Selling up and retiring

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OldMcDonald

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I have not posted for quite a long time because I have had nothing of interest to say. I do lurk from time to time though.

I have been slowing down for a couple of years due getting older (74 now) and some old rugby and horse related injuries - I can remember some of them and where it hurt at the time, but when you are young you just get on with life. Now I realise that damage was caused. I had a very bad fall last winter walking down a steep street in a town. Never did like towns. This has made things worse and so I now need help with some of the heavier tasks about the place. I do not like that, my wife and I have always managed apart from when our son was at school and some of his mates used to come and "help out" on Saturday afternoons. We knopw we are going to need help with the olive harvest in Oct/Nov.

So we decided we will offer the place for sale and retire. The details are on my website Old Mcdonald's Farm if anybody wants to see where I live, and a little bit of the countryside around about just click on the Google map. We intend to go to the Azores where I will do lots of sea fishing (I hope) and some fruit and veg gardening. Not decided which island yet, but they are all frost-free and not too hot so the opportunity will be there to grow some things I have never grown before. My wife likes plenty of ornamental gardens so she will be able to do the same.

I am not into big game fishing where it costs you a lot of money to go out on a boat and you have to put back what you catch. Not much point in that as far as I can see. Instead I will be looking for easy access fishing from harbour walls, jetties, beaches and rocks and just aiming to catch things we can eat. We already eat a fair bit of fish - often twice a week for dinner and maybe the same at lunch so we can use quite a lot.

We had three estate agents come to view and none of them had any idea about selling a working farm. A house and amenity land yes, but our place is run on commercial lines, so we are selling it ourselves. Obviously we want as much exposure as possible in places where there might be interested buyers. I am doubtful whether there would be interest from USA, but all you folks will know better than me. Do any of you think there might be and should we try to have it known over there that we are selling?

Obviously just by posting here it will reach TBNers so I already have that exposure, but I wondered about a wider audience.
 
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That is a beautiful farm! If I were younger......
 
   / Selling up and retiring #3  
When you are serious about selling - it never hurts to have as wide an exposure as possible. Many times it will be a friend telling a friend that will generate a sale.
 
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When you are serious about selling - it never hurts to have as wide an exposure as possible. Many times it will be a friend telling a friend that will generate a sale.

Yes indeed. That is what we are relying upon, but we are also doing some paid advertising in various countries. We expect it to go to somebody in anorthern European one so they can sell thier own produce in their home country - where people cannot grow what they have for sale so they are not directly competing against someone living there.

I do like your signature.
 
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That is a beautiful farm! If I were younger......

I was 59 when I came here and took on a very neglected bit of ground. I have done it before though - four times. The Australian one was over 3000 acres. I was a lot younger then too though.

Just a note: I tried to combine my response to both posts into one response, but failed. Can this be done?
 
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I don't see the cow. E I E I oh!
 
   / Selling up and retiring #7  
Good to hear from you, and best of wishes going forward.
 
   / Selling up and retiring #8  
You've built up a nice place for yourself, (again) I hope that it sells and you are able to enjoy your retirement years. I remember some of the things you've posted about in the past, you have certainly led a busy life.
 
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Very nice property.

For the benefit of those who can't do conversions without the benefit of a calculator (that includes me:)):

One euro = $1.16, 315,000 euros = $365,400
One hectare = 2.47105 acres, 6.6 hectares = 16.3acres
One kilometer = 0.621371 miles, 15 kilometers = 9.3 miles.
One square meter = 10.7639 square feet, 135 square meters = 1,453 square feet, 450 square meters = 4,844 square feet.

Steve
 
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