Noble Commons THOW Community, Supply, NC (2026)

05/16/2026

We are excited to report: The first tiny homes are moved in and more coming next week. If you have a tiny home or are thinking about getting one, please come visit to explore if we're the right place for you. We're also offering a summer special for campers - $750 a month for a 3-month lease (plus electricity). While there is a bit more work to be done before our official grand opening, we're starting Movie Nights under the stars. To start us off today, we'll be watching "Remarkably Bright Creatures" starting around 8:30 pm on the concrete pad. Open to the public, but expect a learning curve as we figure out how to make this work. Call or text to: 910-209-0906 and check us out at www.noble-commons.com

05/10/2026

Weekly update Mother's Day weekend: We have residents and more on the way! But of course, nothing was smooth, on the contrary, it was another nailbiter week. We have a TCO (temporary certificate of occupancy) with the condition that the entrance needed to be paved before adding more than 4 residents. Our paving was scheduled for APRIL 14th, followed by "we'll get to it next week", "we'll get to it next week", "we'll get to it...." Which led to another round of frustrated tears followed by (the typical pleading) phone calls. It worked! The entrance is paved (it looks pretty unspectacular), the final final inspection is scheduled for Wednesday, and since everything has been inspected except for the entrance, we should be good with more tiny homes moving in. Why do something the easy way, when you can add some stress? We're so excited to finally welcome residents and are looking for a day to plan our GRAND OPENING. We're currently accepting CAMPERS and RVs for SHORT-TERM leases (from 1 WEEK up to 3 MONTHS) as well. If you have a camper and want to spend some time near the beach, check us out!
It's been an unusually cold spring, so the garden is behind, but all the summer vegetables are finally in the ground and my little corn field is doing well. Reach out for more information: 910-209-0906

04/18/2026

For those of you who were wondering: this is what the roads and sites look like.

04/11/2026

WE ARE OPEN. If you are looking for Tiny House Living in Coastal NC, check us out. It's been quite the journey. We did it. The last few months were a lot “hurry up and wait” – waiting for paperwork to be reviewed, for re-inspections due to lack of labels (so many labels), for snow to melt, for mud puddles to dry up, for the tow truck to pull out the dump truck out of a mud puddle, for more paperwork to make its way through the county system. BUT we completed our last few inspections this week, finally had the power turned on, and are now waiting for the driveway entrance to get paved next week. That’s the only task between us and our “Certificate of Occupancy”. Unreal.

All the big equipment is gone, we have roads, signs, and hook ups. We’re still working on common areas – and probably always will – as we’re seeding grass, planting herbs, and digging out trees that got covered up by dirt mounds. Hopefully, our first residents have lots of suggestions and input on how to make it not just functional but beautiful.

Please come visit, schedule a video tour, check us out online (website updates are coming), call or text us to find out if we’re the right place for you. We’re also accepting short-term leases for the summer if you just need a nice place to park for a few weeks or months. We’re planning an official “Ribbon Cutting” and bonfire sometime in June/July – if you are local, we’d love to have you join us for the celebration (more information to come).

04/05/2026

We are so close to opening out doors, it’s hard to believe. I’m not ready to say, “We’re open” quite yet, but the only thing that’s missing are two inspections (stormwater and zoning) and paving the entrance. That’s it. After months of checklists with dozens and dozens of items, my current checklist includes, “start cantaloupe seeds” and “sweep pollen off porch” – it still includes quite a few small tasks for the community, but I’m no longer neglecting my house while working 10-hour days outside Friday through Sunday. Can you believe it? We hope to have our first residents move in within the next couple of weeks.
Yesterday, I put up the street signs – mostly a few “one-way” and “STOP” signs. I felt like an imposter. Aren’t you supposed to be some kind of official DOT “sign person?” But apparently, you can just buy street signs and stick them in the ground without any special permission. Done. We also finished the lighting. I had bought solar bollard lights to light the street without shining light into people’s homes. All the experienced contractors were making fun of me for it and told me that I needed “real lights,” that solar wouldn’t work in the trees, and that I had to put in more conduit for lights. Well, it looks awesome (at least I think so) and they all come on just fine after a few hours of sun.
“Paving the entrance” had seemed like an easy final step, but it turned into a month-long search for a paving contractor. We had originally sourced this out to the Utility Contractor, but their “guy” was no longer willing to do it (a year after the original bid, so I get it). I couldn’t get anyone to call me back and neither did the Utility Contractor. After a month of both of us calling around we finally found someone – of course at a 25% increase in cost, but we expected that. If you didn’t grow up “in the South” - I’m sorry, I know this is total stereotyping, but it is one of my important take aways from this project – people don’t just say no (that’s impolite), they take your call, tell you they’ll get back with you by the end of the week and then don’t. So you call again. Same statement. Nothing. Until you ask your Southern friends, who say, “He said “no” the first time, why did you keep calling?” Sigh. I’m heading out to the greenhouse to plant cantaloupe seeds now…

03/22/2026

Weekly update 3/22/26 - Our “To-complete-before-we-open” list now only contains 10 more items. Unfortunately, several of them are inspections, so we don’t have any control over those. We need to get the driveway entrance re-paved with asphalt and since it’s permitted by the NC Department of Transportation, the paving contractor has to be certified with DOT. Our utility contractor had someone lined up, but they’re not getting back with anyone. I reached out to a couple other ones and hope to have estimates this week. I was out watering my veggies this morning at 8 am – on a Sunday – when a county car pulled up. After my heart skipped a beat, one of our inspectors gets out and says that he is just trying to complete an inspection that was scheduled for last week “to not hold us up.” We looked at all the plumbing that needed to be covered and insulated and it looks like we passed that one. We still need to pass Stormwater, DOT entrance, Electric, and Final. Electric has been the most annoying, but I finally met up with the electrician (thank you for you patience) to upload the requested documents from my computer to his online permit portal. It seems to have worked and hopefully, we’ll get those permits this week and since it’s already built, get everything inspected. I started to put out a lot of grass and wildflower seeds, planted a few bushes for privacy, placed posts in the ground to keep people from driving onto septic fields, and started to pick up trash. What is it with trash? Why would you just drop your soda bottle and your cookie bag instead of putting them back in your truck? Mostly it’s been stakes and flags though – and there are lots more. The road is rolled and rolled and rolled. It should be compacted well, so we just have to drag it regularly to keep it smooth. The sites look good. We had a thunderstorm with 1 inch of rain in 30 minutes and all of the sites were high and dry, just a few puddles on the road. The swales looked like little whitewater rivers, but that’s what you want, right? We are reinforcing some erosion with more large riprap rock, but that was a good stress test. I also put up the solar street lights (I have to admit I was very excited when they actually came on after it got dark!) and the flag pole. We would like to fly two flags at all times – what are your thoughts on that? I was thinking monthly flags, like “autism awareness,” “women’s history,” “national pet month,” or “disability pride” – and whatever else we want to stand for. Let me know your sources for flags, so I can start ordering some and get us started on a good collection.

03/16/2026

Weekly update 3/15/2026 – another productive and at the same time completely unproductive week. All trenches are covered and the road crew is making good progress. We need one more good work day to finish all earth moving and rock work before having it consolidated with “the roller”. The road roller machine was here once before for the infamous proof roll and I can tell you that it makes the house shake and feels like an earthquake the entire time it runs. We need it to be dry before we can use it, so it doesn’t try to compact mud – and, of course, there is a “severe weather event” forecast for tomorrow. Sigh. We weren’t able to schedule any electric inspections last week. In the process of splitting one permit into three, somehow we have to start all over again, plus, we got assigned a part-time remote plan reviewer who is not responding to emails or voicemails (probably because he only works one day a week). We already have the permit, the electric service kiosks are built and ready to be inspected and he is asking us to submit calculations and sketches before we start building. The electrician is not sure how to upload documents and I don’t have access because it’s an “electric only” permit. Sigh. I had the inspection for the timberframe gazebo scheduled, but we failed because we didn’t schedule a “footing inspection” first. There are no footings. The building sits on sills. Plus, I have to be available for the inspector, so I scheduled the inspection for Wednesday (when I don’t work until late afternoon), but the inspector rescheduled for Thursday morning (when I do work). Sigh. On a positive note, we finished the dumpster enclosure and the concrete footings for the solar lights and the flag pole. I spread grass seed and placed straw mats to hold the seeds down (to reduce erosion). I insulated all the sanitary hydrants, which the county required (even though they can get plugged in during cold spells) and picked up old stakes and trash everywhere. Weather permitting, we’ll complete all the roads and parking pads next week, place the light posts, and get those inspections figured out. We are so close I can actually see an end (while still sighing a lot). P.S. We also had someone flood the garage by forgetting to turn off the faucet before leaving for work (the hot water off course) and a water pipe burst in the house, dripping water into the downstairs bathroom from above. Just in case you thought we didn't have a life outside of this project.

03/08/2026

Weekly update March – Spring has finally arrived and we are inching closer and closer to opening day. We keep failing electric inspections because we haven’t put enough stickers on everything. No complaints about any of the electric wiring, mostly just a request for more labels. And all of a sudden the electric service panels need their own street addresses. Nobody anticipated this 3 months ago and could told me when I submitted for the initial permit? Sigh. I understand the concept of wanting to tell the fire department exactly which address is on fire, but when you say the electric service next to site 5, I can’t imagine them not finding it. More stickers it is. I even color-coded the 50 amp breaker and the 50 amp outlet in the same color so nobody can claim they didn’t know which breaker to use. The pink one! We had some setbacks with plumbing. We really like our plumber, but he didn’t supervise his helpers well enough and ended up a foot ABOVE the ground for his soil pipe. That’s a “let’s do this one over” – which took two weeks between digging everything back up, several rainy days, and putting it back in. Waiting for our final plumbing inspection. We passed all our septic inspections and the paperwork is heading to the county tomorrow. The zoning department seemed mostly concerned that each site has two parking spaces (they all do, but you are welcome to use them for something other than your TWO cars once we pass the zoning inspection). Our road crew has been working on leveling everything out and filling the last trenches before (hopefully) completing all the roads and pads next week (it’s raining as I write this….). We also worked all day Saturday on completing the gazebo (it needed to be strapped down – yes, we are experts at hurricane strapping now) and the dumpster pad. And I planted another 45 trees last week. Keep your fingers crossed that we’ll pass our electric inspections next week (go stickers...)

02/15/2026

Weekly update Valentine’s Day 2026: Work resumed after the snow finally melted and the cold wasn’t completely miserable anymore, but we pretty much didn’t do much of anything for two weeks. The dumpster enclosure is almost finished, just wheels and braces. Building gates in 25 degree windchill was its own adventure. The plumbers are back at work and completed two more systems, just one to go. Electric work is plugging along with all but 6 out of 24 circuits pulled and wired. I spent two hours digging up electric conduit yesterday because we got fish tape and string all balled up 40’9’’ from the site. We got lucky that we measured and guessed mostly accurately and found the problem relatively quickly, but that’s always a gamble. The excavator is giving us a hard time and needs some welding work done. Plus the cold “exploded” a septic pipe. Luckily, we caught it before anything was turned on. We poured concrete where the solar bollard lights are going in alongside the road, I ordered solar lights for the entrance and the dumpster site. We still need to decide where to place the flagpole – any thoughts? Focus Broadband has been bringing in equipment, so internet is on track. We’re hoping to complete all utilities this week. The county inspector stopped by on Friday, but he didn’t have a lot of answers to my questions about what inspections we need exactly, how to request an extension for landscaping (it’s hard to plant trees when there’s snow on the ground), and whether or not we need to create mulch trails before we open or if that can wait until people decide where they want to walk. Have you ever gone hiking and there was a trail and then there was where people walked? Right, trying to avoid that. Hopefully, he can track down the answers so we can complete all the additional busy work and get ready to open our doors in a couple of weeks. On a fun note, the shop class at our local high school is doing a “bridge contest” where the students are designing two pedestrian bridges for us to cross the drainage swales. Looking forward to picking the winners and eventually getting those bridges built.

02/01/2026

Weekly update 2/1/2026 – And we are delayed again. Not by the county this time, but by freezing temperatures and a freak snow storm. Seriously? We got 10 inches of snow over night and with the forecast the way it is, it’ll be a week until it melts and we can get anything done. That makes 2 weeks of not much work thanks to winter…. However, we got two of our 5 plumbing systems in and inspected before it became too cold for PVC glue to set. One of the three electric systems is almost done – we keep running into kinked conduit and have to dig it back up to repair it. Of course, nobody has any clue how that could have happened. Sigh. Three out of 5 septic systems passed inspection before filling uncovered pipe with water seemed unwise. I registered the new survey map with the county – we needed to separate out the home, the campground, and the wetlands. I’m supposed to designate the wetlands as a “never-to-be-built-on” area, but after calling 15 (not exaggerating) lawyers and the NC State Conservation folks, nobody has any idea what to do. Am I overthinking it? The county has the power to not allow any building on the wetlands parcel if anyone were silly enough to apply for a permit for that parcel, right? The engineer who is inspecting the timber frame completed his report. We need to add 6 mobile home anchors and some strapping, but that seems like a minor annoyance at this point. I completed the fence for the trash enclosure, but it got too cold before I could finish the gate. Focus Broadband put in the main fiber optic cable. Their conduit had kinks in it too. It was very entertaining to watch 6 strong young men play tug-of-war pulling tape (and losing – they all ended up doubled over and breathing hard). I know that getting frustrated with the weather is a waste of energy, but right now, it just feels like an uphill battle every step of the way.

01/18/2026

Weekly update 1/18/2026: We are SOOOOO close to opening our doors. If you read our last update, you remember my excitement that we passed the proof roll test – yeah, that turned into another struggle with the county. I was able to track down the weight of the truck by calling the quarry, it was about 70,000 lbs. Now the engineer “concluded” that a road that can hold 70,000 lbs is perfectly capable of holding 75,000 lbs. Seems like a logical conclusion, right? No movement of the road observed at 35 tons, unlikely to swallow the firetruck at 37.5 tons. It took the engineers and the fire department a week to come to an agreement – I had already lined up the 37.5 ton truck, just in case they were going to make us do it again. On the positive side: Septic is more or less in, just some clean up and final touches. I bought some grasses and wildflowers to plant on and around the septic fields. I like the idea of our “waste” fertilizing flowers that pollinators can use or that we can pick to create beauty in our homes. Plumbing is going in this week – the last time we’re digging trenches. Once plumbing is in, the road crew is coming back to complete the parking pads and give the road its final grade. We also started to set electric pedestals – makes it look like the real thing, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, the weather is slowing us down again. With freezing nights, we can’t pour concrete around the pedestal base until the end of the week. Finally, I had to hire – yet another – engineer to inspect the little timberframe building, so he can certify that it won’t fly off when it’s windy or fall down on us, just because. I understand safety, but goodness – the county inspector even stated that he had no actual concerns about it, but that’s not enough.

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