You could travel back to 2008 and buy 20 acres in Trinity County, dig septic, put in a well and water storage, build a fence, run power , park a nice little trailer and buy yourself enough beer and food to make it to your first harvest, all for 150k. With a 99 outdoor that nobody would bother you over you could pay your property off and build a sick ass house for cash the first year. Same setup now would be around 4X that much. For better or worse, with coming legalization, budgets for enforcement, dropping wholesale prices, and hungry counties in the desert and central valley doing everything they possibly can to attract Costco size commercial grows I predict in 3 years you will be able to buy that same property in trinity county again for 2008 prices, but you aren't going to be able to make a living growing on it. I think I just bummed myself out... lol. not my intent.