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Originally Posted by mullen
Sapo,
Very cool! I was actually just up in the Finger Lakes (Watkins Glen area). Went to Two Goats and also Hazelnut Kitchen in Trumansburg for dinner one night. Excellent food.
Sorry if I missed it skimming the thread, but do you have any additional plans for the land? I saw you were cutting trails, anything else?
Oh, yeah then you saw exactly where I am. Hazelnut is legit, and Two Goats has great beer - and a view so good you could sell $6 PBR. But they don't.
I do have some plans. I've been thinking about putting in between 1 and 3 more cabins, and offering them up to artists for short-term stays. When I was out traveling, even being on the road, low expenses, I found it hard to just find space to be and work, without paying too much. I'd like to be able to give that to people, and maybe create a community around that.
Initially I wanted to jump into it, but I think I need a bit more time here before I try that. Been considering a Kickstarter to get it going. I'd like to build the cabins myself (they would be v small, v simple).
From TheNoodleMan:
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What are your monthly expenses, and how do they compare to what your costs were when you lived in the city
In the city, I paid about $1,700 a month for rent. Here I'm just paying down credit card debt. I probably spend $100 or so on gas, between transportation and power. Nothing else changed in particular, on a standing basis. Water is a fairly minor expense, I do buy it retail and then just fill up jugs whenever I can.
For the first year, and especially first six month, I spent a lot of money. Tools and materials. Wood, chainsaw, insulation, wood stove ... Those expenses have tapered off greatly, now that I'm a bit more established.
I don't have a specific budget, but I think of this as a five-year plan. I want to be debt free and have built this into an even more comfortable setup than it already is, by 2020. It's probably achievable in more like two to three years, but I'm lazy and I spend too much money on entertainment, eating out, drinking and so on.