My journey begins

mikec4193 · #21 10/29/13, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by littlejoe

If you want to blame the local hunting community, you've already got strikes against you. You could've said vandals as easily as what you did? They are in every crowd.

I'm a part of my "hunting community". I take care and take part in it. I help my neighbors when they need help and when I'm available to help. Not as a hunter, but as a neighbor. I'm a hunter, and some of them are hunters.

As a landowner, I have welcomed others who have never offered any kind of help, but want to have the opportunity to hunt. Yes, I have had words with tresspassers. But, I won't lump them all into a category.

How would you feel if I lumped all govt workers into the same category?

That's a pretty shortsighted opinion you have of the "hunting community"

Hey Littlejoe....I talked of the hunter cummunity as being the culprits with my issue at hand (vandals) due to the next door neighbor who actually caught them in the act...nothing bothers me more than folks that steal my stuff. I work too much now to have folks just walk on my property and wreck my stuff....

So LittleJoe I am sorry if I offended you any of the other hunters out there but when they get caught in the act...that is as good as guilty to me... yes it could have been a member of just about any crowd ex: the 4WD crowd too (which by the way I am part of that crowd)...I was just stating the facts thats all...

Oh yeah the neighbor hunts and I told him have at it...doesnt bother me at all...maybe he'll share some of his spoils when I get moved there...

MikeC

mikec4193 · #22 12/12/13, 12:59 PM

No much to report....got a quote for a 22x34 modular ranch house and it came in at almost 70,000.00....so much for that avenue....I did find a fellow with a small backhoe to update the septic and get the well water running again (in the spring of 2014).
I also found a neighbor who will clear about 2 acres of huge pine trees in and around the house and he will pay me 30% after trucking fees....I didnt think it was that bad...that will be happening early part of 2014...
Still trying to figure out how to spent time out on the property...working 6 1/2 days a week sorta leaves no time to visit...
I told my wife I am going to be calling this place "Sunday Afternoon"...she sorta looked at me wierd..."thats the only time I get to stop up and look at it or get anything done it"...I tell her...

We will see how this adventure works out...if it doesnt I will be selling and moving out to Kansas or the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY...one child of mine is in each place...

For what we payed for it...we really cant lose on it...I am not worried for once...

MikeC

fishhead · #23 12/13/13, 08:15 AM

Good luck! It sounds like you are off to a good start. Those 4 years are going to go fast.

I'm a hunter and your comment didn't offend me. There are some real slobs running around with guns calling themselves hunters and unfortunately it's easy to see them as hunters. That said it's probably better to name them more specifically for those of us without all the facts.

What weekenders do here is to keep the grass mowed. Lights and radio on a timer are recommended. You might even consider leaving a vehicle in the driveway and moving it every time you go to the property.

If the "house" is livable I wonder about renting it out cheap just to get someone on the property.

mikec4193 · #24 12/14/13, 02:30 PM

Hi Fishhead

Thanks for the tips. I actually have met the next door neighbor and he keeps and eye on it for us...he was the one that told me about the folks who were caught in the act....I don't think he knew them tho...that is water under the bridge...My biggest issue is getting time to actually spend there...working 6 1/2 days a week doesn't leave anytime at all...so I will paying for all improvements until I can move there at the very end of 2017.

We will see how it goes...right now there is nothing there but a basement with a sealed deck on it a small garage, smaller shed and 2 open sided Adirondack type barns....

I am looking forward to the small town life....where I am living now has gotten really over run...A little peace and quite will be a welcome change....

I am going to have to post some pictures really soon...

MikeC