Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 24, 2020

The local weatherman made a joke that the potting soil stacks at Lowes had declared itself a country.

He might draw more attention – not saying from who – if he billed them as “your own plot.”

This .000222 acre plot will get your toe in the door as a real estate investor. Even your whole foot!

These might be best marketed as “a piece of the outdoors” for pod dwellers.

And Snazzy Sam the Salesman doesn’t look shifty at all…. no siree.

Some billionaire will start a REIT and sell it to the sheep.

But ya better keep your land six feet from mah land, Buster.

You can’t build an empire on that.

Better than having a star named after you. I’ll call it Mylandia!

I’ll take one. That’s about the right size for lunch.

People on Ballard street wondered about the missing squares of topsoil; it truly was their own land.

Was in the end of a Woody Allen movie, but I am way too lazy to find it.

“If you don’t own land you ain’t no kind of man”

When I was a kid, we loved a TV show called “St. Preston of the Yukon.”

It was sponsored by a cereal company… I think Quaker Oats.

One time, for a box-top,.. and maybe a dime or a quarter… can’t remember…they offered the deed to your own plot of land in the Yukon!

I believe it was a whole square inch!

We’d each wanted our own, but I believe my Mom would only buy one box…

so we squabbled over possession of the deed.

Eventually it lay forgotten… I have no idea who ended up with it.

I do remember my little brother once threatening to run away and go live there. LOL

Years later I was reminded of it when I read that for some reason all those deeds had been invalidated..

We was robbed!

And a few years ago, I saw a little wrought iron table at a patio store with a top like a tray, set with a square of sod.

A teeny lawn for a tabletop picnic!

It was expensive… so I always thought I might make one… “some day.” Uh huh.

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” Mark Twain

“Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.” Will Rogers

For many, many years, operators have bought acreage in the Big Bend region of Texas, Presidio and Brewster Counties and theoretically divided it on paper and sold the parcels as “lots.” They paid almost nothing for the land (and arguably overpaid). They advertised the lots for prices that were trivial but still made them large profits. People show up at the county clerks’ offices asking to be directed to their land. They are told to just pick any place. They’re all the same. Rocks and sand. No roads. No water. No other utilities. But they do own a “West Texas ranchette.” I suppose that with GPS, you could actually find your land today.

Talk about tiny living

Got some ocean front property in Arizona._

Sell Moon Plots, Sam, no need for inventory! ☺

Actually you know. If you swapped out your turf with “Solar Pannels” And changed sign to “Your Own Electric $10.00/mo” you’d have one for the state of California. Yep they charge you to hook up to the grid once you get solar.

Wonder if he’s related to the guys selling Scottish Lordships with a square foot of land…l

The land.. is cheap, it’s the taxes that will kill you.

Truth in advertising. What you see it what you get.