It's Far More Than Just THE MONEY!!!

[@ashenod6235]

Extremely rural, 55 Kms to work, 150 Km to nearest Walmart / Costco, few but very solid neighbours, unlimited firewood, on a lakefront, lots of fish, lots of game, no debt, lots of supplies and a lot of old school knowledge around me. Ready but never getting complacent.

[@daynaandsteve]

Oh gosh! I'm a realtor and I am also a homesteader. People think I'm weird that I take pics of watercatchments, fencing, outbuildings, terrain, etc. lol Those are more important than the house for people that will be wanting to buy that property!

[@cyrusjulian187]

Hi Dayna, may I ask which island are you based out of? Mahalo!

[@daynaandsteve]

@@cyrusjulian187 I live and work on the Big Island

[@cyrusjulian187]

@@daynaandsteve You rock! Long story but I've been considering the BI for some time as one of my ideal locations to move to. If I do decide to make the move in the future, do you have a website or company website as I don't want you to leave your personal info on YT? Sadly I don't think HI was one of the states in Curtis' upcoming course (maybe?)

[@daynaandsteve]

@@cyrusjulian187 I added my contact information to my "about" section on my KZbin information.

[@daynaandsteve]

@@cyrusjulian187 I think that his course should apply even if they don't cover any Hawaii information. There are some basics that should always be taken into consideration. If I was currently looking for a homestead I'd enroll for sure, I find great value in what Curtis is offering.

[@dangoras9152]

I looked for property in rough areas.. That's why I bought what I did ... Rough means less people to come .. Now we are waiting for the other property to come up then we will own the mountain and fence it off... Solar and rain catchments and springs u can make everything u needed to live free and no one around I have IBC totes on a trailer for our fire department.. Everything is getting ready when we get old so we can still leave and be free.. Something u don't say we all get old so u need to prepare so there is less work and everything is ready and easy to do.... Keep it up brother

[@daynaandsteve]

This is the best video yet in the series IMO. While we have our homestead I do help others find theirs. And threats and this are the two biggest issues we face when purchasing land here in Hawaii. I'm 45 minutes from the main town of Hilo (so for like most groceries, lumber, etc) but there is a few smaller stores that if I have an emergent need for a random screw or butter or something its 10 minutes away but we pay extra for that privilege. I'm not sure if you're going to mention this in your videos but emergency response time is something to consider too. In my neighborhood where I homestead it can be up to 45 minutes for an ambulance to make it to us. So if you're older or have anyone with major health issues thats a consideration. We make sure we take safety with chainsaws, etc very seriously.

[@cyrusjulian187]

I was looking at Lava zone 3 areas to get the biggest bang for my buck since 1 and 2 seem too risky but I could be wrong. Is it true there's water stations all over the island? Or can you just drink the rainwater?

[@KatyNik]

Favourite one yet. I was just working on a ranch near FSJ in Northern BC. The well water everywhere was SO bad. Very close to natural gas sites. I’d lick the snow alongside the bovines before drinking from the tap

[@offgridcurtisstone]

I wouldn't live that far north. Too cold and as you've noticed a ton of oil and gas development.

[@grilledxcheeze]

I call the distance to amenities my Home Depot test. I always search the distance from the property to the nearest HD and/or Lowes because I've done lots of projects and I know how it goes. Usually if there are one of those stores around then there will be everything else you could want or need. My biggest problem with finding land is over the past couple of years everything that has come to market has been either purely speculative meaning the price is super elevated or people are putting up lots that are basically unbuildable, hoping for speculators to come around. I have my own system to identify properties much like what you have put together and every single time I find a property that I like it's pending in just a few hours. You don't even have time to visit the property. There is still a ton of competition out there.

[@gwynnmccallan8856]

How do you handle the threat of wildfire for a forested property like yours? I'm hesitant to buy land because of the massive wildfires I've seen over the last 10 years or so. Especially when you see entire mountain towns wiped off the map and millions of acres burning for months on end.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

That's a complicated answer, but we have a number of strategies in place.

[@toxicmasculinity6246]

You simply clear land around your house and keep the grass, if any, cut down.

[@Gigi-wb8pe]

Around here, we have land management companies buying up properties left and right. They're predatory lenders and target people they know will default on their payments. These folks drag their trailers and trash up here and, eventually, when they default, they just leave the land trashed and we have to live with it. That's one major danger of buying unrestricted use land. Not only does it bring down our property value, but it increases fire danger and risk of crime. They rarely make it through a winter, though, so we just wait them out. In the spring, the cycle starts again. Any suggestions?

[@marep17]

I watched part of yesterday's live video up to where you started looking at properties on Realtor. You set your parameters to single family homes. Do you evaluate any raw land properties in this course? Can we apply the course to that type of search? We are looking for land to place a tiny house on. We don't see a lot of properties already set up with decent tiny houses, although they do pop up.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Yes. We look at raw land and land with homes. We're mostly interested in the land. The houses are fairly inconsequential. When I was looking for my place, we started at only looking at raw land, but found that for the size of acreage we wanted, if you included homes, they were often in the same price with a home than without.

[@sheliadean9548]

Thank you for sharing this information with us

[@dantheman9135]

ThankQ much

[@davidepatti4835]

hey Curtis, I am on a time constraint with my buying spree here in Brazil, what's the approximate expected release date?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Around mid April.

[@AdrianvanWijk]

A concern Curtis, is you are effectively teaching Blackrock how to potentially use an algorithm or AI to select desirable properties.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Maybe, but I'm also teaching people to do it at the same time. And there's more people then BlackRocks.

[@MrJimMac]

I'd suggest buying in an area that's more than 95% white.

[@maplenook]

Good luck w libtards

[@offgridcurtisstone]

That's most of Canada. There's more to it than that.

[@MrJimMac]

There is. But there is a reason why Canada's crime rate is much lower than the US

[@mtshalirt]

You guys are openly racists, Curtis is fanning the flames 😮.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

I've found that in today's liberal world, there's a huge demand for racists, but the supply is low. If someone who is black gets out of the ghetto and moves to a white neighbourhood because there is less crime, is he a racist too?

[@teddyrasputin3850]

I'm curious you mentioned racial demographics as a consideration. What aspects of the racial makeup do you look at and how do you weigh them in your decision making?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Just as whether you want to be a minority or not.

[@DesertGardenPrepper]

I don't personally think that living in the kind of isolation that you have created for yourself and family is ideal, either now or after the SHTF. Don't you think there's such a thing as too isolated? Where's the community for your wife and kids to have social interaction with others? What are you going to do after the SHTF and you have five 4x4's full of zombies looking for resources pull into your driveway? Have you ever had someone knock on your door since you've been there? What do you say to them? I'm not saying I think I know the answer to the problem of how to live safely, but being isolated doesn't seem to be the perfect answer because it comes with it's own set of problems. Many, many very gnarly problems.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Where did you hear that we're isolated? Did you hear that from me?

[@maplenook]

He’s discussed the amazing social opportunities actually

[@cjdflkj]

Zombies can drive? Ok, 5 4x4’s of raiders in a shtf scenario, he’s on a hill, they are down below, you know they’re raiders….pew pew pew pew pew pew. There’s what 5-10 of them, there’s 4 of you, you’re on top and know the terrain. Seriously though, what shtf scenario are you talking about that would have 5 raiders from a more populous area gonna have the means to travel hundreds of miles on 4x4s to come risk their lives randomly raiding a few homes up a mountain? It makes no sense. It would be a very material intensive activity, a very high risk venture, for a very low risk reward.

[@DesertGardenPrepper]

@@offgridcurtisstone No, I didn't hear that from you, but when I looked up the definition of the word "isolated" in the webster dictionary, it showed a picture of you standing on your 40 acre homestead on top of a mountain, in the middle of nowhere🤣

[@offgridcurtisstone]

@@DesertGardenPrepper Love it.

[@mtshalirt]

Racial demographics in 2023? 😬What is your racial demographic preference?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

That's for you to ask.

[@cjdflkj]

I don’t think race matters as much as population density, culture, and income, but do you ask that question of other races? Various black groups typically want to be near blacks, Latinos with Latinos, the various Asian groups stick together, but here you are implying a white dude is racist if it were that he did move to a mostly white area. It’s cultural differences, not race anyway as race is not a biological reality. If a Uber libtard white woman moves to a rural conservative area she won’t fit in because her culture is different even though her skin is the same color. People like being near their familiar culture, just stop.

[@mtshalirt]

@@offgridcurtisstone I don't have any specific race demographic preference as I'm not racist. I love all the people of God as love myself. Please don't be evasive, I asked you very directly which race you prefer because you are the one teaching all this hatred about race. Please answer the question!

[@offgridcurtisstone]

I gave you a very direct answer. It's for you to ask. If it doesn't matter to you, great. The fact that you're triggered by that is on you.

[@Alien2799]

@@mtshalirt Your question is inflammatory. You are implying that Curtis is a racist. Maybe it is you who is the racist. Curtis is right. It all depends on you. You live where you want to live. I advise you that you move to Baltimore or Chicago LOL As far as teaching hatred...I can only assume that you do not watch BIPOC or left-winger videos or you did watch but think that their hatred is justified. Hypocrite.