[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends is a retired California district federal judge. He bought a house back in the late 1960s and one day two guys in expensive suits showed up. They wanted to buy a corner of his land for a new golf course they were going to put in. They offered him a nice price for a corner of land and said in the sales contract he would have a house along a fairway and they gave him a lifetime membership to the club, that was transferable.

When it came time to retire, he was stunned at what his house was worth, and he discovered that the lifetime membership to the club was worth a cool million. He knew some mega rich person would bulldoze his little house and build a big mansion on the property.

He sold it all and moved to Oklahoma and bought one square mile, an entire section of land for his house. It was all undeveloped, and he had a nice house built near the middle, and cleared only enough trees to have a house, and the trees far enough back to have a house and barn and a firebreak & pasture for his horses, and a road. He keeps it as a nature preserve, and has tons of deer, nesting eagles, fox, rabbits, and every forest critter possible. He sets up and loves taking photos of "his wildlife" from his back porch.

One of the local developers kept pestering him to sell some of the property and he told the guys that the no trespassing signs are not just for show. He filed police reports on them and told them if they come back, he will shoot them.