Gesh have you all been scarred for life in some bad relatioinship.. I want to spend all day Every day with her ! Here's a better break down on the land were thinking about... we live on a strech of route 1 .. anyone on the East coast knows what route one is .. i think it goes from florida to maine.. anyway .. we live in the boondock-ish part that you can do 90mph down with no chance of a cop.. Their is our house and 5 other houses on this road in a stretch of about a quarter mile.. all built around 1960.. well the 3 across the street have been well maintained. all brick fronts.. small houses.. but nice... Our house, has been maintainted pretty decent, but still needs some work. The two house next to us.. well... they haven't been lived in for quite some time... in addition thier is a small cinder block construction builder next to the second house. the building looks to have been burnt down at one point in time. We're thinking about buying all the land knocking down the two houses, and re-vamping the cinderblock building to be the Florist shop.. Total it's probably .5-.75 of an acre... Already checked on one property the land it's self is worth $5.. probly about $10-15K all together.
The reason I say $50 to get it all running is cuase I know EVERYONE in the TRADE.. I work at home Depot.. I had my whole house carpeted for $60 and a case of beer. I know how to get what i will need cheap.. and I know how to get a lot of the labor cheaper.. or sometimes.. for the price of a case of beer.
Another reason this will be good for me.. is right now .. those houses next door are bringing my property value down. .. (which is how i bought the house so cheap) so knocking those down and putting a respectable bussiness there, will increase my property value for both the land and structures. So if I do lose the farm on this venture.. least i'll get more for the farm.