[symber]

...or should that be "fit like?"

I see somebody else recently introduced themselves from NE Scotland, hence the (2)...

I'm currently doing my damndest to buy a 10 acre farm (despite the obstacles surveyors, banks and estate agents keep throwing at me) and will, hopefully, eventually, have an 8 acre field and a 2 acre paddock.

I'm planning to grow grass and rent stabling for horses initially, plant fruit trees and grow some vegetables, but any guidance and suggestions would be very welcome.  I see myself keeping a small herd of sheep a few years down the line and I'd like to keep a few goats and Indian Runner ducks, but I'll build up to that slowly, I think...

Anyway, that's me...

Symber

[Bionic]

Welcome  . 

As one who has recently moved I know only too well the obstacles.  I thought it would never happen. The folk on here kept me sane for a while.  You will get there in the end, just be patient.
Sally

[lachlanandmarcus]

Hi Symber,

Im over near Aboyne/Ballater. Have a menagerie including Shetland sheep (lovely things).

welcome! and good luck with the purchase!

[Lesley Silvester]

  Hi, Symber, and welcome from soggy Shropshire.  It will happen.  Eventually. And you'll get all your animals.  Goats sound like an exellent idea. 

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie 

What you need is a small flock of coloured Ryeland sheep - docile, friendly, charming - and will keep the grass down 

[Bert]

Hi from the Isle of Mull 

[Mays]

 

 

[symber]

Hello all,

  thanks for your friendly greetings

  I've got dozens of questions, but I'll try to post them in the right places rather than here...

  Thanks again,

Symber

[valandgeorge]

Hi,

I know just what you are going through. We are moving from the Midlands to Caithness so have the complication of selling in England and buying in Scotland which means 2 seperate legal systems and solicitors. I seem to be spending most of my time on the phone at the moment...

Good luck and try to laugh at the madness.

Val

[sabrina]

Hi from Gamrie near Banff 

[symber]

Hello both

Interesting that you're selling in England and buying in Scotland, Val - I'm doing that same.  The main problem I've got at the moment is proving the farm value to the bank before they'll agree a mortgage, as the estate agent insists that farms are exempt from home valuation reports, but seems to have come up wth a price without completing a survey or any sort, which the bank won't accept...

I'm sure I'll look back on it all and laugh one day, though

[robert waddell]

selling dear and buying cheap      if it has farm in the name most mortgage company's wont touch it    Clydesdale bank may if it is a  business Scottish agricultural security's may do as well but they were all loaned out the last time i heard  and that was before the recession    you just got to plug away at it and don't take no for an answer

[lill]

Hi and weclome to the forum 

[Mammyshaz]

Hello  from Durham. Hope things looking up in the farm buying front.

[valandgeorge]

Hi symber,

The place we are buying only has just over 4 acres, so the bank accepted that it was not going to be used for a comercial venture, rather for my pets  . Although we did have a home report for it which helped.

Hope all goes well for you.

Val