THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT OWNING LAND | What They Don't Tell You

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  @KeepItTiny · 1 year ago · pinned

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• QU

  @Quantum3695 · 3 years ago

  Neighbors who don&apos;t want you as a neighbor is also overlooked. It&apos;s an unfortunate dilemma which is hardly spoken about.

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• FU

  @FuToo · 3 years ago

  All four of my neighbors hate me and I continue to live happily 😎

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  @SouthoftheBigChicken · 3 years ago

  My thoughts, I have 25 acres in GA, 3.5-acre pond. <br>1. One day all the work will be done, and I can enjoy the place. Answer, &quot;Work never Ends!&quot;<br>2. Never buy land unless you have a water source.<br>3. Never buy land that shares a pond. NEVER FREAKING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Will thank me later.<br>4. You will buy commercial grade equipment; big box stuff does not last.<br>5. Buy a tractor with a bucket, best advice I can give you. Bush Hog and Rotor tiller will do most of the work.<br>6. Understand, nature is always growing toward sunlight, constant cleaning roadways around property.<br>7. You will go from Hero to Zero when you tell someone that they cannot Hunt or Fish on your property, do not get it started. <br><br>8. ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR, I ENJOY EVERYDAY WHEN I MADE THE DECISION TO LEAVE THE ATL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!

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• DA

  @dard4642 · 3 years ago

  Used to know a guy who was a builder. When he sensed hostility from nosy neighbors, he would tell them that he&apos;s building a halfway house or a youth detention center. He&apos;s had more than one client call him and tell him to stop telling people that.😂

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• FO

  @Forbes__1 · 4 years ago

  ‘’Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets ... any sound investment will eventually pay off.&quot;

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• MO

  @morgan1719 · 2 years ago

  1. Don&apos;t by 6 acres if only 2 are useable. Rebuttal: A. The unusable land has uses: Hillsides can be a source of wood and wild leeks. It can provide game. Swamps are especially full of game and useful plants. B. Sloped land on part of the property provides an ideal location for a root cellar. &nbsp;C. Sloped land is wonderful as a site for a gravity fed water system serving the land you&apos;re living and growing on. D. Negotiate the price down, telling seller &quot;lets price those 4 acres at 50% per on account of them being mostly useless. E. Extra land is a buffer against neighbors -- you wouldn&apos;t want someone else&apos;s deer blind overlooking your castle. F. Few people want a perfectly flat 2 or 3 acres with an amazing build site and tilled fields ideal for growing if it&apos;s totally exposed and surrounded by neighboring fields and pasture land. Surroundings count for a lot, and when you find the surroundings that you like, take a careful look at how you&apos;ll be able to use the land -- overcoming this challenge is one of the main rewards of homesteading.<br><br>My own case: We purchased 46 acres and spent considerable time, effort, and resources to make it our own. The fact that it wasn&apos;t easy is why we learned so much and value what we did. Mods: We put in a pond, built a large fence around the house for security and to let our dogs run. Built a stable, paddock, corral, and fenced two pastures so that we could keep horses, goats, and donkeys. Built a spring fed gravity water system for our livestock, dogs crops and gardens. Let a few things go that we didn&apos;t need (former owner maintained more lawn that we needed). Improved a few things (increasing gravel parking and a short driveway to our new facilities. Made the 3-sided shed a 4-sided shed to store feed and gear for our horses. The few things we got help with: we hired a bulldozer to dig our pond, but we created the outlet. The major work on the stable was done by Amish, we helped and put in solar powered lighting. Our place is now ideal for our needs and we&apos;re proud of what we&apos;ve done. We live on a dirt road in Allegany county. It&apos;s peaceful and quiet. Despite a few of those people you mentioned who just don&apos;t like certain kinds of people, overall, people are polite and respect each other. Deep in the sticks, people respect each other&apos;s space.

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• JU

  @juliek8853 · 4 years ago

  The distinction between just pure &apos;acres&apos; and &apos;useable acres&apos; is spot on. Didn&apos;t think of it like that!

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• BA

  @barkeater9606 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Owning a lot of land can bring a lot of headaches. My uncle bought 50 acres of land and was constantly catching people on his land hunting or on snowmobiles. The people with the snowmobiles even cut his fence down so they could get to the local bar faster. He was constantly calling the police, but they did nothing. My uncle finally sold the property.

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• KE

  @kelcicundiff7293 · 4 years ago

  So true! People greatly underestimate what you can do on 3 to 5 acres. We raised a horse, goats, chickens, geese, and ducks plus fruit trees and a massive garden on 7 acres and we didn’t even use all of it. Anything you don’t use goes wild super fast too so a small acreage is where it is at!

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  @DoyleShadduck · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m on rural land 8.5 acres in northern NY. I paid 25K for remote land and haven&apos;t had a neighbor problem because I can&apos;t see the neighbors.<br><br>The land has gone up in value every year for 5 years. It&apos;s now worth twice what we paid. Land is the single best investment you will ever make.

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• SK

  @skonstas4683 · 2 years ago

  Nope. Most who are looking for land if they find a 6 acre land and 3 are mountain,it makes for a great view. This is what owing land is. It is not all for building on the whole land.

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