If you end up pulling the trigger on one, you’ve gotta swing by my place sometime. I'll show you how much ground I can cover just using a riding mower without any heavy machinery. I'm out there managing about 5 acres spread across 18 different spots. One of them is even way up near Gradec, right outside Columbus. Honestly, I practically grew up right in front of Melina, just riding the line between the number 6 streetcar and the town square... and now..........;O)
Listen, just go out there and find some farmer who needs grass for his cattle, then have them mow it for you for free. Why bother planting forests? Who’s actually gonna deal with pulling up all those stumps later? Where do you even find people like that these days?
Man, where I live, they won't let you go any lower than $10 per square foot. What am I even supposed to buy at those prices? Every lot I look at is some massive 200 to 500 acre stretch. You tell me, what's the move here?
I caught this segment on one of those Sunday morning farming shows—there’s this huge agricultural cooperative out in the Midwest producing specialty southern fruit strictly for export. They’re looking for local partners with small plots, maybe up to two acres. I should probably look into it, because word is you could clear up to $6.75 per acre. I’ll dig deeper and get back to you by $6.75; we're talking potentially $2,000 or even more if you can keep your overhead under control. Right now, I’m working about three-quarters of an acre of blackberries, pulling in roughly $667 in pure profit, not even counting the $30,000 worth of wine I’ve got sitting in storage. But man, trying to move blackberry wine? That is a tough sell. The market is just absolutely flooded with it. This year, I’m pivoting—I’m sticking to selling fresh berries, and my goal is to move every single thing I grow.
Some people genuinely live for this stuff, while others just convince themselves they love it because it’s their job. That's the real divide right there. Where are you at? Probably coasting on those government subsidies, huh?
Seriously, does anyone actually bother to do their own homework? Nope. Everyone just wants to throw out random questions instead of researching. I’ve been trying to launch my business for about 45 days now, mostly because some judge wouldn't sign off on my initial name choice. I had to jump through hoops to find alternatives because I'm doing this once and I'm doing it right. I don't want my company to be "Smith-Jones Trade LLC" or some boring version of my own last name—I want something with actual character, but that’s exactly where things got stuck. Also, let me tell you, not all the clerks at the filing offices are on the same page when it comes to describing business activities. Why? Because the government changes the regulations constantly! I once had a judge send my entire file back just to change the wording of my industry description, even though the exact same description sailed right through with a different judge. It’s totally arbitrary; it just depends on which judge happens to be on duty that day. And here's the kicker: you could practically have the same company name in every single state in the US. A judge in Miami doesn't care what a business is named in Savannah, right? It makes zero sense. My name was rejected because it was only two letters off from another company, but if I were filing in Indianapolis, they probably would've approved it since there aren't any similar names there. Honestly, even Dick Cheney didn't realize how much trouble we were in when he said we were in a jam. Given how bureaucratic this whole system is, we're lucky it's even this manageable. Back when I was in Canada about ten years ago, I set up a whole company on my laptop in like 45 minutes for forty bucks. And they didn't even have a Craigslist equivalent back then.☕
$844 Notary public with all the paperwork ready for the commercial court $20,000 initial deposit $17 Deposit fee $900 + $400 + $55 for the official government gazette notice (everything is listed on Craigslist) = $1313 to set up an LLC + my time + gas + driving + a bunch of phone calls.
So, I swung by the notary's office today to sort out my business registration stuff. Turns out, things got a bit messy because of some legal shifts a couple of months back. That old national classification system we’ve been using since 2007? Yeah, it's basically dead. Now, these notaries have to follow specific guidelines handed down from the commercial courts—guidelines that are strictly internal. You won't find them floating around on Google or anywhere else online. Total mystery, right? "Per Article 51 of the Judicial Register Act, any business activities being registered must align with specific federal statutes. If there isn't a specific law governing a particular activity , then it gets logged based on the entity's own filing and official documents, provided the business isn't prohibited by law, doesn't violate public morality, and isn't tied to government agencies, public officials, political parties, or other legally restricted entities."