Selling Rural Land and House

[txdon]

Don I have to say i am surprised to see you checking out of the rural life already. It was just a couple years ago i recall you doing the major paver project in the driveway. That was some real nice work! I guess sometimes things change out from under you faster than you expect. Good luck

We have had the place for 22 years and have been retired on it for 11. We have had a good run with it.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Wasn't the bridge done in 2004?

 

[txdon]

Wasn't the bridge done in 2004?

Yes it was. We had the weekend cabin here at that time and then we moved here full time in 2006.

 

[Ken]

Yes it was. We had the weekend cabin here at that time and then we moved here full time in 2006.

Have you considered selling the place by posting a sign at drive way.
A neighbor developed a illness requiring him to move closer to city. and as he was putting up a for sale sign

a vehicle stopped and in getting acquainted and giving description of the place. Price was asked and for 90 acres he joked wanted a quarter of a million. The buyer opened check book and gave a very large retainer
couple of days later came back and looked over farm and wrote check for the requested amount.

There is property here that is selling at price unheard of 10 years ago.
700 acres sold for 3K and acre. then bought the cattle on the place.

I'm in the lower 80 years and property is getting hard to keep up with . Leased for grazing and leaser keeps the fences repaired and yearly bush hogging. so only have house area to maintain .
Better than moving to area wouldn't want to live.
ken

 

[ovrszd]

Good friend of mine who is a large farmer and personally owns 11,000 acres of tillable land says "Never price something you don't want to sell".

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good friend of mine who is a large farmer and personally owns 11,000 acres of tillable land says "Never price something you don't want to sell".

Yea, an old departed friend restored a t-bird once. A guy asked him how much he would sell it for, so he gave a high price, and the guy said sold, and wrote him a check....

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Don, I'm just wondering if all the flat tires are "the straw"?

I was trying to look you folks up on the county appraisal to see your acreage, but no information was available. Can I get my appraisal hidden?

Thinking further about your place, it would be hard alone, just to put a price on your paver drive. I guess you could affix a price for the drive, and see if you can get "paid" for all your hard work.

FWIW, my FIL sold 40 acres about 1.5-2 years ago, that was fairly wild with post oaks and some cedars, had paved county road access, for 6K an acre. Only had 1/8 of minerals, not even sure if he conveyed those or not.

 

[txdon]

Flats are not from the straw they are steel nails and screws, no telling where I pick them up, but I do seem to be a magnet even when I drive my mom's car no where near my place.
PM sent on tax code
I'm also leaving my collection of Solider Fly larva so the next owners can fully utilize the organic Keyhole garden.

 

[riptides]

Another thing not mentioned: Should I include the tractor (1000 hrs.) or would that just put an overload for a new rural buyer?

Include by negotiations only. Some may want it, others not. But it is a definite necessity unbeknownst to the some of the casual rural landowner wanna be's.

 

[txdon]

Include by negotiations only. Some may want it, others not. But it is a definite necessity unbeknownst to the some of the casual rural landowner wanna be's.

That's true. Needs for rural land comes in stages. Usually one cannot be contemplated the needs to the fullest if out of order.

 

[ustmd]

Flats are not from the straw they are steel nails and screws, no telling where I pick them up, but I do seem to be a magnet even when I drive my mom's car no where near my place.
PM sent on tax code
I'm also leaving my collection of Solider Fly larva so the next owners can fully utilize the organic Keyhole garden.

Txdon,

How did the keyhole garden work for you? The wife and I have discussed setting one up.

 

[txdon]

Txdon,

How did the keyhole garden work for you? The wife and I have discussed setting one up.

Since it sets up you do have water it. We throw all our kitchen veg waste in the middle wire cage and it has never filled up (even several watermelons in the summer). The soldier larva speed up the composting. Things really grow good in it with no fertilizer. I put the little shade on it to give the tomatoes a little break from the afternoon sun.

The one in the previous pic was completely disassembled, a slab poured along the outer edge and then mortar between the rocks during the re-build. It's a nice height so no bending over is required.
Here is a pic of the new improved keyhole garden.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Never heard of it.

 

[aczlan]

Note to self, do NOT show the wife the keyhole garden or you will be building one...

Aaron Z

 

[ustmd]

Since it sets up you do have water it. We throw all our kitchen veg waste in the middle wire cage and it has never filled up (even several watermelons in the summer). The soldier larva speed up the composting. Things really grow good in it with no fertilizer. I put the little shade on it to give the tomatoes a little break from the afternoon sun.

The one in the previous pic was completely disassembled, a slab poured along the outer edge and then mortar between the rocks during the re-build. It's a nice height so no bending over is required.
Here is a pic of the new improved keyhole garden.

I hear you about the bending over. We are converting one of the food gardens from raised beds (~18" high) to used water troughs .

Your keyhole looks like it has some type of liner between stoves and the soil?

 

[txdon]

Note to self, do NOT show the wife the keyhole garden or you will be building one...

Aaron Z

Here is the link to where I got the idea from. It starts on page 14 of this magazine.
https://www.bluebonnetelectric.coop...P-Magazines/2012/Bluebonnet_1202.pdf?ext=.pdf

 

[Thall303]

You will miss all these projects!

 

[sseelhoff]

You will miss all these projects!

If he gets bored, I've got plenty of things for him to work on here. I'll even spring for a bottle of Aqua Velva for all of his shaving and cooking needs.

 

[txdon]

You will miss all these projects!

You are right.
The 11 years I had the land before I retired I dreamed of all the projects I was going to do after I retired. Now 22 years later Many of those projects are still undone but many more have sprouted.

 

[Thall303]

Good luck in your next stage.