Field guide no. 01
Property Scout Workbook
Criteria scoring · Budget & financing · Owner outreach log · Landowner outreach log · Deal pipeline summary · Red-flag checklists · County office research — a fillable PDF you can use at the kitchen table, in the truck, or on the trail.
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OffGrid Ledger Co.
OFF-GRID - LAND BUYER - OFF-GRID PROPERTY SCOUT WORKBOOK
Property Scout Workbook
A print-and-use field companion for finding land that suits your life.
OffGrid Ledger Co. - printable - A4 - 2026
OffGrid Ledger Co.
What's inside
Eight sections, one printable workbook
Walk a parcel from the first scoring sheet through a signed decision. Fill each section in sequence, or skip around — every field is independent.
Criteria scoring
Twelve weighted categories (location, water, access, …) — score a parcel against your must-haves with weight × score math.
Budget & financing tracker
Line-item budget by phase, source funding dropdown per row, then the loan math (down, rate, term, monthly P&I, total interest) that closes.
Owner outreach log
Initial contact, follow-ups, negotiation, and closing — date / channel / contact / topic / outcome / follow-up / notes per row.
Red-flag checklist
Parcels, access, and title due diligence with a checkbox, severity dropdown (Low / Med / High), canonical mitigation, and notes per item.
County office research
Twelve offices (Assessor, Recorder, Planning, Building, Health, Treasurer, Road, Sheriff, GIS, USDA/FSA, Fire, School) — what to ask, requested / received dates, status.
Decision & signature
Go / no-go summary plus reviewer name, review date, decision, and signature line — a clean handoff.
Landowner outreach log
One row per landowner / parcel — name, contact info, parcel address, call dates, notes, and follow-up status.
Deal pipeline summary
One row per deal across every outreach attempt — status, last-touch, next-step, asking price, notes. Status: New · Contacted · Replied · Negotiating · Offer made · Under contract · Closed · Lost · On hold.
Criteria scoring detail
Twelve weighted categories, sixty fillable rows
Every category scores 1–5 by weight; the weighted column is fillable so you can track your running total as you score.
- · Location · 5 criteria
- · Water · 5 criteria
- · Access · 5 criteria
- · Utilities · 5 criteria
- · Soil / Topography · 5 criteria
- · Climate · 5 criteria
- · Zoning / Legal · 5 criteria
- · Structures · 5 criteria
- · Off-grid readiness · 5 criteria
- · Resale · 5 criteria
- · Neighborhood · 5 criteria
- · Personal fit · 5 criteria
Budget & financing
Track every dollar before you sign
Estimated / actual / variance / source (Cash · HELOC · Seller financing · 401k · Other) / notes per line item. Financing block carries down payment, loan amount, rate, term, monthly P&I, and total interest — so the math that closes the deal lives next to the math that opens it.
Buy direct
The Buy Direct chip on each tool opens a Stripe-hosted checkout that is the only purchase path. It only works once the deploy's Stripe keys are wired and the operator runs the steps below.
- Finish Stripe onboarding on the Polsia dashboard Payments page (Connection + branding) — direct checkout stays gated until this completes.
- Set ORDER_TOKEN_SECRET on the deploy env (openssl rand -hex 32 → store via set_app_secret) so download links survive a restart.
- Redeploy: polsia.toml ships npx prisma db push at build, so the Order table lands automatically.
- Smoke-test one $1 charge end-to-end: open /tools/<slug>, click "Buy direct", submit a known email, complete Stripe checkout, land on /checkout/success, click the download button, confirm /api/orders/download streams the unlocked PDF.
- Watch the orders feed: prisma.order rows flip pending → paid; the receipt email fires from the post-payment helper.
Direct checkout is the only purchase path — Stripe-hosted with a secure download link emailed the moment payment clears.
Works for every product in the catalog: property-scout-workbook, family-trail-safety-kit, desert-stargazers-journal, property-criteria-scoring-sheet, buyer-bundle, backpack-base-weight-tracker, 72-hour-power-outage-runbook.