Green energy cheap? HA!! No way. I know it's not. I'm waiting on some quotes to be provided from Niagara Wind Power about going solar and wind powered for my business.
I guess my real problem right now is figuring out if I want to custom build everything, or deal with a property that already has buildings in place.
I need to go through my emails and find some I kept a while ago, want to try to find the website I was using to try to get building quotes for another property I had wanted to purchase a while back.
The problem with that property is the location. Middle of nowhere, in a predominately French speaking area of the province, about 6 miles from the Quebec border. Not close to anything, wouldn't help my business anyways.
Location is key, but the location will be costly the closer I want to be to my city. But I need to stay closer to my city in order to get the communications access that I currently have. If I go to far away, I'll lose the reliability. I can't have that happen.
Choosing between communication providers, I'll break it down:
Rogers: All digital cable, phone and internet. Wireless internet, many package options.
Bell: Satelite, no cable. Phone and internet. Internet is dialup, wireless, or high speed. You have a long distance block placed on your phone unless you pay $200, which Rogers does not do.
Hmm, in cost comparison as well, Rogers is cheaper, it's a better deal for anyone using it for business as well.
So if I can locate myself somewhere that uses Rogers, I'll be ok. I just have to clear up my small outstanding debt with them before returning to them.
Costly venture, no kidding. Now I am stuck on my research for costing out feed and supplies for horses. Perishable items are not easy to track pricing on, and all my Google searches have been in vain. All I've been able to find is pricing on hay, which isn't cheap either.
How about farm machinery? Ugh, I was on a local equipment supply shop website last night, and they want $13,000 for a tractor that I know that I'd need for hay transport and stall mucking.
A couple of months ago, I was fortunate to head into York Region and work on a farm for a day to find out exactly what I need to run my barn. This is how I found out about the tractor that I'd need.
So here's a general breakdown of pricing from what I can estimate so far:
Hay bales: $25.00 each, one per paddock per day; that's 31/month minimum. Cost per month: $775. Does not include delivery charge.
Tractor for the barn: $13,000.
Solar, and wind power: $25,000+. Haven't gotten an exact cost factor, so this is a rough guess.
Farrier service- Cutting: $35/horse. Shoeing: $200+/horse
Other barn supplies: Undetermined. But the good news is that a lot of the supplies I'd quoted from the 2006 catalogue have gone DOWN in price, so these supplies will cost me less than I have written down.
Hoping to get that call later today, and I hope I get a reply back to my email about the cost of the power items I'll be needing.
Stay tuned.
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