Essay: The Advantages Of Owning Your Own Land

The advantages of owning land
Who likes being told what to do, giving away their money or being looked at as irresponsible? Owning your own property gives you the opposite of all that, it gives you a sense of pride, responsibility and enjoyment. There are multiple ways to invest your money but not many are as easy as owning land. Although there are some disadvantages about it, there are far more positive benefits to being a land owner. One benefit that you will have in investing your money in land is that you can do whatever you want to with it. You can build a home for yourself, just how you want it; a two story cedar log home with a red metal roof, a cherry red front door with a welcome wreath hanging from burlap and a wraparound porch with …show more content…
If you did happen to build a house and got tired of living there or just wanted to move, you could sell it or even rent it out. If you rented it out you would be making money and not even have to go to work. That would be nice, huh? Owning and building a house would be financially smarter than to rent somewhere for the same price or more and giving all that money to someone else. If you have no desire to build a house and live there you could still make money in the long run. Land is one of those things that we aren’t making more of, so therefore one day it will be valuable and depending on where your property is located you could get more money out of it than what you put in. Another way to make money in the long run with your land is you could fence in the whole place (depending on how much land you have, of course) and raise cattle, pigs, chickens and other farm animals. Cattle provides you with milk along with other dairy products, meat, and when things really get tough, hide for clothing. You can also breed cattle and sell them to make money. Pigs give you a different kind of meat, like your Christmas ham, or your Sunday breakfast bacon, you can also breed pigs and make money. Chickens give you eggs that also go with your Sunday breakfast but also eggs to cook with as well has having the chicken for a meal. …show more content…
Your friends, family and everyone that meet you will see that you trying to accomplish something in life and will show you respect, and treat you like an adult, who likes being treated like a kid? Owning land shows that you’re ready for the hard work to take care of something, having property is a responsibility in the fact that you do have to care for it, as little maintenance has it takes, it’s still your responsibility to do it. If you make a rent house or have a farm your responsibility greatens, for you have to not only take care of the land itself, you have to care and keep up with the house, and the animals that stay