Want to see some cheap homes/farms

[msta999]

http://www.sissetonrealty.com/otherlistings.htm

[WileyCoyote]

Ummm...er... those ain't cheap, msta! LOL
If you want to see some really good and cheap farmland advertising, go to www.landsofAmerica.com. Type in your price range and desired property size, and brace yourself. You can do it state by state (click on the left side of the page once the general listings come up). Then when you see something in an area you are interested in, look at the realtor's name. Type that into your search engine or click on it (some are not linked) and you can see their entire webpage of inventory.

I spent 6 months online looking at LandsofAmerica. The property I finally bought I found in exactly this way.They have everything from $4000 trailers to $million acreage; and you can even specify how large a structure or piece of property you want. This is the most comprehensive listing place for farmland I have found. And once you find the realtor(s) you like, it is fairly easy to bookmark him or call him.

Next month we are moving 1800 miles away to our dream home - that we found at LoA.

[msta999]

That is a good site, but I am finding, if you know where you want to live, you can find some good deals using that local real. web site.
Here is another one, if I could convince the wife to move, I'd be here: http://www.landandfarm.com/lf/s/63/123564.asp

[beekeeper]

House on a lot, is not a farm.

How much is acreage in that area?

[msta999]

House on a lot, is not a farm.

How much is acreage in that area?


Ya, that is true. I think I'm corrupted with the high prices out here. This one has only a little over 24 acres and if you look at it, looks like a lot of it is the ground the house and all the out buildings are sitting on. Still, compared to here, that is a hell-of-a-price for so much land and all the buildings on it. By the looks of the pics, looks like there is atleast one field with it, if you can believe the pics.

[msta999]

That last link I posted, if you do a search, leave the state open and select 5 acre to 100 acre at 50K or less, you come up *with land all over the states. I even found some here in washington state, that I had not heard of. So this might help someone as a tool to look for land to build your homestead.

Here is the search link:

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

[arrow62]

I got to looking at this site and found one, not too bad but it does come with a home. It would be about an hour drive into work. The problem is is I want something on the west slope of colorado or soutern Wyoming. Alot less people over there

http://www.landsofcolorado.com/colorado/index.cfm?Detail=&INV_ID=136098

[beekeeper]

I would not consider any property without running water.

There is too much land to choose from in America to pay a high price, when you could be paying a low price and saving money for your farm.

Do not pay over $1,000 per acre anywhere [assuming that it has waterfrontage].

I have seen a lot of farm without water, that becomes a huge obstacle.

[msta999]

Yes, it is hard to live with no water on your land, that is pretty much a "must have".

I have been looking for land around the 500 a acre price. I see some, but not in the places I want to live. When I was 19, an old farmer I use to work for, try'd to talk me into buying farm land, he said it was 100 acre at that time, I didn't do it and wish I had now.
I have been concidering an old farm since some of them are pretty cheap, but will need a lot of work. Problem is, if it is not local, it would be a vacation project, to get it ready for retirement, which is still about 15 -20 years a way. I think it would be smarter to go with just land for now, or I would have to rent it out, which can be a pain.

[WileyCoyote]

Another thing to remember - not all states require sellers to sell rights with the property. You may only get a share of the water rights, or you may only get the water rights, and not the rights to the minerals or oil underneath your property. Which means that one month you may have cattle running across your property - and the next month you may have oil rigs or strip mines. You not only cannot stop it - you do not profit from it because the previous owner owns those rights. That is a BIG problem right now in ND, where shale oil mining has been a HUGE boom in the economy.

Own ALL your rights!!!!

[otobesane1]

Is it just me or is the whole town of Sisseton for sale? ???

TK

[msta999]

It is a small rural/farming town with around 18K people. When I lived there, the town was 1 mile square. Drive around on a sunday and there is nothing open, but the resturant.

[Steve_L]

You folks are great! Thanks for all the urls. I really, really want to own a homestead. I don't really want to "farm", to me a farm is a place where you grow something to sell, and live off the profits.

I want independence. Basically, I want a garden that will provide all my family's vegie needs(according to "5 Acres and Independence", that's just over half an acre...) some land to grow chicken feed, rabbit food, pasture for a milk goat, a few sheep, and maybe mini-cows or meat goats, and space for a few outbuildings, a shop, a greenhouse and a small fish farm (about the size of a few swiming pools).

Some of these look pretty good.

[msta999]

Steve,
there is nothing wrong with a mini or hobby farm, that is my goal. More land does look good, though, if you can swing it. ;D

[Steve_L]

How much land is needed?

I saw another thread on this. I guess some of it depends on the land. Personally, I think I want my neighbors as far away as I can get them, so the more land the better. On the other hand, more land tends to have negatives for it, like it can't grow anything.

Steve,
there is nothing wrong with a mini or hobby farm, that is my goal. More land does look good, though, if you can swing it. *;D