Noble Commons THOW Community

We now have 5 tiny homes on wheels on our property with at least 2 more scheduled to arrive later this summer. We also have a few campers who seem to like our community enough to consider getting tiny homes. We had our first community meeting to discuss such exciting things as mail delivery, chicken chores, and watering duty. Everyone enjoyed the dessert that was lovingly prepared in a tiny home kitchen and left with some eggs and cucumbers (that's what the garden offers right now, but tomatoes are coming in, corn looks good, and melons are starting to spread). But nicest thing was that help was offered and available when we needed help with driving to an emergency medical appointment. No need to stress out about rearranging work schedules or canceling the appointment. We are sold on our community. Couldn't be happier with our neighbors. Thank you. We're still accepting campers and RVs for the summer if you'd like to stay for a few weeks or months.

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

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

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

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.