Q: Is 60 too old for buying land?

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by Sand&Salt

Yes. We have 5 acres with a small home and horse facilities; drop-dead gorgeous views and it has been for sale for over 2 years. ... You can sit on it for much longer than you expected,... Now we can't physically do the activities we so enjoyed there. Always thought it WAS a great investment, but now....???

We (as a couple / family) help seniors transition their homes to stay rural (if possible) and we help them sell, move, relocate, re-invest. It is possible you can find someone to help you, or arrange for a caretaker / caregiver to live on-site.

If not, give me a PM and I will provide some help to find someone to assist you with a transition.

I am still earnest on building a rural senior cottage community (before I need one myself)!

I have found a few that are good (and bad) examples of the same.

[Sand&Salt]

I've read some of your posts and you provide quite a service! Unique, too.


This community has aged into a "senior rural living" area. That's the problem: everyone our age is, like us, finding it too remote, cold, etc. so half the community is for sale. Got tired of chopping wood for the wood stove, dealing with the well, fencing, deer, long drives into town....sure loved it for many years though! It catches you by surprise when life's changes demand a different scenario. I loved the seclusion and freedom of 5 acres and swore I'd never be in a condo, but here I am!! And it ain't so bad.


Thank you for the offer, but we've already "transitioned". Hence my user name.

[debbie at bouontiful]

If your going to just enjoy the land great. We love our land but now in the mid 60s running cattle is not as much fun. We're going to sell the ranch and move to the mountains on land but the only work on the land is having fun. We will also buy a condo in Oklahoma City to be near the grandchildren from time to time but spend as much as possible in the mountains. Husband retired a year ago from his job and now we would like to just have fun but cows do need to be fed along with horses and dogs. So, downsizing is on its way

So yes you can have land in your 60s but if you start a operation like diary or cattle remember you can't leave the homestead without hiring someone to handle things for you.