Florida House #3 = 1992-2001 was my most famous "WAM Ranch" in Jupiter (next door to Burt Reynolds farm) on 3 acres and loads of privacy, and I shot did over 2000 wam shoots there for 9 years. After 9 years of wam shoots the house was pretty much wrecked due to all the abuse it took from wam activities. This ranch was in a rural area where we could only get dial up internet. In order to run my websites I had move to an urban city which had broadband internet.
MMP mentions the need to be located near Tampa because that is where many models are based. We are only a 1hr hour drive away from Tampa, so just move to one of the cheaper suburban areas outside of Tampa where property, taxes and insurance are still cheap.
I recall a few times when EdwinR used to visit me at my Jupiter Ranch in his 18 wheeler truck. Speaking of Tampa, we did loads of mud pit shoots not far from Tampa in the suburbs of Bradenton in the 1990s, where our mud sponsor Tom and his wife Norma used to invite us and our girls over to his house in Bradenton, where he had built his own mud pit in his backyard as well.
Also, in 2015 I once had plans to go into a real estate partnership with Lenny from the PieVids site, because at that time Lenny had inherited some money from his late father and I had a bit of equity to invest as well, so our plan was to go 50/50 to buy a 10 acre ranch in the Ocala area set it up as our new base for WAM shoots. The places we looked at had a huge RV Garage building on the side of the house, that could easily be converted to a home studio for indoor wam shoots. Sadly those plans never materialized because Lenny's health declined rapidly and he later passed away.
If Lenny had not become ill we would be living on a large compound in Ocala today and still making lots of wam videos.
I remember the ranch fondly. It was the only place you could park an 18 wheeler! The place we own now is just north of Gainesville and has 5 acres and pretty private. When we bought it, I was actually thinking about your ranch.
Of course we've come a long way from dial up internet and spotty cell phone service. We're quite rural here but we got all the latest internet service, until of course the power goes out. (This is still the lighting capital of the US)
Tampa is about 2hrs away from us, many of the models we had worked with don't mind the trip, but it is a bit more difficult to hire out of Tampa because some don't want to make the trip, and yes we do pay travel expenses.
As mentioned, we do miss the beach, but we do have a ranch of our own, now and I have something else to help make mud pits- a tractor
Love you, too
