What does YOUR farmhouse look like?! Post pictures here!

[MissPrissy]

Great homes, ya'll! Wonderful places full of love and history!

Ruth - I have tried to hire a handyman/helper. Just one day a week, 6 - 8 hours, I'll provide lunch and a dozen eggs every week, $10/hour. They turn around and walk away. "Too much work" is the general reply. How much work do they think they can not do and still get paid? Grass cutting with our mower, feild cutting with our bush hog, general building maintenance, help with the day to care of the animals - not asking for goat milking or any of those kinds of chores and still they won't hit a lick at a stick.

Good luck to you! I hope you find someone!

 

[Marlinchaser]

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Thats all it would take, you just need to find someone who has been on here reading, maybe you should have a Test lunch sitting on the table when they come for thier interview.

 

[justusnak]

Wow, you all have such wonderfull homes! Our home is not what I was looking for when we went loking, but DH saw this place from the highway every time we went to visit his parents...and always said.. " One day we will own that home" To which I always replied..." Yeah right, Dream on little dreamer" Well....we signed the papers on HIS Birthday...3 years ago.

Whooda thunk? LOL

Doesnt have the big wrap around covered front porch I wanted...but...DH is happy. It looks MUCH larger than it is...only 2 bedrooms...its a split level home. At least we have 5 acres..and a huge barn...the one in my avatar..and he has a 4 car shop.

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

Wow, all such nice big beautiful places! Does no one here live in old, run-down houses or mobile homes besides me? lol

 

[hdchic]

Our house's 'bones' are 100 years old....the FIL had it gutted and updated on the inside...I thought I had better pics *note to self, take some good pics of house!!*

Winter out in the front:

The shed in the back:

Back of the house after plowing the garden:

 

[Solsken Farm]

I LOVE all these places!

Here's our place. Greek revival built in 1870.

We completely restored when we first moved in except for siding the barn. 12 years and 3 kids later, we really need to do some updating. And Ruth, ITA about the upkeep. We have a farmer using our land and he gives us all the hay we want in return. But the maintenance is daunting!

We, too, are looking into a wind turbine. There are bird folks in this state very upset about turbines but at the same time, we havegot to get less dependent on foreign oil.

 

[ruth]

Horsegirl - that is the most beautiful photo - looks like out of a magazine. What a great place to live.

Yes maintenance is daunting and the upkeep and time trying to restore an old home and barn and carriage house and log cabin while trying to hatch and raise chickens and ducks and peacocks while trying to plow gardens and get crops in the ground - while trying to work my business. There are days I'm too tired to even cry at night or I would cry myself to sleep.

Miss Prissy - from what I'm being told around here by others who have tried to hire help - they all have the same comments - "no one wants to work". This is a mostly welfare town and few are willing to work since they don't have to - a concept I can't begin to understand since I have been working, sometimes 2 and 3 jobs, and trying to better myself since I was 13 years old. I'm hoping if we offer a free place to live there will be someone, even if they come from out of town, who would take the job. I'm not looking for them to do anything I'm not already doing - just want someone to help out a little bit.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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Why don't you consider the foreign exchange thing, in Canada we have the same issues, no one wants to work, especially when you can get the same money working in a store, so the farmers hire mexican travelling farmers, they know their stuff, and they live in caravans or houses on the property

It's so cute, at the end of apple season you go into all the thrift stores and the mexican men are picking out things to bring back to their wives!

And they're REALLY HARD WORKERS.

Also, look for college students who need cash, if you're offering a place to live they'll come from out of town, and highschoolers over the summer, who says you need the same person all the time right? We're going to be relying on the mandatory 40 hours volunteer work highschoolers need in Ontario, for our help around the farm. We're going to place an ad at the highschool looking for horse handlers, and helpers to help renovate, clean, feed, etc. And the best part is their free, after their 40 hours are done we can decide if we want to hire them on permanently, and if they're good, then my mum says we most certainly will hire them for a few days a week lol, it gives a kid who lives in a small rural town with few jobs, a chance to earn some cash.

I just wish I'd found someone like US when I was doing my 40 hours, I would have KILLED to do them on a horse farm, but no luck there!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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WOW! I... must... remember -- "Thou shalt not covet..." "Thou shalt not covet..."

Seriously, your place is GORGEOUS!

I wanna a farmhouse... and a farm.

"Thou shalt not covet..." "Thou shalt not covet..." "Thou shalt not covet..." (Must keep repeating!)

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

What beautiful homes! I LOVE old houses and Dacjohns, yours is beautiful to me! Don't give up hope. My house is at least 130 years old and is the second oldest home in our city. I tried to research it but the records don't go back that far. The original owners were farmers and had about 1/3 of the property in the city. The house stayed in the family until the guy I bought it from purchased it. When he bought it, it was condemned. Fortunately he was a contractor and he totally gutted it and redid it. The upstairs had never even been finished but there were 12 rooms on the first floor. He opened everything up downstairs and made 3 bedrooms and a bath upstairs. Unfortunately it's now on a suburban lot, roughly 3/4 of an acre, but it's plenty for me!