So I've voted against both these houses. I think it's bearing out that I'm weird
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
So I have a distant family member that has a house down in the woods right on the Tennessee River. I cannot state strongly enough how unbelievably cool it is living on a river. It's like living on a lake but way way WAY cooler.
I'd vote for the Alabama house here...but it's just not near anything. If I could get to Nashville I may well vote for Alabama here because that's an awesome place.
But man, owning a compound on thousands of acres within 100 miles of LA and Long Beach is going to require a perfect opponent and 'Bama's proximity to nothing of note. Huntsville and Athens just ain't gonna get it done.
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That's good to know. I gotta say I went into this thinking that I wanted no part of living in Alabama. I mean, I can't stand the humidity in KC.
The difference between most of you all and me is I currently live in nowhere, and I'm fine with it. I want no part of LA life. I think I can stay out of that noise with this house, but the appeal of LA isn't really there for me.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yeah, I'm leasing a couple thousand acres of that to make up that stipend gap.
The farm I've referenced 'round here is about 1,000 acres and it's easily as much space as I truly need for most anything I'll be doing. So with 3,500 odd acres, I can spare 2,000 of 'em.
And yeah, the monthly nut on 2,000 acres within 100 miles of LA is gonna be MORE than enough to make up that stipend I'm missing out on in Alabama.
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Yeah, I don't know what you're getting for leasing out 2000 acres. I know nothing about that orchard life. There might be real life money there, IDK, but you're not getting much out of those oat fields. There isn't much production there.
You have some revenue in selling the equipment there. I can't see much of the hay stuff, but just the ass end of that deere tractor, it's old enough, it's probably worth 30K. If those swathers (and presumably associated bailers) are high houred there isn't as much there as you'd think.
The thing you have to worry about with a lease program is your water. I'm guessing you have to behave there. If it's groundwater, I'd need to lock that down before I'd lease any of that out. House is pretty worthless if you can only get 3 GPM for the whole house.
This is a pretty tough decision, even though I voted against both these houses.
So back to it, I think I have to go to Alabama. Again, whore for money, as per usual. But with that stipend, I can spend real money on mitigating the, you know, Alabama.