Rentaplot.

[Castle Farm]

Saw this advert on Face book. Seems the lady has a few takers already.
What do you think guys.

Acre of Land to Rent
£1,200 ·


We are offering land for rent on an annual basis with 1 - 5 year leases available. One acre at a time so that it is possible to start a mini smallholding, business etc.
A few acres have already gone but we do have some left.
It is very straightforward. You rent that acre on a Farm Business Tenancy. You grow what you want to grow and you can sell what you want to sell, use what you want to use and start your own business.
The rent is due in two six month payments (in advance).
We are close to Carmarthen. There is a bus stop nearby and it is just off the Coast Path for walking. Those renting can park on their plot.
We are keeping this as easy as possible so we are no longer offering the quarter and half acre plots, acre plots seem to be what people want!

 

[Banana Bar]

Good idea.

 

[Still Farming]

All ok untill non payers , all like a shanty town , sheds, shipping containers, donkey boxes, fences, water butts ,huts etc etc
Possibly?

 

[serf]

All ok untill non payers , all like a shanty town , sheds, shipping containers, donkey boxes, fences, water butts ,huts etc etc
Possibly?

As always with these things , start off with good intentions, then year down the line the place is a sh@t hole and an eyesore with all and sundry and undesirables about the place, less grief and better for sanity just taking agri rent and bps.

 

[goodevans]

As always with these things , start off with good intentions, then year down the line the place is a sh@t hole and an eyesore with all and sundry and undesirables about the place, less grief and better for sanity just taking agri rent and bps.

10 years down the line at those rents and you could be in the Bahamas

 

[serf]

If they pay you !!!!

 

[Still Farming]

10 years down the line at those rents and you could be in the Bahamas

Some rough places out there also.

 

[anzani]

All ok untill non payers , all like a shanty town , sheds, shipping containers, donkey boxes, fences, water butts ,huts etc etc
Possibly?

Only as good as the management. As letting is on your terms, with the possibility to obtain deposit, levy maintenance/repair charges, and , possibly, 364 day agreements for initial year.
Other potential for supply of inputs , services and sundries, surely a possibility for some locations.

 

[badger nadgers]

So very large allotments then? Many people struggle to cope with a 150ft x 15ft plot.

Bound to be popular with the "travelling" community and caravans, lifestylers trying to build houses without planning permission, iffy waste disposal companies specialising in old tryes and asbestos, cannabis farms, and all the rest.

As for boundaries and livestock....and insurance.

Not sure if allotments are "agricultural" for the purpose of planning.

 

[Banana Bar]

As always with these things , start off with good intentions, then year down the line the place is a sh@t hole and an eyesore with all and sundry and undesirables about the place, less grief and better for sanity just taking agri rent and bps.

Imagine letting 1000 acres like that. I’d happily sit in the sun and not even glance at it.

 

[Banana Bar]

So very large allotments then? Many people struggle to cope with a 150ft x 15ft plot.

Bound to be popular with the "travelling" community and caravans, lifestylers trying to build houses without planning permission, iffy waste disposal companies specialising in old tryes and asbestos, cannabis farms, and all the rest.

As for boundaries and livestock....and insurance.

Not sure if allotments are "agricultural" for the purpose of planning.

Small holding is agricultural, the OP said nothing about allotments.

 

[serf]

I imagine the logistics of keeping the peace and extracting the cash from them all , nightmare on elm street , would have to have DCBL down there going round in circles

 

[Dry Rot]

And when the government decides that tenants can buy out the landlord's interests? You think it won't happen?

 

[Flat 10]

You’d need a hefty deposit and then set up a direct debit....

 

[Banana Bar]

And when the government decides that tenants can buy out the landlord's interests? You think it won't happen?

I hope it does.

 

[badger nadgers]

Small holding is agricultural, the OP said nothing about allotments.

That's correct, I did. It is like an allotment site operation, with the only distinction being the plots are more than a quarter of an acre. Both are really good things, but it may suffer from many of the same problems from those with other interests.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Small holding is agricultural, the OP said nothing about allotments.

"You grow what you want to grow and you can sell what you want to sell, use what you want to use and start your own business "....... that covers quite a few possibilities which be even less agricultural than allotments.

You could make it work but the truth is, apart from building on land, there are very few ways of easily turning a profit that would pay for borrowing the money to buy it at current values.

 

[Banana Bar]

"You grow what you want to grow and you can sell what you want to sell, use what you want to use and start your own business "....... that covers quite a few possibilities which be even less agricultural than allotments.

You could make it work but the truth is, apart from building on land, there are very few ways of easily turning a profit that would pay for borrowing the money to buy it at current values.

£1200/ac / annum will pay for lots of borrowing. If I could implement this I would buy as much land as I could let.

 

[delilah]

Am going to give my standard response to all of these posts.
Self sufficiency - on an individual household level - is a naive hippy dream. Even the guru John Seymour acknowledged that he tried to do too much on his own.
Self sufficiency - on a communal level - will save mankind.
The lady referred to in the OP must be completely fudgin mad. Or desperate.

 

[Azlett]

The lady referred to in the OP must be completely fudgin mad. Or desperate.

Or has she bought a chunk of bare land and is trying to establish a regular income to support an application for a house on the site?

She may also be mad or desperate as well, of course.