3Ts
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You may want to advertise it in South Africa. Some of the farmers there may want to leave to avoid the turmoil.
Selling up and retiring
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OldMcDonald
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I recognise the names of other posters too. I have always thought it would be nice to have a button that we could just click to say "Thank you for that post" or "I like what you posted" without clogging up a thread with unnecessary words.
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OldMcDonald
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It is being advertised there. My website designer is a South African who bought a place not far from me with his Irish wife who decided to divorce him, so he has gone back to SA to make enough to buy her out quickly.
I reckon he is very good at what he does.
rekees4300
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Wider audience could be obtained from Facebook, Youtube & Twitter. TBN is a drop in the bucket compared to those. Around here farms are often sold to adjacent farms. Talk to your neighbors and see if they are interested.
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OldMcDonald
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rekees, Thank you for taking the time to reply, and anybody else I have so far failed to acknowledge. I do appreciate it. I have always found this a good site for people willing to spare the time to give advice.
We are using Facebook. Again, my web designer set up an account and he is doing all the necessary. We are also considering putting it on YouTube using the photos as stills. Basically, I have no neighbours (no houses anyway) other than the lady who took the photos and no commercial farms nearby other than an enormous big tract of olive trees - hundreds of acres of them, and he will not want to be bothered with a piddling place like this.
It is extremely unlikely that it will be bought by a Portuguese. Any of them into farming already have land - usually living in a village and the small plots of land being outside the village. It needs somebody who is going to sell the olive oil in another country, and that probably means in one far enough north in Europe that they are unable to grow olives. I had just wondered whether you all thought somebody in the US (maybe a Portuguese ex-pat) might be interested in moving here and not needing to push for income from the place, in which case they can just sell the produce locally. That means local prices and probably not really profitable.
We are using Facebook. Again, my web designer set up an account and he is doing all the necessary. We are also considering putting it on YouTube using the photos as stills. Basically, I have no neighbours (no houses anyway) other than the lady who took the photos and no commercial farms nearby other than an enormous big tract of olive trees - hundreds of acres of them, and he will not want to be bothered with a piddling place like this.
It is extremely unlikely that it will be bought by a Portuguese. Any of them into farming already have land - usually living in a village and the small plots of land being outside the village. It needs somebody who is going to sell the olive oil in another country, and that probably means in one far enough north in Europe that they are unable to grow olives. I had just wondered whether you all thought somebody in the US (maybe a Portuguese ex-pat) might be interested in moving here and not needing to push for income from the place, in which case they can just sell the produce locally. That means local prices and probably not really profitable.
EddieWalker
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Very nice website.
Sorry to hear that you are selling the farm, but happy for your new adventure in life!!!
In my experience with buying and selling homes, most realtors are worthless. In every area, there are a few that sell more houses then anybody else by a HUGE margin. They understand marketing, pricing, staging and doing what it takes to get it done. Here, they charge the same as the other realtors, but the results are night and day different. What you need to do is find out who sells over a hundred homes a year. Those are the good realtors. Keep trying to sell it yourself, but be sure to have a Plan B in place just in case it doesn't work out for you.
Since the only thing anybody will know about your place is what they see on the website, and the pictures that you posted, it's really important to be kind of **** about what is in those pictures, and what do they represent to those looking at them. Some of your pictures are amazing. Beautiful home and kitchen. Others are kind of scary, like the clutter in what looks like a working area. While everyone on here understands what a working area looks like, it's better to not show those pictures, or declutter it so it looks clean and open. One trick is to take out half of the clothes in your closet so it looks like it can hold a lot more. Same is true with work shops and garages. Gets as much out of there as you can so the buyers will see it as a positive area. A good realtor will only post the very best pictures of your place. The ones that get people excited to come see it. Look at the background, look at every detail in every picture, and ask yourself if it's the best you can make it before posting it.
Good luck!!!
Sorry to hear that you are selling the farm, but happy for your new adventure in life!!!
In my experience with buying and selling homes, most realtors are worthless. In every area, there are a few that sell more houses then anybody else by a HUGE margin. They understand marketing, pricing, staging and doing what it takes to get it done. Here, they charge the same as the other realtors, but the results are night and day different. What you need to do is find out who sells over a hundred homes a year. Those are the good realtors. Keep trying to sell it yourself, but be sure to have a Plan B in place just in case it doesn't work out for you.
Since the only thing anybody will know about your place is what they see on the website, and the pictures that you posted, it's really important to be kind of **** about what is in those pictures, and what do they represent to those looking at them. Some of your pictures are amazing. Beautiful home and kitchen. Others are kind of scary, like the clutter in what looks like a working area. While everyone on here understands what a working area looks like, it's better to not show those pictures, or declutter it so it looks clean and open. One trick is to take out half of the clothes in your closet so it looks like it can hold a lot more. Same is true with work shops and garages. Gets as much out of there as you can so the buyers will see it as a positive area. A good realtor will only post the very best pictures of your place. The ones that get people excited to come see it. Look at the background, look at every detail in every picture, and ask yourself if it's the best you can make it before posting it.
Good luck!!!
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OldMcDonald
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Eddie, Thanks for the remarks, and especially the constructive criticism. You are right and I had not really noticed that things inside the shed could be tidier. All you see in the photos are general storage areas, not workshop areas, including quite a lot of stuff that has to be taken to specific disposal sites, such as fertiliser bags and spray chemical containers to different places. They are quite a distance and out of my normal way so I go infrequently, but it builds up quickly. I am overloaded with hay (not a bad thing) and that does not help either, but I will make some trips before anyone comes.
We did go to the real estate high sellers and they all do sell lots of homes, but a working holding with a house on it is very rare in these parts, so they just did not understand the concept of what we are selling. Our Plan B is that if we fail to sell in the forseeable future we take our Extra Virgin Olive Oil to markets in the UK. We are already advertising through various ag magazines in Europe in both print and digital, so it is not quite a "go it alone" project. I can afford to spend a lot more on advertising because I will not have about €15,000 in estate agents fees to pay out.
I think the last time I saw a photo of your pig it was rather small.
We did go to the real estate high sellers and they all do sell lots of homes, but a working holding with a house on it is very rare in these parts, so they just did not understand the concept of what we are selling. Our Plan B is that if we fail to sell in the forseeable future we take our Extra Virgin Olive Oil to markets in the UK. We are already advertising through various ag magazines in Europe in both print and digital, so it is not quite a "go it alone" project. I can afford to spend a lot more on advertising because I will not have about €15,000 in estate agents fees to pay out.
I think the last time I saw a photo of your pig it was rather small.
radios1
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I was wondering why olive oil went up so much in price!. you stopped selling it.. sorry to hear that!..
forgeblast
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Wow nice place! congratulations on the new adventure. You sure have done a lot of work there!! Wishing you all the best.
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