In late 2022, we began searching for a place to call our own. At the time, I was working remotely writing software, so I could live anywhere. Micah had a job, and she decided anything within 30 minutes would work.
Every day, I would diligently get on Zillow and look for properties for sale. I went and looked at several. We didn't find anything worth buying for a long time, but then a grow business that had failed in 2021 was filing for bankruptcy and wanted to sell off all its assets. This included a building, four greenhouses, a generator, a trailer, a tractor, and even a side-by-side. I couldn't believe my eyes. I browsed through the images and started building an Excel sheet with the values of the equipment I saw in the photos. I called my wife and said, "This is it!" They were asking less for the property than the abandoned equipment. That morning, I called the realtor and met him there. I had told Micah that if it was anything like we thought, I was going to buy it on the spot and we could figure out where we would get the money later.
It didn't take much time walking the property to realize that we had just found a deal of a life time. There were so many directions we could go with this property. After about 20 minutes, I turned to the realtor and said, "I'll take it, and I'll pay the full asking price." He got on his phone and let the seller know he had sold it, and we shook on it and went our separate ways. I didn't sleep a wink that night. The next morning, the DocuSign documents started coming, and we signed them all as fast as possible. We had signed our life away on a failed pot farm.
These are the pictures from Zillow taking a year before we bought it. It was a lot more overgrown when we bought it.
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