what are y'all paying per acre where you live? Land is expensive!

[Wanna-b-country]

I too got a pretty good deal on land in Louisiana, paying 3k per acre for 17 acres in Chataignier, La. Looks like Have_Blue and I are going to be neighbors eventually. We haven't had time to do as much as I want with it since my job is in Morgan City, a hundred miles away. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif


I can just afford to go up once a month or so and cut grass now, but I managed to get a 4 acre pasture fenced in, and water run to a faucet there, so if I ever DO get there, part of it will be ready. I plan to put in a 12 stable barn, use the back 5 acres for small turnouts and rent stalls to some folks. If I can rent out 8 or 9 stalls a month, that would pay the note to build the barn http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

 

[saltman]

To me land is a lot like a lady, everyone has their own definition of beauty and worth. What some people find as being attractive others may view as over priced and high mantainence. The key is to find a some land you like a lot that is under valued by it's owner. Kind of like finding a beutiful woman who doesn't know it.. ok enough of that analogy.

I found 175 acres an hour from San Diego, California for less than 1,000 an acre. I looked for 2 and a half years and found something I liked and a current land owner (city dweller) who had never even been there.

No you can't develop it, ( I can a few houses though and I only need one) It's also too hot in the summer and too cool in the winter for most of the Southern California crowd but for a country boy from Eastern Washington, it's not as hot as where I come from nor near as cold. The fact that it's Mexico is less that 5 miles away is no different than living near Grandview Washington or any other place in the Yakima Valley.

There are some deals out there you just need to be patient.... or maybe I only got a good deal in my own mind.. which is all that really matters anyway isn't it.

 

[flusher]

since I just recently bought my small farm I was wondering what y'all are paying per acre......here in Madison county Alabama your doing well to get land for less than 10K an acre, normally you will pay 10-15K......land is getting so expensive normal working folks can't afford it......I just need to vent!

I paid $10,500/acre in 2005 for 10 acres of flat, prime CA grazing land here in the North Valley. The property sold previously in 1999 for $42,500. Property came with 30 almond trees. Picked about 10 gallons of nuts so far this season.

 

[john_bud]

Yep Roy Rogers said it, "Buy land, they ain't making any more of it."


Bought 80 acres in 1993-4 for $14,000. The land had been logged flat and looked like heck. Amazing what a few years tree growth, trails, food plots and tree stands will do.

Bought 160 acres in 1996 for $42,500. Felt pretty bad getting ripped off like that. But, while this was logged, it wasn't flat. Still had some decent trees.

Just bought 40 acres this year for $130,000. All wooded with watering hole sized pond, pole shed, trails and 130 to 180 class bucks (real close to Buffalo county where the big bucks roam as seen in many videos). It's also 7 miles from my house, unlike the other 240 acres that are 100 miles north. It supplies my heat for the winter and exercise in the summer.


And to think that my co-workers gave me heck for buying land and not the hot tech stock du jour (which uniformly bombed) during the '90's. Yeah, they laughed when I called tree farming "a mutual fund with hunting rights"!

jb

 

[mjncad]

26 acres................just under 50 mil.
Land is crazy.

Corcoran, 501 Ocean Road, Susan Breitenbach, SVP

No doubt Martha Stewart will buy this and construct another "House Arrest Palace" on it for the next time she gets in trouble and doesn't want to spend time at "Camp Cupcake."

I'd like to know what Susan Breitenbach's commission will be on this sale.

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

I've got 35 acres with a 3/4 done house on it that I'd be willing to let go "as is" to any of you for $275,000...
10.4 ac clean brome field, 23 +/- ac rough pasture w/small pond + 1/4 mile of road row on 2 sides - wife and I think it's pretty: trees, brush, "rolling" terrain, and lots of wildlife -- but like they say, "eye of the beholder".
I'm in NE Ks, about 15 miles from Topeka and 65 from the edge of Kansas City (Cabelas!) and I've seen land here go as cheap as $750 an acre (10 years ago before prices went stupid, and it was a 240 ac parcel with no subdivision allowed) up to about $15k an acre for rural 3 ac lots.

 

[gf5205]

Can't remember who made the quote, but when asked about investing he said "Buy land, they're not making any more of it!"

Will Rogers

 

[NFA Fun]

Certain areas of Scottsdale are 1 to 2 million per acre if not more. No, that does not include the home! To live in a "nice" area you will need at lease a million. With prices like these, I am selling this spring and moving to my cabin in the mountains.

 

[schmism]

For Sale 260 acres Jersey County Illinois

yours for ONLY $3700 an acre

id love 260 acres but im fresh out of million dollar bills... you?

 

[JerryG]

If someone wants a good deal on a modern poultry farm in the mountains of northwest Arkansas, send me a PM. Close to Tablerock and Beaver lakes and Eureka Springs. I think that I am going to try something different. My health isn't as good as it needs to be for this type of operation any more. Land has went up about 300-400% in the last seven years in this area and it doesn't look like it going to slow down any time soon. This is the only large area of the state that is booming.