Subject: [Homestead] Regrets & positives of my homestead
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:01:21 -0700
When we bought the 12 acres of trees in northern Minnesota I was
still in the Coast Guard, stationed at Chicago (10 hr drive).
The place had about an acre on one corner that was part of a hay
field, this was good as it gave me a place to operate off the township road.
The first thing I did was get two truck loads of class 5 gravel
spread as a driveway off the twp road. This turned out to be one of
the smartest things I did come that first spring (mud season).
My regrets were-
1) Getting an old mobile home rather then have a pole barn built and
put an apartment inside that. I ended up having to rewire and replumb
the mh anyway. The mh was supposed to be temporary, it turned out to
be a long temporary .
2) Not building a shop as my first project, or the above mentioned
pole barn and using half of it as a shop.
3) Not buying a tractor when I started and could afford it. After I
got out of the CG there was never enough money for things like that.
Rob
becida AT comcast.net
Washington state
Homestead advice-
Buy a house. If you have a house, buy land. Pay for the land with
city jobs, prepare your family for a rural lifestyle, accumulate
tools and skills. When the land is free of debt sell the city house
and go make a good life.
-Gene GeRue
[Homestead] Regrets & positives of my homestead,
Rob, 09/24/2006