Yeah I bought 640 acres of range land in NW Nevada on e-bay last fall. In about 4 months the assessed value went up over 350%. It'll be my retirement business / property. My father and I are planning to set up an LLC in Nevada and establish a Ranch (to comply with the often ignored treaty between the USA and the Paiute Indians stating that only forts, postal offices and ranches may be developed in the territory areas), mostly just for the tax breaks, but we'll have to establish the business and run it as a business to make it legal.
Nevada doesn't have a state personal income tax or a state corporate income tax (Thanks to the "sin" taxes on prostitution and gambling). There are lots of state and some federal tax incentives for developing land and both state ($2,500 >25%< refund on a $10,000 or greater investment) and federal (35% refund) incentives for renewable energy development. The property does not have electricity or any other utilities available. So the 60% worth of rebate incentives are very favorable for investing in solar energy for my electrical production. Wind energy was a thought, and I may add that later, but the USGS has rated this area as only a 3 of 10 rating for sustainable wind - unreliable and borderline at best. The main business will probably be to grow and harvest crops for biodiesel. I think that once people realise ethanol is a dead end (way too much C02 created in its production, way too little energy when used and reports are starting to come out about the toxic and possibly carcinogenic waste products of ethanol when burned), it's going to go out of favor - or at least won't be as profitable.
Last edited by Steve Lux; 05-22-2007 at 10:28 PM.
I reached 33k today!
NeoGen's Donations:
33,023.7 sq. ft.
0.76 acres
0.30 hectares
AMD Users
564,117.7 sq. ft.
Total Members: 78
We had 43 people in January... that means we almost doubled the number of members in 6 months
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
ototero's Donations:
52,591.3 sq. ft.
1.21 acres
0.48 hectares
Darkness isn't there, but you can't see through it
daddygeek's Donations:
37,961.3 sq. ft.
0.87 acres
0.35 hectares
If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?
Congress!
This one is ok, I registered for ages and rarely get any spam. The little I get is probably not because of them.
This is a charity project, in which they just ask you to go to the site and click once a day. They earn cents for each click we do and (supposedly) use it to protect lands.
I don't think they track our cookies, or else we could click any number of times we wanted each day just by deleting the cookie.
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
NeoGen's Donations:
35,055.7 sq. ft.
0.80 acres
0.32 hectares
Group: AMD Users
Total Sq ft: 570,939.7
Total Members: 85
I reached 35K!
And 7 people joined us since the last time I posted our group results.
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
ototero's Donations:
56,694.0 sq. ft.
1.30 acres
0.52 hectares
Darkness isn't there, but you can't see through it
NeoGen's Donations:
37,024.2 sq. ft.
0.85 acres
0.34 hectares
Group: AMD Users
Total Sq ft: 577,367.3
Total Members: 92
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm