#242 - Does Setting Up A Farm For Deer Hunting Actually Increase Its Value? with Abe Aryan

Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Abe Aryan. We discuss:- Abe explains why food plots, screening and quiet access can make hunting-land buyers stretch their budgets.- Abe explains how his family's commercial real estate deals shape his approach to hunting-land ownership.- Abe weighs direct seller negotiations and financing costs before committing to recreational ground.- Abe describes how grazing changed a Nebraska lease and helped push him toward owning his hunting land.- Abe recounts a Kansas auction that led to a first purchase of roughly 864 acres near Bow Creek.- Abe recounts buying his first three farms using satellite maps and trusted people on the ground.- Abe includes interest, taxes and agent fees when calculating whether a property protects his downside.- Abe learns why a local farmer's 400-acre field gets priority over his three-acre food plot.- Abe buys his own tractor and no-till drill, then uses courses and AI to learn food-plot planting.- Abe introduces Modern Woodsman and its approach to combining buck history, weather and property data. And so much more! Chapters:0:00 Why hunting-land buyers stretch their budgets1:09 Meet Abe Aryan6:02 Family real estate lessons and financing14:26 Improvements that help a hunting farm sell23:19 From a Nebraska lease to land ownership29:09 Budgets, deer access and fixer-upper farms30:48 The Kansas auction and buying three farms43:13 Protecting the downside and using a land agent50:50 Food-plot mistakes and buying his own equipment55:30 Learning habitat management with courses and AI1:01:07 Modern Woodsman and trail-camera data Thanks again for all of the support from our partners—none of this would've been possible without them! - Buck Land Funding: https://www.firstbankers.com/bucklandfunding-Hawke Optics | Use Code WHTL for 15% off: https://bit.ly/hawkeoptics_-OnX: https://bit.ly/onX_Hunt-Painted Arrow: bit.ly/PaintedArrow- Latitude Outdoors: https://www.latitudeoutdoors.com/- Use code 'HOFER' to save 10% off at www.theprairiefarm.com- Massive potential tax savings: ASMLABS.Net