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is there such a thing as "Abandoned land" in the US?

Curious to know how you funded this?

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A roof. A good solid, metal roof that is designed well.

Oh THANK YOU so much Donna. Thank you watching and thank you for your kind words!!

Absolutely!! So AWSOME!

Yes wow, so much accomplished! Have you considered worm farming? I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden & to teach others how to care for them :) Its all about being self sustaining! Thanks for the great video, I love seeing what others are doing :)

@@CaptainMattsWorms Compost/organic material added to your garden soil plus plenty of mulch makes each garden bed a worm farm.

@@CaptainMattsWorms bv

You can do it!!!!!! Never give up!

Im sure many ae barking mad as You. Dont give up. Many women love to have a bathetub

Where are yall buying land from or through?

@@itzDroov I got super lucky but I found mine by searching “Land for Sale Colorado” and found several lots

What's the water situation where you're at?

I live in Georgia and I agree 💯 %. I lock my chickens up in their coop every nite.

Buried that fence at 3 feet underground! (Is all that we could come up w, anyhow) then an overhead fence, which was a big ass thing. ....crazy bs! Babygirl, please, do ya have any other way to do this?! Or ima sit outside w my guns!!!! Lol we lost 12 in 2 days over those damn hawks! How do I do this ????!!!! Plus , they're so fn stressed n aren't producing!!!!! I'm in Northern West Virginia, n these big birds are the worst enemies!!!!! G

All I can gather is I ding this dam dinner bell, they come n run n then feed......but I gotta keep up spotting n if I see danger, of course I shoot!!!!! Now, So wtf do I do so that I don't have to """"" SPOTIFY":"""" N babysit these guys?!?!.!!? Um a busy man.

Once they know their home they go to it at dusk. Although there’s always that one who takes their time. Hahahaha

Mine finally have their own coop instead of being in my hay barn. And the coop, which is a small barn, if I wanted to one day, fits my truck, LOL. OK, back to chickens...my land has woven wire all around it (that took a while, and some $$), but coyotes, fox, etc., can't get in. My dogs and horses can't get out, not that they want to. (Cows are different!!) Plus, if the chickens aren't out free roaming, like now, because we'll have snow until April, they have their new small barn and a small pen to run around in nice days. But even if they are in all day, like yesterday with 50 mph winds and rain/snow, they have plenty of room to exercise. I've seen fox pacing my fence and looking in - but to no avail. That's a good feeling, because three times in 29 years, I've gone out to the hay barn and found them all dead - like 12-15 just lying there after a killing spree. That was before the fencing.

Oh yay Ivy, THANK YOU!!!!!

Thank you very much Debbie!!! You are too kind!

Oh wow, THANK YOU!!!!!!

that is a great point. But these guys didn't do that, they did that when their kids were super young and crammed them into 800 sq ft.

Oh wow Lois, THANK YOU sooooo much!!! You have no idea how motivating your kind words are for us. It helps us to keep going and keep sharing. It is our passion to help as many people as we can to leave the less stress and more freedom lifestyle on land. THANK YOU!!!! 😁😁

I’m not surprised you find it inspiring your from Houston. Keeping the crayon between the lines is considered an achievement by you inbred lot

@@DINE2ERF Cletus the slack jawed yokel

North of Humble in Far North East Houston here. Dreaming of doing the same.

@@KtBudgets best of luck I hope your manifestation becomes your reality, if you can please document the process would love to see lol also north Houston here as well raised in the Aldine district

Wow, thank you!

How do you start? I always lived in a city but I want to live like this.. But the thing is.. I have no idea where to start. I’m 21.

@@StarrSky Gee, there are lots of videos on how people did it. Save money to move and for land, offer to work on a farm or for someone that grows vegetables for farmer's market to learn about gardening, have some job skills that don't require you to live in a specific place. Maybe find a farmer, 4-H group, etc. to learn about animals. There are people who built a small cabin, or live in a camper once they got a driveway and a well on their land. Or you could haul water in, but that's tough. I wish you luck. :) You can do anything that you put your mind to.

Thank you Dorothea!

@@BetterTogetherLife of moo

Wow, THANK YOU Gayle!!!!!!! 😁😁

Oh LaDonna, thank you sooooo much!!!! 😁😁😁

thank you Chris!!!

Oh man THANK YOU soooo much!!

Thank you so much Byron!! 😁😁

It's good to have a big family. You can count on each one to finish a task faster. The more, the merrier! Sometimes, I get lazy and I don't want to feed the animals so my other sister or one of my brothers will Cook food for the dogs, the other feed the chickens, and I sleep and wake up and water the plants.

Maybe seniors should have built something for themselves when they were young! It sounds like piss-poor planning on your part. "I didn't care about my future, so younger people should waste their youth taking care of me!"

@@none.892 or hear me out we just have the common decency not to send the people who took care of you your whole life to a home just because they are older and don’t need around the clock care

They have some tiny home communities on some land by lakes etc you should look into

Great input. I am thinking of doing something for seniors which is into spiritual mental and psychological wellness. This sounds like a great idea but very often seniors want to be close to their families so living in such an environment far away from urban areas may be a challenge.

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Oh THANK YOU soooo much!!! I love that you commented and that you are able to find your people here on KZfaq. ALL THE LOVE from down here in Texas! haha!

Oh THANK YOU so so much Leslie, your kind words mean sooooo much!

Thank you SOOOO MUCH Janet!!!!! You are too kind! Yes, our children are loving this life for sure!

Thank you so much Irena!!

I would consider finding a local contractor to come in and build a slab home. These sheds can set you back 20k just for the shell. While a full build might cost a bit more for the concrete floor it will be overall cheaper in the long run. If you want insurance it might be harder to insure these shed homes. You can check with big box stores like Menards which sell garage kits that you have to build your self that are likely much bigger than these shed homes. You might even consider a pole barn as they can be built cheaper. Then you can insulate the ground and pour a floating slab. To finish the inside only requires very little work. You will end up with thicker walls than a standard home. EG4 also make a 2 ton mini split for 2k dollars which has the option to hook directly to about a 2kwh or less solar array to provide heat and cooling. They also make a 1 ton unit for 1300 dollars. This option is really nice because you can use the off grid only function to cool or heat only from the sun. With extra insulation in the home it will help slow the heat from getting in to your conditioned space. There are a number of reason why not to do shed homes or container homes. Many of these ideas cost more than people think. A pole barn is a viable and cheap option which can give you a fairly good size house. If you intend to have kids then building out with that in mind and keep in mind you will need a massive pantry if you plan on doing anything garden related. You are still young enough that you could sell off everything you have and move in to the cheapest place you can find and or find a relative to which you could pay a small rent to use a spare room or rent a room and work your asses off for the next couple of years to save and pinch every dollar you can. Getting weekend or night jobs as well. If you have medical use it as much as you can to get you and your husband checked out for every minor thing because not being healthy is not good. Exercise and gain some endurance as you will need a lot of it. You should also buy one of those book writing things and make a plans. Use every resource at your hand. If you plan on having services at your off grid place check with your gas and electric companies to find out how much it cost to install electric/gas. Is there any rebates/funding when building a new home. There are many options you must consider if you plan on building up brand new. Many of these cost are never told by these type of people. For example bringing in electric can cost a few hundred to 10s of thousands of dollars. Drilling a well can cost a couple thousands to 10s of thousands. Dry places in Texas like this would cost 10 to 50k to drill as there water table is several thousand feet down. Septic systems cost a few thousand to 10s of thousands. I paid 5k to put in a new tank and enough field to last me quite a while. Not trying to steer you away. Its a lot to consider and many people do not make it. Most of them end up going back to work in the city because they can not live with out the city. There are many people who stick it out because they have no other choice. fixed incomes, no jobs, down right poor. SInce you are debt free do you have quite a bit of savings now or in the thinking about phase? I am guessing you rent? Really should sit down and see how much money you can come up with in say the next 12 months and then work off of that. I will give you my best ball park cost to build a off grid home. 1800square foot pole barn 30x60. This should be enough for 5 bedrooms 10x12. Large bathroom/laundry room, large pantry/storage/tool room. Kitchen dining living area. Doing this as cheap as possible with limited and reduced everything. This mean one window per bedroom and a couple windows to brighten up the common areas. less windows means less cost and heating and cooling. 75k Well/septic. 20k Solar system/mini splits and panels. 50k, 1k to 2k per acre land ( more less depending on type ) Services 2k. Overall 150k cash and doing most of the work yourself will reduce the overall cost. Add in the cost of a truck and camper/tents for when plan to build. Ideal thing to do is to buy the land and keep working. Pay someone to come out and drill a well. Do some land clean up and prep the site for building a new building. Have the pole barn built and then have someone come in and dig septic and DWV lines. Water lines from well pit/filter room and install anything else you want. If you do this stuff your self make sure you do not skimp on building this because its a pain to do if you have to repair it. Test everything before you back fill. water test and or air test. Insulate and pour the slab and finish the slab. Then install your walls, electrical, communications cables with includes every room and possible security camera locations. then finish it out. Even if it takes you an extra year to get there you are still bring in a lot of money which can keep paying for these things. Think about long term goals for the place and once you think you are ready consider any other projects that you might want to get done. Remember at any time you can quit and move in. You do not need to rush. Its better to set your self up long term rather than short term being broke and having to move back to the city. You can live off grid and still live like you do today. There are viable solar options and solar is pretty cheap these days and can see a return in as little as 10 years. Plus once you have solar you may end up using more energy than you did before because you now have more solar than you need and can run an extra couple freezers/fridges. Installing electric water pre heaters directly connected to solar ( heat elements have built in thermostats) will reduce the load your solar system has to provide. You can set up a POS tankless water heater that you can add a 60 min timer to and use that at night if all of the pre heat tanks run cool. You could add several preheat tanks which can preheat or heat 40 to 120 gallons or more. EG4 mini split AC units have 3 settings, off grid, grid only and combo. These units alone would reduce your day time loads by large margins. Size the units right and install some type of fan circulation system in the attic much like a furnace would do to move air around and between all rooms will spread out the cool air better. Texas is kinda a bad place to live where you have do not have your own water. There are a number of places in mild weather areas where building codes and permits are relaxed. When I bought my home I had several goals in mind. 15 mins to food/gas 45 mins to hospital/sheriff 1.5 hours to Walmart Septic/well water/natural gas/ fiber optics internet Rural or city with no restrictions. I met all of these goals and own my house and land outright. I may not be off grid and I can do all of these things.

debt free... so proud of you guys :D hope it works out!

do it yourself. pouring a slab is like pouring water in a box. a shed is a box

Teaching their kids that inbreeding is your right as an American

Holy guacamole!!!!!! Wowzers that is A LOT OF TREES!!!! Way to go!

Haha, yup that is us! Thank you Joni!!

Thank you soooo much Tom!! That means a lot. 😁😁

Hey Alexis, absolutely! As long as the snake is not venomous we let them be. Unfortunately we do have to dispatch the copperheads, with our 5 kiddos running around it has to happen. 😕

@@BetterTogetherLife Wait till they are teenagers, they could very well collect every copperhead within a 1,000ft radius from the house. Properly cooked they are better than fried shrimp. As soon good nutrition kicks their teenage bodies into hype activity they well eat nearly anything that doesn't move fast enough from them. I grew up with around twenty extended cousins all within the same age group, us teenagers double then x5 the vegetable garden along with putting in multiple melons to feed off of. Bad news a small herd of white tail deer one night killed three of our dogs and another four needed vet treatment, our vegetable garden was so wreaked we barely had anything that year to can, along with the half acre of blue corn was gone. The deer were so large the electric fence set on high didn't even slow them down. Back in the 1990's we didn't know about all the different plants you can put around the house to warn of deer.

They’re living the dream because they aren’t in Australia

@@krth337 no it’s worse there is America locked up as a family ready to rear the next lot of inbred racist cnuts

Thank you!!!

you are wasting your keystrokes because there is no such thing as "Abandoned land." undeveloped land either belonged to somebody, or the government. he is a squatter.

Thank you so much Ali!!!!!

Absolutely!!!!

Thank you so much Joseph!!!

Hahaha, Nancy….yup!!!! But it does always give us that video picture book for our family and yourself to go back and see the progress. And we always love the one liner, “we over estimate what we can accomplish in a day, but we under compensate what we can accomplish in a year!” Thank you as always!!!! 😁😁😁😁

Crypto staking. Investment and Trading are three different things entirely. This is also one of the best time to be involved.... I learnt a lot with these platform, make sure to only deal with established firms for your safety.

@@chadraney5759 Look out things from the net and reach out to an expert.

@@janebrooksd Great idea been put up to you but ignorance won't let you take the opportunity.

@@davisrandy Isn't ignorance but due to unprofessionalism in crypto/forex market

@@davisrandy No doubt but they're still lots of good portfolio and genuine analyst out there waiting for investors.

Oh thank you so much! 😁😁

Oh thank you soooo much!!! Absolutely you can do this. Texas would be perfect for you! Also Tennessee is great too and might get some more rainfall. But let us know if you ever need anything!

It certainly isn’t “cheap”, but it is VALUABLE!!! So we just traded our over spending conveniences for a valuable life! And yes, our kids LOVE IT HERE!!!!!! 😁

Hello, i am a big producer of poultry meat,egg, beef & dairy milk from Bangladesh. I wish to buy/ rent an abandoned rural farm in USA at my own cost and want to set up an integrated farm house there. Can you help me in this regards. Thanks

Hoping to get a 7 acre tour video out this SUNDAY!!!!!!!! Just gotta finish this waterline! haha

That is so awesome Stanley, thank you!!! Glad you enjoyed it. Please never be a stranger and we will do our best to respond! 😁

Thank you so much Eric!

Thank you soooo much! If you know of anyone who would enjoy this please share it on your social media! THANK YOU!!!!

That is fantastic Mark!! You will not regret it!

Thank you!!!

No it’s not they are a terrible example of what homesteading is about

Oh wow, thank you so much!!! That truly means a lot to us. Thanks again and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 😁😁😁

Thank you so much Dyana! Blessings to you as well! 😁😁

You have a great channel too.

@@theadeyemis you are so sweet. Thank you 🥰🥰🥰

Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!! Also just went to your channel and subscribed. Excited to watch your farm journey! :)

@@BetterTogetherLife you are so sweet thank you 🥰 I love building community ❤️

@@BetterTogetherLife We have backyard farm right now, we just bought 10 plots of land where we can eventually move to, and start growing our own foods. One of the reasons why we do not want to move there is because of the insecurity in the country. do you homeschool your kids too?

Oh thank you!!! And huge congrats on your property! Yes, gardening is tough for sure.

So impressive Hard work pays.

Watching from western kenya

You can do it man!!

@@BetterTogetherLife Thanks, but you guys make it look so easy. lol

Well, yea. Are you surprised??

Thank you Matt!!!!