RE: Pictures Today Around The Homestead - SUMMER IS HERE! 📷 [PICTURES INSIDE]
This property I am on at the moment is a 75'x175' lot sectioned off the original 160 acre homestead plot. Eight people that received a 160 acre plot land grants that bordered each others property got together to form the town in 1830 that my property currently is located 4 blocks from the town square. And my property is only a sliver of one of an original plot. I was thinking of buying up all the property that made up the original grant then make a formal claim and update the grant. which according to the wording in the grant would mean the county and state government would not be able to charge property taxes on it since the owner came forward with proof of claim.
My wife and I talked last night at length about @mericanhomestead 's comment above and we have decided to give a full year to steemit to see if my blogging would produce enough income that we could purchase 10 acres if that happens then we would go for it.
I have always given highest priority to adding any land that adjoined mine. When a parcel was placed up for sale, we made every effort to acquire it. It was a stretch at times, but once it was joined to our original purchase, we could almost feel the additional "breathing room" and have never regretted the five additional purchases over the years. "Lebensraum" is living room for the soul!
A friend of mine owns 100 acres about ten miles from me, he did the same thing. Purchasing his original acreage then as the neighbors hit hard times, he would make a deal with them for him to buy a portion of their land, so they could keep their house. If they sold to him he in exchange gave them permanent permission to hunt all his land and rent the grassing pastures from him as needed.
That is a great way to keep neighbors in place and to make deals that may otherwise not have happened. None of my additions had homes on them: one major piece was nothing but stumps and mutilated landscape. After ten years and a lot of work, it is smooth ground covered by pine and sweetgum. It's satisfying to compare then and now.