since showing you guys our new property we have been getting a ton of questions and
rightly so so today's video is all about answering your questions and giving more
information about what exactly it is that we plan to be doing hey everybody my name is sam
and i'm angela and welcome to our channel this video is going to be broken up into chapters so
you can check the description below for links to which sections you want to know about the most
let's catch up anyone who may have missed or didn't hear if i mumble jumbled the words in
other videos let's give them the information about our property what exactly did we buy give
them some info so we bought 15 acres of raw land in east tennessee mostly cropland right now with
a few acres of wooded area there is a spring fed pond in the woods which is kind of interesting
as well as a tire dump and an old bottle dump in a part of the woods something yet to explore
yeah i think that's probably more interesting for you guys okay it is no it is more interesting
than just a spring fed fund um there are no buildings no sheds anything like that
so this is completely a new blank slate yep raw land no property improvements no utilities on site
as of the making of this video most of the property is covered in soybeans we put an
agreement in with the seller who was the farmer we bought the land from that we would let him get
his soybeans off even after closing so we own the property now we're still giving him access to get
them off and harvest them so long as he smooths out the property and seed drill or plants grass
seed in return for us and by grass seed i mean a pasture grazing mixture not like bermuda grass or
some kind of lawn we're not going to mow 15 acres the old john deere wouldn't put up with that nope
if you've seen many of our videos in the past you know that we like to be debt free
and do our projects paycheck to paycheck so does that mean that we bought this property outright
with no debt i wish in truth we used our literal literal life savings to be able to purchase
or go to a bank and through them get a loan and purchase this property it takes us well outside
of our comfort zone as h far as how we like to do things but if you have a dream sometimes in
life there's only one way or a couple ways to get that dream and you got to kind of grin and bear
it in the meantime so that being said on a level of one to ten how scared and nervous and crazy
ah feeling do you have no more in debt for the property it's not too bad it's kind of worth it
okay i'm freaking out then a little bit but i know in the long term game okay grand scheme
of things yeah that it'll be worth it in the end we will have something that we can give our boys
whenever we're gone and um hopefully with enough property that should they want to build and can't
afford it then we can give them something to do then yeah yeah the old adage they're not
making any more property so it's always a good investment definitely applies here given you know
i think we are a lot more gun shy or cautious of debt than the average person in america is so
what level of debt we get nervous over i mean most people graduate college with more debt than what
we're kind of getting jittery over so all that to say we do not own the property yet but we are
going to be working as diligently as we can to get back out of debt as soon as possible right
several have asked since you have all this property and it is literally 15 times bigger
than what you're currently home setting on what's your plans with it do we plan to
sub lease it out to farmers or subdivide it or just flip it and do a condominium
phew no this is our dream homestead our forever dream homestead that we plan to stay here as
long as we're here so we don't plan to sublease it we don't plan to let any farmers use it we
will probably just put hay on it for now and grow hay yep my brother who lives out there close by
raises cattle and he is always in the market for hay so hey we'll make hay while the sun shines and
have some to sell for him as he needs to or just sell it locally and that is just our right out
the gate off the top of our head game plan with this property it's going to take us a while to
wrap our heads around the uses and benefits and possibilities and probably even longer to come up
with money to do all these great ideas so in the short term we will be doing mostly hay production
with selling it to either my brother or other cattle farmers in the area
and i'm sure in the future we may add livestock or something like that to it as well like we said
we've just gotten it so we have so many thoughts going through our heads of what we could do
yep we want to be very careful that we do not get in over our heads as far as just going all crazy
on homesteadville buying 30 cows or something like that we don't want to do that right
so i'll let you answer this one since it is your family are we going to be selling our
north carolina homestead good question and that's one we got a lot from a lot of viewers um we do
not own this homestead this is on what is we'll say family land so while we don't own the dirt or
the ground we do own everything on top of it so we actually talked with people who own it and asked
about splitting it off and that's not really an option even though it'd be a really great
kickstart jump start to be able to sell this as a complete
micro homestead it's not really something we can do so no we won't be selling this homestead
we will have to figure out what we're doing otherwise though so that being said
are we moving our mobile home to tennessee you know they're called
mobile for some reason right right actually we really do want to try and move our home
we have invested so much time and money and energy into making this a nice home so yes
like you said it'd be immobile we're going to try and move it call us crazy because we probably are
so the first thing to do was to contact mobile home movers and see if it was a
possibility especially with the roof over with the new overhang in north carolina you're only
supposed to move a 14 foot wide home structure and so it is about 16 feet wide now if you
include the roof over after talking with a couple of them i found one that can cross state lines
that was willing to move it with the roof over yep only one that from all of your research uh
now this wasn't just hey we got a house you wanna you wanna haul it over state lines it
was legit movers licensed permits you know taking the risk of moving our entire home we don't wanna
go with just some guy who has a truck so i'm not gonna drag you guys out you're probably wondering
cool you're gonna try and move it how much is that gonna cost well the quote we got includes
pretty much picking the house up plopping it into tennessee and setting it back up properly
footings and everything we're looking at fifteen thousand dollars i'll give you guys a second to
quit falling out of your chair i guess so yeah fifteen thousand dollars is is a lot of money
but if you look at how much it would cost to build it's nothing if you look at how much
yeah okay so if you look at how much it costs to build that's nothing if you look at how much
used mobile homes go for that are closer and then still move it yes we're going to kind of be back
at square one with where we started with this home we know everything that has been done to this home
because we have been through 90 of the house yep so we would like to know what we're getting into
so there there is the biggest burning most common asked question since we ever talked about this
journey um we are going to try and move the home that being said unless you're sitting
out a lot of cash it's going to take time we've got to save up the money for it we've got to um
sell a dump truck we got to you know do things ourselves we are not going to go to a bank and
get more money we're not going to go in debt more just for the immediate you know click todd off
we're okay with waiting a little bit longer and doing things as debt-free as we can so hopefully
that answers all of your questions as far as are you gonna try to move your mobile home
what you guys gonna do with it yes we are gonna try our best to make that happen if you have any
questions along that line definitely leave us a comment below uh we're pretty transparent we
still like to maintain privacy as much as we can and everything but we are pretty transparent so
we figured that a lot of people or several people who watch may also be curious how much would
it cost to move a single wide so in our case about 15 000 bucks because we have modified it
right a regular out of the factory probably a lot cheaper and if you're not across the state lines
probably a lot cheaper but that's the price for special permits to i guess for extra wide loads
and crossing state lines and also you know footings and everything at the destination
okay so those were the most common questions that we got asked ever since we announced we
got property you know i think we covered what most people have been curious about and asking
us a lot so hopefully now let's talk about what are the rough next steps what can they expect
what's the kind of what we know so far what's the progress or progression of what we need to do
well this property has no septic or water right or electricity right so that is the top three things
that you have to do yep you gotta be able to drink the water you gotta put the water somewhere
and you gotta have lights so you can see and put the water in places all right so i think there's
another thing that we forgot to communicate my fault because i did that video um let
them know as far as the soybeans and what we are allowed to do and versus what we're waiting to do
so in our contract when we closed and everything it was stated that we could put in a driveway
we could put up our fence stakes without the fence and go ahead and get started but we want to be
respectful of the farmer and so we are waiting to put in a driveway and trying not to touch as
many of the beans as we can just to let him have a full harvest yeah we're going out of our way
to be good neighbors right and you know i mean we're also trying to save money for those rentals
yeah and subject permits and everything else so as you can probably expect we have a lot of
cool exciting content coming ahead we are going to be taking a bare piece of property and developing
and building a homestead on it from scratch and we will do as much of it ourselves as we can
so everything from water and trenching for water lines any of that kind of stuff septic install or
at least pulling your own permits and what that process is grading setting up a camper any kind
of stuff i will definitely cover all of that to answer a couple other questions about the house
some people wondered what happened to the living room renovation it stopped where the last place
you saw it we put insulation in the walls and then the property kind of fell into place and we kind
of got distracted so the living room still looks the way it does it's insulated and that's about it
we will put drywall up and we'll show you guys that when we do it
we're just also going to be cautious about how much finish work we do because we expect
with the home gets to be moved that there's going to be certain amount of damage to drywall
in the process and we don't want to kind of do the work now just have to repeat it later
double the work i guess well we've tried to hit the most common questions you guys have been
hitting us with hopefully you got what you needed to know if you didn't leave us a comment below
and we will try and get to them otherwise we'll see you guys next time on one of our homesteads
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