Originally Posted by
NavyVet1959
Damn, that's quite the slope... Damn near vertical... Even the trees are growing out the side of that mountain...
I would like to have a house completely underground and then a small 1000 sq-ft or less portion on the surface as long as I could build it so that the county didn't know about the underground portion. That way, they would only tax me on the upper "shack". Of course, the problem here is that if you build underground, you will probably run into ground water issues and even if you don't, there's a good chance that you might have a problem the next time a slow moving tropical storm or hurricane heads this way.