Doctor Dave Builds

Power: There is a growing trend for folks to live off-grid.  People make the conscious decision to organize their life around limiting their carbon footprint through a variety of channels.  We are not currently entertaining any of those conventions when it comes to power and electricity.  There is a $500.00 commitment fee or application fee to Lake County Power. This starts the process of your lot by keeping with the theme of any element of new home construction starts with stroking a check!  The power company requires an easement so they have the ability and legal authority to dig up the earth and place the power line on your property.  I met a very nice LCP employee who folks live on Murphy Lake.  He marked 5 MORE trees that needed to be cut down.  The landing pad for the power needs to be at minimum of 200 feet from the house structure.  The cost to run the power into the property from the powerline at the far end of the property is approximately $1200.00.  I asked about the fir

We are off and running! When you purchase raw-land you are required to call the county to get a fire number.  The county then asks if you have an address to attach to said fire number.  In this transaction, we had neither.  What I am about to share with you is a logistical mess, fraught with obfuscation, and the age-old finger pointing.  The lot that was purchased can be accessed by two different roads.  One is a public access road off of the main highway. The other has been officially tagged by the county as an abandoned county road.  This abandoned county road directly links to our driveway.  There is no desire for us to access the public access road due to the fact that the state of Minnesota has an easement for this road, which the county doesn't recognize, and the county doesn't plow it because it is not a county road.  Did I mention that in both scenarios the county is not maintaining either road? I called the county to inquire as to what events and decisions transpi