A lot of your questions will be answered by checking the zoning. It sounds like you're already going there.
Check for flood plains. I'll look up the website in WA. There's probably a similar one in OR. We've been saved from going too far on a piece of property by checking this first.
I see that LF already said this, but I'll keep it in...Write a short list of must-haves and a longer list of nice-to-haves and a longer list of wouldn't-that-be-cools and put them all in a weighted spreadsheet so you can score properties when you go see them. Average the scores of everyone involved to get the score for that property. This does a few things: everyone who's involved can score separately, you weight the must-haves heavily, so the nice-to's and cools have to be very very high to outweigh the musts. You also can give the must-have list to a real estate agent and tell her you don't want to see any property that doesn't have all of those things (make them work for their commission!).
CopperMoon will be looking for land that meets many of your requirements too, hopefully sooner than you, so we can share info. Or, maybe we can explore actually sharing..
Check for flood plains. I'll look up the website in WA. There's probably a similar one in OR. We've been saved from going too far on a piece of property by checking this first.
I see that LF already said this, but I'll keep it in...Write a short list of must-haves and a longer list of nice-to-haves and a longer list of wouldn't-that-be-cools and put them all in a weighted spreadsheet so you can score properties when you go see them. Average the scores of everyone involved to get the score for that property. This does a few things: everyone who's involved can score separately, you weight the must-haves heavily, so the nice-to's and cools have to be very very high to outweigh the musts. You also can give the must-have list to a real estate agent and tell her you don't want to see any property that doesn't have all of those things (make them work for their commission!).
CopperMoon will be looking for land that meets many of your requirements too, hopefully sooner than you, so we can share info. Or, maybe we can explore actually sharing..
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