posted 6 days ago
With my body not getting any younger and being unwilling to ever drive a car again, I'm going to have to abandon the idea of making my land legally inhabitable. For someone willing to drive it might be worthwhile. The unique part of the property relative to most others in Florida is there is about 30 feet of elevation from the lowest point near the road at the NE corner to the top of the hill along the southern boundary. The property is a bit shy of 150 ft wide by 300 ft deep South of the road to the back of the property.
It's kind of a small valley where you drive over a hill, get to the bottom and that's where the property line starts. With no shortage of rain water, it can be collected and moved downhill via gravity. I've done similar to run drip irrigation at my old house and it worked really well with only 5 feet of head pressure.
In 2019 I had tried building piers and building a shed, and the next time I made my way down there had been some vandalism. Someone actually spray painted "pass gas" on a stepping stone haha. They pulled the piers out of the ground and carried one of them all the way to the corner of the property by the road. Who knows if the adolescent vandals are still there, but I do not have the wherewithal to deal with the daily sabotage I currently live with, let alone trying to fight against vandals that live much closer than I do. I get the impression anyone doing anything besides clearing the land and plopping a house or mobile home on it will be looked down on and possibly have an uphill battle. Just being honest here as to why I'm giving up.
In any event, I'm probably going to dig thru all of my mail and contact some of the people who have made cash offers and take the best one. Last time I checked it was over $12k, so $12,000 firm is my price. This isn't going to happen overnight, but I have all intentions of getting the tax paid and then selling the land by mid spring at the latest. I will try to give this thread at least a few weeks time on the offhand chance someone here is interested. None of the other properties around me seem to have sold or been cleared since I got my acre, so someone could buy up a few plots and own the entire little valley. I had lots of 'friends' that were 'interested' but never put their cash down like I did.
I really like growing things here in Florida, but I have nothing else keeping me here and with no viable way to make my land work for me I must abandon it.