I've been buying and selling farms and ranches for 20 years. Not as a means of making money, but trying to find a place that works. If I could tolerate hot summers I'd have it made. But I have to be on the coast.
I saved a crow a few months ago, and he is now my friend, coming every morning for my apple core and other scraps. My day consists of mountain biking about 15 miles on some great trails I've got in the forest here.
I thought you were going to pummel me over that statement I made. It's just my experience that people have this tendency to mess up their lives with things like children and mortgages. I just got lucky in that my folks had a few bucks to loan me for my first house. It took a few years of very hard work, but I became mortgage free by my third property.
I'm pretty discouraged right now. There are still monstrosities being built right now. People just don't have a clue. My second house was a 500 sq ft. cabin. Four years I lived in that thing. I loved it. I'm presently living in a super modern shop I designed and built. But I've managed to not cut down a forest and then some in order to build some hideous villa. I'm pretty disgusted right now as I'm looking again for that next place, and just running into all kinds of ugliness. Not only that, but once the internet hit, and the low rate no document loans were being given away bare land started to be a pretty rare thing.
I could write a book on what I've seen and done. And as frustrating as it has been, I've been fortunate enough to own a true smorgasbord of real estate. Now I'm feeling like I'm running out of time as I approach sixty. And with all of the places I've owned I now know clearly what I don't want. But I'm still not sure what I do want. A house is not a home. But deer every morning just might make up for it. I've got my eyes on a small property in Oregon that has it all. Pond, creek, owls. We'll see.
It's time for the evening walk through the redwoods. I hope you find what you want.
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