qupee
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The wife decided she'd be willing to try growing again, so we're brainstorming ideas for a safe way to get a new spot. She's no longer willing to risk growing where we live, but if we can acquire another property - hopefully with some anonymity - she's open to it.
What are your experiences getting a second location to keep your home lower stress?
Our finances are limited, we took a pretty big hit at the end of last year and haven't recovered. We can raise $5k for sure, probably 7 or 8, maybe $10k.
We would prefer to buy, but our credit is screwed right now and our income history for 2012 is bad (my 2011 w-2 was $75k, but I switched to contract jobs and make much less now). Contract for deeds seem somewhat common and 10% down is common, so we definitely have options there.
The benefit to renting is there is likely a wider selection (wider then cheap enough contract for deed houses for sale), but finding the right landlord might not be easy (and we can't afford to get it wrong and change).
We think a rural location is better. We live in a suburb in our mid-west state's main metropolitan area, and we're trying to keep our house here. Within an hour drive there is plenty of rural areas. Since we'd be just going there several times a week to tend the crop but never staying overnight or anything, I think rural would draw less attention. I'd like a house that can't be seen from the road with an attached garage, for example.
Again, there's more selection in the metro area, but you would definitely stand out more.
I've scanned craigslist and I can find a fair number of seller financed land plots; it's not always clear if they have electric or water. We are thinking maybe get a plot and get a trailer home put on it (there are also, interestingly, some entire houses available that are very cheap and just need to be moved - wonder how far you could move them).
We'd prefer a house over a trailer home. We want to run 3kw, maybe 4kw if the spot can support it. Much easier to deal with ventilation in a house. It seems a little tough to find seller financed houses in the country (something smaller than a hobby farm at least). Perhaps simply driving around looking would yield more results?
On the other hand, a little plot for a trailer is easy to find. Trailers are cheap and disposable. I just don't think it would be worth it if I don't feel comfortable running at least 3kw flowering though.
It would be ideal if there was no connection to our names. If I could afford a property outright, paid in full, I could establish a trust and have the trust purchase the property - but I don't think it would work to try and establish a contract for deed; if the seller's financing they probably want to know who is actually financing - not just some corp owned by a trust. I do have one trusted immediate family member who would maybe put their name on the contract (and could claim they rented it out if shit ever went down).
What are your experiences getting a second location to keep your home lower stress?
Our finances are limited, we took a pretty big hit at the end of last year and haven't recovered. We can raise $5k for sure, probably 7 or 8, maybe $10k.
We would prefer to buy, but our credit is screwed right now and our income history for 2012 is bad (my 2011 w-2 was $75k, but I switched to contract jobs and make much less now). Contract for deeds seem somewhat common and 10% down is common, so we definitely have options there.
The benefit to renting is there is likely a wider selection (wider then cheap enough contract for deed houses for sale), but finding the right landlord might not be easy (and we can't afford to get it wrong and change).
We think a rural location is better. We live in a suburb in our mid-west state's main metropolitan area, and we're trying to keep our house here. Within an hour drive there is plenty of rural areas. Since we'd be just going there several times a week to tend the crop but never staying overnight or anything, I think rural would draw less attention. I'd like a house that can't be seen from the road with an attached garage, for example.
Again, there's more selection in the metro area, but you would definitely stand out more.
I've scanned craigslist and I can find a fair number of seller financed land plots; it's not always clear if they have electric or water. We are thinking maybe get a plot and get a trailer home put on it (there are also, interestingly, some entire houses available that are very cheap and just need to be moved - wonder how far you could move them).
We'd prefer a house over a trailer home. We want to run 3kw, maybe 4kw if the spot can support it. Much easier to deal with ventilation in a house. It seems a little tough to find seller financed houses in the country (something smaller than a hobby farm at least). Perhaps simply driving around looking would yield more results?
On the other hand, a little plot for a trailer is easy to find. Trailers are cheap and disposable. I just don't think it would be worth it if I don't feel comfortable running at least 3kw flowering though.
It would be ideal if there was no connection to our names. If I could afford a property outright, paid in full, I could establish a trust and have the trust purchase the property - but I don't think it would work to try and establish a contract for deed; if the seller's financing they probably want to know who is actually financing - not just some corp owned by a trust. I do have one trusted immediate family member who would maybe put their name on the contract (and could claim they rented it out if shit ever went down).
