I went to the tax office and looked for large tracts of land and got the guys name and number. Then I drove out and looked at the land. The 230 acres I got looked like it used to be farmed on and was just going to waste. I called the guy and he said he never thought about leasing it but would like to meet me. We met and I ended up leasing it last year. He was happy with the way we treated the land and cleaned up some of the trash folks had been throwing there for the past few years. He offered to lease it to us for 99 years if we wanted.

The reason I went to the tax office is in this area farmers are quitting. This area was overrun with tobacco farmers and each year many more give it up and don't know what to do with the land. I give them an option they may not have considered and I try to give them the option before anyone else does.

This has worked 3 times for me out of 5. 1 the guy gave the land to his family to start a strawberry farm and the other one I didn't get, the guy sold it off.