This thread has been quite insightful. I've been thinking about doing a conservation easement on about 100 acres of swamp and maybe 80 acres of good high ground.
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This thread has been quite insightful. I've been thinking about doing a conservation easement on about 100 acres of swamp and maybe 80 acres of good high ground.
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I see this language all time on rental "NO FIREARMS ALLOWED ON THE PROPERTY". I just ignore as they will never know unless i need to use it then what ever they have to say will be irrelevant.
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You can thank property and liability carriers for that.Originally Posted by centurian
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CW--i am all for easements. I am just waiting for someone like anything feathers to show me how I get rich having one. He still hasnt told me how.
because he cant.
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
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Yessir. More stuff ain't the answer...
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Theres a few members on here who I need to pick their brains on conservation easements before long. Like you said, I don't care about really making any money off of it. Some cash to put towards a cab tractor would be nice, but my main reason is to ensure my place isn't developed when I'm dead and gone.
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i think its just a swap like JAB alluded to. you sell your land now but still use it (with some limitations but honestly none that would change what I do).
i have an easement on half of my property and am happy with that.
we are looking into an easement for another piece but its multiple owners so that is always a challenge. I'm not getting rich on either one and thought i was missing something.....
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
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Nope. I cannot, because you probably can’t unless you inherited thousands of acres that you have nothing in. And still probably not rich. But being rich is something else that is relative.
The guy with the $60-70,000 a year job, very little savings, and a mortgage, that just inherited the 800 acre family farm adjacent to major waterway, fairly close to a growing city. He’s trying to figure out how to continue to maintain and pay the taxes on the farm without selling some. Land is worth 7-8 million but he promised grandpa he’d never sell. It’s farmable land. But he’s no farmer. Sure, he can maybe cut some trees, maybe lease to a farmer and maintain. But that’s not real money. Easement time. He gets 1.5 million in cash 2 million in tax credits. He pays off his 250,000 mortgage. Virtually wipes his tax debt for next 15 yrs. State tax maybe forever. He’s debt free and has 1.25M in the bank. He can now afford the farm and still make it produce a little income. In his world he may be rich. In yours maybe not.
Chances are if you make a a ton of money off easements-you already had money. If fully maximizing the money you can get from land (i.e. selling it to a developer) is your main goal, then an easement probably isn’t for you. But if you have land that means something to you or your family that you want to protect forever. Easements can be a profitable way to do that. But from what the trends are right now on recreation tracts- you may can do both.
Last edited by AnythingFeathers; 07-02-2026 at 12:55 PM.
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The Charleston area would not be the same without places like Boone Hall. Willie McRae had a vison of how to do it and it is being implemented quite successfully. He had no children to leave it to though.
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Google says 2.3 million to be rich these days, net worth
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