Taking the plunge and looking for property

[Miniv]

What areas are you thinking of looking at? (I don't know where you live NOW, so don't know what a 30 to 40 minute commute would be.)

We have very close friends who used to live in Bend and wanted us to move up to the Chehalis/Centralia area with THEM. They kept sending us info on several very pretty properties up there. All of them had at least 20 acres, house, and either a barn or outbuildings and they were actually very reasonable!

We ended up moving just northeast of Bend by about 30 miles.........couldn't bare leaving the high desert.

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[Triggy&Blue&Daisy Too]

We live and work in Renton/Kent area so Orting, Ravensdale, Graham, Roy and outer Mongolia

: is about as far as I'm willing to commute but hubby does not want to go out that far unless he's completely retired. I may even think east like Port Orchard, Gig Harbor and Bremerton/Silverdale areas as there still seems to be a lot of acreage within reason.

Roy is looking pretty good at about 45 miles but that's kind of pushing it, but for the right place...

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[Valerie]

Good luck in your search, atleast with the rainy weather you can tell what areas are useable & what are "waterfront" properties, even if they aren't supposed to be.

Wow, 45 mile commute? That would just about do me in I think, I think my 20 miles 1 way is bad enough daily.

I liked the little place you found, it was rustic but had character, too bad there wasn't enough useable land.

Good luck & keep us posted on what ya find. :bgrin

 

[Shari]

Shirley becareful of Port Orchard. That is where we used to live... more in the Burley area, on Pine rd.

Watch out for Meth places,, because there are a lot of them. Hate to say this but when you look at what ever land, if you can go at different times of the day,, do a lot of sniffing....and even talk with the neighbors.

Gig harbor on the whole, is a pretty snobby place. Nice little town.....but lots of snobs.

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Since you ride,,, trying to find land near a tree farm would offer you trails to ride. Normally Tree farm passes cost $25.00 a year and they have lots of nice wide paths and trails.

Good luck in your land search!

PS....when we lived over there...on a couple of his jobs he had to drive 2 hours one way just to get to work! :new_shocked: Glad he only has to drive 1 hour to get to work now!!

Hay,,,did they ever finish the new narrows bridge?

 

[Triggy&Blue&Daisy Too]

Thanks for the warning Shari, that is one of my biggest fears to end up with a place that has meth lab contamination. I'm not sure if they have finished the bridge yet though. Definatley a consideration for travel time but if I was out that way I could vanpool.

I'm going to have to check out those tree farms, never knew they had trails available, how cool is that?