Have 70k and need to move

[ChaosCatalunya]

From my perspective, this would be while living in Maine for 20 years.

No need what so ever to drive any product out of state, Prices in Boston and NYC are up there and Ive seen in Boston 4800 a lb.

BUT there is a decent void in stable supply of quality cannabis, which in state will go for 3800-4500.

Unless your unloading twenty pounds at a time, whats the 300 dollars difference once you either pay someone to drive it or risk state lines and setting up a connect to take it all once arrived.

Crazy easy market. That's my experience. But be for-warned. Like anywhere if your not from Maine you will stick out like a sore thumb, w/ no job be careful. Small town type shit, word travels fast.

Best of luck to you if you do make it to the North East. We value hard work and honest people, so just make sure you fit in.

So true and so often overlooked, you have to fit in and have your story 100% nailed down, even then you would be surprised what people know.

Lying is easy, initially, but getting away with lying over any period of time is almost impossible, people are not stupid.

 

[turbolaser4528]

lol, ouch!

But who can you really trust in this game? no one, at least in non mmj states.

good luck, OP.

 

[headiez247]

From my perspective, this would be while living in Maine for 20 years.

No need what so ever to drive any product out of state, Prices in Boston and NYC are up there and Ive seen in Boston 4800 a lb.

BUT there is a decent void in stable supply of quality cannabis, which in state will go for 3800-4500.

Unless your unloading twenty pounds at a time, whats the 300 dollars difference once you either pay someone to drive it or risk state lines and setting up a connect to take it all once arrived.

Crazy easy market. That's my experience. But be for-warned. Like anywhere if your not from Maine you will stick out like a sore thumb, w/ no job be careful. Small town type shit, word travels fast.

Best of luck to you if you do make it to the North East. We value hard work and honest people, so just make sure you fit in.

Good post. I'm not up on current in state prices because I haven't lived in Maine for 7 years and when I did I wasn't a grower just a casual smoker.

GREAT post regarding sticking out, I meant to talk about that but forgot. Maine people are very curious and also hate newcomers. You'd be much better off saying you moved from another part of Maine then saying you just moved there from an outside state, if you could pull off the story that is.

Can't blame them. It's a beautiful state and they keep getting attacked by people from Mass migrating. Many don't even consider southern Maine part of the state. Anything Bangor and North is the real Maine.

 

[supermanlives]

nuff said

 

[Mr.Howie]

Yeah I think almost anywhere is america if you're not in the city or a large sub you're going to be noticed as new and people will talk/be curious about who you are and what you do. That's just country living folk. I am living in a small town with a friend right now and everyone seems to know who I am and that I have no job and I've only been here for a month. Having a year old beard and always smelling like ganga probably doesn't help me stay off the radar, but this is just temporary.

I think moving and fitting in isn't going to be so hard for me. Saying that you went to college somewhere and stuck around cause you love the area so much gives people a reason to accept you. Getting a part time job somewhere isn't a big deal if needed to stay off the radar, but not always necessary depending on where you land. Also where I would be living would be secluded, with no neighbors. So hopefully that would help some.

As far as getting rid of bulk, in my experience that takes living in a spot for a while to make the right connections. Which is why MI would be nice as you can flip crops to clubs, instead of hoping you happen to meet the right connect.

 

[jgrow]

How did you get a sick connection back in the day for some good pot? Go to a show, right? Well we have some kick ass small time festivals that are the mother load for connections, if you have the right product that is. There is some competition so bring your A game.

Its not the same thing as dropping a sample with the owner of the clinic, but in 2011 if your not networking through as many means as possible. You have already been left behind.

 

[MrBlue2]

if your looking for the most profitable place to grow, cali is it. If you look at the cali outdoor threads on here you will see the what i mean.

if you get 5 or 10 acres of land in cali and are a half decent grower you should be able to pull 200-500 pounds per year. even if your selling them for $1000 per pound thats 200,000-500,000 per year. if its half decent herb you'll get 1,500-2,000 per pound depending on the time of year. of course you will have to do some networking and you may have to sit on pounds for a longtime until you are able to unload them.

By my calculations to do it right in cali you would need at least 150k. about 100k for the land, and about $1000 per plant for a traditional outdoor season. maybe only $300-$500 per plant for light dep and winter crops.

the cost also go down a bit after a few harvests as you begin to accumulate equipment and resources.

 

[supersmallgiant]

Having a year old beard and always smelling like ganga...

Sounds like you would fit right in in my town...

 

[headiez247]

if your looking for the most profitable place to grow, cali is it. If you look at the cali outdoor threads on here you will see the what i mean.

if you get 5 or 10 acres of land in cali and are a half decent grower you should be able to pull 200-500 pounds per year. even if your selling them for $1000 per pound thats 200,000-500,000 per year. if its half decent herb you'll get 1,500-2,000 per pound depending on the time of year. of course you will have to do some networking and you may have to sit on pounds for a longtime until you are able to unload them.

By my calculations to do it right in cali you would need at least 150k. about 100k for the land, and about $1000 per plant for a traditional outdoor season. maybe only $300-$500 per plant for light dep and winter crops.

the cost also go down a bit after a few harvests as you begin to accumulate equipment and resources.

Cali is not the place to go. And he has 70k not 100k + 1k per plant. Moving to cali and blowing up an outdoor scene with those kind of numbers is dangerous from both a legal and ripper standpoint.

MI or ME indoor is your best bet.

 

[MrBlue2]

Cali is not the place to go. And he has 70k not 100k + 1k per plant. Moving to cali and blowing up an outdoor scene with those kind of numbers is dangerous from both a legal and ripper standpoint.

MI or ME indoor is your best bet.

its not that sketchy or hard to pull together a handfull of scripts and have a small collective. if you do 24 plants and pull 5 pounds a plant for your normal outdoor season thats 120 pounds. if you do a 24 plant winter crop and pull 2 pounds per plant thats another 48 pounds. do a spring crop the same as your winter crop and thats another 48 pounds.

there are a number of other way to do it as well, like 24 ten pound plants, or 50 two pound plants harvested 3 times per year.

doing 24 plants when almost every property within a 10 mile radius has 99 on it is not that sketchy. And some of those crazy rednecks and mexicans have hundreds of plants.

Also keep in mind that for every cali ripper story you hear there are hundreds (maybe even thousands) of people pulling off successful harvests.

IMHO, cali outdoors has the best risk to reward ratio. it could be done with 70k, you would just have to be smart and resourceful, start small and work you way up.

MI or ME are not that bad either its really a matter of were you want to live and what type of lifestyle your looking for.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

Well, to go to Cali and do outdoor this year is a bit late. With growing huge trees outdoors, the upfront capital is high, and you may have to wait for a bit to get compensated for your work but even your first year you should come out ahead. Although compared to setting up shop in MI or ME, if you have a 12+ lights with perpetual harvests, you should break even much sooner than cali outdoor and the following years will be as good or better due to higher prices and higher demand.

 

[turbolaser4528]

Well, to go to Cali and do outdoor this year is a bit late. With growing huge trees outdoors, the upfront capital is high, and you may have to wait for a bit to get compensated for your work but even your first year you should come out ahead. Although compared to setting up shop in MI or ME, if you have a 12+ lights with perpetual harvests, you should break even much sooner than cali outdoor and the following years will be as good or better due to higher prices and higher demand.

Do you guys think Michigan is better than Colorado, or even California?

I know houses are super cheap there (MI), 3 bedroom w basement + 1 acre for $1000 a month!

Drop off samples at clinics, make it happen I suppose. Jesus...

 

[turbolaser4528]

Wow, nevermind Michigan just made all clubs illegal!!! Fawk, Maine or California for me. Anyone considering Nevada? Jw they have decent laws

 

[ronbo51]

Maine is the way to go. Michigan just blew up. Rural Maine, 25 miles or more from the coast is depressed and going nowhere. Maine is losing population as fast as any state in the country so land and especially older inferior housing is widely available cheap. Owner financing is everywhere. Rent a place for a while that is somewhat isolated, do a small grow. Get the lay of the land. Read real estate brochures. Get "Uncle Henry's", a buying/trading magazine sold everywhere. I bought tractors, trucks, used solar panels, a pinball machine, lots of other shit from Uncle Henry's. Wood heat is fun for a while. Living close to the land is rewarding and fills you with pride. Maine is more of a young mans game. I got worn out at age fifty. But you can move everything you grow without fail. The prep schools and colleges to the south provide an insatiable market. The hardest thing is that it gets dark at 4 PM and April when the rest of the country is rocking in Spring and Maine is still snowbound with muddy rutted roads. But Sugarloaf and Sunday River have world class skiing, the coast is always beautiful and there are tons of great people all over the place. Maine for the win.

 

[Dislexus]

Yeah and if you go to Maine and rent, and they ask what you do, say you're a writer! A ghostwriter, and the city was giving you writer's block and you need quiet, solitude, and simple living. Tell them hey if Maine works for Stephen King's productivity it might work for me.

(and chevy chase in Funny Farm but that was vermont)

Also you can get one of those super efficient wood stoves that burns pretty clean because of gassification or whatever... Gotta chip the wood up I think tho..

Could Maine take a step backwards on MMJ like Michigan? The republicans in Maine are like Olympia Snow, more moderate less hateful of the ganja I would imagine.

 

[supermanlives]

like i said MAINE. if you stay near the cities anyone can fit in , its alot harder in rural maine to fit in .us rednecks all know each other. lol

 

[Yes4Prop215]

at least you have a nice budget to work with and not a 5-10k pipedream like most newbs out here....

 

[Mr.Howie]

Damn I just shit myself after reading the news about MI. Was planning a trip up there this weekend, had a car rented and a place to stay lined up. Two houses with landlords out of state with land and secluded....was going to sign a lease on one of them. BAM!! Nevermind all that cancelled trip and all. Looking like Maine yall. And I live in the country, have all my live, so fitting in with the local mainers I don't thing will be much of an issue. There my people, I feel odd as hell going to a bar in the city where pink pollo shits and boat loafers that have never seen dirt are common.

 

[Dislexus]

Good luck in Maine Mr. Howie, live the dream!