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Ubelievable price paid for this 75 acres

Name: Ubelievable price paid for this 75 acres
Uploaded: 2026-01-05T21:31:46+00:00
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube video titled "Ubelievable price…

5 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube video titled "Ubelievable price paid for this 75 acres" (created 2026-01-05) containing an English first-person monologue. The speaker recounts that their grandfather bought a 75-acre homestead in 1929 for $500 during the Great Depression, describes the property (steep woods, a creek, ~10–15 acres cleared, a 700 sq ft house without running water or electricity, 8 miles from the nearest town), contextualizes the purchase relative to wages then and today's values (estimating $30k–$50k/acre, or roughly $2–3M total), and offers a personal reflection on gratitude, communing with the grandfather through the land, and the emotional/priceless value of that connection. Single-speaker personal narrative rather than a dialogue.

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You will not believe what Grandpa paid for the 75-acre family homestead. I'll give you some hints. He bought it in 1929, Great Depression. There are, there are some, a lot of it is in steep woods. There's a creek. We've got about, probably at the time, it was probably 10 to 15 acres of cleared land, 8 miles from the nearest town. Fletcher. Oh, we did. There was a house on the property, 700 square foot, but it had no running water or electricity. This was a dead-end road, dirt. The man paid $500. Now, that— he was making $1,000 a year at the time, so that was half his wage. And he worked really hard and put away half his wages for 2 years and paid it off. Thank you, Grandpa. But today the average American wage is $60,000 a year, so that would be like being able to buy this for $30,000 total. But the news is it's actually in this area $30,000 to $50,000 an acre. That means this would be worth $2 to $3 million. So since Grandpa bought it in 1929, almost 100 years ago, it's 100x and value. But what is the value of me now communing with my grandpa as I think about him and I'm grateful for him and I'm walking on this and healing and working on the same land that he worked on? That's priceless. Thank you, Grandpa. I never knew you, but now I commune with you through the land that you passed on to me. Thank you.