Owning your own home

I would check local marble workshops ( used to be one near each cemetery 🪦) for offcuts of bigger installations. Usually best to drive there, and ask directly… you might find someone accommodating and a bargain. Installation should be easy enough for any local builder if it not structural and just cosmetic. Google marble in your local area, check reviews, do visit on a quiet moment and just ask nicely. This has work wonders for me in the past. Alternative cutting big square terrazzo tiles in half and fitting several to make total length could be a more affordable and easier route

Lots of people buying woodland to avoid IHT - several billionaires buying up parcels all over the place

and carbon credit firms. close friend of mine co-founded futureforest. pretty cool

Thinking about it I have kinda been renting a woods in Sussex for 15+ years, or at least part of a group that does, but thats a whole dif ball game.

This sounds like an interesting story. Or is it a BMX thing (i.e. you're renting a track?).

I'm not sure what the legalities are but could you buy a caravan and keep it on land you're definitely not allowed to build on?

This is all a bit vague, but might give you somewhere to start...

Pretty sure that if a barn has been used for agricultural purposes then you can convert it after a certain period of time. I want to say 10yrs.

Depending on what sort of land it is you can rent it out - say for graising.

My dad inherited one and a half bits of field down in the west country. He always wanted to put a timber barn on it so that it could be converted at some point but never did. Probably more money than it's worth now. Anyway point is he rents it for cattle graising, not exactly passive income, but it covers maintenance costs and it has never really been worth enough to sell. He definitely should have just chucked something up when he got it though.

The main problem with it for visiting is that it's fucking miles from London, so I'd factor accessibility over everything. Still when I was small I enjoyed playing around and helping to cut back the trees the few times a year we'd go.

If you get something that has some established trees you could also look at building a tree house plus making some sort of decking area to make general chilling more comfy. Thinking more

rather than

Pretty sure that if a barn has been used for agricultural purposes then you can convert it after a certain period of time. I want to say 10yrs.

Yes, I think this is "Class Q" permission. Presumably savvy farmers have a rolling programme of barn-building where they harvest barns in their 11th year to sell to developers.

Well... it started many moons ago, we just started digging up some random woodland to build jumps as we have done many times before until we get kicked out and threatened with police action, but this time it was an old Lord/Land Barron type who was just a good ol' chap, when he saw what we were up to on his land he was quite impressed and said he'd give it a go himself if he was a bit younger (he was around 8 at the time).

That was prob near 18 years a go now, I have since moved away but used to go back a fair bit before mini 116, we have a pizza oven, two BBQ pits, a tool shed and a more permanent wood structure/hut, sadly its next to a main road so not too peaceful.

The occult sacrificed a vicar there too, but thats another story.
Its also the most haunted woods in the UK.
Not really the chill out vibe im after.

@hugo7 vague but super interesting, and yeah kinda where I am going thought wise, it needs to be easy to get to so looking at places in the arse of Norfolk where no one really wants to be.
Its all pipe dreams and my current bank balance is £24.37 so highly unlikely, but a place to hide for a week would be nice without having to travel far.

I've also seen some great examples of working with run down building rather than trying to fight against them, minimising costs and the likes.

I have found land with a nuclear bunker, which the pepper in me is dead excited about, but again wildly unrealistic.

I did think about how I could get the blockchain or ML involved for added pitch deck appeal.

A prerequisite to a good outcome.

Publish a NFT of the woodland and watch the dogecoins rolls in

we will just need to design personalised mascot for the forest and sell infinite variations via NFT 🤣

Surely Oakie Doke is ripe for a woodland themed NFT comeback

1. aquire wood land
   
2. mint each leaf in the wood as an NFT
   
3. ????
   
4. Profit
   

This thread has gone peak LFGSS today and I no longer want to exist

In better news, I got an email from my solicitor saying we can exchange. It has been a long road since we listed for sale in March 2021.

FTFY

1. aquire wood land
   
2. mint each leaf/tree in the wood as an NFT
   
3. burn each leaf/tree to ensure truly original NFT
   
4. Profit
   

Needs more AI plz

no no no, heres the thing all the leaves undergo a naturally regulated end of season market exit. Thus ensuring they are truely non fungible. We have specifically designed this process to ensure the security of our tokens AND to ensure that a fresh drop of newly minted tokens are created each year in a sustainable and, carbon free, process.

Sounds like it will be ripe for several rounds of funding, I am in! We just need to find our own version of the turtle neck! Oakie Dock patches for everyone

Extra thought, we use the woodland as a carbon sink to offset our new crypto - okie doke coin

Into that.

we use the woodland as a carbon sink to offset our new crypto

I think you have neatly encapsulated why I am so skeptical about offsetting. "Let's plant a load of trees to offset this new airport" doesn't really solve anything.

how many trees to offset one post by user amey

i dont have any trees in my property

The next tornado should do.

Thanks for all the advice above folks. Much appreciated!

I will send a link to the house when we inevitably don't get it!

As this is my first offer, how do you best put that; 'should you accept this offer in writing the expectation will be that you completely stop marketing the property and help us get moving toward completion pls thx bye' ??

Is there a generally accepted way of putting that? I know that estate agents are legally bound to send any offer to the owner... But is there a way to stop the gazumping?