Forty Acres In North Idaho, Now What Do We do?
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Forty Acres In North Idaho, Now What Do We do?
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Hey Josh, congrats and good luck. One suggestion, stay away from using the name Cottonwood. Too many negatives for folks who know how crappy they can be in the PNW.
I live in an area of 5 acre lots, it should be at least 10 acres per lot and only 1 road, in my opinion. Good luck with the project.
Saw you on Good Simple Living channel..Nice of you to help them out.
They are some great people
Nice update neighbor! Wish you all the best of luck with the project and a merry Christmas!
Glad to see you got your snow Josh! It made it to 40 here today! Hope your feeling better soon.
Thanks, I'm starting to feel better
Life changes and you have to roll with it. Looking forward to following along.
Just found the channel; good stuff. Happy new year from Michigan
Looking forward to watch this series 👍🏻 good luck Josh
HA ! Six tiny petri dishes, too funny ! Great video and keep them coming !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great to see you back again. Sure it would be great to keep 40 acres for yourself but you gotta do
What you gotta do. How about Cottonwood Acres with Cottonwood Lane/Drive North, South, etc.
All the best with the project..
You lost me at subdivision and killed me with HOA.
Yeah....I hate hypocrites.
Look forward to seeing how this goes... great days to you and your family !
Subdivision: Bonner country Manors
or Idaho prairie place
E/W: Forty acre Drive
N/S #1: Cottonwood Lane
N/S #2: Pine Road
I really like "Pine Rd"
Retreat Ln
NoRidge Ln
1st Line Dr
2nd Line Dr
40 acres sounds like the right size for one home.
The logs will make ok firewood. Hire/buy a firewood processor and stack up all the wood you will ever need.
Used IBC totes are great for firewood. Remove the tubs and fill the cages that you then stack three high. You can also cut the center out of the totes and screw them to a pallet and then fill it with firewood.
I love the idea of "Retreat Ln" and it
Looks like we are going into the firewood business for the next three life times!
Since you like Retreat Ln, do the CA thing- Meditation Ln, Ying & Yang Ln or Chalkra Ln, Mother Earth Ln & Father Sky Ln, Peace & Tranquility Ln. Healing Woods.
@@poltex6188 Think prepper, seclusion, self reliance, homesteading.
i know this area well! Sandpoint is an amazing community, take your time before you sub and flip.... the place has exploded since the 90s when i moved there....
its a good investment NO DOUBT.
HOA?
Oh boy, you are headed for problems.
I am from Bonners Ferry and I am so glad I got away feom Idaho. Cant take the cold un the winter and the heat in the summer.
Good luck to you
To where did you move?
Well Josh, all I can say is congrats! Wish I was over there now to help you get it going. I would suggest making it 7 parcels and keep a 10 acre spread for yourself. Road names . . . hmmmm . . . I don't think Train Horn Echo Rd is taken yet ;).
Uncle Gregg! Train horn echo road, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard
Yay. We're down in the valley. Would love 5 acres up north.
Come on up! I would love to show you around.
Dude..............a sub???? Really???? :( Keep the 40 brother!
Josh!!, happy for you guys!! I’m excited to see all this develop, who knows we could be neighbors!!! Hope you and your family are doing well !!
If you can’t afford to build your own place, how can you develop a subdivision?
I would suggest selling lots. Maybe improving them with septic and wells and power if it’s nearby. An HOA will limit buyers. Avoid it like the plague.
Build one road thru the middle. 4-8 lots on one street. Not 3.
I would see about renting a huge whole tree chipper and chip the trees and use the mulch around your new subdivision and the road ways that you build on either side of the roads that's just a idea
Mike Duffy
ANOTHER Smart Guy with the right idea!!!
I like your channel because you are real and have lots of wonderful children. This project is somewhat disturbing when I realize what people want with regards to internet and all the amenities. Its real today and no way around it. I will keep tuned and see how you progress. Good presentation and we are big fans.
@essentialmountainhomesteading I came from arms family ...Forget the naysayers! Some people do not understand that 1 blessing given is 10 blessings received! Few situations are ever 100% ideal and people who get that know to play the best game with the hand received. One suggestion regarding the cottonwood trees is to not burn, but rather grind and create a compost heap. Another suggestion regarding areas where flooding is a possibility is to plant edible vegetation that thrive in those areas/ or build your duck run or pig run etc in those areas.
Well said
We have CCR’s on our n Idaho property. They Saved our property value one time. There is always someone who shows up wanting cheaper property for heavy commercial use.
Just make them basic, and not restrictive for the “individual”, or “family”
Our ccr’s are very very reasonable...They were written up by a N Idaho native..not some Californian developer making property for his ski buddies..which helps too.
I really like some of your thoughts on CCRs, send me an e-mail and let's get together sometime
Saw you on Red Poppy Ranch talking with Heath , started following you also . Wish you much luck
For major brownie points, insert wife's first name before Acres and name the streets after the kids.
That's a good idea, I could probably get life time of brownie points for a move like that.
I love that idea.
Wow this will be an awesome subdivision . What about Cottonwood forest?
Mountain Drive, Homestead Lane, Essential Road? Look forward to more!
Wow...you guys never do stuff small. I like it! Cottonwood Heights. Rabbit Trail , White Horse Lane, Prairie Dog Way
Will be following this series closely because an similar opportunity has been presented to me and my family. Please don't leave out the business side of the process.
If you want to talk business feel free send me an e-mail and Ill get you my number. let's talk!
Very cool video and channel. Looks like an awesome place. Best of luck. I subscribed to your channel✌️
See if you can do hydropower there. Agree with the underground stuff as other said, though I would recommend installing permanent conduits so you can run stuff without tearing up the ground later. And on the internet issue, I would recommend seeing if you can tap into a fiber trunk rather than run it all local fiber off of a radio tower, because all those lines will have the latency that comes with wireless.
I would keep all the land for myself
Im thinking this would be the best idea.....or move on to somewhere else. Shame all those cottonwoods are kind of useless. Life is a constant lesson. Im 54 and still learning!
Chris your sitting on gardening a gold mine. Rotting wood so perfect,
Great plan Josh! You will have them sold before they are built. Also, keep them to single story...2/3rds of your buyers are retirees who no likee stairs! ~Kory
It's always a good thing to mark a new settlement/division as soon as possible. Putting up an emotions-anchorpoint like a first building or a lasting, distinctive gate or tower helps to envision what it's like to live there, and will later remind the neighbours of what has been achieved.
If enough people are interested, you could get them together and see if they have mutual ideas and creative or practical power to make the subdivision their own. It helps to get used to each other, bond and build up some social connections.
I agree with you on that and we are planning to build a spec house in the neighborhood first thing next spring
You need to use the cottonwoods for mushroom compost. Cut and split it down to where it can be chipped and the reground into media for mushrooms. If it's growing them now, under the right conditions it should be great. There should be a market for that not to far away.
Five acre lane. Five acre pastures. Five acre meadows. Some names
Check out some of our newer videos for updates regarding this property!
My two cents for names. Mountain View, Cottonwood Glen. Meadow Woods
Holy Moly! Go big or go home... wait, you are home.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys are going to be doing with this upcoming project, I wish I could be back in Idaho, but i just got approval for a home loan here in the area that i'm at now, i tried getting a transfer to Spokane, but my company said no...oh well.
Children need to build up their immune systems, the only way this can happen is if they catch colds. Theoretically it eases off after age 6 but at the beginning of the school year they will catch colds.
Snowy Point subdivison. Frosty Street, Cottenwood Lane and Wild Man Street.
Why would you build a subdivision with 5 acre parcels and have a HOA and CCR? Is that some bogus requirement by the county or something? I would never ever buy a house in a neighborhood that has a HOA or CCR. Did that once and never again. I think that will only hurt you making it much harder to find buyers. I would also build each site with its own septic and well. With 5 acre parcels that shouldn't be a problem.
I came here from Red Polly Ranch and very eager to see how this will turn out. Good luck!
cottonwood may not be the best firewood but cured it burns well. Not it doesn't burn as hot but when it is easy to get. you might get some one who is not able to get wiiil to take some. We just moved back to clearwater county on 40 undeveloped so love listing to you . my wife is trying to youtube our journiey also.
Use the poles for the fence around the plots. Valley rd. River way. mountain Ave. I am so Happy for you just wish we could live there.
Looking forward to following this adventure..
Great area up there. My daughter lives in Bonner’s - it reminds me of the mt hood forest area down here in Oregon.
Your daughter has excellent taste in where to live. We like bonner's but we felt like the schools for the kids are better in sandpoint so here we are.
Say Hello to Cody of WranglerStar
Flat land is absolutely cheaper to live with than hilly land. We spent thousands to create two flat spots that were big enough for dry lots for our horses. Our pastures and everything else is on a slope.
As far as the subdivision, ours is way out in the country, and we have fiber optic and underground electricity. One thing we demanded of the developer was a perk test before we would buy -- he never thought of it. He also put in shared wells so they had water. It costs 35,000 to drill a well here, so five or six homes share each well. Also, once you get the road done you may want to petition the township to annex it so they will take over the maintenance.
And lastly, how about Mountain Homestead for the subdivision and Essential Lane as the main road in.
Greetings, Just subscribed I'm really curious to see this project.
Next yr. I plan on moving to Bonners Ferry or outside of Sandpoint
Send me an E-mail and let's talk.
Nice
Great informative video. It’s a shame u can’t use those logs. Look forward to seeing future videos re: the property!
My first consideration would be, drafting a business plan, excluding banks. But, if you are committed to heavy infrastructure, before taking care of your personal needs, the venture appears risky.
Thanks Josh! I appreciated the update! That is a lot of work and you have a lot of work ahead of you, but you can do it! I look forward to you taking us along on the ride! Good luck, my friend! How about Homestead Acres for the subdivision name?
I really like the idea of having homesteading in the name some where,
Mountain homesteading Drive?
@@EssentialMountainHomesteading To me, Drive is a street name, not a subdivision name. In my suggestion, I was trying to keep it simple and easy to remember while including part of your YT name in it and since the lots are 5 acres. That part of the name seemed logical. In your video, the land seemed pretty flat with a little elevation gain, but not a mountain. If you want it to include most of your YT name, go for it, it's your project. How about Homesteading Acres? The complete last word of your YT name, but still simple and easy to remember. Rule #1 in advertising (which you are and will be doing) is Simple Sells! Think of all the popular, effective advertising slogans. They are all short and easy to remember. Coke it it, Where's the beef, Just do it, etc......you get it. Also, it seems some people in the area have a negative view of subdivisions and I think any name with the word "Homesteading" in it helps to soften that stigma. Just keep it simple! Just my 2 cents. :)
Josh, I just ended a 6 year legal battle with a HOA and CSD. Please, do not do a community septic system. Let everyone do their own septic system even if it's an engineered system. Never listen to Attorney's, they are all a bunch of incompetent liars. Read the local laws and ordnances to understand them. Write your own CC&R's and keep it to a minimum. All you really need in your CC&R's is road maintenance and nothing more. Keep it simple my friend.
That's good advice, thank you!
We are looking to move up that way this summer how much $
Send me an E-mail and let's talk
Unity Subdivision / Unity Project - Liberty Lane, Freedom Way, Trust Circle....Blessings to you on your vision. Cheris
How about "Sand point Windbreak." Instead of connecting to the grid, make the lots power self-sufficient? You cant use any of those trees for building?
Windbreak, I like it!
Subdivision; --"Essential Mountain Homestead", or MountainStead At least
Essential Ave,
Cottonwood Point would connect the subdivison to it's close location to Sandpoint. Cottonwood Lane could be the main road through. Cottonwood Drive, Cottonwood Place, Cottonwood Circle, Big Sandy Point, Little Sandy Point, Sandpoint Landing
Ten acres tracks would give the possible new buyer that since of-freedom, just a suggestion. Maybe not building just yet let a new owner build there own ? I know I could never find a house the way I wanted it ( still looking) hard to build a house that everyone would like to own ( my opinion) but I know I don’t own it so hope you are able to make it all work . New to your channel and as always I am a day late and a dollar short! 😂
Why dont U do a ad in the paper come cut you a truck load of firewood for free or $20 a load. People would gladly pay it that dont have access to a place to cut firewood.
That's a great idea, I'm on it!
We feel you here..Kid’s first year of school..sick 80% of the time.
So True is your comment , but not a nice thing to say .. I been there and Now its just what Hubby and I pick up from the oldies like ourselves.. Cant win .. Drink lots of Lemons and Honey or better yet add a sniff of Rum..By the way love watching you work and your Knowledge , You and Red Poppy Ranch.Hi ! Sell the lots you want to get rid and then you build the homes , custom style. ...or they buyers can come up with home designs and you build... .Ninette Bird- The Caribbean Wife.
An HOA for the road’s upkeep only. Desperado Blvd. Mountain View Ln. and Log Cabin Ct. Call the property Birch Meadow.
I would use as much of that wood as possible for Swedish/Norwegian style fencing. Even if its short lived to split lots and roads.
Hi, the adventure begins.
That wood has so many uses even tho nobody wants to buy it.
I've read many great suggestions below.
I don't know your skill set but some of that wood is good for making furniture.
All are good for temporary projects.
You sure will appreciate some woodchips within the first year. Bag some to sell.
Burning it just to make it disappear should not be an option.
Maybe not the job you really were looking for.
Such a big task to subdivise your 40 acres. I can feel a sens of rush into this direction. I would suggest to take it slowly.
Homesteading? Are you sure you can have the animals you want on 5 acres? In my area there needs to be a minimum of 10 acres (needs to be bigger if your house is on it) if someone wants a cow on that property.
I see a few Entrance arch ways with some of those Logs. :)
That's a great Idea!
I would think the cost of putting in utilities would be huge..Would they let u subdivide it into 4 10 acre lots and just sell them individually?
Utilities are not bad, we could spilt just about any way we want as long as the lots are no smaller then 5 acers.
Good for you that’s wicked kool how much is a small piece of land out there
Raw land is around 10k per acre
Here’s a name( Homestead Meadows) and some street names Carve Wood, tumbleweed, arrowhead.
So basically you're looking for people to pay off the land and make you a profit... But since you don't have the funds to pay off the land by yourself I would be very concerned about shared septic, road and fire maintenance.... Especially since you the developer plan to sell and move... Doesn't appear to be a wise investment... Looks like someone out to take the funds and leave... Is there an escrow account for the shared septic maintenance, fire prevention and road maintenance... If so how much is in that account??? How can people be assured they won't be abandoned ??? Legally assured not just hot air???
40acres! Hoot hoot! So happy for you and your family!
will you allow chickens on the properties
As god is my witness I will make sure animal's are definitely going to be aloud
And rights protected.
You have the makings of a great mushroom farm with that pile of logs...or you could use them in a permaculture system I believe they call hugoculture to create a little topography and privacy while having great planting mounds.
Sad to see only 5 acre lots. 20 acres would be a nice size for homestading
Buy 2
I wouldn't burn any of that logpile cuz there's a lot you could use it for fencing.
Cottonwood summer clean up Street LOL! we have a 200 year old cottonwood and hate the 2 week clean up! looks like snow
Can you make mulch out of the cotton wood trees?
I feel for ya. Im a GC also. I was putting together a team for the first sub division in Eagle mountain out of Salt lake in the early 90s. Had a civil engineer, model homes (Brochures) and realtors and designing the subdivision and all the rules with it caused our investors to run off..lol. Im glad I didnt follow thru with it. Its a good size place now 24 yrs later.
I grew up close to Eagle mountain and I would love to hear what you had to put up with there to get things done even back 25 years ago
@@EssentialMountainHomesteading Survey measurements wrong for the Plat drawings, perk test soils test issues on where we could run utility lines. Unincorporated at the time so Utah county dragging their feet on timelines. Investors arguing over what style homes they wanted in there and the pricing. I think a bigger company Ivory homes was wanting to grab the deal so it seemed odder as time went on. Then it was discovered one of the investors was a NEW recruited cocaine addict so we spent time getting him out of the deal. weeks turned into months and it fell apart. Hopefully Idaho is better to deal with.
Open space was a new thing back then for subdivisions too. I thought its a good idea so the kids can have a place to play but others didnt want to give up the space for homes were more lucrative.
Josh just checked in and wow what a great homestead community you could achieve --- i like Reds journey and jesse and alyssa * they are "expecting now" Nick and Ester Fouch and i couldnt help but thinking of one of my favorite songs when you said you needed some street names which ive highlighted in (---).. i couldnt resist..the temptaion to suggest these...lol please hear me out you may be inspired to sell me the lot on old dirt road one day!!!?lol out past where the blacktop ends.. we'd walk to church on sunday mornin race barefoot back to the johnsons fence..lol anyway heres my names just for entertainment purposes... ps im a singer...but not a very wealthy one..lol / i can build ,service, and operate any equipment and can build anything electrical, hydrolics, pnuematics, diesel , gas, wind ,solar," you name it ive done it".. i come from an area in Virginia known for the Mercury Space Missions and We Build Ships and Nuclear Subs/Aircraft carriers etc...so if i could work off the price a bit let me know "im serous"..!!! 47Robert-Lovell----0000757-803-77310000-------the song is Almost Home..by Craig Morgan// He had plastic bags wrapped round his shoes
He was covered with the evening news
Had a pair of old wool socks on his hands
The bank sign was flashing "5 below
It was freezing rain an spittin' snow
He was curled up behind some garbage cans
I was afraid that he was dead
I gave him a gentle shake
When he opened up his eyes
I said, "Old man are you ok?"===He said, "I just climbed out of a (cottonwood tree)"
I was runin' from some (honey bees)
Drip dryin' in the (summer breeze)
After jumpin' into (Calico creek)
I was walkin' down an( old dirt road)
Past a (field of hay) that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
Cause I was (almost home)Then he said, "I was just comin' round the barn"
Bout the time you grabbed my arm
When I heard Momma holler -son hurry up
I was close enough for my own nose
To smell (fresh cobbler) on the stove
When I saw daddy loadin' up the truck
(Cane poles) on the tailgate
Bobbers blowin' in the wind
Since July of '55
That's as close as I've been.....He said, "I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree"
I was runin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
Cause I was almost homeI said, "old man you're gonna freeze to death"
Let me drive you to a mission
He said, "Boy if you left me alone
Right now I'd be fishin'He said, "I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree"
I was runin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
Cause I was almost homeMan I wish you'd just left me alone
Cause I was almost home Almost Home Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I wish almost home---Songwriters: Craig Morgan / Kerry Kurt Phillips
subbing that out is such an asshole move
What? I just took 40 Acre from one family ownership to 8 family's having ownership. The only asshole is the guy that wants to keep it all for himself.
Woodstock lane 1 2 and 3...
I would not use the word cottonwood it's associated with water and that would be a negative reminder water is great to drink but not so good to live around
Whoa! What happened to your mountain property you bought originally, with the lake/pond? Interesting change of events. Hey fire wood is fire wood, hope people take advantage, that's a ton of work done already! We burned cotton wood, just add creosote log to the burn every week... burns hot, long...(in the right stove) ashy, but free... can't beat that.
Looking forward to the next ones. Been out of town in Denver for birth of new niece... catching up. Smiles and blessings Essential Mountain family.
We still have our 10 acres and plan on keeping it and building a house up there.
When God gives you lemons make lemonade mushroom farm with that wood lol
Cottonwood Meadows. Birchwood Lane, Back Forty, Birch Breeze, oh what fun!!
I love cottonwood meadows
@@EssentialMountainHomesteading awesome, thanks! me too! Especially since you gave us a drone view!
I would never buy in a HOA.
Blue Skies road
Hugel mounds. Great wood.
North of Sandpoint.. perhaps go with a Scottish highlands theme. You do have Selkirk Lodge at the local ski resort, so not without precedent. But then its flat, name the streets after your family members, and give the development your last name.. unless you have a really unfortunate last name.. then yeah.. dunno
Sandford Manor
I hate to be a neighbor when a outsider comes in and builds a hoa and crowds up the roads and brings in trouble.
Wow that looks just like northern Maine where I’m from
North 40 would be a cool video series name. As far as the sub division call it "Cottonwood Acres"
I think that's a great idea, what are you most excited about seeing in the north forty video series?
Hey we are possibly interested. We are in athol.
I would love to have you come by and check it out. Send me an e-mail and let's talk.
Why would you do that, I don’t understand this at all. At leas do it in 10 acres.
Good fire wood maybe
What r ur prices looking for the lots?
Are you going to live there as well are you just going to do a basin to be the landowner that's rich who comes in with the payment plan now your developer LOL Scooby-Doo Ranch
Scooby-doo acres? I like it!