Gary MacDermid updates Sam on developing a vacant lot: a well drilled 700 feet deep, a shared 3,000-gallon water tank serving up to four homes, individual septic systems being installed, and three manufactured-home sites being elevated. One Clayton 4-bed/2-bath home is available after a sale fell through. Project should wrap in a few weeks.
Questions this video answers
September 1 (year not specified in transcript).
Just under/just over 700 ft (around 700 ft).
Between about 300 and 400 ft.
3,000 gallon.
Limited to four lots (VA, FHA, USDA financing).
Chapters
All right, so the last time we were here it was back in May. Now it's September 1st and we got what, the two houses on the lots?
Right.
The well is completely done.
Right? Well, with the tanks, the well, two houses. Yeah.
What did the well come out to be? So how big is the well?
They dug down to 700, maybe seven. Just under just over 700ft. They think the water level was probably between three and 400ft. So we wanted to make sure that we dug well below just in case there's some drawdown from some of the. There's like developments everywhere. Stick built another mobile home. Another mobile home. It's just too much going on.
Right, and so you guys got a little bit bigger tank too, right?
Well, I mean we didn't have, I mean we just got a 3,000 gallon tank. I mean we probably could have been fine with 2000. I mean they're going to be shared between only four. With government backed financing you can only share. It's kind of limited to sharing it to four different lots. You could certainly do more than that if you weren't trying to resell these with government backed financing. Va, fha, usda.
Right. Okay. And so now that part the well is done and right now what's happening is the sewer lines are that, Is that right?
Well, so there's no sewer service to this area. But what they did, I don't know if you can see that here there's quite a big hole. So that'll be the, the septic for this house. And, and just so that you know that this is not a road, although it looks like a nice gravel, like it could be a road, it's actually another home site. So we're standing on, we're standing on.
The third home site. There's one home site there and then one home site right behind us as well. And so those two are almost ready. Right.
So yeah, so these are already kind of assembled. I mean that one still has some, some drywall work that needs to be done. And then that one has, let's see. So we're gonna put skirting around the stilts that you see. Same thing with that. And then we'll put the stairs. Then we'll finish this septic tank. Then the next thing we're gonna do is we're going to connect the, we're gonna trench so that we can have through our utility easement, we're gonna have trench that we could put the water and the electrical conduit. Because here we chose to do underground. That's Generally better than the above ground that, you know, could be easier to have power outages. So we'll put them electrical underground, get the panels in, connect to the 3,000 gallon tank that we put on the well. And then to each house we'll have water and electric. And then we should be pretty much done. We'll finish off with the road that's going to go just from here, maybe a driveway, and then all the way out to that main road right there. Got it.
Perfect. Any other updates or anything else that you see, any big items left in this project besides just this third one?
Yeah. So trying to think, I mean, maybe just the dry. I mean that's pretty much it really. I mean we're in the home stretch here. We're getting this third home. This is coming in tomorrow. And then so the electrical is already in the design and they should come in, put the tank in tomorrow or the following week. But we're probably a couple weeks out for finishing this project.
And then are these two units already sold or one's under contract? Right?
Yes, actually everything was under contract pre sold. One of them just fell out. So if you know somebody that's looking for a 4:2, just under 1600 square foot, that, that lovely home right there, that that's available.
My biggest question was regarding the retention for the lot. You know, what did you guys do for it?
Yeah, so I mean, basically we had an engineer kind of take a look at this. We looked at the FEMA flood maps and we looked at where the wash was. There's a wash nearby. Not on this lot, but it's nearby. And we took a look at some the elevations to see what we would need to have this at so that we would be able to prevent the risk or minimize the risk of floods. So what we did is we put this home site we actually elevated by bringing in extra dirt and gravel and we packed it down. And then now we're putting, as you can see here, we're putting this home on stilts. And then we're gonna put the skirting around that to hide it. And then we'll put the stairs and you take a peek inside. This is just under 1600ft. 1600 square feet. The Clayton home. New brand new manufactured home will be.
Sam sa. Thank you, Gary. We'll do a recap at the end of the project and we'll do a round three of this video.
