congrats Jared! I know the feeling of originally buying in a nice area, only to have development take it from a little country, to crowded city. where we bought in at is a 15 minute drive to a nice medium sized city, and is a decent subdivision in what used to be a cornfield 20 years ago. new stores, apartments, and cookie-cutter home developments are springing up everywhere around us. the cow pasture behind us is probably the only thing keeping me from losing it, as watching the cows graze when they come into our side, is like prozac for me. we're in the process of making a few reno's on the house to differentiate it from all the others in the neighborhood, just in case it gets bad enough, we have a better chance to sell quickly. we have a fairly low cost HOA, but they seem to have ideas that we live bordering a posh country club, instead of the small farms that border us right now. if you have any problems with yours, just do like I did and compare them to Hitler's jackbooted thugs, and asked if I needed to take out charges of trespassing (issue was only visible if they had been standing on my property. we got along great with the neighbors, so they backed down and haven't bothered us since...
looking forward to watching the progress. Like others have said, thanks for bringing us along!
