Short on cash but found a property I like...

Kickstarter is a popular crowd funding site. No worries though. I bought me a half a billion dollar Powerball ticket just now. If I win, I will buy your land for you and throw in a tractor

LOL!! Sounds good to me, Declan.

Why are you talking o a bunch of folks that don't know whats going on?
Go talk to the owner.
See what he needs, What YOU can do to help him out.
Perhaps he needs away from there and you could rent with a option to buy?
Perhaps you could rent a year and have lots of time to sell the RV and arrange a loan on the remainder?

Only had one number. Sorry you are back to square one

There have been some communications in that regard. There is nothing of that conversation that I feel like I want to put up on this forum just now.

Despite my near drooling over soil so rich, there still are two major issues besides the financing that haven't been addressed to my satisfaction. (One is mineral rights, which I don't think anyone said anything about here. The other, I do not want to talk about and is not relevant to the discussion here.)

I've appreciated the thoughts and ideas expressed in this thread. Some have been helpful as well as encouraging so I don't consider this a waste.

... duplicate post... sorry...

Shucks!! LOL!!!

Good thing I didn't hold my breath.

I think I have a better chance of being hit by lightning while sitting in the bathtub... and I don't own a bathtub.

It's fun to dream once in a while, though.

Ya, dh insisted he go back out last night to buy his tickets. I told him he had a better chance getting hit by a meterorite on the way. Then he reminded me of his friend that won.........

Yep you gotta read the responses here and look for the wheat in the chaff.

Bellyman

First of all, I live in Tennessee and will be retiring on land in Tennessee we bought a year ago. It is a beautiful state if you find the right place to live so I understand why you are excited about the property you found.

I don't know what county your land is located but you might want to research the area before you buy. If the mobile home is old and is considered no value a bank would only lend you money for the land. When we bought our land last year it had been on the market for years. We asked our agent why it had not sold and he said no bank in "that" area would lend money for land. This was due to the economy in the past 6 years. However, in the past we bought land in the same county and Farm Credit Bureau financed it. They had some rules like they will not finance over 100,000. for land.

If banks in the area are not loaning for land that could work to your advantage since the person selling might have a hard time selling if the banks consider it only a land loan. You could get a better deal on the price and get financing through Farm Credit Bureau.

Edited to add: No, you are not old in your fifties and you never know what will happen in the future. I broke my ankle two years and and six months later broke my kneecap. You move forward and get through all the inconveniences life throws at you. If anything you learn to appreciate good health and good bones !


Good luck to you!

Thanks cricket49,

Its mostly in Morgan county with just a little piece in Fentress county.

Talking to a few people about the $ end of it. Thanks for your thoughts.

And thank you for not putting my one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. I'd like to think I have a few years left and what I really want to do is garden. Even if I didn't sell a single thing from it, I'd still want a big garden. I'm told a person should do what they love and would do if there were never a worry of money. I'd be digging in the dirt. :-). I had kinda thought when I check out, I'd just as soon be found with a hoe in my hand and plenty of dirt under my fingernails.

Well, year you might not have time to garden because it takes time for a sale to go through. When I bought land it took a month, and that was for a simple sale with no negotiations or whatever.

I have seen a couple of gardens in lines of pots that gave an amazing amount of produce, and when/if the sale goes through you can take them with you.

Very possible, Terri. There are some things I may not be able to do this year even if it does work out. Will do what I can with what I'm presented with.

One thing about it, I am not planning on going back to the seasonal Amazon gig this year so gardening into the fall should be entirely doable.

I have heard that Amazon gig is KILLER. You were pretty tough to do it in the first place!

Mon

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It is a fairly tough gig. My wife and I have done that for the past three years in a row. It's not bad for bringing in a decent amount of cash in a fairly quick time period if all works as it should. This past year, we messed up a bit and insisted that we wanted to garden as long as we could (at my parents' place in PA) and didn't start at Amazon until about the 3rd week of October. We could have started the first week of September if we had wanted to. Also, we found out once we got there that we wouldn't be able to stay into January like we had the previous 2 years. So it was a short season. And we missed out on being able to join the health insurance plan by just a couple of weeks.

The gig is hard on the feet!! Big time!! Working on concrete for 10 to 12 hours a day with the possibility of walking up to 15 miles a day on that concrete is brutal. Our particular jobs didn't require that much walking but the general rule is that no one sits to work, even if you're in a stationary type position. The year we worked in Customer Returns, just the standing for hours on end was very hard on the feet and lower legs, probably harder on them than walking.

Anyway, the days are long, usually 10 hours, some 12. And when they are at peak, usually the last half of November and December, they want you 5 days a week, 6 if you'll do it.

It was feeling like if we continued to do things like we always had, we'd be right back at Amazon again come fall. And neither of us like it at all, we just did it for the money. So we are making changes this year in order to take our lives in a new direction. I hadn't planned on starting out with a busted leg but that's what life dealt.