Kinda Sad to See it Go

Mom and Dad can't take care of things anymore at the Grandparent's place, so I guess it goes for sale (tears).
I'm the closest at 50+ miles, and brother and sister over 100 miles. Sure gonna miss the place I learned to drive a tractor! Dumb or Not?

very nice place 50 miles isnt too far is it possible you could buy it?

Yep - but then maintaning!
Wife and daughter thought about 10 minutes about moving before deciding where we're at!
Jim

Or lease it/rent it?

50 miles is just about 1 hour from where you live
my good friend I would give it a long hard thought
and try and make it work out if possible.After all
MOM and DAD brought you home from the Hospital to this place call"d home. HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS AND THE MEMERY"S WILL REMAIN.

JR.FRYE

JR , how did the auction go?

You'll kick your self over and over if you let it get away, Maybe not today or tommorow but trust me you'll say that was the dumbest thing I did lettig the old farm get away...Jim in N M

Keep it at all costs. Speaking from experience you [i:2a89bb7d84]will[/i:2a89bb7d84] regret it someday.

IT went great we sold $9000.00 worth of all kinds of stuff and it lasted 4 1/2 hours and I was tired
and my throat is realy sore. We started at 6.pm
and was done at 10.30 pm. One long day.Thanks for asking. How have you guys been? Is old back yet?
Well my good friend I gota go and Ill talk at ya
tomarrow.by the way you are doing a great job on
your seeding and planting. say MOM see ya
JR.FRYE
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Hey Jim- Where is that? Looks kinda familiar, but can't place it.

No, your not dumb for thinking like this. You must have many fond memories of this place. But now you have roots nearly 50 miles away and you have to let go. Your parents health and well being is your main concern. They can't do the maintainence they did years ago, you'd have to go there every weekend to help them with stuff, then there is the worry, on your end and their's.
That is neat looking house, hopefully you will find a good buyer who will enjoy it as much as you did.
Cherish your memories and pictures and then take some more pictures of the structures while you still own it.
Brian(MN)

No, not dumb. I see what looks to be Grandpa in one of the pictures, and I'm sure that not many if any feel worse than him. It'll live on, perhaps through the sale or in parcels to neighbors. Leasing it out is an option, and yes there is maintenance, but it is an option.

Years back I went to an auction of a couple of hundred acres and home, and barns, and silos and got to know the kids after the last parent passed on. They all had their own farms in the area, but none except one seemed interested in keeping the farm they all grew up on from little kids to adulthood, and decided to auction it all off. Guns, tractors, impliments, all of it. The kids all talked to me, got to know me, gave me the thumbs up, crossing their fingers, but it wasn't to be. It came down to me going up against a young Amish couple supported by the Amish bank, and us going up against a young doctor and his wife that dreamed of raising horses and needed to live within 10 miles of the hospital that he worked at. The young Amish couple and I got blown out of the water, evey bid we made easily being blown out of the water by the doctor whose wife wanted the place at all costs. They got it fair and square, and I'm sure the young Amish couple and their newborn probably got some other place as I know that I did. The doctor and his wife? That was years ago and they never did move in, get those horses, or anything else. They have a caretaker keeping the place up, and they can, because they got it fair and square. One way or the other, life goes on.

Its up to you and your family, but leasing it out IS an option.

Good luck, sorry to hear about it, but hope it all works out in the end. By the way, say HI to the grandparents from everyone here, and tell them God Bless as well.

Mark

i went thru alot of different emotions when my sister and i sold the old homestead on west Galveston Island...finally realized the memories are in my mind and go everywhere with me...plus it was getting to be a real PIA keeping people from breaking in or just tresspassing after the old house got burnt for the second time...i was 3 hours away so there was no keeping a regular eye on the place...local law wouldnt do sh!t to keep people out of it...told me to hire private security...hang in there...could be a blessing in disguise

I bought the home farm twenty years ago. My Aunts forced it to go to auction. The legal battle's cost was the end of a hundred and fifty year way of life. I live six hundred miles away now and when my youngest is out of school, in four years, I AM GOING home. If your family's farm is sold it is dead. The land will be split from the house and then sold off. That old cattle shed, corn crib,and brick barn will go into a hole. I know that farms have to have a large acreage to make a living these days. Can you really care about something you only spend a few days time on each year?

Hang on to it. Lease it out except for the house till you retire.I live 1100 miles from home place...had to fight to keep it. Go home twice a year.It's mine. Paid for. I pay the taxes and insurance. Person leasing does all the rest. You will never regret it.

Beautiful place. What state is it in? Wife wants to move.

A very hard decision no doubt. I bought my grandparents farm in 2004, it being in our family name since 1899. My children are the sixth generation. The buildings are not much, the barn built in 1910 and the house in 1930, but I've told my wife if that TV show about extreme makeovers or what ever it is called came and knocked that house down, all H--- would break loose! What may not seem much to people from one perspective is priceless to others.

A guy I went to school with sold his parents farm 10-12 years ago because he lived 120 miles away . He was an engineer who lost his farming roots or so he thought at the time. Saw him last year at a reunion now he really regrets selling the farm. It was turned into a high end McMansion housing development back in 2003-2004 during the height of the housing boom.

The developer kept the main barn and converted it into the fitness center/meeting/party place for the neighborhood. Really sad.

Nope, not dumb. I'm 67 and still feel the same way when I drive by the farm that used to belong to my grandparents and where I learned to drive a tractor.

Kruser: Not dumb....you, your siblings and your parents have to do what you all feel is best under the circumstances. I am sure you have not made your decisions lightly. My family was faced with the same type of situation a few years ago. My parents ended up selling the home farm and building a new house on a severed lot on another farm they owned. No stairs, very little maintenance compared to the old place.( It is surprising how quickly the old place is deterioting without the constant upkeep that they put into it. With our family spread across North America, it was the best solution...probably should have made it a few years earlier. My father is failing mentally and mother physically, but hopefully, they should be able to remain on their own for a few more years. I live over 2 hours away and myself and my family had no desire(or the $) to take on the old property. We do all have the memories, though. Life goes on, the sun still rises in the east!!

My dad passed away in 77, mom had auction in 78 and that was the end of the home farm of 200 acres. I was two when dad bought the farm, I spent over twenty years of my life there. To this day I still kick myself for not buying it and it is the biggest regret in my life. When that bridge is burnt it can't ever be rebuilt.

From the wife of Curt W. Seriously where is this place and can you give any details about the auction?

I get a little sick nearly every time I drive by the "Old Home Place" where I grew up and learned how to work. Two of my cousins inherited the place fairly and squarely but neither of their husbands are farmers or anything close to it, so now most of the fields you can see from the road are set out to trees and the big barn and other outbuildings are slowly deteriorating to ruin. There's no signs of farm activity...no livestock, no real machinery setting around,(no red tractors or anything), just a dumpy looking 9N Ford thing out by the road for sale and some old rusty pickups in the doorless falling down sheds. The houses look great....but modern "citified". Just a lot of memories there....God, How I miss everybody.......Sorry, I'm gettin' old too.....

Thanks for the input - guess I should have given more details though. Just selling the "home place" and keeping the farm ground.
50 miles doesn't seem like a lot BUT I have enough problems keeping up at home. We built 10 years ago less than 1/2 mile away and thought about keeping the old house for rental property. Didn't and haven't missed it a bit!

Jim