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Idahome
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North Idaho has lots of wilderness and lots of water, the forest up here is like home for me. Im a boy scout avid off road and snow machine freak so I love the outdoors and anything to do with living in it.
Im a native of Colorado, never thought I would leave. BUT Colorado has become alot like California lately, and the economy was booming with the population growth. We lived at 9000' in order to be close enough to the city to run business, but far enough away to be in the forest and mountains and get lots of snow. My 10 year old son was born with some heart defects and living at 9000' can cause him long term issues, so we decided it was time to go lower. Living in the forest at the top of a mountain during a 15 year drought was getting old...the forest is going to burn, not if but when. Colorado has a few lakes and rivers, but they are all crowded now. So we wanted to live on a river or lake....well we found everything we were after here in North Idaho and THEN SOME. Our house in CO we bought from the bank as a foreclosure, spent 8 years completely re modeling it (My wife has a flooring company and loves to flip houses/remodel...im a handy man so we remodel everything) House was 5600 sq ft....two residences. We bought low and sold HIGH, which allowed us to re locate. We moved 4 families in total 1800 miles......... My step son and his wife and daughter live with us, my other step son and his wife and son live near us in town and my parents also sold their CO home and bought a summer home up here...
We moved in Jan because our CO house sold in December!! What can ya do?
We had an offer on this place here in ID already in place contingent upin our sale. Took about 3 months to sell our CO house...we were really thrilled when it sold, we could have waited until spring and got more for th house but money is not everything.
The place here in Idaho was already built, it is a HUGE shop, with attached guest cabin and house...... we are already building and adding on, adding another cabin, a large addition to the cabin, and planning to build another huge shop......
This place was built originally in the 90's then they added the shop and house in 2014....we wanted something with large shop, living area for two families and on the water with some land, away from neighbors. We found it!
2 mile driveway, completely off grid (state of the art system) only 10 miles from town, in the snow belt (lots of snow), we have 1600' of river frontage, flowing water everywhere around us and 48,000 acres of un touched wilderness out my back door....all private, un touched land back here :)
great way to raise some future scout off grid mechanics :)
A wise friend of mine once told me "You drive up to North Idaho from Colorado and you will throw rocks at CO" that is the truth........ it was either here or Alaska.....and Alaska is EXPENSIVE
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