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re: $500k to invest. What does the MB recommend?
Posted on 8/28/13 at 7:25 am to Mr.Perfect
Posted on 8/28/13 at 7:25 am to Mr.Perfect
Any or you guys know much about timber? Have plenty in the stock market and real estate. Have also thought about adding rental properties, but I know they can be a pain in the arse. I have a couple now, just don't know that I want that hassle.
Not that I'm against putting more in the market, just looking for some other ideas. What about for land and leasing out the farming rights? I know that's not a great money maker, but seems like a damn good hedge. And farm land rarely if ever goes down in value.
Not that I'm against putting more in the market, just looking for some other ideas. What about for land and leasing out the farming rights? I know that's not a great money maker, but seems like a damn good hedge. And farm land rarely if ever goes down in value.
Posted on 8/28/13 at 11:02 am to SmackoverHawg
Farm land is high as balls on a giraffe right now.
Posted on 8/28/13 at 11:33 am to SmackoverHawg
quote:I don't, but if I were you, I'd contact a reputable timber consultant. Could be...may be...a good investment alternative.
Any or you guys know much about timber?
Posted on 8/28/13 at 12:16 pm to SmackoverHawg
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Any or you guys know much about timber?
If you're weary of the market, timber land can be a solid and safer investment. The value of the land increases, you receive revenue from the timber, and you can lease the hunting rights.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 1:19 pm to SmackoverHawg
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What about for land and leasing out the farming rights? I know that's not a great money maker, but seems like a damn good hedge. And farm land rarely if ever goes down in value.
You must not have been around in the early 80's when farm land blew up after years of ridiculous speculative gains in ag land. And from a recent article:
We farmers should be more sophisticated than the average subprime borrower and more risk averse than startup investors in the 1990s. After all, we manage multi-million dollar businesses, and since the average age of farmers is near 60, most of us are survivors of the agricultural asset crash of the early 1980s. In 1981, the average price of farmland in Iowa was $2,147 per acre; by 1986, the average farm brought $787 an acre. That period was the formative experience of my farming career, and one I would not wish to repeat. According to a recent article in the USA Today, a third of Iowa’s farmers left the industry during that crash.
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