➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Once upon a time, I bought 240 acres for $27,000. I also got an 80 acre BLM lease that went with it.

Did you have any of the wild mustang herds running through it? I think there is...16(?) herds in WY? That would have been so cool to own that. Wyoming is beautiful.

 

[R2elk]

I don't get it.
So you lease 80 acres from them?

I leased the 80 acres from them back when I owned the 240 acres. I sold that property awhile back so the new owner had the option to pick up the lease. The new owner also had the option to nominate the BLM land for sale. If the BLM accepted the nomination, the property would have been put up for auction and been sold to the highest bidder.

 

[R2elk]

Did you have any of the wild mustang herds running through it? I think there is...16(?) herds in WY? That would have been so cool to own that. Wyoming is beautiful.

The only thing on that property was prairie dogs, antelope, badgers, fox (later replaced by coyotes), rattlesnakes, bull snakes and a few horned toads. It was pretty flat without any trees and you could watch the semis going by on the highway that was 10 miles away. I forgot that the Burrowing Owls living in the prairie dog holes were pretty neat.

There was no electricity and no access road. It did have a well but that collapsed when there was an earthquake north east of it.

 

[Conan]

I leased the 80 acres from them back when I owned the 240 acres. I sold that property awhile back so the new owner had the option to pick up the lease. The new owner also had the option to nominate the BLM land for sale. If the BLM accepted the nomination, the property would have been put up for auction and been sold to the highest bidder.

Did the new owner do so? An awful lot of land on our side of the coast owned by the government....

 

[Conan]

The only thing on that property was prairie dogs, antelope, badgers, fox (later replaced by coyotes), rattlesnakes, bull snakes and a few horned toads. It was pretty flat without any trees and you could watch the semis going by on the highway that was 10 miles away. I forgot that the Burrowing Owls living in the prairie dog holes were pretty neat.

There was no electricity and no access road. It did have a well but that collapsed when there was an earthquake north east of it.

Burrowing owls???? Neat! I've never heard of such a thing!

 

[R2elk]

Did the new owner do so? An awful lot of land on our side of the coast owned by the government....

I have no idea whether or not the new owner was able to buy the 80 acre BLM piece but I suspect that he would have since he was a developer and planned to subdivide the 240 acres into 40 acre sections.

Yes the western U.S. has by a wide margin the most Federal land.

 

[R2elk]

Burrowing owls???? Neat! I've never heard of such a thing!

They are a really small owl. One site I checked claimed their average weight was 5.3 oz.

Burrowing Owls

 

[Conan]

They are a really small owl. One site I checked claimed their average weight was 5.3 oz.

Burrowing Owls

Wow. Pretty cool little predators.

 

[Conan]

I have no idea whether or not the new owner was able to buy the 80 acre BLM piece but I suspect that he would have since he was a developer and planned to subdivide the 240 acres into 40 acre sections.

Yes the western U.S. has by a wide margin the most Federal land.

40 acre sections... wow. I wish that even came close to happening here. Think apartment complexes and maybe an acre if you're lucky and 20 minutes out of town. We bought our tiny two acre plot in 2013. Boy, are we ever set now. The region skyrocketed.
We'll likely pay the place off in a few years and move to northern Idaho. I'm hoping for at least 20 acres.
Western Washington is just too nuts for the likes of us anymore.

 

[Kiki]

I leased the 80 acres from them back when I owned the 240 acres. I sold that property awhile back so the new owner had the option to pick up the lease. The new owner also had the option to nominate the BLM land for sale. If the BLM accepted the nomination, the property would have been put up for auction and been sold to the highest bidder.

Oh...so they paid you to borrow the land. What did they do with it?