There are a few prerequisites before you ever make a big decision in your life – any decision – including buying a homestead or prepper property. Please determine these before property shopping.
Know Thyself
- Know who you are
- Know what you want
Once you know who you are, you can then determine what you want. This applies to choosing the perfect property based on who you are and what you want out of it.
Below is the checklist I used when shopping for my perfect property that fit exactly into who I am and what I wanted to do with it. You can use this list as a guide and add to it, remove from it, modify it as needed. Starting from a blank page is the hardest thing, hopefully this makes defining your perfect property easier.
Time & Money
If you have time, you can save money.
If you have money, you can save time.
If you have time + money, go do all the things!
When it comes to building a homestead or a prepper property, it really comes down to two things: time and money.
If you don’t have money, but have time, then build slower and do what you can, when you can, with what you have at the time. It’s as simple as that. Don’t stress about it. Just keep building a little bit every day. Small steps every day will get you farther than anything else and when you look back in a few months or a year, you will realize how much you can accomplish with time.
