Wanted: Farm!!!

wade clark · #21 09-08-2005, 12:29 PM

Hi_Ho,
I lived in Lake Havasu City about a year and Tucson about 2. Wild and wonderful country, and if I could buy the right farm, maybe one of those beautiful Walnut Groves below Tucson, I'd consider it again. It'd have to have lots of trees, though, and a growing season...that probably leaves Flagstaff and the White Mountains out!
Wade

Whiskers · #22 09-08-2005, 12:51 PM

I lived in south Georgia for eight years, just north of Albany, the skeeters had landing lights on em, kept a ice scrapper in the car to scrape the bugs off the windshield.

Thor · #23 09-08-2005, 12:51 PM

We were thinking about relocating closer to the ocean until Katrina completely changed my mind. I live in North Georgia where we only get the tail end of hurricanes in the form of tornadoes. Pretty area. I am also thinking about Tennessee, West Virgina or North Carolina.

Wade, you wanna buy an art gallery? We have 5 acres, a house, two wells, 3 septic tanks (one planned to build a smaller house, two ends of a 550 foot long chicken house that caved in many years ago that we renovated to use the front as the art gallery and other end as the horse barn separately. I have studios and workshops and a forge and a sculpture garden, and about 4 acres under fence with a very fat horse in it. I had to buy him a muzzle to keep him from eating 24 - 7.

We are considering selling it all or just selling the house and keeping the rest. Kids are grown, I think it's time for a new beginning. Lot of memories here, hard to leave.
Thor

wade clark · #24 09-08-2005, 01:24 PM

Ha! Thor, I sent you a private message before reading this, asking if you knew of any farms in your area for sale! That's funny! Great minds think alike, they say!
Send me some pictures and info on your place. I had it in my mind that I wanted a minimum of 40 acres, but I've lived in a movie theatre for the last 5 years with no land, not even a flower bed, and I used to get compliments on my green thumb!! Five of the right acres might seem like a lot.
I can't buy until I sell here, but who knows what may come.
Wade

Thor · #25 09-08-2005, 01:55 PM

Check out the web site:
www.funkychickenartproject.com
That's my business on the grounds. The house is next door, and the septic tank to build another house is behind the gallery, and in front of ther barn. It is actually 4.92 acres, and we use every inch of it. Very secluded area with no subdivisions near by yet. The Smokey mountains are behind us and the Chattahoochee Nathional forest is a short horse back ride behind us.

I call the place my "gilded cage", because I never leave, but it's a really nice place to be locked up. Deer graze in the pasture, bears make infrequent visits, chickens and peafowl roam around, and hummingbirds fight over the garden flowers.

Thor

wade clark · #26 09-08-2005, 02:15 PM

Thor,
I've looked at your website before, lots of fun and exciting art!
How about sending info and pics of the house and anything not shown in the web photos.
Thanks!
Wade

Thor · #27 09-08-2005, 02:19 PM

OK, I'll try to take some in the next few days.
T

Paul_Guraedy · #28 09-08-2005, 07:50 PM

Actually Wade, I have been offered a little over $900 an acre for my place. We have 9 ponds, 1 house existing (about 1,500 square feet) and 1 under construction (about 2,200 square feet), 3 storage buildings, a workshop of 600 square feet, a huge barn and a 2 bedroom cabin. I lease out the pastures for grazing and lease out the hunting rights (we have deer, turkey, bear and the occasional elk, along with small game) at a value of about $10K per year. I laughed and told him to come back when he was willing to double his offer (and this was only good for a month). Although I would love to move back to the desert (we spent most of my Park Service career out there) it just does not compare with here financially. Basically, I am land rich and money poor.

wade clark · #29 09-08-2005, 08:25 PM

Paul,
Sure sounds like a beautiful place!
Money poor is ok if you can get by on what you have. Land rich sounds very good!
If you hear of a great buy on a neighbor's farm, please keep me in mind. In the mean time, enjoy!
Wade

Randy48 · #30 09-08-2005, 08:39 PM

Here's a place similar to Thor's Funky Chicken Project. It's priced at $69,500 for 30 arces.

Listing Number: ffr92606
Type: Residential and Farm/Ranch/Land
School: Newburg R-II Acres: 30 M/L Square Feet: 0 Approx.
Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Garage/Carport Capacity:
Year Built: 1960 Taxes: $ ZIP Code:
Listed by: Cindy Butler, CRS, GRI, WCR - Realty Executives Ferrell Associates

http://www.morealestate.net/listings.htm and do a city search for Jerome. I love the place but my wife didn't care for the house, it has window air not central. It's located about 10 miles West of Rolla Missouri on Interstate 44 on sits up on a small piece of the Missouri Ozarks.

MR Yooper - I wasn't knocking the UP. I was born a few miles from you, in Niagara, moved to Escanaba when I was 13. After beating my bones in the army for 20 years, I can't take the cold well any more, otherwise I'd probably went back up North. I've got 123 arces on the Escanaba River that I've been leasing to a friend for the last 20 something years.