Farms for sale

[Karl Mangini]

Hi everyone. I sell farms in Michigan. The ag economy isnt good right now so there are a lot of farms that can be bought at a good price. In the last two months, I've had a lot of Chicago people reach out to me looking for a "country getaway/haven" and I've sold a few farms for this reason. If anyone is looking for their escape out of the city and a safe country place, let me know.

 

[BillMasen]

Yup watching the crime news on Fox a lot of people have " bought the farm " in Michigan lately :0

 

[JackDW]

Karl, this is NOT a good sign. People are selling off the "family" farm which are then converted to residences and a lot of time another overly built subdivision.

This just makes up more and more reliant on the corporate farms. It's happening everywhere in the country.

 

[Duncan]

I bought a little retirement mini-farm (~2 acres) in Idaho and started raising goats and chickens and planted a good-sized garden, because it was what I considered a sane alternative to "bugging out" or "sheltering in place". Six months after I moved here, the 40-acre field east of me was sold to a developer who is putting in 31 one-acre McMansions, complete with HOAs and C&Cs. Not only that, but since they're in the county as well, they're going to have to sink their own wells; Gaia knows what that's going to do to my aquifer!

Of course, we're grandfathered in, so we can keep our livestock, but this isn't what I moved to rural Idaho for! I don't think I'd want to buy into one of those Michigan "Green Acres" subdivisions; I think I know how they'll turn into in a couple of years....

 

[Karl Mangini]

Karl, this is NOT a good sign. People are selling off the "family" farm which are then converted to residences and a lot of time another overly built subdivision.

This just makes up more and more reliant on the corporate farms. It's happening everywhere in the country.

This is true. 90% of the farms we sell are farms that are left to kids that don't want the family farm. They just want the $$$. And the majority of those farms are bought by a larger corporate farm. I don't see these corporate farms lasting. They over leverage themselves and their losses become so severe in bad ag economies that they eventually fold.

 

[Karl Mangini]

I bought a little retirement mini-farm (~2 acres) in Idaho and started raising goats and chickens and planted a good-sized garden, because it was what I considered a sane alternative to "bugging out" or "sheltering in place". Six months after I moved here, the 40-acre field east of me was sold to a developer who is putting in 31 one-acre McMansions, complete with HOAs and C&Cs. Not only that, but since they're in the county as well, they're going to have to sink their own wells; Gaia knows what that's going to do to my aquifer!

Of course, we're grandfathered in, so we can keep our livestock, but this isn't what I moved to rural Idaho for! I don't think I'd want to buy into one of those Michigan "Green Acres" subdivisions; I think I know how they'll turn into in a couple of years....

That's unfortunate! Lucky for us, there are areas in Michigan where there is NOTHING going on and the possibility of any development or subdivision is extremely small.

 

[KateMTx]

I bought a little retirement mini-farm (~2 acres) in Idaho and started raising goats and chickens and planted a good-sized garden, because it was what I considered a sane alternative to "bugging out" or "sheltering in place". Six months after I moved here, the 40-acre field east of me was sold to a developer who is putting in 31 one-acre McMansions, complete with HOAs and C&Cs. Not only that, but since they're in the county as well, they're going to have to sink their own wells; Gaia knows what that's going to do to my aquifer!

Of course, we're grandfathered in, so we can keep our livestock, but this isn't what I moved to rural Idaho for! I don't think I'd want to buy into one of those Michigan "Green Acres" subdivisions; I think I know how they'll turn into in a couple of years....

That's a shame. Idaho is so beautiful.