Nice Missouri 5 acres on ebay

BeckyW · #1 11/03/05, 08:05 AM

First, I have no financial interest in this in any way. I just happened to be cruising around ebay and saw this. it's 5 acres in Stockton, MO - looks like a beautiful piece of land. No one has bid on it (expires Friday evening, 11/04). Starting bid $360 for the downpayment w/ loan amt $18,000. Looks pretty competitive for the area.
If you're looking for Missouri land, you might want to take a look.
Ebay item 4415091166.

Enjoy
BW

frogmammy · #2 11/03/05, 09:31 AM

My daughter lives near that area. Tornado went through Stockton..maybe 3 years ago?...destroyed quite a bit of the town. Nice lake for fishing nearby. Most of that area is pretty level. Generally what DD's friends have told her though, is that if she pays more than $1,000 an acre she's overpaying. BUT the land may be IN town....

Mon

donsgal · #3 11/03/05, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BeckyW

First, I have no financial interest in this in any way. I just happened to be cruising around ebay and saw this. it's 5 acres in Stockton, MO - looks like a beautiful piece of land. No one has bid on it (expires Friday evening, 11/04). Starting bid $360 for the downpayment w/ loan amt $18,000. Looks pretty competitive for the area.
If you're looking for Missouri land, you might want to take a look.
Ebay item 4415091166.

Enjoy
BW

Apparently, you did not read the restrictions.....

RESTRICTIONS

No residential structure shall be erected upon said property that does not
provide and contain a minimum area of floor space of 1,000 square feet;

No mobile home, trailer, tent, or shack shall be allowed;

No livestock shall be raised or maintained for commercial purpose;

No reclamation or auto salvage including exterior storage of non-licensed vehicles shall be allowed;

No junk cars, hazardous or other refuse may be thrown or dumped on any lot or tract in said subdivision;

Each owner of a lot or tract is required to keep said premise in a presentable condition, and non-burnable refuse must be hauled away regularly for disposal

No lot or tract shall be subdivided into a smaller lot or tract.
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Just a trifle too restrictive for me, thank you (NO LIVESTOCK???) By the way, $2,000 - $2,500 an acre is more realistic. It's a very nice area, very pretty, but I don't need somebody telling me what to do and how to live. Besides, you can get a LOT better deal just by calling up a real estate agent in the area. 10 percent interest is awful high. And I believe that this is a "contract for deed" which means you don't own anything and the deed is NOT in your name until the property is PAID IN FULL. Again, NOT a good idea.

I'd pass if I were you.

donsgal

Paranoid · #4 11/03/05, 10:11 PM

no matter how pretty it is, with those restrictions that property is a stinking pile of manure.

Lindafisk · #5 11/03/05, 10:32 PM

Ummm, the restictions say no livestock for COMMERCIAL purposes....I don't think that means you can't have chickens or something. And I guess y'all would rather live next door to Joe Bob the pig farmer who happens to collect junk cars and trucks for SALVAGE and lives in a falling down mobile home? With trash and junk all over? I'm not one for restrictions either but these aren't all bad ...just think of all those nasty places you have driven by before....you have driven by those places and thought they looked bad haven't you?

Hoop · #6 11/04/05, 06:16 AM

I too find the restrictions very reasonable. One would hope the neighboring properties have the same restrictions.....which means you'll never have to endure a neighbor with a grubby eyesore of a mobile home, 26 junk cars, or 200 hogs crapping upwind of you.

I can't see how anyone would even consider owning property where similar restrictions WEREN'T in place. Why would anyone want to go through the investment of building a nice house.....only to have some cracker next door move their grubby trailer in and destroy your property value?

bachelorb · #7 11/04/05, 06:28 AM

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a neighbor with a grubby eyesore of a mobile home

We call them family.

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26 junk cars

We call them windbreaks

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200 hogs crapping upwind of you

Our neighbors call that "the smell of money"

Paranoid · #8 11/04/05, 06:34 AM

do you "homestead" in a retirement community or something?

you are so out of place right now...

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Originally Posted by Hoop

I too find the restrictions very reasonable. One would hope the neighboring properties have the same restrictions.....which means you'll never have to endure a neighbor with a grubby eyesore of a mobile home, 26 junk cars, or 200 hogs crapping upwind of you.

I can't see how anyone would even consider owning property where similar restrictions WEREN'T in place. Why would anyone want to go through the investment of building a nice house.....only to have some cracker next door move their grubby trailer in and destroy your property value?

Lindafisk · #9 11/04/05, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Paranoid

do you "homestead" in a retirement community or something?

you are so out of place right now...

#10 11/04/05, 09:46 PM

I am always aggravated by people who want to tell others how to live on their own property. It is none of your business. If you want to control what is next to you, buy 80 acres and build in the middle of it. Deciding what other people should do with their property is what leads to these stupid eminent domain land takings. Remember, if you think you have a right to tell someone else how to care for their property, then you must agree that someone else has a right to tell you how to care for yours.

seedspreader · #11 11/04/05, 10:52 PM

You know, you all had to do it, go and get me all fired up late at night.

I thank God that you all live where you do and not here. Oh, I am NOT talking about the pig farmer/mobile home/junk man.

We live in a very nice, upkept area of Ohio, but we don't have restrictions. We do have zoning laws regulating what size acreage you must have to build etc. And they are reasonable and they can be changed. We hold our township trustees responsible by voting for them.

So I am out back (still the front portion of my land, but out back of my "living area" that includes my house/garage/lawn) loading up firewood into the bucket of the tractor to move into the attached garage at the house. This goober in tennis shoes (white, well they were before he walked onto my land) and a goofy hat comes walking up announcing that he is running for one of the two open township trustee seats.

I begin talking to him and he begins telling me how we need county water in the whole township... and it won't cost us a dime, because it's federal money. Already my "CAUTION" actions come alive, where I nod and squint alot. I have county water running down my road, right in front of my house. We of course still are hooked to the well as we didn't want to pay the 5K to hook up to the county water. So he tells me that it's important so that if there is a fire there is a hydrant and we don't have to rely on the dry hydrant. I wanted to ask the dumb... er, the dork, what good he thought the "county water" did for my neighbor 6 houses down the road last december when his house burnt to the ground because we have an all volunteer fire department.

He then launched into... I think we need to do something about people who have those piles of trash lying around and their neighbor has a nice house... I looked around at my pile of recycled wood (I have built a new chicken coop, a chicken tractor, converted a shed into another chicken coop and generally use the pile at least once a week) and I wondered if he thought it was a pile of trash... I then looked at my pile of split wood and wondered about that... I then looked at my 4 ford trucks that I have sitting in the "back area" and wondered if he thought those were junk? Our front area of our house is nice and presentable, my "back area" is where I make my living. I will bring in a car and scrap/part it out to earn extra cash. I don't have big junk piles, but does he know the difference??? I bought an old dump truck for 500 bucks. Sold the front axle for 461.00 on ebay, the rest of the truck for 650.00. It sat here 4 weeks while I did this.

So by now I am just sort of eyeing the guy up as he is talking about the two current trustees and inferring that he don't think one of them is honrable, he won't say which one, but oh, he is on the fire department with the one... blah blah blah...

So I ask him. How long have you lived here?

2 years, he moved here from just east of Akron, because he knew what he wanted, he wanted a place for a horse.

How the hello! does he know what the people in this township want? I don't recall being asked!

Anyways, I WON'T be voting for that fellow.

Oh, he saw my chickens free ranging and said, "I was looking at the chickens and thought, my wife would like these. I have chickens too."

Me: Oh yeah? I am getting ready to butcher some roosters. What kind do you have?

Dufus: We have a barred rock and a few others.

Me: Oh, you want one of those barred rock roosters?

D: Oh, no, I just got a rooster, If I took any of those roosters I would probably just turn them into capons.

Me: (Rolling eyes to self) Hmmm, why do you caponize them.

D: Well, it's basically like turning a chicken into a steer... (blah blah blah, insert a bunch of stupid talk here where he is trying to educate me about caponizing)

Me: Uh, yeah, I know what it is, why the heck do you do it? The rest of the world gave up caponizing and bought cornish cross because they have a 2:1 feed to meat ratio and you can harvest them in 8 weeks.

D: Oh, um, well I am on the EMS, so it's good practice.

At this point, I tell him have a good day and good luck with the election (thinking to self, you'll need it buddy) see you later!

I also hoped I would never need the EMS here because I don't want to be caponized!

Lindafisk · #12 11/04/05, 11:25 PM

Maybe it's just me, but I see a big difference between a couple of piles of wood that are being used and piles of rusty farm equipment that sits for years and is over-run by weeds. Ditto the vehicles used for parts-we have a parked car right now that we are fixing up-but we are not going to allow it to become an eyesore-dh washes and waxes it and we keep it clean around it instead of letting junk grow up around the tires. That's why I think some restrictions are not too bad, because you just don't know if the guy that moves in next door is an aspiring pig farmer or junk car/tractor salesman. Of course, if you happen to live on a big enough place and you don't have to see your neighbors, that might be the best way!
I'm all for personal freedoms here but am I the only one that doesn't want to live next door to a junkyard?

spam4einstein · #13 11/05/05, 12:00 AM

Ill try not to rant, everyone has a few zoning type laws they would like. Problem is everyone wants something different. In the end you end up living with a bunch of restrictions. I hate that someone can open a gas station next door from me... But I want absolute freedom to do as I please on my land, therefore I must give my neighbors the same respect.

pcdreams · #14 11/05/05, 07:13 AM

Most restrictions are just unneeded IMHO.

I understand some for environmental reasons, but as for the rest.

If you want tidy neighbors then move to town into one of those deed restricted neighboorhoods. The type of people that seem to thrive there are the kind that like to mind everyone elses business. People in the country don't want or need that kind of BS. Thus one of the reasons people move to the country in the first place.

blufford · #15 11/05/05, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by pcdreams

If you want tidy neighbors then move to town into one of those deed restricted neighboorhoods. The type of people that seem to thrive there are the kind that like to mind everyone elses business. People in the country don't want or need that kind of BS. Thus one of the reasons people move to the country in the first place.

I think that says it very well.

KAK · #16 11/05/05, 07:38 AM

BeckyW,

You probably thought you were just trying to be helpful. Although I am not looking for land, I appreciate you taking the time to post this.

Shepherd · #17 11/05/05, 08:31 AM

Looks like another land developer has purchased a huge plot of land from a farmer and is subdividing it off. There will be a lot of close neighbors, for sure. It's a nice property of 5 acres with a price of $3,600 per acre (very high in my opinion). The interest is high though. I'd check to make sure this isn't an association where they have all kinds of rules and restrictions like what you can build there, what the restrictions are with animals, etc. Looks like they've been clearing out the timber in most of those plots... that's a shame.

Land around southern Iowa is typically around $2,000 per acre (it'd have to be pretty nice and have road access to go for that). If it's right off the highway, it can go for more but who wants that?

Neat idea selling land on Ebay! LOL - amazing what the internet provides!

pcdreams · #18 11/05/05, 08:52 AM

Looking at my previous post, I though it might give the impression I was trying to dog the original poster.

Just wanted to clarify that I was only pointing out my view, didn't intend to flame anyone..

Shepherd · #19 11/05/05, 08:59 AM

Wow I just went back and read more about the Property Details (which I hadn't read before). I saw each place would have to dig their own well. That could be a problem if you have that many places drawing water from the same water source.

frogmammy · #20 11/05/05, 09:00 AM

As mentioned previously, a tornado went through there a VERY few years ago..the TORNADO cleared out quite a few trees in the area, and most of the town. This five acres could be *IN* town.

Mon