My wife and I are getting ready to buy an acre of land (blue box) on the edge town (population 8,700) and are trying to decide how to lay out the place. We have a double wide that is 28’x72’, and the acre is only 100’ wide. Being that we are in New Mexico I would rather not place the long side facing South. There owner to the north is highly unlikely to sell any of the land to increase the width. The owner of the easement and everything south and West may sell, but it would cut into the easement, so i unsure how likely that would be. So i am planning on the likelyhood of this being all the property we will have.
Thats not a great piece of land. Are you sure?
It is the best piece that i have had the opportunity to purchase that was not 6 figures and the owner is not playing games raising the price when i show interest.
Thats fair.
We are trying to balance living in town with being as rural as possible. In doing so we having been living in a trailer park for the last 7 years waiting for the perfect property. In that time i missed the opportunity for our daughter to jefe space to raise goats, and chickens. Something she wanted to do the entire time we were living here. I have given up on the dream of finding the perfect property, and am going to turn what i get into the perfect home.
That’s more than good enough reason. Although, you might have set your price too low, if you took 7 years to find good land.
Are there minimum setbacks from the property line? 72’ long house should fit the 100’ width unless the setback is pretty large. What are you having trouble deciding?
If you want, and can, orient the house N-S, you only need to decide how big you want the front and back yard to be. What’s the view to the west? I can’t imagine you’d want to BBQ looking at your neighbors to the east even if you house was all the way on the west side of the property. Maybe you want the house more to the east and have a nice back yard patio to look into the desert (I’m guessing), maybe put in a pool someday (is there enough water in NM for a pool? Lol)? You don’t want a pool on the street side or near your neighbors.
You could could angle the house if you can’t fit it into the 100’ width in a N-S orientation, but I would orient it in the NE\SW so the morning sun hits the long side of the house and the evening\setting sun has a smaller profile to hit.
I’d go for the house to the west, a big ass garage/shop on the east. You have an access point right at the easement, and your house is islanded out where nothing’s at now. But that’s just me.
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