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It's how lots of us got started huh. and I suggest a big block because you can buy a 1/4 acre near a town, or the most popular ten acres, or eighty remote for the same price..

I traded two quads and 100 dollars for a old 1976 ford school bus I'm fixing it up on side for a getaway look out there have seen many that you can get cheap and could live in it until you get something lots of property in the woods and mostly if people know you can work on them they will come, install solar on that bad boy and you got something. Good luck

Buy a bigger bit of bare land somewhere cheap and get a caravan, build an illegal shed and start living. Practical skills go well in the country.. Good luck.

Well, hello everyone. I figured I'd introduce myself with a post. I just turned 33 last month and today I officially quit my job to work on wheelers. I've been buying them broken for about 5 months now, fixing them and selling them for profit. I work on them in my garage and have been selling between 2-4 per month but it has been draining me while also working my full time job. I've slowly been accumulating the basic tools I need to get the jobs done. Nothing special, not a boatload of tools, money or skills. I taught myself through the years and finally got sick enough of working for the city as a sewer service worker to make the jump and quit. I was making 49k a year and now I'm fully relying on my income from repairing wheelers. I live with my gf and we have no kids yet so that helps. We live in a major city and it has gotten so bad now that we refuse to have kids and raise them here. There's no way we're putting them into the education system. We're determined to move to the country, buy land and start a homestead. My gf is building her virtual tutoring business teaching kids to read and doing awesome! I knew that this job was the last thing holding us here and I would have to lose it anyway if we're going to another state in the next 2 years so we decided now was the time. So that brings me here! I hope I can share things that I'm learning and learn more from you guys! Also I know I'm going to be needing those service manuals sooner or later with how many wheelers I'm fixing. Any tips for us to get to our goals are extremely welcome!! We have no land in either of our families and not much money either so the task of doing all this alone is daunting. Nice to meet you all and wish us luck! The clock is ticking!

People were always telling me I should charge more Gw.. I already said, my work was never about the money, it was about the challenge and helping people. I could have made better money with a job, but my wife and I both agreed that knowing and enjoying the family was more important too.. and given what happened(her dying), that was a blessing to know my sons so well. There are more important things in life than money.. And I've known it since I was twenty-one and first started self employment.

Good you can do that, im the worst at charging people , i fix stuff for all my neighbors and they always try to pay me, but sometimes there are more important things than money, i know ican count on them if i need anything, but your situaation is different you quit your job, and have to eat, and pay stuff.

That's the one Kp. I did it thirty odd years ago and had a family. The boys grew and roamed the land like hucklberry, then they left, got jobs, set up a beekeeping partnership for a sideline to their jobs, then both one after another decided they wanted families, so the two of them chipped in and bought a huge caravan and dragged it onsite over the ridge. Elder and wife lived in it till they built a small home and then they started a family. They dragged the caravan back down off one hill, down the road a way and back up onto the land for younger who set about building a small home. We've got about a third each of sixty acres, separated by a ridge and a small stream/swamp. Because they are financial secure daughter in law has been able to buy a small dairy down the road five minutes away, and son minds the daughters and takes care of all the light beekeeping duties and I go along to entertain the girls. The other one helps in the weekends with the harvest and stuff and we all have a fantastic life. You do it Jim.. Find several income streams because I don't think you will make it just fixing or trading quads, but if you are happy to live simple, without much money, and break a few rules building etc.. it can be done.. Oh, and by the way. I'd been living on a small rough old yacht till friends invited mt to build a cabin on their place inland where I'd been mechanicing, and I owned a scrambler, my wife had a car and about four grand.. that was thirty five years ago. We sold the yacht, scrambler and car and borrowed a few grand off family. It was about four years between wife findng me and saying she wanted kids, till we had them once we'd repaid the money and built our small core of a home.

Yes sir, sitting on 11 acre's now with view of the hills of the Ozarks,with hunting club/ forest all around. Life is good, maybe a beer in my hand every now and then and my pipe with cheery tobacco can't beat it.

Find a cheap RV to put on some land. Later it can be a guest house, or a bonfire depending on how well it served you.

Yes sir gf can do that you especially if they're wearing next to nothing on. Done somethings the same in the past. You live you learn as grandpa used to say.

I just quit ebay myself, their guarantee to fit. Doesn't matter at all bought new parts and old past 2 months recently have had to send back because of wrong parts. Guess ebays people don't CHK things out of if sellers are actually on the know.many sellers refuse to refund and will fight you on if a part is actually the part you need. Just to much of a hassle, please buy from places like rocky mountain,oem if you can and rocky mountain does have used parts that they CHK with their mechanics and guaranteed also. Good luck

Foe OEM parts I use mainly motorsport.com or RockymountainMCATV.com they sell Aftermarket parts also fairly reasonable. I also use Amazon for aftermarket and Ebay for used OEM if unavailable. Things can be kind of iffy on Ebay you have to look closely if you are buying used for damage or not right fitment, plus you have to look for a good price, some sellers sell them high. Plus some of the OEM parts are so outrageously priced you have to go used. There are many online suppliers and I only use these because they have good customer service, and very helpful people.