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The Start of our ranch adventure

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Some one is going to have to explain to this old man how to post photos so I can show ya'll our new to us 10 acres.
We will most likely have to move out of the house we are in unless timing is perfect.
I need the equity we have here to modify and add to the 1800 sq ft new and never used Morton barn
I am told construction, running gas & water lines etc will take four months.... so the next great adventure begins.
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Thank you MTB!
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Yes three buildings. The two door is the garage someday to possibly become my office. The long building on the right is the hay barn with six rudimentary stalls and a tack room. The big barn was built last year new never used 1800 sq ft. That’s the building that we plan on turning into a barndominium with some expansion before we move in.
Excited you bet! Nervous yup. We are truly blessed!
Only 5.5 miles due south of where we live now in an HOA. I can’t wait to leave and spend what time we have left on “the ranch”.
10 acres - lots of pasture.
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Thank you all!
I will try to answer all as best as I can. It's located in south Bixby. Having always wanted 10 acres to me it's a ranch but to those of you with real acreage it's a back yard. We looked at many properties in Osage (where we used to live) and Rogers but just never found the right one or had the finances to pull the trigger at the time.
Now after we close we have to sell this house (in the HOA) and extract our equity to modify the big red barn. I understand the owner built the barn in 2020 at a cost of $125,000+., then lost her husband and her son in the same year. She and her husband were going to build and live there full time.
My contractor sold his rental house so there's that but I am looking forward to being very busy on the ranch and not working so hard at my retirement job. I have looked at many properties over the last 5-7 years and nothing came close to that one - with the buildings, fencing, stocked pond, and room to run my gator! Have gone through what tractors to buy and I keep coming back to a 3032e just like I had & I have a line on a used one with low hours. Now I am going to pay more for that one than I sold mine for. Oh well all my decisions aren't always on point!
The Commander in Chief thinks it's beautiful (with no existing house even!). I told her if we get the two ponies she wants she would have to muck their stalls - that got me the kind of look some of you are familiar with - so I took a tape measure to the back door of the hay barn and the 3032 will fit with ease.
We were there yesterday and I will try to post a few more photos later today. When we were leaving there were birds having baths in a shallow part of the creek (which runs across part of the front and down the east side. The road is on the north side) - It's amazing how much you appreciate the little things when you get old. Now I'll have another mortgage to pay off, but what an excuse for tractors, implements and fresh air.
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Oh and I am spreading as I age!
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Apparently previous owner thought it was a ranch. Here are some additional ones in the sunlight.
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Yes on living in the in the big red barn. The front view with the big garage door faces north. We will have the contractor add phase 1 before we move in which will make a total of 2400-2600 sq ft. that will be a smaller span but with a peaked roof (but lower) and phase 2 would be a duplicate of the existing building. The addition will house the master bedroom/bath and a huge master closet to hang clothes we haven't seen in a while - donate what's surplus. Plus a master bath and my office in the northwest corner (same side as the big door. I am thinking of leaving the big garage door and as we expand westward with the complex that becomes our garage for our cars & trucks - as long as we end up with 3500 to 4000 square feet in addition to the existing building - eventually.

A bridge over the creek - what a brilliant idea! That will be incorporated into the planning probably mostly built by me.
That would definitely add character to that area.
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The previous owner has been letting the neighbor graze his two horses and a goat herd onto the property to keep the grass down. The owner prior to 2019 bred miniature horses/ponies.
There had been a double wide in front of the garage, but that was removed when the horse breeder left. That leaves us the place and all utillities present to replace that for my sister-in-law when i can convince her to come out from GA permanently.
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Taxes will be approximately 25% of what we are paying on this house in the HOA. Also will apply for tax exemption for ranch supplies. I will have our attorney form a sub chapter S for the ranch. The Commander and Chief and I will own that. Have to get cracking on that since we will close in a few weeks as soon as the paper is done.
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Anyone have experience buying used conex containers and use them for storage on the range/farm?
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I forgot I had these in my phone. Took them in a truck stop right after I purchased the trailer. It’s identical to the one I had. It has ramps that are stored in a side compartment at the rear on the passenger side. Heavy - thinking I need aluminum. Something for later.
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Sorry. Had to get a photo of the new 2021 Ford - 3.5 liter twin turbo 400 HP zero to sixty… well I don’t want to tell the Commander in Chief! 😎
Did I mention Platinum with heated/cooled seats, heated steering wheel and massaging seats.
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duke
Thank you - these photos posted especially for you er except the mighty Ford - I suppose that was for me :cool:
I have now had three of those power plants and I will not go back to a V 8 except in a hot car/truck.
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Duke
I got on the web and saw the 6,000 to 7,500 and after I was able to breathe again....
MTB
Thank you for the advise on posting photos!
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Closing Friday. Don't have a time yet but hoping all goes "according to plan" (just finished another book on WW2 - this one on Monty. For the history buffs on here.......
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Now I am thinking of having concrete put in the "hay" barn and using it for storage ....
Well the mighty Ford did a good job of pulling the JD trailer to Arkansas....but of course it was empty ;)
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