Do people sometimes think they really, really want to do something, but in talking to them it's obvious to you that they haven't thought it through?
We’re going to sell the land. Sad, I know. Have a couple that is interested. I’ve been exchanging messages on FB with the gal, we’ll call her Becky. Becky said they’d been looking for 3 years for a place in the country.
I mentioned that it already had a well. I consider that a plus. However, she said if it only had a well, that could be a deal breaker for her husband.
I said, “Why? It’s free water!”
But they don’t want a well.
Then I told her the story of when the grandkids called the coyotes in one evening, in the twilight. They were howling their heads off…and the coyotes answered! It was great. They were beside themselves with excitement.
She said, ‘My child would freak.”
I’m like….to myself “Um. Well, your child be freaking every freaking night then!” It’s the country. Well water and coyotes.
Actually, I called the town today that handles that area and learned they put rural water out there last year, but to get it run to your place each family has to chip in $12,000! But the county would finance it over 5 to 10 years.
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With your details, I’m not sure what you’re asking. In this case, it sounds like they have a different interpretation of the inexact concept of “country” than you do.
My friends live outside of a village, pop. 2000, and they have a place in the country they go to on weekends. It’s a one room cabin with an outhouse, and a well with an outside pump. It has a woodstove.
Other friends live in a major city and consider the “country” to be a 4 room plumbed cottage with power about 20 minutes outside of a town of 10,000.
It’s all about perspective.
Well, this is Kansas. There is a lot of country here. If she wants to live in the country she, and her kid, are going to have to get used to coyotes howling every night and racoons getting into stuff.
Ah, so you just want stories corroborating your point of view? Got it.
I’ve lived in the country/mountains for 23 years and many city slickers have some Utopian, Old McDonalds farm fantasy going on. Most people in the country are on well water, and yes, there are coyotes, and rattlesnakes and roosters and brayng donkeys and baaaing goats and sheep and skunks that go off and raccoons that come through the kitty/doggy door and if you can’t handle it go back to your condo. lol
They need to come out to the property and spend a few days to see if they are really ready to transition to country ilfe.
20 something years ago I had newbie city slicker neighbors that complained about my rooster crowing.
Really? Uh, hate to tell you but f you can’t handle a rooster crowing on a 7 acre property, well, hit the road back to whence you came. haha
Exactly. If her child is going to freak out when he hears coyotes howling ¼ a mile away, what’s he going to do when they’re screaming right under his bedroom window?
BTW…is there anything wrong with well water, @Coloma? I’ve never had it. Some people seem to love it, some hate it.
@Dutchess_III Depends on your well and water quality/source. Sometimes you need a filter if there are a lot of minerals or iron in the water. Usually it is really good water. My old well was in solid granite, extremely cold and delicious water.
If you really want qualified candidates contacting you about purchasing that property, advertise it on Prepper forums.
That’s where a country property with it’s own water
supply is as highly prized as it should be.
I’ve been watcing episodes of the show “Doomsday Preppers” and it is kind of fascinating the lengths some of these folks go to to prepare for any and all contingencies.
A property with it’s own well would be considered one of the absolute bare necessities in their minds (and considering their mindset, it makes sense.)
My most notable experience of well water was a summer I spent as a camp counselor at a small island near Montreal.
The only water available was from the two wells on the property; one had huge amounts of sulphur while the other had a lot of Iron in it.
So the dining hall commonly served Kool Aid with meals. I came in varioys colors but basically two flavors: rotten eggs or blood flavored.
The soda vending machines did a brisk business all summer long :)
However, I have been on properties with delicious fresh tasting well water that was so much better than the chlorinated crap we typically have to deal with.
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