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I’m so torn on it. It’s like a soft ownership where you do have a lot of legal protections and freedom to do what you want with the land, but at the core, you do not own it.

You can dink around on the property and build whatever but the county can also come demand money and retroactive permitting if they catch you doing something against their rules.

It fucking sucks. But at the same time, I would love to have the food security and energy independence land can provide.
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John 9mo ago

It can suck. But with renting, that’s just one more layer of rules to navigate.

If the owner you are renting from does allow you to make these improvements, years later they can decide (or sell the property and the new owner decides) that they like what you have done and they won’t be renewing your rent, now you are out and have nothing to show for the work, no value to you for the time and energy spent and you have to start over.

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BTC_P2P 9mo ago

Renting has a lot of its own benefits as well as drawbacks, some which you mentioned.

There are no solutions, just tradeoffs.

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John 9mo ago

True. Your lifestyle choices usually make one trade off a clear winner, though, when you examine the options in light of your choices.