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Land. Buy farmland. People have to eat. Make it work for you for a steady stream of passive income. Create a self sufficient compound so your passive income is

Land. Buy farmland. People have to eat. Make it work for you for a steady stream of passive income. Create a self sufficient compound so your passive income is only for your spending money. If all else fail, you still have the land to sell. You can’t print land. It will always be in demand. Buy productive land you can steward. One acre of fertile land with water is much better than 500 acres of scenic acreage. Where can you find that in America? I have a rough rule. Follow the Amish. Can’t go wrong. (This is not investment advice. Just my thoughts.)

anonu 6y ago
Farming is massively mechanized and run by professionals with million dollar equipment. This is not good advice unless OP really wants to get his hands dirty and spend his nest egg
- giantg2 6y ago
  You can buy the land and lease the field use to farmers to plant. This is pretty common in some areas.
  - voisin 6y ago
    Check out the lease rates relative to purchase price. It’s around 1% of purchase price on a gross revenue basis. After subtracting low property taxes on the farm land, you net zero or very close on a nominal basis. Oh, and the mechanized farming referred to upthread? It’s sucking the nutrients out of the soil and rendering it less productive year by year.
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- jelliclesfarm 6y ago
  This is not for growing grains and commodities , but if bought in hundreds of acres, it can be mechanized. It is possible to have homesteads to grow everything you need for a self sustaining lifestyle. ‘Off grid’ living including outside of an unstable money economy. Energy, water, food, fiber and some amount of cash can be derived from land. It can be bartered or sold. You can form co-ops with other like minded people with a million savings. With food, hydroponics, orchards, field crops, honey, eggs, meat and fish. You can get a (cobot)robot in that budget to eliminate need for labour. A million dollars is not much. Any value of a dollar/market currency is pegged against what it can buy. You can’t outrun inflation if you want to live within the matrix. My (literal)2c.

anonu 6y ago

Farming is massively mechanized and run by professionals with million dollar equipment. This is not good advice unless OP really wants to get his hands dirty and spend his nest egg

giantg2 6y ago
You can buy the land and lease the field use to farmers to plant. This is pretty common in some areas.
- voisin 6y ago
  Check out the lease rates relative to purchase price. It’s around 1% of purchase price on a gross revenue basis. After subtracting low property taxes on the farm land, you net zero or very close on a nominal basis. Oh, and the mechanized farming referred to upthread? It’s sucking the nutrients out of the soil and rendering it less productive year by year.
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jelliclesfarm 6y ago
This is not for growing grains and commodities , but if bought in hundreds of acres, it can be mechanized. It is possible to have homesteads to grow everything you need for a self sustaining lifestyle. ‘Off grid’ living including outside of an unstable money economy. Energy, water, food, fiber and some amount of cash can be derived from land. It can be bartered or sold. You can form co-ops with other like minded people with a million savings. With food, hydroponics, orchards, field crops, honey, eggs, meat and fish. You can get a (cobot)robot in that budget to eliminate need for labour. A million dollars is not much. Any value of a dollar/market currency is pegged against what it can buy. You can’t outrun inflation if you want to live within the matrix. My (literal)2c.