we have some news for you guys and i hope you're sitting down because we have deliberately
intentionally decided to give up our debt-free lifestyle and go into debt this is not click bait
because we have purchased a soybean farm but this whole story started two years ago hey everybody
my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome to our channel give them a little bit of flashback what
do you mean by two years ago so back in 2019 we decided that we wanted to buy some acreage over
in tennessee and we were going to start a sheep farm yep we had it in our head for whatever reason
there were some great government farm loans we wanted to try and take advantage of so we
got several certifications went to a couple of courses had it in our heads would it be sheep
farmers and then god changed our minds he slammed that door big time we were a little bit hurt for
a while but we got over it so fast forward two years to may of this year 2021 and his brother
comes up with an idea and says look there's this huge piece of property like 40 something acres
let's go in together and split it i need like 30 something so why don't you take about eight
and a half acres and we're like whoa that's huge compared to what we have now we only have an acre
and that's eight so we went over looked at it and loved it yep so as the real estate fund happened
and going back and forth and everything ended up being my brother decided that probably wasn't the
right thing for him but we decided to continue and try our best to buy some property we fell in
love with the location because of its super close proximity to my brother and in the area that we've
always liked of tennessee so we we kind of went in with a hope and a prayer really the seller was one
that says i'm not splitting it i'm not subdividing it if you want to buy it it's 40 something acres
so knowing that we really wanted to get this property we decided to put in an offer and
give a letter to the seller and his wife saying a little bit about us and what we wanted to do with
it yeah kind of our intentions so the seller came back and said i will sell off 15 acres that's it
final offer take it or leave it and that was just crazy for us because we were only wanting to buy
eight and a half yeah and something that's nearly double so at this point we were kind of thinking
oh man this is so much more money than we ever really wanted to even try and spend or
borrow should we go for this or should we not we were trying to figure out whether or not we
were going to go with god's will or if we were trying to force what we wanted in a situation
so that was one thing that we were kind of trying to figure out another thing about it was
something that i don't remember and then the man who originally said i'm not gonna split this at
all came back and had told us here i will split it and i will give you this much and it was within
reach it was something that we had barely within reach it was like yeah okay the equivalent of
literally your entire life savings every single penny you own plus you have to sell your element
in your ford ranger so there's a little hint for you guys that watch our channel that's why every
single penny you can come up with then you can get it so we said okay and that has been about
a month ago yep and so after negotiations and everything like that we were under contract
but i guess due to covid and the high real estate market right now it was really hard
to get somebody to come and do a survey and so that took a couple of weeks and then just one
thing after another we finally got to close this past week that we now have 15 acres to ourself
what in the world we're going to do with it all right with the talking head point aside let's
go ahead and let you guys actually see a little preview sneak view of the actual property itself
so
so when we did the videos and stuff like that the soybeans are up to about waist tall so it
can be quite fun and kind of reminiscent of jurassic park going through when you
can't see what's on the ground around you yeah we survived thankfully we were being
safe as safe as we could absolutely be for sure no raptors going through the soybean field right
as you also saw there is woods there we have about say two and a half acres worth
of woods and there is a spring in the woods i won't say pond because it's not that big
but there is a body of water with frogs that will scare you to death when you don't expect
to have things jump around well and they like to scream when they go in there
so that tells us that it should be fairly clean water unless the frogs have three legs
but that's awesome you always love or always love to have at least some kind of water on
the property so that is great plus the woods we are so excited about for shade purposes
and play purposes of course there's also firewood there's a lot of benefits we have got to learn how
to identify trees the times we've gone over there to look and just you know what's that
tree what's that tree we realize you really don't know anything about a christmas tree
at least we don't well most i would say 95 percent of the trees in there are hardwood there's not
really many pine trees or anything like that yeah yeah which is great yes very cool this is going to
bring on a whole slew of questions and things you're wondering and things we are wondering
have been wondering for months still don't know the answer to still feel free to leave a comment
down below as we figure them out we will let you know as we know things we will also let you know
right now our current goal or mindset is one to be on that property as much as we can
two we don't want to go into debt any further than we are if we can help it we don't want to we
we feel that land loan enough so we're not about to build a mcmansion don't worry about that
um and then three we're gonna have to figure out some kind of uh
living situation or camping situation or something out there so that we can make the two hour drive
over to our property spend a day or two working and then come back home at least that's our
thoughts right now another big thing is soybeans sam angela are you gonna be soybean farmers no
we're not one of the things that we negotiated or really worked out with the seller is he is going
to harvest off all the soybeans and do what he does with it because he's a farmer and then he
said as long as he can do that he will plant us back a nice grass pasture mix i think fescue mix
so that's awesome yes we don't have to worry about somehow doing something with soybeans and we get a
smooth drilled seeded pasture in return and that's awesome all it takes is you know we need to allow
him to have access to the property until the soybeans done which is just about another month
or so from this point it's already been three months we can wait another month before we do
any kind of major stuff i mean we gotta save up money anyway so it's a win-win this allows
us to also go in and play in the woods and get them cleaned out so we can do more in it yes
hint of videos to come play in the woods i don't it sounds like work in the woods to me i don't
know it's new power tools and that type thing okay play in the woods it is hint new tools okie dokie
all right well i guess this video has probably gone on quite a while hopefully you've enjoyed
it either way we um are really really happy to finally be able to tell you guys
finally be able to get you up to date with what's been going on for the past three months
we are thankful that it has worked out and actually is going to come to fruition and
yeah the living room renovation is still going on that's that's been our way of maintaining sanity
throughout this is to still just keep doing the things we need to do so there'll still be content
kind of a mixture i guess house stuff new property stuff either way it's it's us and it's what we're
doing if you have any questions or comments please leave them below we will try and answer them if
we can and we'd love to read them and otherwise we'll see you guys next time either here or there
either way as long as we're here that matters yep that matters see you bye
you