Getting started

The past couple of days I've spent a few hours looking across property listings on Trulia. I also spent about half an hour IM-ing with a friend of mine who is a local Colorado realtor to get advice about initiating a relationship with a realtor when buying land. She gave me enough information so that I'll be contacting a couple of realtors for meetings when I travel to Florida next month. I am hoping that I'll be able to schedule time to go out and look at a couple of properties.

It seems like the logical order is to find and buy a piece of land and then begin the process to initiate a relationship with an architect. Because I already know the basics of what I would like to build, I have already contacted architect Ron Haase. Mr. Haase is a professor at the University of Florida, a practicing architect and author of the book "Classic Cracker".

I'll go into more details in future posts as to the specifics I have in mind, but I found a quotes which I find appropriate to my dream:

"Folk building growing in response to actual needs, fitted into environment by people who knew no better than to fit them with native feeling" - Frank Lloyd Wright