LAND!!

[Steve_L]

Where is it? I want cheap land. Wife requires that it be west of the Mississippi and the further west the better. She'd rather have mountains and trees, but not too far from a major city.

You can find land on the WWW, but a) it is overpriced for suckers and b) has a donkey load of covenants.

Where do you live? ??? Tell me why I want to be your neighbor? ;D

[Anon001]

Steve,

Do you have more to for us to go on? Actually, I was at a farm sale yesterday and the house and 40 acres brought $105,500. The house was an old 2 story farmhouse with 2 bedrooms upstairs, 2 bedrooms downstairs, living room, dining room, kitchen. Their were 2 mud porches and a covered patio. It had a nice root/storm cellar, barn, two 1car garages, a hog shed, and a 2 story "shop" that was about 16 x 24. It had 2 ponds, timber, hay ground and pasture. The last property taxes were $1200 for the year.

The northeastern half of Kansas is more like Missouri.... hills, rivers, creeks, timber, and pastures, crop ground, etc. It is very diversified. The zoning is easy. There's no condemnation in the rural areas.

Two weeks ago at an auction, 160 acres brought $840 per acre. No house. It had pasture ground, hay ground, and timber.

I'm not sure I would want you for a neighbor! LOL Actually, I would welcome any homesteaders close by just to have someone around that is of like mind. I think most homesteaders would agree.

later.... Good Luck.

P.S. Kansas is a freedom loving state and only the western part of Kansas is flat.

[MissouriFree]

Steve,
Paul is right on. Missouri is a great place as I am sure Paul's part of Ks is .. *no zoning, no restrictions, freedom lovin people as you can see on the forum. Just have watch out for the Militias LOL.
and don't expect *service of any kind if the fish are bitten or it is deer season.

mofree

I might add,, politics is kind of like religion there ,, it is pretty private and doesn't get *any open discussion. we have been there years and don't even know how the neighobors vote( but we can guess ;D)

[Anon001]

...and don't expect *service of any kind if the fish are bitten or it is deer season...
Aint that the truth!... lots of truancy on opening day of deer season. There are maybe more people sitting in the woods on opening day than in church on Christmas Eve and both equally as important to many here! LOL

I might add,, politics is kind of like religion there ,, it is pretty private and does get *any open discussion. we have been there years and don't even know how the neighobors vote( but we can guess ;D)
Same here! LOL
Paul

[MissouriFree]

;D ;D ;D


appointments for any kinda home service is set by the "day' and not the"hour" and that ain't real accurate

[Steve_L]

So, how do you know or find out about farm sales? Sounds like that one would have been great.

[Anon001]

We have a rural subscription free paper for northeast Kansas and southeast nebraska that comes out every two weeks. Otherwise, I woultn't know unless you get a list of auctioneers and just watch their websites for a farm selling. To get a good deal, it may take moths or longer. But if you aren't too picky about whether you are 60 miles east or west, you will have better luck. I do know that these same prices are much lower than a year ago. And.. I think they will go back up a bit before long.

[MissouriFree]

Steve,
you can use United country.com also.. it is mostly land and country places.. it is a pretty good site.

[Anon001]

United Country is a good start. If I wasn't looking for estate/farm auctions I would choose them too, but of the pieces of ground I have, the best deals have come by way of auction... For someone not familiar with an area, you need to first determine an area you might like and then seek out all the sources for finding property... The locals can always tell you how to find the best listings and the best in auctions, which auctioneer gets the best properties, which one gets the lowest or highest price for his seller...etc... But until then look at United Country.

[offroaddiesel]

Where is it? I want cheap land. Wife requires that it be west of the Mississippi and the further west the better. She'd rather have mountains and trees, but not too far from a major city.

You can find land on the WWW, but a) it is overpriced for suckers and b) has a donkey load of covenants.

Where do you live? *??? Tell me why I want to be your neighbor? *;D
hahaha my nearest neighbor is a mile away , tell me why i need or want a neighbor. steve :D

[kawalekm]

Steve, tell us what you have done so far in your search for land?

Have you written down any specifics as to what you are looking for? Have you contacted any realtors with a list of what you're looking for. Have you driven down any country roads looking for "for sale" signs? Have you looked at any of the realtor search engines on the internet?

I've done all three, but finally found the land we purchased from a realtor that was a referal of a referal of a referal. Write down what you are looking for and start faxing it off to people. You're going to have to narrow it down to a smaller location than "the west".

How do you plan to finance your purchase? What will your planned source of income be once on the land? Are you single or do you have a family to provide for? Will school-age children need daily transportation? You've got to fill in a lot of the blanks first.
Michael

[Texasbound]

I found my land by looking at the climate. First, as I get older... the cold just doesn't work for me. Second, I wanted to live where it was green..... love the rain. Third, I wanted to be near the ocean... or at least a large lake. Fourth I wanted to be near a reasonably large town... yet far enough out to be in the country. Found all of the above on Gulf Coast Texas. Started taking trips and found an area that we really fell in love with. Came up with the cash, then went down to see what we could find. Ended up finding a large farm (350 acres) that was for sale by owner. Knocked on a couple of doors and made a couple of calls, and bought a small parcel (15 acres) from the man at $1000/ acre. 7 miles from a smaller town, and 25 minutes to the Gulf.

[kawalekm]

I found my land by looking at the climate. *First, as I get older... the cold just doesn't work for me. *Second, I wanted to live where it was green..... *
Once I got serious about finding our land I first looked at a book entitled "The Atlas of California". *Going along with what Texasbound stated, I wanted green land where there was enough natural rain to have trees and a source of water.

I focused on three maps in the atlas, population density, vegetation type, and annual rainfall. *I selected those sparcely populated areas that got enough rain to support forest trees. *I typed up a cover letter outlining specifically what we were interested in and shotgunned it out to realtors in the areas we identified. *

About four months after I started searching, I first saw the property we finally bought, and four months after that we signed the final papers and were handed the keys to our newly purchased property.

The last five years have been devoted to developing our land into the self-sufficient organic homestead we want it to be.http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/kawalekm/OurneworchardsiteMAY2005.jpg

[Jamie]

Not to hi-jack this thread but we just moved from Oregon to Nebraska. We love it here and would like to find some land that we could build a homestead on. Hubby won't be able to leave his job for a while so within an hour of Omaha would be great. Is there a resource I might be able to find where inexpensive land forsale with an owner contract?

Thanks and sorry again.

[Quietgentleman]

Two weeks ago at an auction, 160 acres brought $840 per acre. *No house. *It had pasture ground, hay ground, and timber.



I wish land was that cheap around here. The last farm ground auction I was at went for $7000 an acre. Granted it is some of the best farm ground around here and is sewed up into Pioneer Seed raising seed corn. But still at $7000 and acre it's rough to make it pay with them prices. I'm not sure what timber ground brings around here it hard to find any that isn't broken up into housing developments.


QGM

[bookwormom]

the land south from us was recently timbered and looks awful, snake heaven. the guy wants to sell now and is asking 1500 an acre. he paid less than 800. Ky used to have really cheap land prices, seems things are changing.the realtors have been able to rip off the out of Staters who thought it was cheap here and drove up the prices. I know one couple who really put a noose around their neck. they bought a crappy little house on 50 acres, water in the basement, no insulation in the walls, only two little bedrooms, the barn is old and decrepit, the land is not good for anything but pasture. they got it for 160 000 and have to pay on it.
when buying land, know what you want to do with it, and think also of quality. I speak from painful experience. You may be better off with 5 acres of good land than 50 of what we got. Good luck to you.

[Teg]

These sites might be useful.

http://www.uslandandranches.com/USLandandRanches/index.html

http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/

http://www.landandfarm.com/lf/

http://www.farmranchproperty.com/find-rural-real-estate.aspx

[MissouriFree]

Teg,
great sites,

as far as central Mo I should have added this one. it is mostly private FSBO.

http://shopping.rollanet.org/index.php

just go to real estate and you will see a lot of land/

you might want to stop by the hunting and fishing on the way to real estate.
*

[flatwater]

I predicted months ago that land prices would not go down for 6 months to a year. I have noticed that here in Washington State they are just now starting to fall a little.