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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1660999" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>10 ac piece adjoining my land sold a year ago (it "should" be a part of my farm... just that little corner taken out of my "half section"). Partially brushy woods, full of brush on what used to be "farmland"... hasn't had anything done to it in over 30 years, not even an animal on it, old wood post barbed wire fence that was mostly on the ground. About 1/4 of the "farmland" is so wet that cattle sink up to their knees most of the year, the rest is "passable" for pasture, but not generally driveable most of the time. You'd have to pick your days if you wanted to mow it without getting stuck. Old old house that needed tearing down (a bachelor did actually live in it, but "cellar" with water in it year round, and newspapers and spray foam plugging the holes, rotted floors, etc.), couple other buildings that also needed to go before falling down completely. Sand point well that's not good enough to qualify for financing, no septic system. Bunch of junk still laying around, owner was a "collector of junk".... On his auction, to get some of the pieces that sold off the "sale yard", even though the auctioneer had a big JD payloader, he ended up having to bring in a QuadTrac just to drag the stuff out of the mud... so you can imagine what condition the place was in. </p><p></p><p>I offered the guy $6000/ac, he thought I was trying to steal it from him. He got it sold soon after that to a young fellow here locally for $14,000/ac. cash money, never listed it even. New guy spent the past year cleaning it up, burying/burning the buildings, renting payloader, Cat, tracked skid loader, he's still burning tree stumps. Bushhogged the "fields/brush", put new HT fence with 8" wood posts all the way around (yup, not even lighter posts for line posts!... never even asked if I would help pay for "my half" of the boundary fenceline), put 6 cows on it this past summer, is hoping to build a house on it this next year. Doing a nice job on it... looks much better than it ever has in the 25 years that I've been here!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1660999, member: 39018"] 10 ac piece adjoining my land sold a year ago (it "should" be a part of my farm... just that little corner taken out of my "half section"). Partially brushy woods, full of brush on what used to be "farmland"... hasn't had anything done to it in over 30 years, not even an animal on it, old wood post barbed wire fence that was mostly on the ground. About 1/4 of the "farmland" is so wet that cattle sink up to their knees most of the year, the rest is "passable" for pasture, but not generally driveable most of the time. You'd have to pick your days if you wanted to mow it without getting stuck. Old old house that needed tearing down (a bachelor did actually live in it, but "cellar" with water in it year round, and newspapers and spray foam plugging the holes, rotted floors, etc.), couple other buildings that also needed to go before falling down completely. Sand point well that's not good enough to qualify for financing, no septic system. Bunch of junk still laying around, owner was a "collector of junk".... On his auction, to get some of the pieces that sold off the "sale yard", even though the auctioneer had a big JD payloader, he ended up having to bring in a QuadTrac just to drag the stuff out of the mud... so you can imagine what condition the place was in. I offered the guy $6000/ac, he thought I was trying to steal it from him. He got it sold soon after that to a young fellow here locally for $14,000/ac. cash money, never listed it even. New guy spent the past year cleaning it up, burying/burning the buildings, renting payloader, Cat, tracked skid loader, he's still burning tree stumps. Bushhogged the "fields/brush", put new HT fence with 8" wood posts all the way around (yup, not even lighter posts for line posts!... never even asked if I would help pay for "my half" of the boundary fenceline), put 6 cows on it this past summer, is hoping to build a house on it this next year. Doing a nice job on it... looks much better than it ever has in the 25 years that I've been here! [/QUOTE]
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