Comments on: Buying Rural Land: Safety Considerations When Purchasing Off-grid Property

By: Outlaw

Outlaw — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:23:24 +0000

One problem is that zoning can change. As city slickers move in…they want things like they were in the city and try to get the rules changed.

By: Outlaw

Outlaw — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:18:28 +0000

In reply to Merrill Ford. Ok, comrade. Just stay off my property!

By: Pastor Jeff Diamond

Pastor Jeff Diamond — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:05:49 +0000

In reply to Victor. What's the catch other than hurricanes. Not trying to be a smartass.

By: Debra Corson

Debra Corson — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 04:06:23 +0000

In reply to Shane Montana. Shane,e are in a situation similar o yours,we have talked about letting someone reliable to come live on our property(free of charge) in exchange for helping us with chores & maintenance.Of course if they ran off your electric,they would be responsible for their part,but you get the idea,you can work out the kinks.It will give us help in our old age & have someone else there in case of emergency.good luck

By: BeamMeUpJesus

BeamMeUpJesus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:17:10 +0000

In reply to Merrill Ford. Buy your own property to hike on! MY property is NOT your property!

By: Watching

Watching — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 23:08:50 +0000

We live on an island on the East coast with boat or plane being the only way on or off. Population is around 1k year round except for the tourism that brings it up to 3-4K in peace season. We have a sheriff dept, volunteer fire dept, 2 small grocery stores and small hardware store. In some ways I think we’re safer than most because of our being cut off from civilization in the event of tshtf. But there’s still people here and no where to bug out or hide out. I’m seriously wondering if we need to look for land inland. Any comments on our situation here?

By: Richie

Richie — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:24:41 +0000

In reply to Mistress Nirvana. Mistress Nirvana, you have said so much with perfect clarity! Stupid people say stupid things and yes I agree a complete idiot!

By: Richie

Richie — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:22:04 +0000

In reply to Merrill Ford. I suppose you are right, we should ban front and back doors off our homes too and not allow anyone to own or protect there own property, because YOU don't like when people are PLANNING and PROVIDING for there future when our government, other humans,or history repeats itself and the powers of the world want to fight and play chess with there military.... YOU are absolutely the most ignorant and uninformed person I've ever seen leave a comment.

By: Shane Montana

Shane Montana — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:16:14 +0000

Good point on the challenges you face and the sacrifices you must make living in a remote area. When we were young my wife and I got a good deal on 20 acres not far from the CD in Montana. We do have electricity but it is often out of service(it’s gotten more reliable the last few years). We have a clean mountain stream running thru the yard so we are able to get water when the well pump doesn’t work cuz power is out. We raised our four children here, but it was not without its challenges and sacrifices. We are about 8 miles from the nearest village of around 800 people. We do have a small grocery and a gas station and a hardware store. We have a small clinic, but half the years we’ve been here it has been shut down because of funding and/or the lack of a doctor or PA willing to live here and work for a lot less than they can make in a bigger city. Any major shopping opportunities and most medical needs, etc are in the nearest city 70 miles away on the other side of the CD. The environmentalists have pretty much shut down most renewable resource jobs such as logging or mining, so there are very few opportunities to make a decent wage doing anything, while the cost of everything is inflated due to our remoteness. At times, just the cost of gas to go to the city can be a hardship. We heat the large log home we built entirely with wood; around 20 cord per year. When young, cutting and hauling that much wood was easy. Now I’m older and arthritic due to a lifetime of hard manual labor, and it is difficult some mornings just loading up the furnace. We had thought about this way back then when we jumped into this but reasoned that by the time we got old we would be able to afford to pay others to cut our wood, perform maintenance on the house and property, repair vehicles and equipment, etc. But guess what? We got old and we still cannot afford to. The Lord has always provided for our daily needs, but nothing extra each month to put into savings. Winter time is the toughest. Though we are only 4 miles from the highway, sometimes we are snowed in for days before the maintainer makes it up our low priority road, and sub-zero temps are hard on vehicles and equipment, and repairing them in such conditions is a challenge. Just getting the kids to the bus stop at the highway or all the way into town for school was a potential survival situation. One of our biggest expenses is gas and vehicle upkeep. When you live so far away from anywhere you burn lot’s of gas to go anywhere in the 4 wheel drive trucks we must have to be mobile, and the 4 miles of rough pothole-filled dirt road we live on is hell on vehicles. Has it been worth it? Yes – no regrets – we’d do it all over again. That being said, we don’t know how many more years we can do it. If this is the direction you want your life to go, then plan accordingly to make things as easy and efficient as possible for when you get old.

By: The deplorable cruelladeville

The deplorable cruelladeville — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:12:17 +0000

In reply to B from CA. Sorry. The only place for earplugs is at the range, or when in a hearing damage risk environment. Earplugs means you won't hear your door getting kicked in, or the dog trying to warn you.