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Hey, that's impressive and congrats on setting up your property that way. You are already on the winning side.
Here I still in the planning phase, so I'm absorbing as much information to be able to design the project I want and the way I want it to work. I'll start slow too, one step at time, because at the end of the day there's no rush.
You should definitely share your story, another one that inspired me was the first Property management built on Bitcoin and the second and third too.
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Do you have a business following the model in the video?
My homestead operates very similarly to the structure of that mega farm. My main cash flow is nightly rentals, this is driven by the location of the homestead being in a desirable area for tourism, so I'm more tapping into an existing flow rather than driving it (catch and store energy + integrate rather than segregate).
I built both a yurt and tiny house for guests to stay but first I renovated my house to have a second unit to get the ball rolling while I was building the more interesting accommodations. While I was building the nightly rentals, I was also lowering my cost of living by making the house more energy efficient and designing/implementing food production systems. (Small and slow solutions)
By the time the rentals were complete, the food production systems were mature enough to producing enough to have extra to sell. When guests stay I offer them a tour to learn about Permaculture and see all the cool stuff at the homestead (it was free at first but now I can charge because I have enough reviews mentioning it). During the tour I'm also making guests aware of the products that are currently available from each of the systems they are observing. At the end of the tour, guests often want to buy things. (Value the marginal, and value diversity)
During the tour I also teach the guests about Bitcoin and often get them the information they need to start buying, then I make sure they maintain contact with me and encourage them to stay again but pay with Bitcoin next time, which saves them around 30 percent. With their contact I also am able to reach out to past guests that showed particular interest, to offer them classes and consultations. (Use and value renewable resources and materials, design from patterns to details)
The beautiful thing about it all is that everything I'm doing is done with careful decision making to stay aligned with the ethics of permaculture, earth care, people care and non-extraction. This changes the frame of interaction from sales to relationship building which the guests can sense and feel, making them more confident in supporting the homestead with their financial capital.
Makes me think I should do a post about these rentals. Thanks for posting! ZAP!