Still looking for that Special Place

Well I certainly didn't think that finding that special place would be as difficult as it is turning out to be. We are trying to stick with already built houses that need work (most a lot of it) so that we don't build on unused land. But that seems to bring so many different problems. We prefer to find one that can be gutted and start from there to make it as green as possible but most houses haven't been built to take advantage of the natural resources. So we now are looking for houses built in the early 1900's or earlier and they are either already rehabbed (but without green methods and practices) or need so much work that we will definitely need a place to stay during the rehab. Since we were planning on selling our home and living in the new one while we rehabbed it to be more energy efficient and eco-friendly. So now we have to decide if we should get something that need a little more work so it will be cheaper, but we don't have to sell the one we're living in until the new one is at least livable. Or do we buy a lot that never had a home and then build from scratch. This really didn't seem to be that hard to decide when we started looking actively for a new home we have spent the last few years investigating new technologies and old to decide what we could do to lighten our load on the planet and now that we are actively trying to do that we find all new possibilities that we though we had already thought through. So I hope you enjoy our journey because I can tell you from the start we're having it will definitely be informative and hopefully something we can laugh about when we get through it.