Please tell me if this is stupid or not or even possible
I am a commercial bee keeper. I make a lot of products with honey such as chocolate covered honey.  Up until now, I use other people properties for the bees, and other people equipment for extracting and making products.

Just recently an old farm came up for sale near my moms place in the country.  It has tons of land, an old farm house, and two large new buildings that would work perfectly for honey extraction and a store front to sell bee supplies and honey products.

So my question.  Are there commercial real estate investors that work to buy property, with a buy back down the road so they make a profit?  Or they get a stake in the business?  I've looked into FSA and Agri loans, but they dont see bees as a viable farm.  Which is sad.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
[{"id": "fnskjl3", "text": "It will all come down to convincing some people with money to invest with you. Prepare a rock solid business plan, brush up your sales skills, and wire a list of people you know that may be potential investment partners.", "replies": [{"id": "fo0ui0x", "text": "And know the financials of your company inside and out.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnsn9qp", "text": "I dont understand your question", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnsp9cl", "text": "Are you wanting someone to buy the property and lease it to you? It sounds like with an option for you to buy it down the road?\n\nIf you want to DM me the details I could look at it, I might be interested. Or can just give you my thoughts.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnt1mqf", "text": "There's plenty of investors for that in general (sale/buy leaseback). For you specifically will take more of a hunt.\n\nFigure on paying 8-10% of the purchase price as rent every year", "replies": [{"id": "fnt8qsw", "text": "Thank you.  So if the property os $400k, the rent would be around $40k per year.  Is that forever, or do they do that for 20 years, or 15 years so eventually it's over and they made a decent profit?", "replies": [{"id": "fnta69m", "text": "Rent goes on forever, and usually increases 2-3% every year.\n\nAlso, since you're leasing the land, they keep all improvements to the property when your lease is up.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "fnu7mil", "text": "1) How much revenue, expense, and ultimate profit do you think you could generate as a beekeeper? Best case scenario with national distribution, etc.?\n\n2) How much capital investment on top of the $400k property value would be necessary to build and install the bee equipment at the start?", "replies": [{"id": "fnvr5an", "text": "I am already established as a beekeeper.  Just looking for land/farm to grow.", "replies": [{"id": "fnvsaqw", "text": "Sorry, basically I was just looking to gauge a cap rate estimate a property investor might give. You don\u2019t need to tell me, but if I spend $400k on a beekeeping property I might expect an 8%-10% cap rate. So if I lease to you triple-net (you pay rent and all expenses like utilities), I might expect like $32k - $40k per year in rent to achieve my return.\n\nIf you can clear that number, you could probably pitch some property investors!", "replies": [{"id": "fnvwlki", "text": "Thank you.  That gives me a pretty good set of numbers to crunch.", "replies": [{"id": "fnvwwt6", "text": "Your investors will be more interested if:\n1) you have an existing customer base\n2) proof you can already cover rent. If not able, proof you have demand to quickly cover rent\n3) path for business expansion to shortly cover rent\n\nUnderstand it is common for a tenant to request a free rent period. Maybe you can negotiate 6 months where you don\u2019t pay any rent at first.\n\nAlso, you can probably negotiate tenant improvements allowance. This would mean the landlord gives you $X00,000 to actually make the property useful for beekeeping.", "replies": [{"id": "fnw6ja7", "text": "Thank you.  good suggestions.", "replies": [], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnuskde", "text": "Is there a place you can post an advertisement saying you are seeking land and a place on a farm to have bees and do honey extraction? Maybe you can set up a 5 year lease or something with the lease being based on sales or something.\n\nI have a friend whose family has a large farm, they make money doing a variety of things, some using the land and still farm a bit; but they don\u2019t use all the land they have as it\u2019s tough to make a living just farming. They rent some lots out to different people who use it for different stuff, a restaurant rents out one, a distillery etc.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnvtzzf", "text": "Several good answers here, but i would estimate the investor/landlord expected return being highly variable (10%+) based on your credit and the location.  Investor will be thinking about appreciation or resale if you disappear.\n\nOther thought:  if it has tons of land, and you probably don't need all it for your use, it may be worthwhile to contact a couple neighbors and see if any of them would have interest in purchasing if you would lease from them the portions that appeal to you.  Most farmers like to control land adjacent to their existing operations.", "replies": [{"id": "fnvwhj0", "text": "Thats a good answer.  Thank you.  I plan to use all the land for bees, but open to letting a farmer come in and use if they plant something with a good nectar flow.", "replies": [{"id": "fo6g1r2", "text": "If you buy the property, adjacent farmers would be potential tenant for you.  Many farmers farm leased land near their own.  That way maybe you could lease half for revenue and keep half for things that might help bees.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fnvy0f3", "text": "Talk to the seller first, see if they're open to carry a note. You can then become the landlord and find a tenant that will lease the property for a use that compliments your bee keeping.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]