This post is continued from the previous post about buying Boca Raton real estate that is vacant. Having a survey is imperative if you plan to build a pool, built onto your house, or doing just about anything you want to on your property. oh I mentioned about the importance of having a survey in the event you need flood insurance. When ordering your survey be sure that the surveyor includes an elevation. If you’re in a flood zone when buying Boca Raton real estate and the elevation is included on your survey that will be a necessity in order to come up with your flood insurance price.
also be sure to check if there are no sewer and water lines available to the property whether or not the city has plans in the future, maybe the very near future, to put the lines in. If they planned to put the lines in you may be assessed a great deal of money at that time. And even if there is no plans to put in a lines at this time you check you can pretty well planned that if you own Boca Raton real estate for any period of time sooner or later they’re going to put in water and sewer. Another thing you need to check out is what needs to be cleared from the lot in order to build. Even more important is not what can be cleared from the lot in order for you to build. Whether you’re buying Boca Raton real estate or real estate in areas surrounding Boca Raton you may be restricted as to what trees and shrubbery etc. can be removed from the property. You also need to know how much fill may be needed in order for you to be within the guidelines of the city building code. Fill, or sand needs to be brought in many times to get the lot to the right height to build house of your dreams. This can be very expensive so be sure to check it out. Are you still wanting to build or maybe buy? maybe you’re considering buying Boca Raton real estate instead an awful lot of people look at buying vacant land so they can build exactly what they want and then end up realizing is just too much to worry about and they buy a home that’s already constructed.
Okay let’s move to the possibility of buying your lot on the water. If you buy a home which backs to water you need to be concerned about erosion. Especially when buying Boca Raton real estate because here we have no dirt we only have sand. If you’re buying on the water you have that much of the greater chance of needing soil stabilization due to possible mark on your lot. Then stabilization is usually done in a couple different ways. One might be pressure grouting which is much cheaper than the second alternative. Pressure grabbing is when they inject cement into the ground to stabilize the slab which your house will be built on. The second method is to use pilings which are driven down into Boca Raton real estate to the point when they hit coral rock. The coral rock is used to stabilize the pilings and the pilings are used in turn to stabilize the foundation of your home. The way you discover what type of stabilization you’ll need if any is by ordering a soil test.
One more thing concerning buying Boca Raton real estate on the water. If you don’t have a sea wall you can count on the property slowly eroding and dropping down in the back. Just like when you go to the beach and sand eventually erodes out to see so will the back of your lot in road into the canal on which it’s located. To prevent this is a good idea to get a sea wall. Yes your right seawalls cost lots of money.
oh one more thing to keep in mind after you bought your Boca Raton real estate lot and you put in your seawall remember you probably should get a seawall inspection once a year to see what kind of shape your seawall is in.