TIM AND LAUREN SAYCE never planned to live on a farm with horses, cattle, chickens and pigs. But when they spied a beautiful vacant block in Mount Marrow, near Ipswich in Queensland, while visiting family, an idea began brewing. “We just thought, ‘Well, wouldn’t this be nice?’” recalls Lauren, 40. The couple, who were living in Brisbane at the time, made an offer and let fate determine the outcome, agreeing that if the sale went through smoothly, it was meant to be. “It went through trouble-free!” Lauren says.
The sale might have been simple, but
