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Planning Your Own Great Escape to the Country?


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Buying Rural: 10 Expensive Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them


It could save you from making one or more of these 10 expensive mistakes that rural property buyers make.

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The Dream 

The dream of leaving the city for a life in the country is a powerful one. Your desire for space, privacy and freedom, a slower pace, the fresh air, and a place to truly call your own has you plotting for your escape to a better place.

But the path from city life to country life is littered with traps that catch even intelligent, well-prepared people off guard. I’ve seen the same costly mistakes made over and over again by smart people who simply didn’t know what they didn’t know, and some of those mistakes can cost heaps of dollars, years of heartache, or even the dream itself. 

I know, because I made the move from the city myself years ago, and these days, as a farmer and rural buyer’s agent in country Australia, I get to help other families avoid the mistakes I made, and the ones I’ve watched catch others off guard ever since. Some of those mistakes are technical and legal. Some are financial. And some are deeply human. 

I’ve written them down in this free and frank guide, along with sure ways to avoid them, because I genuinely want your own Great Escape to succeed.

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What You Will Learn 

Avoid the common pitfalls

The planning, legal, and financial traps that cost rural buyers tens of thousands of dollars or more, and how to sidestep every one of them

Clear thinking wins the day

Why buying with your heart instead of your head is the single most common mistake, and how to stay clear-eyed without losing any of your sense of excitement

Everything is at stake 

What the move to the country will actually mean for your family, and the need for the honest conversations most people don’t have until it’s too late

Keep the dream from becoming a nightmare

The due diligence checks that many buyers skip, and that can turn your dream property into a legal and financial nightmare

Plan to succeed, or...

The importance of a budget and a property brief, and the discipline to stick to the plan when your heart is telling you to throw caution to the wind

Stop chasing unicorns

Why the perfect rural property doesn’t exist, and why the people living their best country lives are glad they didn’t wait for it

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