I pay $1.59 per yard for 6 pound pad.

I agree with not being penny-wise and pound-foolish. 

If that is the case, I'd get some new ones, stack them in front of the old ones, and get rebar or similar strong metal poles pounded in to hold them in place.  

Big developers where not investing as much anymore, land flippers where left with unwanted inventory and if you for example now wanted to do an agricultural business and bought land in some places, the math would never makes sense.The good thing is as you mentioned some small towns are thriving because of the expat presence, similar to what happens in the US with "gentrification" the expats attract the digital nomad crowd that works from the beach, surfs, love great coffee shops and restaurants etc.

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It is massively different in the Uks market as years ago there was a big market boom where house started went Up by £100,000s of pound  sand the henchmen the economy crash happened and now money is made throughout rentals and lease deals Anschluss house flips.

I make much more money buying the fixer upper (abandoned, condemned, unwanted) properties for a song and paying cash.

This is a very important and expensive transaction - this isnt the place to be penny wise and pound foolish.

That alone would make me tell them to pound sand.

I'm going to keep pounding my head on these issues until I find a solution to moving forward.