Anybody need a change of scenery?

[johnboy]

After Rosie's heart attack last year we decided to head closer to town to be nearer to hospitals and doctors and all that sort of assistance if we needed it again.
So after over fifty years on this place it's on the market.
So here's your opportunity to shift to God's Own Country...New Zealand!

Beaven Realty Ltd - 107a Ngariki Road, Rahotu


(Just pokin' the bear as Mike (34_40) would say, just pokin' the bear!)

[34_40]

Beautiful JB... How about you hold the lease and give me 20 years? 8-)

[johnboy]

Yeah right!

[firebird77clone]

Will you finance? (Take payments)

[Bob Parmenter]

Wow...……….....just WOW!

[53 Chevy5]

I think that's about $75,000 in US dollars, I'll take it! Seriously a very nice place, it has to be hard moving after living somewhere for so long.

[stovens]

Gorgeous indeed

[johnboy]

Will you finance? (Take payments)

Yep. Monthly would be fine.
They'd have to have at least five noughts on 'em though.

(...and that's not counting the two after the period between dollars and cents...)

[johnboy]

I think that's about $75,000 in US dollars, I'll take it! Seriously a very nice place, it has to be hard moving after living somewhere for so long.

US $611,645.01
Offers over that...
It is indeed a nice place, very comfortable and 'user friendly'. And the views to the mountain in our backyard, and to the Tasman sea to the coast are absolutely bloody gorgeous.
We built it to our own design, and it took several years for us to get the plans as we wanted the place to be.
We must've driven the architect crazy.
And yes; it is hard to move after so long. I've accumulated so much 'stuff' over the years...I've got two containers almost full, I'm going to have to empty them at Our New Selection, bring them back and fill them again!
I bought the property close to fifty three years ago, and this is the third house we've had on that site. The house that was there when I bought the place was built 'ship-lap', with no internal 2x4 internal framework at all; if you were to lean on the wall in a strong wind you could feel them move.
But we lived in that for seven or eight years before we could afford to build a (very) modest new one.

[Hotrod46]

That is an absolutely beautiful place. All of it. Like the others, I can't imagine living in a place like that and waking up to those views every morning. Sorry you have to leave it.

[40FordDeluxe]

JB and Rosie, I'm sure it is very difficult for you to have to sell your place, but good on you JB for thinking ahead and taking care of Rosie! Your house, property, and buildings are just gorgeous! Those views will sell it alone probably! Did you have more land in previous years?

[johnboy]

In answer to your question Ryan:

The original block was 329 acres, of which approximately 200 acres was solid virgin bush. ('Woods' to you Americans.) What was cleared had been subdivided into three paddocks. (Fields.) Our first year on the place we milked 87 cows and there was not enough grass to feed them adequately.
We couldn't raise young stock because a) we had no calf-rearing facilities and b) we had no paddocks to put them in to keep them separate from the milking herd.
All supplementary feed had to be bought in because a) we had no land flat enough to mow, (it was all just as it had come out from under the bush, with rimu and rata logs lying all over the place, great holes where stumps had rotted out,) and b) we had no fences to keep stock out to stop them grazing it.
I logged up and fenced several of the easier areas, drained and tiled them, bulldozed them with a little Oliver OC3 calf-dozer, disced them, and grassed them out.
I also cut fencelines through the bush and fenced it into smaller and smaller blocks until it was all in 20 acre or less blocks, starting with a chainsaw, then discovered TD9 bulldozers, then graduated to a 12 ton MF 450S draindigger. (Track hoe.)
I put in metal races (gravel tracks,) bridges and culverts, and reticulated water to every paddock.
When we sold the farm proper (keeping our house, sheds, and one paddock,) we were milking 240 cows, raising our own replacement stock, with all supplements (hay, silage etc,) grown on farm.
I've had a great working life; creating my own and my family's secure future with my own sweat.
(And blood too at times!)
I've been very fortunate.
The right bloke, at the right time, given the right opportunity in the right place, and had the right attitude.
I've been extremely lucky.

[40FordDeluxe]

Yeah, you definitely turned that land around and engineered it to suit the job you were doing! Thanks for sharing it.