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Construction is inexpensive in the South. No frost line in the lowlands so no basements required or advisable.
Easy mode, drop a 40' High Cube or two onsite, place power pole with breaker panel and outdoor outlets, then integrate them into your larger structure. Instant storage for your equipment you can modify and work out of.
Sell upgraded home for profit, do new shop easy with lessons learned, enjoy not freezing your balls off. Winter sucks.Last edited by farmall; 11-27-2016, 11:08 AM.Comment
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the new shop is pretty much done construction wise, it's not fitted out inside all the way but it's mostly usable as is. besides fleeing the cold i'm really hankerin' for a change of pace and scenery. hell, i might just put together a rv/bike package and do an extended road trip through the winter. maybe come back here in the spring with a fresh attitude.Comment
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I have lived in South Florida for 20 years. The weather, in the south anyway, is rideable year round. I guess I have been lucky, but have never even come close to being in an accident in spite of the oldsters....... There is no state income tax but property taxes are on the extreme high side as well as insurance. I have never been hassled by the police with my chopper. It does get very very hot in July and August. In the summer time be prepared to mow the lawn every week if not sometimes twice a week. While I love it here I am planning to move back to Georgia next year. Getting ready for retirement in a few years and want more land. The cost of living is so much cheaper in Georgia.Comment
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Ya outta see what "Ma Barker's" lot sold for on Lake Weir .... !!!!
It didn't sell cheap ...
The saga of an Ocklawaha house where Arizona “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed during a historic shootout with the FBI in the 1930s took an interesting twist after the property was sold recently.
Last week, the property where the Bradford House sits was sold to Kirk Boone as trustee for $750,000. The sale did not include the house where the famous gun battle occurred on the morning of Jan. 15, 1935. A dozen FBI agents surrounded the home and soon gunfire erupted. About four hours later, the Barkers were dead and the longest shootout in FBI history was immortalized.
“We have the temporary right to store the house on the property. We have several options for the house,” said Carson Good, who is a member of the family that owns the house.
The most dramatic option is an offer from an Orlando businessman to move the house to tourist-centric International Drive and make it an attraction.
“It was a lot (of money),” Good said of the offer, but added the family would rather have the house become a historic landmark of not only the 1930s gun battle but of Ocklawaha history.
“We don’t want it to become part of a horror show,” Good said. “The home’s been in the family since 1930. We’ve had weddings and funerals there. We’re very attached to it.”
Good said another alternative is to dismantle the house and move it to one of the family’s farms in either Mount Dora or Tennessee.
But their hope is that Marion County will take the house and move it just 800 feet away from where it now stands.
“If done right, we’d love the idea of Marion County taking it,” Good said.
Marion County Tax Collector George Albright III has worked for years to get the home into public hands. Last year, he was part of an effort to get $250,000 allotted by the state for purchase of the property. Gov. Rick Scott, however, vetoed the provision.
“We’re exploring the possibility of moving the house 800 feet to the north end of the Lake Weir Chamber of Commerce property,” Albright said. “It would then be donated to the county. The county would own it permanently.”
He said the house is a time capsule of the 1930s still containing most of the original furniture and decor that was present during the shootout.
“I think there is a will to save the house, to save the history of this area. We’re not honoring gangsters, we’re honoring the first 12 FBI agents to sign up for the agency in the 1930s,” he said.
Good said the home would include all the furnishings, a wealth of historic photos and a 1930s General Electric refrigerator that continues to operate.
“I understand the fascination with the shootout, but there’s a lot more history there than what happened on Jan. 16, 1935, because we had some famous bad renters,” Good said.
Lake Weir was a popular resort destination in the early 20th century, drawing visitors from around the country.
“(We have) photographs going back to the early 1900s with members of the MacKay family and other longtime area families fishing in suits and in long dresses; driving up in antique cars and antique boats. There are love letters from around 1910 or 1920 that say things like, ‘We’re here at the lake, honey. I hope we can get married next year,’” Good said. “We’d love to see the house preserved as part of the history of Ocklawaha.”
Albright said he is seeking bids for the cost of moving the house and along with the chamber hopes to formulate a proposal to present to the county in the coming months.
If the house becomes public property, Albright said, one of the first things they would do is to seek state and federal historic designations. That would allow for highway signs to attract visitors and would also make public funds available for the house.
Albright, who grew up living next door to the house, hopes it will finally be open to the public in the near future. The public was allowed into the house only once in 1985 for the 50th anniversary of the shootout.
Plans for the lakefront property were not immediately available. Boone was traveling and not available for comment. He is part of Ocala Development which specializes in the development of large acreage tracts, residential subdivisions, mini-farms and commercial real estate, according to its website.Last edited by Dragstews; 11-28-2016, 8:58 AM.Take my 45 and outrun em all ..Comment
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cool story. my town hot springs was a popular destination/resort town for all the old gangsters and mob guys as well as movie stars and sports figures. the local hoity toities have always tried to downplay those mob years because most of the old money around here has mob ties. last year they tore down the house that the fbi shot up here looking for alvin karpis.Comment
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I spent alot of time living in Southern NC, Carolina Beach area.....Rent was insane, 1000-1550 a mth, traffic was rediculous, and the bar/bike scene wasnt all it was cracked up to be.
I am in the NE WV area now, and am looking for a new spot myself. Problem is with moving is that u dont know how the place is to live at until you have spent a year or two there. I do love the South, but coastal NC/SC/ and the East Coast of Florida (I lived in Daytona Beach/Port Orange as well) is not on my list at the moment. I have my own box trailer/lawn care equipment which is my income, so anywhere I live needs to have a lower population of illegals so I am not competing for work.
I have considered buying a toy hauler and living out of it and a nice secure storage facility and testing the waters of various places while also working/living out of the hauler.Comment
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I did Keesler for tech school and NCO Academy many years later. Fuck living there. Real estate is cheap because it's on loan from the ocean.
The area is an economically stagnant shithole compared to your east coast options. EVER buying a house in range of storm surge is retarded because storm surge can't really be defended against.
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I have been wasting so much fuel constantly driving from new housing development to new housing development in the NE WV area. I find these beautiful neighborhoods with an incorrectly graded paved and rough road, covered in mud,standing water, or the road into and out of the neighborhood goes into a mall parking lot, a mountain top view of a mud hole. I guess what I am gettin at is that there is always some huge wart on what should be a great place to live if the $300k plus price tag was any indicator.Comment
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