[Backinwellies]

To be honest if your finances wont allow you to borrow £7K (and you say you are working fulltime)  then you really can't afford to 'farm' it either.

Just in case there are any rich smallholders on here though    ....we are looking for a tractor!!  ....


...... good point SteveHants

[Fleecewife]

I found myself quite annoyed that it was being suggested I fund this lifestyle choice.... and I really an a soft touch.

The "oh, we want some land stranger will you give us some money" is somehow annoying in its cheekiness.  There is no need here, just want.

It is easy to ignore, unlike the other people who bombard me with requests blind dog rescue uk.... who bombard me with pictures of dogs blinded and crippled by humans, each of whom has an individual fund..... my paypal account is taking a pounding!

I'm with kitchen cottage here - you can take out a mortgage, rent land or ask to pay by instalments - but begging from others, who have to do the work to earn their own livings    is certainly not my way.  Try some rich City gents with money to burn 

[SteveHants]

I'm with kitchen cottage here - you can take out a mortgage, rent land or ask to pay by instalments - but begging from others, who have to do the work to earn their own livings    is certainly not my way.  Try some rich City gents with money to burn 

Thats the way investment or 'Business Angels' or whatever would work, so I can't see any problem with it per se, but all of these people expect a return on their investment, so I'd want to know what I was getting back....

[Lesley Silvester]

Exactly what I was thinking. We pay for someone else to own land? No one paid for me to buy my house and I wouldn't expect them to. I would love a field for my goats and for other livestock but accept it's not going to happen.

[SteveHants]

Exactly what I was thinking. We pay for someone else to own land? No one paid for me to buy my house and I wouldn't expect them to. I would love a field for my goats and for other livestock but accept it's not going to happen.

If you include winter grazings, I have nigh on 300ac to use - none of it is mine.

[cloddopper]

 :eyelashes:Become a rent boy  and hire the land then bung soay sheep on it .
 Use and electric fence to contain them as it is the cheaper option to stock fencing and can also be moved .

They are hard little beggers and don't need much attention . Knock them on the head come autumn sell from the garden gate or at market and put the profit in a jam jar in an IF account till you have enough for the land


Do have a look into the legal fees you will have to cough up for searches such as ownership or are they nearly bankrupt and transfer of deeds..
 Note a business selling land used to have a seven year clawback by HMC&R for VAT & CGT etc. if the owner went bankrupt within seven years of a transaction. ( to stop bankrupts disposing of land and not declaring profit) etc.

[90driver]

Just sitting here having a late breakfast after feeding animals.... catching up on posts on the forum... I almost choked ! Thankfully the link did not work on my phone but I get the idea from the rest of the posts. I guess you don't know until you try something. But really, begging for money on here so that you can follow your unrealistic dream is beyond rude ! Small holding is a lifestyle choice... and we will all have to make sacrifices to follow that choice at some stage or another. Whether that be financial, personal or just time.... but one thing is for sure is we won't sacrifice to enable a complete stranger can take the easy route.
If you can't raise the 7k to buy the land you will never afford to run the project . Small holding is a great way..... an enjoyable way of spending money... rewarding in its own way, but rarely financially.

[jools66]

Is this where I put my request for a pony - diamond ring and a new Audi  

[katie]

We had a bit of this on Freecycle. People asking for a trailer,  electric fencing etc. I suppose if you don't ask, you don't get - but it's a bit of a cheek imho.

[Bionic]

We had a bit of this on Freecycle. People asking for a trailer,  electric fencing etc. I suppose if you don't ask, you don't get - but it's a bit of a cheek imho.

But there may be people on freecycle who have an old trailer or electric fencing they don't use now. I can't imagine the same can be said for 7k.

[HallePalomino]

I think it's a valiant effort, but possibly the wrong way to go about things during a recession

People want something in return for their money, guaranteed. To make an extra bit of money I've done a house clearance, selling anything that's not been used in a while or not required, on Facebook and Gumtree. It's not exactly £7k but it's a nice bit of pocket money to put aside for a rainy day.

Car booting or nearly new sales are an age-old but useful way for making pennies

[doganjo]

I've thought about doing that too - it's working out the P & P that gets me.

[Fleecewife]

Sounds like we're talking to the empty ether......wannabefarmerjoe (if that's what he really is) seems to have gone walkabout.
 
There are so many scams around that I am deeply cynical about this  .  Has anyone on here ever met this chap?

[AndynJ]

I had to think hard about my next post on this subject,
So after ye all have coughed up his £7k can I have PLEASE
£400,000 for some land
£20,000 for 2nd hand tractor (I'm not greedy 2nd hand be fine)
 
£8000 for a barn
Baler, haybob, mower, hedge flail, seed drill, sprayer
900 metres of stock fence & posts
A couple of bags of lime
A jersey cow
20 ewes
If you give me all of that I be happy 
Oh the misses said can she have an Audi convertible ? PLEASE
Thank you in advance for your stupidity oops I mean generosity. 

[mojocafa]

Has anyone watched the video? From a female perspective ...
What woman would enter a field, with sheep in it, on her wedding day, in a wedding dress?