'd bring some camping gear, but I I could move there right now um So it's it's reasonably priced. I think uh, it is sort of there are a couple things I don't like about it. Um One of course, it's a little smaller another thing is It's shaped like a really narrow rectangle as many plots of land are and the reason I don't like that is I mean, you it makes sense why people do this because You know, sometimes you only have a little bit of area to touch the road with But you want to make that make it a really big plot. So you you know Basically have this, you know cylindrical well Long rectangular shape and it's one of them It's also This might be good or might be bad. It's next to a gas line Um, which I don't it's not like I'm afraid of the gas line blowing up But uh, in fact one of the benefits of having a gas line next to it is that uh, you know, the government or whoever Um keeps it clear and it sort of serves as a driveway in a lot of ways So that that's actually something nice to have Um, so that's there and it although I dislike the shape I could definitely imagine building a house on it It's definitely doable. Uh, and in the back there is sort of Um, this might be a good thing might be a bad thing good thing for decoration There is some water back there. The bad thing is it's a little stagnant It's technically not on my side or the side that would be mine if I bought it. It's on like the guy behind He has some stagnant water, which means of course mosquitoes And there were a lot of mosquitoes at this this location. There aren't too many in tennessee compared to what i'm used to in georgia, but there were a good bit of mosquitoes and Not just at this site, but the one that was the the five acre one that's pretty close. Um, so that's another thing to worry about but um, the 2.5 acre plot it, uh, it, um There is a clearing the cleared out area already So I'd have to clear out less when I build a house, but um, so that's another thing But anyway the the five acre plot it doesn't first off. It doesn't have any cleared area. It's Entirely forested, which of course it's it's nice to have trees But in order to build something I i'm going to have i'm basically going to have to cut out some smaller trees Uh to make a clearing so that I can actually build a house or something like that Um, and it is also totally full of briars all the just all over the place um, they Me and the surveyor were walking through it to get a good view of it. Um, again five acres relatively big Um for you know, just a one for one house, I guess But there were briars all over the place and those were hard going through and although i'm very much against boomer lawn care um One thing that I am going to want to do if I move to a place like that is Remove the briars and honestly just plant whatever in their place. I don't care. Just throw out seeds for something I just want anything but briars so That so that's one negative thing again This place had a lot of mosquitoes as well In the back of it. There was a there's sort of a wash You know that whenever it rains there's water trickling down and there's a stream in the very back So there is moving water in the area That seems to tram that at least appeared to transfer to a lot of mosquitoes sometimes because there was There were some stagnant areas, but it might be nice to have some streams And this land was most of it is pretty flat, which is good for building But at the very end it sort of you have a bluff that goes down Which is nice if I want to cut stuff down I'd be able to have a pretty good view because it's on the side of a mountain so So both of these plots were pretty decent Both of them again are still in the running It's the difference between them honestly comes down to how much money I can get In order to buy one of these or how much money I think it's going to cost to build a house on them And that that's effectively it they are The the covenants that well, I don't think they're really in covenants But they are sort of restricted in terms of what you can build not too restricted Like you just can't have like a mobile home or you know, you can't have wheels on your house or something like that But you don't have to have a house too big one annoying thing in a lot of places I looked at you basically had to have like a four bedroom house to be able to build in the area. So These these were okay. They had restrictions, but they're not terrible I'll just say that and they're remote anyway and from you know from what I've been talking to people honestly in in real life There are a lot of times where you just build things first and ask questions later or just don't ask the questions and You know for a lot of minor infractions in terms of Zoning restrictions or something The city is either going to look the other way because it's not a big deal or they're just not going to notice realistically speaking Most of those are most of those ordinances are just in place or restrictions are just in place. So You know, you can evoke them if someone is doing something really unreasonable or bothersome to the neighbors So anyway that those are the first two plots now the other one I'll have to say that the other one is number one right now now. It's also so that this other one. I was introduced to by by just basically a random guy I ran into I don't want to tell you exactly how I met him but he You know it came up in conversation that I was in the play in the area looking for land and he said oh, I have 10 acres that I'm trying to get rid of maybe it's now 10 acres is a lot Which is good, I guess But um, he doesn't have a price tag on it yet. So I don't know what exactly he wants for it Now if he wants something that's close to the price of the five acre plot or even less That's great. In fact, I might just immediately try and get a loan and pay for it right now because It's actually pretty great. It's great for a lot of reasons now. It's a little bit more remote than the other places Which can be good and can be bad, you know, we were out there and you You just don't hear anything. There's no cars. There's no anything. So that that's really nice It's not too far away though. It's pretty close. Um Let's just say it's it's within 20 minutes of a university. So it's it's not too far from anything But the the area again 10 acres and it's it's sort of it's it's not cylindrical or it's not cylindrical Why don't why do I say like that? It's not like a very narrow rectangle It is, you know, a big global land So you have lots of road frontage and you have lots of area where you can Build a house that's far away from all you all the your, you know Neighbors or whatever you need to and the really nice thing about this plot of land is that It's nearly all forested, but there's in the middle There is this area that the previous owner before them had cleared out We don't exactly know why but they maybe to build a house or put horses in or something like that. In fact The this cleared out area is fenced off. Yeah, it was probably horses or some other kind of animal It was fenced off. There's still barbed wire And the property itself again is this cleared out area and a bunch of the forest around it So the nice thing is if I were going to build a house here Um It would be I mean the cleared out area now is like there there's brush all over the place So I'd have to clear all that out But it uh, I wouldn't really have to cut down any trees whatsoever Unless I just wanted to and there's plenty of room to build a house build shed build Build a guest house build lots of stuff like there are a couple acres just in this Or probably at least, you know, two or three acres in this cleared out area In addition to to the rest of it. So it's definitely very nice It has now all these places have electric and the first two places had had electric water and gas And this third place had electric and water no gas Apparently everyone uses propane in the area, but it also it has city water and it has a well Um, and they don't know the status on the well. It might be I don't could be poison for all we know But um, you know that that's just another option out there. So the last place is probably definitely my favorite Um, it all depends on how much they they're willing to part with it for now. Apparently they bought it pretty cheap Um, there was some unique land deal. Oh, it's very nice. Uh foggy rain out there. Um, you probably can't see it It doesn't really show up. But anyway, um from what I understand they got this land relatively cheap So they might be willing to part with it for Not not a too expensive price. They haven't put it on the market because they haven't uh, they've just sort of Well, I'll tell you these guys, um They bought it. I think originally to build tiny houses on it To like rent out to backpackers or something like that. But um, they're really just too busy And it's been too much too hard to maintain it And they've just been too busy to actually do anything with it because apparently they have a business that has 80 000 different tendrils and um, they don't want to have to deal with this one. So Um, yeah, so that uh, that might be an option So if they're willing to sell that for they haven't told me a price at all But if they're willing to sell that for a decent level, uh, I would very be I would very be willing to buy it We'll just say that Um, so that's definitely an option and again, there are a lot of opportunities in the area I mean, it's not like well, I shouldn't say there It's not like there are jobs all over the places, but if I have, you know, some of the online income that I have There's also a university nearby That I could feasibly get a job at or some other places as well that I could get a job at Um, just it doesn't have to be anything serious, but Um, just something to pay the bills. Um, but aside from that between having my own land, um, the next step is of course actually building something on it, which Will probably be cheaper than the land. Maybe not by much. It all depends on what I'm doing, but um, so after that, um Yeah, there are a lot just a lot more variables. So there's not really a point to this video You might be able to tell I'm just sort of saying what I think but my impression of the area I'll just say as much is very positive. I think I mentioned before Um, you know, you don't really know an area if you just have looked, you know I I knew I had a mental map of this area very well from all the searching I had done online I was very familiar with all the towns, but until I actually got here. I I didn't realize oh Well, it's all mountainous here and you know from here you can see that and this connects to this and all the stuff Um, so that that's been sort of a an important, uh, addition to my knowledge of the area But my impression of it is overwhelmingly positive. Um You know, of course, I talk to people about what stuff is bad around here and stuff like that, but Um from my coming from where I come from. This is uh, might as well be a paradise um, so of course, I'm not I'm not tacking myself down to this particular area, but um, Yeah, it's definitely been informative coming out here and it's been a good vacation. I guess I'm staying I'm staying in a tiny house, right that I rented from someone But uh, yeah, maybe maybe I'll show you this later, but who cares? That's for another video. Uh, anyway, so this is about it So if you have any questions if you're planning on oh, I'm running out of battery. Perfect Absolutely perfect. Okay. 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