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I am in my third house. The first one I previously described.
Bought in 1990, sold in 1995. Total investment $140. sold for $127.

Second house I paid $175. Lived there for 17 years. Biggest mistake was replacing the in ground pool with a gunite in ground pool $30K. Sold the house for $260. In that 17 years it went up, then pulled back. I sold when we started coming out of the pull back because we wanted a house with more land.

I bought the current house for $270 because it had 12 acres.
It was built in 1972. I have redone every room in the house.
Plus, logged the property. Three times I have had excavators on the property regrading, removing stumps, boulders, drainage issues, etc. Probably $15K in excavation.
Planted grass, fruit trees, bushes, bulbs, gravel driveways. Built a pavillion with a hot tub under. Upgraded electrical.
Sanded floors. The property is probably worth $650-700 now.
However, I need to replace the 150’ driveway. Probably $20K.
The roof will need to be replaced soon $8-10K.

It is endless. I do most of the interior and a lot of exterior work myself. The biggest issue now is my lawn and field takes about two hours to mow with a 42” JD rider. Which is 25 years old.
I am looking at buying a commercial zero turn. The issue is that a real commercial mower made by Scag or Exmark is over $11K-17K. It is more expensive than my first four cars. Even my first brand new Toyota truck was under $9K in 1988.