How to warm up one's cold feet?

If you do go ahead and close on the property, you might want to get started on planting as many of those trees as possible this year. The sooner you get them started the better.
I'm a big fan of the book Edible Landscaping as a good guide to what to plant, and I've also planted 10 varities of bamboo around my place.

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"I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."
— Henry James

When we bought our homestead, it had been on the market a while - at least six months, maybe longer. We offered the asking price. The deal fell through (no clear title on one parcel of land so the bank wouldn't do a loan).

We looked and looked, for about a year.

Eventually we talked to a real estate attorney and made the offer on this place again, but financing one parcel through a bank and the other parcel through the owner. The offer was accepted. We LOVE this place. But it was on the market a long time - at least a year and a half, maybe longer - and at least one deal (our first) fell through.

There are several properties in the area that are for sale that were for sale when we moved here a year ago. Property moves very slowly in the country (at least around here, where jobs are scarce).

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Our homestead-in-the-making: Palazzo Rospo
Eating the dream

Have you had the water tested? That's the only thing I can think of that could still be wrong -- it sounds like you're doing fine on every other issue.

I agree that it's probably mostly the big change in lifestyle that is facing you. Are you able to do most of the work on the place yourself, or will you have to hire help to fix things up the way you want? Does the place meet your needs, for what you want to do with it?

Sit down with some paper and start making lists: lists of the things to do, prioritized; lists of things you are going to need to find, make, or buy; schedules; and so on. That will help you get a handle on things. I think right now you are feeling like you've bitten off more than you can chew. Breaking it down into smaller pieces will help bring order out of chaos.

Kathleen

You just need some water.. its missing water :P

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Today is yesterdays tomorrow

Is this the first place you've purchased? The first one is always a little nerve wracking. It might help for you to make a written list of the pro's & con's. Having it in your head is one thing, but putting it on paper makes it more real.

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We have discovered that we had good initial feelings about both places that we have purchased in the last 35 years. At our first place, we went out to the property without the realtor becuase he had to get to the post office before it closed, so we drove out, found the right drive, went to the top of the hill, and my wife said "Is that our fence line over there?" and I replied, "Sure, and that's our road down there". We discovered that we had already made up our minds.

If you have that kind of good feeling about the place, maybe it is just the anticipation of a change of lifestyle that is bugging you. If you don't have some kind of feeling that it is the "right" place for you, maybe it isn't.