Lisa and I have dreamt of building our offgrid homestead for nearly two decades. About ten years ago we started looking for property in New Mexico. More recently we started looking for unpermitted areas to move to. We searched many areas and researched their permit and inspection requirements. Many areas allow for owner builds however there are restrictions and some hoops to jump through.
Early in 2017 we found the city of Terlingua in far west Texas in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert where you can not only buy land on the cheap but you are also allowed to build pretty much anything you like :) By May we bought our property and over the next year and a half we sold our house, closed up the datacenter and made preparations for our move. On December 19, 2019 we arrived at our property.
Thanks for stopping by :)
For questions and business inquires feel free to email us.
Or mail us at: Theodore & Lisa Pound P.O. Box 196 Terlingua, TX 79852
