Checklists worth printing
The working documents I would hand a friend who is about to buy land or build: what to check on the walk, what to ask the county, what order to build in, what to maintain when, and the binder that holds it all. Print them, or save as PDF from the print dialog. No signup.
Take it to the parcel: access, sun, water, soil, neighbors, and the legal items to confirm at the county, plus the walk-away signs.
Open and print →Questions to Ask the County Before You BuyThirty specific questions, grouped by office, with a place to write who answered. A named official beats ten web pages.
Open and print →The First-Year Build SequenceThe order that keeps you warm, dry, and legal: access, shelter, water and power, shell, heat, then the real systems, and what people regret doing out of order.
Open and print →Off-Grid Maintenance CalendarMonthly and seasonal routines for power, water, stove, propane, septic, and access. Most failures are a skipped routine.
Open and print →The Systems BinderThe one folder that holds your whole place: permits, diagrams, settings, logs, shutoffs, and the page for whoever runs the house when you cannot.
Open and print →Each one opens as a clean page with a print button. Your browser's print dialog saves it as a PDF. They pair with the site report, the system planner, and the spares reference.
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