Self Storage Development
Fun week. It's clearly getting busier with both Building 5 in Houlton ready for the structure and Buildings 1 & 3 in Hudson ready to start the foundation. Lot's going on.
Hudson: The great news is that we were able to get our WI State review sped up to 8/27/18 and the review actually came through on Saturday. We already had the permit in hand for the foundation but now we are good to go on the structure too. Super great. In discussions with the builder (same for Houlton and Hudson) we've decided to push forward with the first building in Hudson so be able to start renting those out and THEN heading to Houlton for Building 5. And then finally jumping back to Hudson for Building 2 which is actually Building 3. With all the Hudsons and Houltons and Buildings, can you keep track? I sure the heck can't. Having phone conversations with my contractors is some sort of tongue twister/brain game.
Some minor issues in Hudson in that salvaging the existing gravel parking lot might be a little harder than expected. So that might raise our prices on the grading. We are going to have to figure something out because I could see lots of gravel in the areas where the first 2 buildings will go. These are all things that need to be worked through.
With that, the lot is cleared of trees, most of them burned, and the holes are dug for the first two building foundations. Next week will begin our construction.
Most of the rest of the week was spent stopping by marinas and attempting to connect on social media with marinas and RV people to try to get the word out that we'll be renting in Hudson.
Oh, and it looks like we'll be doing business as Storage Garages of Hudson in Hudson. We'll see if that will work.
Fun week. It's clearly getting busier with both Building 5 in Houlton ready for the structure and Buildings 1 & 3 in Hudson ready to start the foundation. Lot's going on.
Hudson: The great news is that we were able to get our WI State review sped up to 8/27/18 and the review actually came through on Saturday. We already had the permit in hand for the foundation but now we are good to go on the structure too. Super great. In discussions with the builder (same for Houlton and Hudson) we've decided to push forward with the first building in Hudson so be able to start renting those out and THEN heading to Houlton for Building 5. And then finally jumping back to Hudson for Building 2 which is actually Building 3. With all the Hudsons and Houltons and Buildings, can you keep track? I sure the heck can't. Having phone conversations with my contractors is some sort of tongue twister/brain game.
Some minor issues in Hudson in that salvaging the existing gravel parking lot might be a little harder than expected. So that might raise our prices on the grading. We are going to have to figure something out because I could see lots of gravel in the areas where the first 2 buildings will go. These are all things that need to be worked through.
With that, the lot is cleared of trees, most of them burned, and the holes are dug for the first two building foundations. Next week will begin our construction.
Most of the rest of the week was spent stopping by marinas and attempting to connect on social media with marinas and RV people to try to get the word out that we'll be renting in Hudson.
Oh, and it looks like we'll be doing business as Storage Garages of Hudson in Hudson. We'll see if that will work.
Houlton update: We were getting very close to starting Building 5 but have a few things in our way. First, we want to get a building up in Hudson first and second, we're waiting for Xcel to move an overhead power line in our northernmost driving area. A bit of chicken and the egg here. We have all kinds of boulders in the way of relocating the overhead power line to go underground but we can't move the boulders until the overhead line is moved. We pushed the boulders out of the way so I hope that will suffice. Some of these boulders are probably 3000#+ plus they aren't dinky by any means. So we're going back and forth with Xcel to get the OH power line moved and this has taken since last October to get moving on. Here we are scrambling with a couple of weeks to go. I still need to grant them an easement to allow them to permanently put the power underground. Their OH line is grandfathered in so they don't have an actually easement for that line. Plus, the new line has to be redundant (two lines rather than one) which naturally adds cost. It's only 3x our original budget. Good thing we've saved a few bucks here and there throughout otherwise these strange little surprises might postpone construction until we found the funds. But my point is that easements don't typically happen overnight so it'll be interesting to see what the timeline is for this. This is another part of the decision to build a building in Hudson first.
Lastly, I've been trying to get a permit for a sign in Houlton. Apparently I'm pushing the envelope by attempting to have the sign attached to our fence. It's supposed to be freestanding. I'm not sure why this matters but I've been told the rules are the rules so I'll play along. Not much room for flexibility apparently. I'm a rule follower so away we go (within the rules, naturally).
Lastly, I've been trying to get a permit for a sign in Houlton. Apparently I'm pushing the envelope by attempting to have the sign attached to our fence. It's supposed to be freestanding. I'm not sure why this matters but I've been told the rules are the rules so I'll play along. Not much room for flexibility apparently. I'm a rule follower so away we go (within the rules, naturally).
Bye for now. I'll bore you again next week. Hopefully I'll have some more interesting pictures for you in weeks to come. Until then, here is what remains of our burn pile in Hudson. Progress?
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