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Its been too long folks - lots has happened: First, my son was born almost a year ago! Ok, took care of the family stuff... On the farm, we finally have a weatherproof "basement" house. Last weekend I managed to hook the toilet up to water, and two sinks - so we have hot and cold running w...

Hi all... been awhile since I posted. A LOT has been going on. One tidbit: I've created a webpage for the area: [url]http://www.mysticplains.org There you can find links and read a bit about what the entire area is doing. There is also a link to my Blog which tells a bit more. Right now the big ques...

Actually, its kinda scary. My soul tells me this is important for the long term survival of my line, but I really hope that is not so. Life is CUSHY now, it won't be if my fears come true.

Kevin

Too much to do, but the first thing is to determine what our house will cost. We had considered putting a cabin in, for weekend use only, and later building a full-time residence. However I'm not comfortable making that type of short-term expense. Yeah, we MIGHT be able to rent it out, perhaps to on...

We close on Saturday on 121 acres! Its a long drive, but we got it at $1400/acre.

Thought I'd post a status update: We are now focusing our attention in the Mystic area. That said, about a month ago I got a call from my agent regarding the 34.76 acre parcel. The owners wanted to know if I would split the difference with then. We declined. Last Friday they called again - they woul...

Spent the weekend looking at property in the Mystic Conservation Focus Area. The previous Sunday we looked at a 101 acre parcel and stumbled across a gentlemen associated with an adjoining property. This past weekend we walked their 136 acres, several times. Frank Oberle (sorry, spelled it wrong in ...

Well.. things are a blur at the moment. We made the $3000/acre "Best and Final" offer, they countered, we rejected. Happen to be reading the "Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF)" journal, and caught a side bar article requesting that anyone interesting in buying land contact them. ...

Wife and I had a long talk, and decided to make another offer on the 34.76 acre lot. The last round ended with us offering about $2750/acre, they countered at $3250/acre, we declined. This time we have made a "Best & Final" offer of $3000/acre, no conditions, entire cost to be deposite...

Having conversations with home builders in parallel. We explored some "random log" homes and had concerns with their engineering. Then we set our sights on a "Timber Frame" home until we got back some cost estimates. Currently we are talking with Chris from biglogs.com about a cu...

We looked at (3) more properties this weekend, two 60 acres parcels and one 80 acre parcel. The first 60 acres shared a fence with a neighboring 60 acres we have nick named the "Dead Cow Farm" - while touring that land a month or so ago we found about 9 dead cattle carcases. This new 60 ac...

That's a shame that your bids were rejected. Good luck in your hunt. Zoe We are feeling "OK", somewhat disappointment of course. Reality was that neither parcel was ideal. The 35 acre lot felt a little small (we ideally want 60-80 acres), and had no natural water. We did like the neighbor...

Well... our bid on a 35 acre parcel was rejected - the owners simply want more than we feel its worth. We bid on an 80 acre horse farm last Friday and were today yesterday that the owners rejected that offer because they decided not to sell! Oddly, this is not the first time this has happened to us....

Zoe - Thanks for the international education! I have a side business where I rent "starter homes" (we have 5 units currently, with hopes to someday own about 10). These homes are typically about 1000 sq. ft and are considered small by most people here in the mid-west part of the USA. That ...

In fact someone did say that the sizes would be illegal in their country (I think that was the states). :roll: Zoe I think the minimum legal bedroom size in the USA is 80 sq ft. - but apparently that includes closet space. Just to be clear, when I say 400 sq. ft. I'm talking the inside dimensions o...