My reaction to the video being circulated around showing farmers who are saying the government is paying them to destroy their crops - and ensuing conspiracy theories - is always the same in such situations.  I always try to keep enough food in the house to last us quite a while in the event of an "act of God" or man made emergency.  We already have two freezers full of food. In fact, I have been asking that we clean them out, eat all the food and even give some of it away so we can put fresh stock back in them.  

We are a bit low on canned food - I was looking at that yesterday, easy fix. Go to Kroger's and deal with it.  There are lots of stories in the news right now about the supply chain for certain products being disrupted.  It also isn't anything new that the government is paying farmers not to farm for certain crops.  I think it's ludicrous to pay farmers not to farm or even worse, destroy their crops.  There are plenty of hungry people in this world that would gladly eat that food.  Of course, that opens up another discussion about how we ship relief to other nations and the food/supplies never get to the people they were intended to get to.  

Regardless, it's not a panic thing for me and this reminds me - we have a generator but I never did get the hookup installed to plug it into the house - versus having to run a bunch of extension cords. If the power goes out, you just fire it up, plug it in and the power goes into the main power panel. Well, you have to shut off the main circuit breaker first and turn on the generator circuit breaker, but that's all you have to do. You don't want the power coming back on and frying your generator is the point of that, I assume the possibility of fire as well if you don't shut off the main breaker.  A trip to Lowe's or Home Depot today and buy the pre-assembled kit.  Well I dunno about today, just saying I have plenty of off time.

Off time I'd like to be using clearing land, btw.  And so far, both realtors are pulling their hair out attempting to get this title company to do their job and get this over with.  I'm not the only one being affected by this title company's lack of due diligence to simply finish this, get it over with and be done with it. I can and will do nothing with that land until I have a piece of paper saying it's mine.  Obviously.  The deal could still fall through. I haven't been going to the property, either, I don't want to keep going over there with this hanging over my head.  I'll be back when this deal is done.  

My realtor is completely exasperated at this point.  She has dumped a lot of time into this venture and has received nothing out of it.  Oh well. The other deal is being worked on, perhaps that will go through and she can get her take out of that at least.  But, if that deal goes through, that's fine, she can have the flat fee, that's sort of a payback for going through all of this with me that she has gone through and not just with this property. After that, tho, it's back to the normal percentage she would get.  She doesn't really have to do that much to sell these properties.  

I'm not sure why there isn't a tax sale up for next month, I've been checking.  They have it every 3 months.  Doesn't matter tho, I'd rather go to the end of year sale where the properties that didn't sell earlier in the year have a starting bid of $30.  Many properties looked quite appealing as far as acreage but the price tag going with them was way too high.  

So, today, I - still - wait for any word on the land deal.  I have not had clarification of whether tomorrow is the last day I can still close without getting a fresh credit check - or tomorrow is the day when I have to have one.  My realtor apparently didn't understand my question when I asked her yesterday, she is really stressed out over this.  I'm not stressing, I just want it over with one way or the other.  It's either yes, it's mine or no, it never will be and I can move on.  

Moving on? There is a 53 acre lot for sale at $143,500.  That's cheap for land, especially around here. That would mean a much higher down payment tho, around 29 grand.  Still, it's on a high traffic volume highway and as far as I know all utilities excepting sewer are there.  Much more property, I could do a lot more with it.  It's the only property that sticks out right now and I don't know if I could get the lender to give me a loan for the total amount which would be the 143 minus the 29 grand.  

You say why are you doing this? I'm doing nothing but looking. I'm not going and looking at properties, I'm just perusing what's available.  There isn't much, I can tell ya that.  That is the only one that sticks out -both because of so much more land and because of the low price per acre.  I'd definitely have to go walk that property and find out why it's priced low.  OH, well that was easy.  They had the county ID number on one of the photos. About 1/3 of the property has been cleared of trees, a huge pond and a waterway that is apparently part of the pond, the rest trees.  

Well I'm not going to get too much into that, I've been doing that for a long time now, not really too terribly interested in more of it. But, even tho I was lamenting not long ago about giving up - the reality of trucking and my desire to get out of it is much stronger than the idea of having to start looking for properties again. 

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Still Thursday lol.  My lender responded to my inquiry.  They are now waiting for the county to file and record the new deed that the seller signed before they can move forward.  Then it goes to the title company for final confirmation, hopefully by the end of tomorrow.  Then the lender says it will take 24-28 hours to edit the loan documents and then we can close.  So, it sounds like Tuesday at the earliest.  

And with that, I will move on with my day.