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Coastal
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2015 11:29pm
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It's been a few years of planning, I had a few real estate deals fall through, one literally this week. We were supposed to move into it last weekend, but the scumbag previous owner released a soil contamination report last minute (he doesn't want to move) and I lost my financing and the deal. It was quite depressing. I had a backup plan in mind all along, so my wife and I headed up 3.5 hours away to go look at it. She loved it, I liked it, nobody lives there so we can get immediate posession. It was so inexpensive I can be 100% debt free and have money in the bank. So all in all, a good move.
It's near Kamloops, BC.... here it is!
View from the house:
I have a 4.5kw PV system already ordered for the other place, so that will just transfer here.
I need to find water, regrade and widen the road, plumb and wire the house, finish it, get a new wood stove, chop wood, build a shipping container shop, setup some sort of hot water system, build a deck, and get started on a swimming pond before winter.  
I have a large excavator and tracked skid steer, so I tend to get a lot done quickly! lol
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bigriver
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 12:05am
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Sounds Wonderful. Good Luck!
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 07:02am
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beautiful...
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 08:09am
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congrats on your new home....beautiful view!!!
and nice cabin!!!
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neb
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 09:51am
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You are a very lucky man and a dream coming together.
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Coastal
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 10:22am
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Thanks everyone! One week until we are living there and I am getting excited and nervous, I am really noticing all the things we take for granted like running endless water, hot water, power, tv etc....It's going to be a bit of a culture shock for the first few weeks until I can get everything up and running. 
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cabinbiscuits
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 11:41am
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Your new place is beautiful, what a blessing. Sounds like God had a better plan for you and your family than the place that you did not end up getting.
Congratulations.
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leonk
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 11:06pm
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what a view! If I were debt free and I could sit there with a cup of coffee looking at that view, that'd be very peaceful
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Gary O
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 07:42pm
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Now the fun begins....please keep us updated
Great looking place
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Coastal
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 01:34am
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Just picked this unit up tonight...8kw generator for prime power until my solar setup arrives, and backup for the solar once it's up and running. Japanese built Kubota with a Stamfield generator....great combo and a good craigslist price.
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ColdFlame
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 11:03am
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Love your place Coastal - my wife and I have been looking out near Kamloops for quite some time. It's beautiful country out there. I'm jealous!
Please provide more details (if comfortable doing so) about your land - how many acres did you pick up, etc...?
I look forward to following your build!
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hattie
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 12:22pm - Edited by: hattie
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Beautiful place and beautiful view!!! Keep us updated with all your reno's. We are also in BC - about 2 hours south of you. This is God's country indeed! Congratulations!!!
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Coastal
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 10:04pm
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Quoting: ColdFlame Love your place Coastal - my wife and I have been looking out near Kamloops for quite some time. It's beautiful country out there. I'm jealous! Please provide more details (if comfortable doing so) about your land - how many acres did you pick up, etc...? I look forward to following your build!
No problem, the property is 80 acres around Monte Lake area, its a bit of a drive up the driveway, but the view is worth a bit of extra snow plowing in the winter. ;) It is kind of a unique topography, the property has its own knoll where the house is located. The other half is a mixed grass/treed gentle slop until it hits the knoll where it shoots upwards rapidly.
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Coastal
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 10:05pm
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Quoting: hattie Beautiful place and beautiful view!!! Keep us updated with all your reno's. We are also in BC - about 2 hours south of you. This is God's country indeed! Congratulations!!!
I will keep it updated as best I can....as of friday I will be down to cellular service until I get my solar and satellite internet setup.
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ColdFlame
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 10:44pm
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Quoting: Coastal No problem, the property is 80 acres around Monte Lake area, its a bit of a drive up the driveway, but the view is worth a bit of extra snow plowing in the winter. ;) It is kind of a unique topography, the property has its own knoll where the house is located. The other half is a mixed grass/treed gentle slop until it hits the knoll where it shoots upwards rapidly.
That's awesome. Enjoy it - I hope to do the same in the not too distant future. We're located just outside of Calgary now, but always looking to make the leap to the life which you've just started building for yourself. Friends of ours are just outside of Sicamous on ~25 acres and have a river on their property, which would be glorious, but ideally I'd have both a slope and some water and produce some micro-hydro power in addition to solar. Thanks for sharing!
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LoonWhisperer
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2015 03:11pm
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Amazing view! Look forward to seeing your progress. Congrats and enjoy
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rayyy
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2015 10:46am
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Wow look at that view.Just beautiful!
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Coastal
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2015 08:55pm
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We made it up here! Just tossing all the previous owners junk out the door to get ready to assess the place and make a plan. Had 4 shipping containers sent up, I need to drag them up the hill this week and we can get to work!
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LoonWhisperer
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# Posted: 11 Aug 2015 03:10pm
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Coastal... it would seem we both frequent another forum. Guns and Cabins ... does it get any better? ;)
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Coastal
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# Posted: 11 Aug 2015 04:10pm
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Haha small Internet world!
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Coastal
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:55am
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I can get used to this!
Started dragging containers up the hill
Had to do some generator powered welding already
Cutting a road to dig a well
My trucks arrived
Smoky sunset the other night
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ColdFlame
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:45pm
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Those are some pretty sweet toys! Gorgeous sunsets/views from up there. Great choice!
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Coastal
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 05:57pm
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Thanks!
Toys put to work :
Getting the well casings installed today, pump and plumbing tomorrow
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Coastal
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# Posted: 27 Aug 2015 07:59pm
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After a few more days of slave labour dragging pipe and wire up and down a trench, wiring the pump, multiple trips to the plumbing store.... We have water!
600' later.....
5-6' deep
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RichInTheUSA
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# Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:32am
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Awesome place, awesome views...
The part I like best about your story is that you were able to do this and be debt free. It looks like the original deal falling through was actually a blessing.
Keep adding more pics as you progress on your project!!
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Coastal
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# Posted: 29 Aug 2015 09:56am
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Thanks, it feels pretty awesome to know I own a property outright, now to keep renovation budgets in check.
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Cosby
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# Posted: 29 Aug 2015 11:16am
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Wow. Beautiful and thanks for sharing. The water is wonderful.. hoping one day to have water at our tiny cabin location.
The views are wonderful. Hope you get to spend lots of time there.
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Coastal
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2015 10:02am
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Another busy week... We've had 3 shipping containers at the bottom of the hill for 3 weeks now, all my shop stuff, tons of house stuff etc is in them it's kind of annoying to drive down to get a screw driver, so making room and hauling them Up was this week's plan. The first 40' container I dragged up with the excavator the first week we were here, it didn't do so well, all the floors blew out and now I need to fix it lol.
Cut the bank on the right until I hit lava rock and pushed it off the edge on the left, probably doubled the amount of flat area I had.
So glad I bought this truck!
All up top!
Next I need to get all this birch up.....
Also got some water tanks under the floors just barely, 660 gallons of storage, these are filled with the well, then they feed a pressure pump to give the house water pressure.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2015 10:28am
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Dang!
Lotsa serious stuff goin' on here.
That view is so worth it.
Hats off to that!
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ColdFlame
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2015 10:33am
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Clever idea with the IBC water tanks. No risk of freezing in the crawl space, or do you have some heat being pumped down there somehow? Love the shots of all your "toys" - particularly that 6x6 military truck. What a beaut!
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