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Establish Temporary Residence and Clear Land

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Nobody told me this about buying land, starting a farm or homesteading!

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What happens here

To manage costs and be present on the land, the speaker bought and remodeled a used mobile home for temporary residence. He describes purchasing neglected land, including 40-year-abandoned tobacco fields, which lacked topsoil due to historical poor farming practices. The initial clearing of approximately 100 acres of timber yielded around $42,000, which was reinvested into further land clearing efforts. He advises against thinking of clearing in terms of 'cow pasture' and instead to aim for a 'golf course' aesthetic for better land management and potential future value, and to maintain clear communication with land-clearing contractors to avoid costly mistakes.

Goal: Set up a temporary living arrangement on the property and begin the intensive process of clearing overgrown land, potentially utilizing timber sales to fund initial development stages.

Tools and materials

  • Land Clearing Equipment (e.g
  • feller buncher
  • bulldozer
  • excavator)
  • Used Mobile Home

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and we'll talk about that stuff in just a minute so in order to buy this 60 Acres it was $120,000 we had to put about 25% down save your money save your money save your money money think about this now if you have money in the bank and you can just borrow against that borrow against that or if you can go out and buy it up in cash buy it in cash that's much more appealing to a land owner trying to sell their land I don't recommend and others do recommend leasing land if you want to lease land to give it a shot lease some land and give it a shot but here's the deal the land is the cheap part and that's what you need to know that's part of the take home message of this video today the land is the cheap part guys so if you go out here you pay $2,000 bucks an acre for this 1,800 bucks an acre for that and you have very poor land with no fences and and it's unfarmable you're going to have to spend some money you got to buy tractors trucks sheds tools fencing all sorts of stuff Water Systems Water Systems Water Systems you got to think about that too so how do I find land Josh how do I find land for sale well you can go on things like Zillow you can go on to realtor.com or neither one of these places were listed with a realtor you can do word of mouth so all you got to do do is pull down a country road and talk to a farmer and ask them because farmers are aging out guys and their kids aren't interested in farming the land or homesteading they want to live in the mcmansion in the neighborhood make their little bit of money and go to Disneyland that's not what I wanted to do with my life so I decided to seek out some land so 60 Acres over here we had to give about 25% down which it's about $30,000 something like that that we had to put down save your money and be ready if you're young and you're thinking about doing this please go for it go for it now you may have to swallow your pride just a little bit and let's talk about swallowing your pride we first moved up here this is huge this place is absolutely enormous when it comes to a guy that lived on a third of an acre in the neighborhood it's ginormous I dreamed of starting a farm I felt a calling back to the land much like you might feel but this was so overwhelming that we looked for a cheap used mobile home so we didn't know where we wanted to build our permanent home or our house we just wanted to have a place to stay so we sought out a used mobile home we put the word out in the neighborhood and voila it…

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