1quik70
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My wife and I are country folks at heart, and for the last 9 years we have been stuck living in apartments and subdivisions, as I traversed my way through college and into a career (Funeral Director). In the fall of 2012 we purchased our funeral home, and have lived in our apartment above the funeral home since then. While living a few feet from the office has been great in our transition into business owners, we have found that we never "quit" working, and it was all we had to talk about. Last summer we began looking around for a pice of ground for us to call home. We had a few "must haves" including, a lake/pond, an out building of some form, and at least 50 acres. We looked at several pieces of property, none of which had ALL of our must haves. We took a break from shopping as we couldn't find anything we were happy with. Fast forward to October, we had a family friend mention a piece of ground that had just been listed, and suggested we take a look. What we found was HOME, no doubt in our mind. We pushed through the buying process, and after a few bumps in the road we finally closed on the place a few weeks ago.
We ended up purchasing 66 acres split to be 35 acres tillable and another 30 in woods and bottom ground. The property has 2 small lakes, and a nice size creek that borders the south side of the property. For buildings, the place has a 2400 Sq. Ft. home, and approx. 3800 Sq. Ft. shop/barn. Both of the buildings are in various stages of disrepair, but are not too far gone to be rehabilitated.
The first order of business was getting the house fit to be inside. The previous owners ran a puppy mill to try to make ends meet, and it showed in the home. Luckily a lot of cleaning and elbow grease got rid of the smell. We stripped the flooring and trim, then worked on patching walls and getting Kilz on the walls and ceiling. We are now in somewhat of a holding pattern. The previous owner had put metal roofing material over 3/8" sheeting, which allowed all the screws to get loos and pull out, creating a plethora of roof leaks. Instead of trying to replace the screws and hope for the best, we are going to have the metal removed, new decking installed and the metal replaced. Once that is complete we can continue on repairing the ceiling drywall damage from the leaks, and put down our new flooring, replace trim, ect.
I will be updating this thread as things move forward. There is plenty of work to be done with our Kubota, but we are focusing on getting a place to sleep before we worry about the property itself. Here are a few pictures to get us started as well as a link to our Photobucket we have created for our farm.
A Google Earth Shot of the place to get a feel for its layout.
A mandatory picture of the work horse!
Finally a link to our Photobucket Album.
Our Farm Photos by 1quik70 | Photobucket
We ended up purchasing 66 acres split to be 35 acres tillable and another 30 in woods and bottom ground. The property has 2 small lakes, and a nice size creek that borders the south side of the property. For buildings, the place has a 2400 Sq. Ft. home, and approx. 3800 Sq. Ft. shop/barn. Both of the buildings are in various stages of disrepair, but are not too far gone to be rehabilitated.
The first order of business was getting the house fit to be inside. The previous owners ran a puppy mill to try to make ends meet, and it showed in the home. Luckily a lot of cleaning and elbow grease got rid of the smell. We stripped the flooring and trim, then worked on patching walls and getting Kilz on the walls and ceiling. We are now in somewhat of a holding pattern. The previous owner had put metal roofing material over 3/8" sheeting, which allowed all the screws to get loos and pull out, creating a plethora of roof leaks. Instead of trying to replace the screws and hope for the best, we are going to have the metal removed, new decking installed and the metal replaced. Once that is complete we can continue on repairing the ceiling drywall damage from the leaks, and put down our new flooring, replace trim, ect.
I will be updating this thread as things move forward. There is plenty of work to be done with our Kubota, but we are focusing on getting a place to sleep before we worry about the property itself. Here are a few pictures to get us started as well as a link to our Photobucket we have created for our farm.
A Google Earth Shot of the place to get a feel for its layout.
A mandatory picture of the work horse!
Finally a link to our Photobucket Album.
Our Farm Photos by 1quik70 | Photobucket
