stocky
Well-known member
When I was a kid, an elderly gentleman lived up the road and would walk down every day to play ball with my brother and I and he would go to all of our little league games. He was a special man and he was a WW1 veteran. He had 40 acres and 37 years ago, when he passed away, I was supposed to buy his farm, but the nephew from out of state sold it to someone else. He sold it for 1,000 dollars. There has been 3.5 acres cut off with a house on it, and there are only 36.5 acres of it left. I finally got to purchase it yesterday. It cost 70,000 and would have cost alot more, but no one else knew the bank that had it was going to sell it. After word got out it was going to sell, there were better offers than what I paid, and they said the person who sold it to me had no authority, but I had a signed contract. As it is, in 37 years, the place only went from 1,000 to 70,000 even though it lost 3.5 acres---now, that is inflation in the hills. It now has 24 beautiful red horned cows with 450 lbs calves that I bought off an ad in craigslist, so it is off to a good start.
