Many people are saying "Just Start" homesteading. To a point I agree, then there is the part of me that says that is not the way to go. I got foreclosed after I came back from Iraq because of physical problems that had to be taken care of and the VA sucks. We were debt-free except the house payment, that is a big thing that is hard to be debt-free on, and we burned through saving trying to keep it and was working where we were homesteading.

We moved on and found a piece of property that we got for a good price and the owner financed, it was raw land. We thought that it would be fine as people said "Just Start". We did and what many people do not understand is that with raw land getting it cleared, cleaned up and started building on takes quite a bit of money and buying equipment to "Just Start" is a hard task.

Many do not think about this and if you do not have the money to get something done in the beginning and have the equipment to do this it will be a failure just as we failed because of the "Just Start" mentality.

There are three things you need to just start from raw land.
One is the equipment you need, a tractor with several three-point hitch attachment and having a bucket loader on it.
Two is a truck and trailer to haul the tractor because you will need the trailer to haul other stuff you will need. Because you might have to haul water unless you have the 4 thousand dollars or so, or whatever that cost will be in the area you are in, for a well right off.
Three Is the knowledge to run the equipment or the time to learn on the fly as you go. Also the ability to be a jack of all trades and some mechanical knowledge of how things work and building skills.

Also, you will need the physical ability to do everything that is needed to do all of the work needed unless you have the money to hire all of the stuff out to contractors or skilled people to do it for you.

So sometimes the "Just Start" is not the way to go about it under some circumstances. I say all of this so people do not fail and just quit as I have done and learn from my mistake and do not make it themselves.
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