[AT] Snow

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Tue Feb 16 16:46:17 PST 2010


Seems to me the Amish folks might be logical buyers for the place Farmer. 
Also, there is a fair market these days for folks that want a place they 
deem to be safe where they can excape from the city if something happens.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Snow


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Hey, Farmer, I was thinking of you over the weekend because the word came 
> out in local media that they are rebuilding the historic wooden bridge at 
> Moscow, Indiana. You talked to us via email about that bridge.
>
> Larry
>
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Here are pictures of it down...
http://picasaweb.google.com/robinson46176/MoscowIndianaTornado#
I have been told that it will be up by summer. They came in and did a
little repair work on the piers and I am told that they are building
it in two parts and will haul them in and lift them into place.
We have a narrow sort of mini farm there of about 17 acres a house and
an old  block shop building. The ground runs along Big Flatrock River
(as opposed to Little Flatrock River). The bridge sat on a right of
way across our land. The opposite side from the village has some 40'
high stone bluffs and is very pretty. It includes a long mill race on
the village side that my great grandfather rebuilt in the 1880's. The
current house is a former store that he once owned and sold to my
grandparents who operated a store and lived there sometime around
1900. It was built around 1836. My mother bought the land back in the
1960s. The 30' X 43' block building was built about 1934 where a house
burned. We got the house at auction when an owner went to prison for
dealing drugs. We bought the block building some years later.
The house goes empty at the end of this month and I will completely
quit the rental of anything then.
A number of people have asked me to sell them the package and I even
have a soon to retire nephew in FL that expressed interest in it. Of
course expressing interest and paying actual money are two different
things. I think that a couple of local friends are thinking that they
can pick it up to add to their properties for down around $40,000 to
$60,000 or maybe even less. Property "used to" sell very reasonable
there. I had it appraised since the housing drop and it still was
appraised at a little over $125,000 based mostly on what nearby
similar properties have sold for recently. Frankly I thought that was
a little high but the very busy appraiser has a very good reputation
and many years of experience. I think maybe he saw a market out of
Indy (about 30 minutes away) for it.
I may try to sell it at auction after the bridge is back up this
summer. I may wait until fall, that 17 acres of woods and river is
really pretty when the leaves change.
The land is always the land. The house and building both need work but
it would make a do-it-your-selfer or someone with a little money a
very nice place. The house currently faces the village street which it
sits very close to and the living room is at the front. If I were
going to live in it I would flip it and put the living room at the
back with a lot of glass opening out over the woods and river. I would
also put a second floor deck on the back and use that back upstairs
bedroom as the master with big glass doors opening out on that deck.
It is currently being used as a 5 bedroom but one is pretty small. It
would make a great place for a retired couple with a lot of hobbies.
:-) They could heat the house and shop both with wood from the woods.
I would about kill to have that block building here on this farm. It
would make a great woodshop. It was built as an automotive repair
garage.

I'm dragging my feet on selling it now because one friend that wants
it badly does not always play well with others, especially if the
others are connected to any government agency...  :-)
He and I get along fine but I could see him being very obstructive to
the rebuilding of the bridge if he owned the place. While the county
can do pretty much what they want if push comes to shove I think it
will all go much easier if I still own the surrounding land when they
get ready to sit it. It is very much to my advantage for the new
bridge to be up as well as the benefit to the community. I currently
allow the Amish that live on the other side to cut through on
horseback to save maybe 6 miles to go around. There is no way for them
to get a buggy through or I would allow that too.
If it does not want to sell for a reasonable amount now I can hold on
to it. I would like to sell it and put the money someplace else but I
don't have to sell it. I don't have any mortgages. A place like that
though needs to have the owner living on it.
OK, enough rambling... Is it spring yet?  :-)


-- 
Have you hugged your horses today?

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com

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