Guest Post by Ghost (aka Maggie)
After more than a decade living here in the Suburbs of the Sticks outside Podunk, Nowhere, Missouri Lower Ozarks somewhere between the Castor and Mississippi Rivers, we have decided to sell the small home on three acres adjoining our land.
In what can only be a final piece of the puzzle moment, I met the original owner of the land (we bought from a real estate broker who’d bought it all on the cheap, as they do) who explained the three acres had been a gift to a daughter who’d put the prefabricated home on barn posts because barn posts were cheap then and bulldozers and good masonry cost money that was not available.
Unfortunately, the payments for the home also became unavailable when the daughter and her three children abandoned what was probably a terrible living situation (the home, though dried in, had no insulation nor did it have interior walls). We used drywall and makeshift insulation to prepare the home for our Mennonite builders.
And, we used a half dozen electric heaters and one floor radiator to keep it a barely tolerable 55 degrees at night during that first February here, when the crew was sweeping snow and stacking logs every day. Bless Omer and his boys’ dedication to doing a good job in harsh circumstances.
Once Nick got the log home up to his standards, he got busy completely remodeling the little house from the inside out, literally. This year, we decided to sell it rather than rent it, because it is time to start “the boating years.”
I know there are many of you, over the years, who have talked about finding some little spot where you would be safely ensconced among like-minded law-abiding people. Well, this is a golden opportunity for someone to own a little secluded piece of Podunk just down the road and around the creekbed from some of the best neighbors you will never see, unless you want to see them. Or us.
The NOPIS (No Other People In Sight) is intact for both home sites.
Video of home, muttering to self included.
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Thanks, Jim and Avalon! This is going to be an exciting day.
And, by the way, if you are actually in the local area (and at least three of you are within an hour’s drive), come on by!
I made cookies.
Looks perfect for Stucky. He can supplement your rabbit meat by bashing groundhogs with his bat.
How is StuckNick, Jim? Is he still tending to his mother? I would LOVE to have Stuckenheimer as my neighbor and, while he claims he wants to live in Arkansas… we are close enough to have some rather Deliverancy folks in the area to make him feel he finally made it!
Thanks for posting this… I think we will get lots of local folks hoping we do not know the value of this little plot of land and this amazingly sturdy little house we call “The Treehouse.”
It would make a great bed and breakfast, by the way, but we want to go boating and not manage rental property.
I actually will have a property manager on site today to answer questions about the potential rental market… it’s good and the place would easily rent for the payment, but it is time for Nick and I to just go fishing.
If it sells via TBP viewing? There will be a cut for “the big guy.”
In the meantime, I’ll just pop over to the donatometer and send a little seed money because you are about the only show in town that I trust.
If one the SFMs buys it, we will just let bygones be bygones.
“If it sells via TBP viewing? There will be a cut for “the big guy.”
I really have to ask,WTF!
Giving biden a cut of your home sale,this country is going off the rails!
Or racoons with his 2X4. Wow, I’ve been around here longer than I thought.
More likely muskrats, coons, and a skunk or two.
Good luck with the sale, Mags. Looks like a gorgeous neighborhood and the home’s alfresco basement would be perfect for rebellious teenagers – especially during winter 🙂
Sold it Sunday for $149,900!
Century 21 gets a cut… was a guy works for Dept of Agriculture.
He knows it is time to get to the hills.
Nice! All those trees and grass make me green with envy.
Purely from a stockman’s perspective, of course (and gardener). 🙂
Ah, in another time and set of circumstances…
Here is Mr. Thistle!
Hope the sale works out well and funds a lifetime “fishing trip”!
I will say,for me would have to add a zero to acerage,but then,really need a lot of land for my final missions in this chapter of life(including a adoption/animal shelter for four footed friends).
The demonic children in the fields has been solved,your welcome,should increase home value!
Good luck Mags, the house turned out really well. Those cookies are very tempting, if I only had the time to drive to the MO boot heel.
By ‘big guy’, I took that to mean you’d throw a modest commission of sorts, Admin’s way, if a platform monkey buys your place as a result of this forum acting as a pseudo MLS.
It’s been an interesting saga, over the years, and I wish you and Nick well, in the sale goal, before you raise anchor and set sails to explore water.
How the hell will you be able to receive a boxed package of ales and fudge topping while boating, wabbit? I don’t think UPS, FedEx, or DHL has a marine division. 😆
Maybe the USPS has some employees who know how to steer a dinghy. Doubtful, though, since that’s an arm of los federales within that octopus.
All kidding aside, maybe Juan Santos can act as a mariner guide for you, during stormy seas, & you can ditch relying on a sextant and the stars for navigation, to get to your destination or fishing hole hotspots. Skies aren’t always clear. You know, chemtrails, and all other obstacles, etc.
Is Willow a reliable gauge for determining FMV in the Ozarks? Hmmmm…
Bon voyage, friend.
When you dock in Port, with a large catch & enjoy consuming fresh fish for dinner, post a viable mailing address, with an update if you can get Internet service, and maybe someone will be able to compliment the fish & chips with a beverage and dessert provisions, Red Rope.
Peace be with you both.
You have the address of certain correspondents.
Send a post card, when you land & drop anchor, in welcoming ports of call.
Godspeed! Anchors away!
Edit/Add…the thermometer is within a fuzz to reach 35k.
Someone needs a kick in the shins to flip J&A a hundy, to breach that level.
Anyone?
Mine went out Tuesday, & hopefully was retrieved at the Kulpsville P.O. yesterday, 9/16/23.
Es verdad, Jaime?
On it anon,my “bill” is due,will go out tomm. so gonna have to wait a few days for a uptick.
Zillow.
Doh!
One for you, James.
Hmmmm…..,thanks for the tune,relaxing with a beer on Sunday(worked today).
A little look see shows this tune won a Grammy in 1962!
The takeoff of the composers name for album seems a bit weird,but,then…..,naming a rock band after a 1700’s agronomist or calling a band Led Zeppelin also when you think about it a little strange also.
I could see this updated a bit with epic miked piano/Marshall stacks and multi miked drums,but….,also great as it stands!
Okay, folks… we actually took this little property off the market for a while with three neighbors interested, thinking about it, et cetera.
Now, we are back in the business of selling the little house. Our insurance is coming due.
Am going to list it with Century 21 for 149,900, so I’ll get that number up here if anyone wants to be my neighbor!
Just two miles down the road from this little church in the vale!