House Swapping Version 2.0

145 acre golf course plus 3 properties for anything outside the USA to $900,000

Purchased for $740,000 and spent over $500,000 renovating. $100,000 on brick clubhouse extension, $200,000 on 40 car carpark and 3 miles of tarmac cartpaths. Main clubhouse has 2 beds plus bathroom, ground floor has office, kitchen, bathroom, 2 living rooms, 2 toilets and a further large extension being used as a function room. Beautiful sweeping views over the 145 acres. Seperate cabin overlooking 2nd fairway sleeps 4 with central sunken jacuzzi and bathroom plus kitchenette. I also have a seperately deeded 3 bed house overlooking the 2nd green sitting on 1 acre that can be thrown into the deal though it has a $40,000 home equity loan costing $150 month in interest. The whole property directly adjoins the 48,000 Natchez Trace State park with unlimited fishing/boating/horse-riding and hunting. Abundant wildlife including deer and turkey. 6 lakes/ponds all fully socked with Bass and catfish. Only 6 miles from the interstate I40 and 100 miles from Nashville International airport. 110 miles to Memphis Airport. 80 minutes either way direct by Interstate. LOOKING TO TRADE even with part owner-financing for anything outside the USA prefer Europe (particularly Spain or France) or Central America (prefer Mexico, Costa Rica, Mexico etc) but ANYTHING considered. I need a new adventure.

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Permalink Reply by stephen beech on August 26, 2012 at 12:00pm

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Permalink Reply by stephen beech on August 27, 2012 at 8:05am

John,

Yesterday was my first day of listing my property on this site so I guess I have just learnt the first lesson ie that whatever money, hard work and effort we put into something then maybe it is not worth what we thought.

When I bought the golf course it was literally a jungle, the first thing I did was remove 18,000 trees!! The local lumber guy paid me just over $1 per tree, $24,000..........I re-carved the fairways out, replaced and re-sited greens etc etc etc......dug up and repaired sprinkler heads, re-laid irrigation pipes.

It took up 3 years of my life.

Myself and 2 of my sons laid the stone foundations for 3 miles of cartpath BY HAND using a home-made wooden formimg board set at 3" depth. Once each 4 foot length section was laid and compacted we lifted the boards and moved on 4 feet. Imagine the hours involved in this project alone?

The local tarmac company came out to watch occasionally thinking, I guess, that I was "just a crazy Englishman". Eventually they laid the 3 miles of blacktop using their own team of guys.

BUT ......I loved every minute of it...I learnt how to drive a bull-dozer, a backhoe, and numerous tractors etc etc.

I saw my first wild snake (then several hundred more never seemed to bother me as I walked barefoot every evening watering the greens by hand), I shot numerous armadilloes and skunks that tore up the grass but I created a no-shooting zone for the numerous wild deer from the State Park and watched them rear their young from my office windows at dawn. I removed all barbed-wire from around my property to let the wildlife roam in.

My 8th child was born in the USA in 2008.....and he spent his toddler years splashing around in the mud as I re-sited drainage ditches along the fairways.

He still lives at the course with his mother....................................BUT

Now it is time to move on and remove emotion from the equation.

So.....my golf course is not worth the circa $1.2million I put into it......ok, maybe not.

If you still wish to proceed then I need more info from you so that I can form an appraisal of your property value ie what did you pay for it, what year, address of the property so that I can Google average selling prices etc etc in your area.

Apologies if I have bored you John.

Regards

Steve Beech