Is this a good investment?

ucsd_ucla_dad
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:00:40 +0000

No matter what it is, if you won’t sell it then it’s not an investment for you directly in the first place. It could be an investment for the benefit of your heirs if the value at the time they sell it is higher than you paid but not for you if you don’t sell. This applies to houses, antique cars, coins, artwork, stocks, or anything.

That’s looking at it as a ‘financial investment’ which is what you’re presenting. However, there can be a ‘quality of life investment’ wherein you derive enough pleasure from it to make it worth the cost.

With trees though, all kinds of things can go wrong - fire, bugs, disease, soil issues, or some unknown natural death. Someone might even pass a law in the next 50 years preventing them from being harvested which would leave your investment worthless. Who knows what would happen in 50 years with a volatile item such as this?