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As investment, I bought this, instead of stocks. Any ideas on what to do with it?

Location:

  • 75km (1hr) to a big international airport. Airport has direct flights to most EU capitals (2-4hr flights)
  • 50km to city center
  • 25km from nearest large residential area (500,000+ population)
  • 5km from massive organized industrial area (government supports factories here)
  • 35km from a rich residential area
  • 1km away from the village (its old and mostly depopulated) and animal husbandry area

Access:

  • There is public transportation, but one has to walk 1.5km after leaving the bus.
  • There is no direct road access to the land. You have to walk like 200m after leaving your car.
  • 1km road to here is non-asphalt and its a bit bumpy ride. When it rains, it gets bad here. It rains rarely

It is quite peaceful and quiet there. You can hear interesting bird sounds sometimes. You see no buildings, no cars and no humans anywhere near you when you're there, which feels great imo. You notice the air quality after you leave your car. I personally absolutely would want to live here for a while

Ideas

  • Trying to clarify this rn, but I think I can make $120-160/yr/decare from leasing the land to a farmer. Land is 25 decares
  • "Unique co-living opportunity with vegan food & yoga sessions" In other words, remote work / digital nomad village for people who want to work REALLY remotely :) I'd have to arrange electricity (solar panels and powerbanks), internet, toilet, shower, water, tents, mattresses/pillows/sheets, food, drinking water. (Though I don't know what people will do when they're bored here? Any ideas? Meditation would get boring after some point)
  • Sadly location isn't touristic, but it is 1hr flight away from extremely touristic areas. One of those areas, a city, was the most visited city in the world a few years ago.
  • I've met a few volunteers and they seemed quite willing to volunteer for whatever I decide to do here (if I do anything). For those unfamiliar: WWOOF and Workaway

Also- Any suggestions on where I should ask this question on the internet?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Do nothing, watch nature claim it back.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Vineyards around here have set up wedding venues. People pay stupid amounts of money for weddings. If you can set up a few areas that are particularly photogenic you'd be good. Much of the land you could just leave to nature, which could be a huge part of the appeal. Make a few trails and like 2-3 buildings for the wedding and reception.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago

Disked fields would imply a unproductive field sold off to make up losses so I wouldn't count on his soul quality unless you're willing to do deep ground aeration and nutrient injection or simply wait longer then you'll likely have left.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Build a large wall around the entire perimeter of the property.

Construct a tall stone tower in the middle of the property and paint it completely matt black.

Poison the land around the tower, so nothing, not even grass can grow.

Have packs of wild, feral dogs roam the property.

Dress in dark grey robes, and spend the rest of your days on the top of the tower, screaming obscenities at any passers-by, or shaking your fist angryly at the sky.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

*Mount a fiery red spotlight at the top of the tower and move the beam randomly around the property in case of hobbits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

What will people do there? The same thing people have done for 10,000 years. Alcohol, sex, and games.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

What's the legality of that land?

Where I live there's no way a plot of land is suited for both farming and a Hotel.

If you build something in a place where residential/commercial buildings are not allowed you are in for a lot of troubles.

If the weather provides the safest bet for the most profit would probably be plant some easy trees or some plant that would not need a lot of caring, and just sell the products.

That for money. If I were you and I had money to throw I would just built a retire House for myself and collect my returns in peace of mind and health. But then again, residential buildings may not be allowed there.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Marketing.

But first you need the idea. I'd say leftwing based religious science compatible apocalyptics is an untapped market. So basically make a bunker commune for societal collapse based on climate change and say all the current right wing politicians are demons accelerating it to bring upon hell on earth, and that oil is the devil's blood.

Just off the top of my head that's an idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

There’s a significant number of Evangelicals who believe “Left Behind” is predictive of the future rather than being a super anti-semitic take on the Christian end times. Those idiots are accelerating the end times in hopes of being saved. You don’t need demons you already have these racist dummies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

If I knew how I'd already have a cult of my own. I hear being charismatic is a prerequisite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Trailer park

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago

Sell it and remember that you first figure out what you want and then you buy the suitable land for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I like the 2nd idea.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Plant potatoes. Charge rich families to come out and harvest potatoes as a "total farm experience". Sell them as a "rustic handgrown" crop.

Take the profit and buy a shit ton of meth and smoke until your heart explodes. Die with a smile as you escape late stage capitalism ✨️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And they would totally dig that shit up and call it an experience too. Do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately though I think OP being an hour from an airport is gonna preclude tourists from being a financial factor in the area.

And there was so much meth to be had...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Good marketing can sort that out. You call the experience "authentic" and hire some attractive actors to do a couple photo shoots. Maybe add a shuttle and a little café like touristy vineyards do. And if you're really good you can figure out a way to get the tourists to make meth for you. Say they have to bring certain ingredients with them, in addition to the crazy expensive entry fee.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

💫Ascention💫

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Firstly, you have an opportunity of a life time. Build a toilet with no cover, you get to shit like a modern person but with the calmness and stress-freeness of a cave person.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Take a tupperware container set and test the water supplied to the field for PH value using a pack of litmus papers, then test the four corners and center of your field by scooping up some dirt, adding some water, and testing with litmus paper. Next, drain out the water and let it evaporate and look for signs of crystalization or condensates. Seal some of your soil samples to see if a healthy soil biome blooms in the sample, fungus and such.

A good healthy soil will have a strong biome. It and its water supply should be close to PH 6 to 7 for most tall grass and similar crops. There should be little to no saline in your soil, signs of that might indicate a brine pit forming in the water table near your land.

The most valuable single-season crops are crops that you can process yourself rather than selling to a granary. For examples: milled flour, corn byproducts, alcoholic ingredients, beets for sugar, bamboo, or switchgrass fermented into propionic acid biofuel. The major downside to being your own processor is that you're also your own distributor which is very difficult.

Sometimes subsidies make unprofitable crops profitable, sometimes granaries or local brewers offer a good price for specific crops. Be sure to check the local market thoroughly.

Make sure to join up with any farming groups in your area and get insured for any farming you do. Also get somebody to provide some bee boxes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Honestly the vegan Yoga Retreat idea could be really cool. If I had a bunch of plans I would do a commune, although I'd rather do an Urban ecocommune personally but you have enough land to get some serious permaculture done. What sort of climate do you have?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Pawlonia trees. Fastest growing wood in the world

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

There's some great ideas in this thread but sadly I think most of them are fairly high risk.

Doing anything in this kind of scope is going to cost a lot of capital. If it goes wrong all that money is gone.

I would lease it to a farmer.

Maybe reserve a corner where you can build up some basic facilities. I'm not sure what's popular where you are but here in Australia you can find places like this on hipcamp where you can camp for a few dollars a day.

Use your income to build basic facilities over time. Toilets, showers, kitchen, solar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Parking Lot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Put, like, three single family homes on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This will look so much better when it's smothered in Kentucky Blue grass and drive ways. /S

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

WOAH WAIT A MINUTE THERE BUDDY, IS THAT A NON-COMPLIANT SHADE OF BEIGE?!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You could look into rewilding the land

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

as an investment

Edit: but, also:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago

Edible forest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Plant an orchard.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Sell 1x1 foot squares of it in a vending machine at a random gas station in the middle of nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

With a hidden rent fee.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

are you leasing it to a farmer? or are you building a poop resort? i can't tell which one it is because you listed both

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

Regenerative Agriculture / Permaculture

If you plan to lease out to a farmer, find one that won't fill it with herbicides and pesticides. And maybe look to only lease part of it while you work to recover other parts.

I'm looking to buy land that needs to be recovered and have the budget that will likely lead me to a place like this that doesn't have direct road access. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 22 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Plant something ASAP on that naked land or it will all be carried away by rain and wind.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Plant some dang trees for starters, unless it's only going to be land used for farming.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Couple ideas:

  1. Sit on it. It'll just passively build value over time
  2. See if any cell service providers want to setup towers. They provide passive income as well, monthly
[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Sit on it.

It's been three hours.... Bored now, can I get up?

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