Wow, been a busy couple of weeks. We had a couple of decisions to make about the homestead. While our main goal of building a house on our 40 acres has not changed we needed to decide if we do it right away after retirement when we feel we need to rush it or of we be patient and wait a bit. The more we looked at what we needed to do the more we realized that it would be very difficult to do most of it before we actually retired and that would have basically cost us the first year of retirement and it would have been very difficult to get started on the aspects of the homestead I was most looking forward to, the livestock. At that point, after some feedback form the in-laws we decided to start looking for some properties with a house already on it that was relatively close to our property. We soon found one about a mile from the property, it was a 3 bedroom, 1 bath with a great looking barn. The house itself was pretty small but it did sit on 6 acres. The issue, the house