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Go to www.realtor.com, and then find "search by map" on the right. Click on any state, then single family home, and then it will give you LOTS of options to check, 75K maximum, scroll way way down to 5 or more acres, etc. It's really a neat search if you know how to narrow down the results. One in my area, house + 5 acres, barn etc, 75K. Priced to high, only a few trees, but really nice area, nice people, low taxes, lots of jobs in E-Town. My area would be KY, Elizabethtown (yeah, the movie Elizabethtown town) Don't look at anything close to the Ohio River, as they always have really bad storms that seem to always follow the river north east. Brandenburg always get really bad storms. Breckinridge & Grayson counties still have no restrictions, which is good. In the country south or west of E-Town is great and still not overboard on prices if you really look.

Sometimes Kentucky Land has some good deals, but you've got to act really fast as they go quick. www.ky-land.com or www.mhdrealty.com

Also, the Thrifty Nickle Ads online always has lots of real estate, allot you won't see online. And you can search by locations. (our location is under Louisville) Have fun looking!

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Here's a couple from our paper. KY Land does not ever have them all on their websites. You have to call, I don't think they answer their emails very good.

5 ACRES AND A NICE 2000 D-W HOME, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, Block foundation, new large warp around deck, new carpet, ready to move in condition. Located west of Elizabethtown, on Pierce Mills Rd off Hwy 84, $69,900

6 ACRES - With a 1999, 16x76 mobile home, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, city water, small barn & pond. Located on Hwy 84, 4 miles off 1-65 between Sonora and Hondgenville. $54,900. $4900 down, $554/month. www.kentucky-land.com.
(lots of amish folks down in this area, very quiet area)

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KY is on our top 10 list. I hope by Spring our list is down to 2 states and a few properties we can go and scope out. With help from the people on here I'm sure we will end up making a great decision.

Thanks to all and keep the ideas coming.


Kenneth in NC

I'm partial to WV. I eventually hope to get to one of the more western cos.(less snow) Check out the Homes and Land website. There are a lot of reasonable pieces of land some even have free gas.

I like Snow. Have not seen any in years but do like it.

It's 29 degrees and cloudy. Was 75 yesterday. Chihuahua is having fits. So is DD.


Kenneth in NC

Where I live in Kansas, the properties would cost you twice what you wish to spend.

BUT!

The small towns in the middle of nowhere are MUCH cheaper! And, if you put out your application to ANY and EVERY small town that sounds interesting, you can move to whatever town hires one of you for a job that you like.

Land is cheap in Central Kansas, Northern Missouri, and parts of Southern Missouri. This is because people are moving out of those areas for the bright lights and greater oportunities of the city.

Central Kansas is rolling hills, good soil, lots of smallish trees, and good deer hunting. I love it there. Westerrn Kansas is FLAT and DRY!

Northern Missouri has less trees, Southern Missouri has perhaps more. Kansas is strongly Republican, Missouri tends to be Democrat.

www.unitedcountry.com is a good way to discover where the cheap properties are: they ask the going rate for those properties. IF you can afford ther land, you can go to any raltor in the area and buy something.

Happy hunting!
Terri

The people at united Country's home office know me by name. Some can identify me by my voice.

I search there lisings weekly.


Kenneth in NC

You could try North centeral PA. The air is clean. Property is cheap compaired to most places. Water is only from a well. Electric is pretty cheap 8 cents a kw. Taxes can be low and their are areas with no zoning. You get snow and cold but not like the mountain states out west. The area now has a highway (last 6 years) connecting it to other areas so it's not as remote as it once was but it's still called the centeral mountain region. The jobs are scarce in the area but it's a easy commute to Harrisburg, State Collage, Corning, NY. The region is still mostly woods and timber but the price your talking, and the work you say you do this might be a good solution.

It's a start.
If united country has affordable land in an area, E-mail a century 21 agent or ANOTHER real estate agent in that area. If united country has good listings, so do they.

That's how we found our land outside of town.

I just bought land in Maine last summer.

In the process of building a home now.

42+ acres of forest, phone and electric at the road, 1/4 mile of riverfrontage. Pretty much flat, cost $35k.

Across the street my SIL bought:
105+ acres of forest, P and E, but no river frontage, also pretty much flat, cost $35k.

7 miles to the freeway. 20 miles to Bangor (city with malls and shopping centers).

My property taxes were $42. The local highschool has under 500 students. People carry rifles and shotguns on gun-racks in their pick-up trucks. couple weeks ago I saw a 900 pound moose at the tag-station. the state game website says that in my township each square mile harvests 10 deer each year.

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I suggest central or eastern Oklahoma.

Land is cheap, schools are usually decent or better, the climate is mild, living expenses aren't too bad, medical care is pretty good, and the people are a lot better than average. Good rainfall in the eastern half of the state, good soil many places.

Here are some sample properties in a good area, some have no house but you could buy a mobile home and still be under your $75,000 while usually getting MUCH more land (I misread your post and only searched properties larger than 10 acres....so sell off some and build a better house). Click on "see more pictures" for each one.

http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/searchNS/Search_View_Selected_Property.asp?SID=19878232&Act ion=Edit&Item=559308&Page=4&Office='35025'

http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/SearchNS/Search_View_Selected_Property.asp?SID=19878346&Lcn t=&Action=Edit&Item=558897&Page=3&Office='35056'

This one just has a small house, but it's fairly new

http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/SearchNS/Search_View_Selected_Property.asp?SID=19878346&Lcn t=&Action=Edit&Item=533578&Page=5&Office='35056'

Less acreage but also cheaper are:

http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/searchNS/Search_View_Selected_Property.asp?SID=19878232&Act ion=Edit&Item=558062&Page=4&Office='35025'

http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/searchNS/Search_View_Selected_Property.asp?SID=19878232&Act ion=Edit&Item=552608&Page=4&Office='35025'

This all is a fraction of what turned up in less than five minutes of searching, and you CAN bargain the realtors down significantly and you CAN get MUCH cheaper prices by hunting land direct and bypassing realtors entirely.

If you want hilly land for gods own view, try down near McAlester, up in the NE, or LeFlore or a county or two westwards. McAlester would have the better schools. I've been told that Pottawatomie County has some excellent schools, especially down by Macomb (cluster of ex-military there, who value good education, is what I was told)

Main difference between a lot of Okies & the Sacketts is that the Okies were more willing to marry Indians...... and are much better looking (no doubt in direct consequence!)

try CWALakestreet.com

I personally think you are being a bit judgemental about MO and I think you should take a better look. We have great land, low taxes (some areas are the lowest in the country), super water, great trees and resourses... and as far as I know, I havent run into the the bad things you mentioned... Here is some info on the area i live in...

http://www.salemmo.com/
http://www.dese.state.mo.us/directory/033090.html
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Salem,+MO+65560
Belinda <-----who is not into or associated with the meth labs and/or intolerant clannish folks and has not had any problems with or dealings with them either...

Mrs. Stuart I base my opinion on several things that happened to us while in Missouri and on the happenings to HT posters such as Earnest and a few others that have told their "horror" stories.

I know that "David" and a couple others here are nice folks. Maybe I was bit "judgemental" in my statement. I meant no disrespect to the "nice" folks that live in MO.

Kenneth in NC

Thanks Kenneth, I appreciate it!!!
Actually, I do believe there is bad stuff everywhere and if i was looking for a "new" place to go and live, I think (after my main issues, like clean environment and good schools and such) I would focus on the actually organization of the community...and what it has to offer and counter-offer when it comes to the negatives in the world...
Our small but fair town offers a lot and strives to be the best each year...in fact our town was the picked as the #1 community (in our size group) by the community betterment assoc. for this year and we were second last year. We take a lot of pride in the community and work together, and in my opinion, it outweighs the "bad" because the community works together to help stamp out the bad. I am pretty sure that is the perfect place was out there, it would have a polutation problem...You have to find a community that stives to be a good community and work in it and within it to keep it that way. Thanks again and good luck with your search... I hope you checked out the links on our area...there is some great fishing around here too.

Belinda <----- Not really offended but trying to make a point that you cant judge a whole state by a few persons stories!!! Because now, you have heard a good one...

I like Kentucky too. Moved here 3 years ago after retiring from the Navy. One thing to pay attention to, if you decide upon KY (and you and the wife like to partake of strong drink on occasion).....the area's "dry" or "wet" status. There are many counties in KY that are "dry"....can't buy alcohol. Yeah, the one I am in is dry (so far, but they are trying to get it changed in the spring election). However, the next county over isn't, so people don't have to go too far to drink if they choose.

Weather in south central KY is pretty good. Not a whole lot of snow in the winters (well, at least in the last 3 of them anyways), it gets cold...but its not the bitter biting take-your-breath-away cold that you typically get in the northern midwest (originally born and raised in WI).

People-wise, they are for the most part nice. A little wary of newcomers, it may take them some time to get used to you. LOTS of Baptists in these here parts.

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Gotta agree with Terri about Kansas. Lots of small towns with unbelievably low priced homes. $91,000 bought us l4 acres, a 4-bedroom farmhouse, ENORMOUS morton building and orchard with apples, peaches, asparagus, 2 hoop house greenhouses, blackberries and built in home market. Small towns 4 miles to west, 5 miles to north, and 3 1/2 miles to east. 3 bedroom brick home with basement and garage sold 2 months ago with 4 acres for $39,000 at auction 6 miles from us... Larger town with Wallyworld, etc. 25 miles away. Each of those 3 small towns have homes and farms for sale. Turkeys everywhere, pheasants to trip over (literally) and unfortunately deer galore (can't wait for hunting season). Can get hot but yu got the wind - not as humid at all as Oklahoma, Ms., Ark., Tex., etc. You have certifiable changes in seasons, rolling ground, lakes to fish and winters not bad. Snows usually end of year or after first of year and doesn't stick around long. Used to live in Nebraska for first l5 years of married life - found it an expensive state to live in. Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in - very, very cheap houses here in small towns and country - land selling around $450- $800 in northern and central Ks. Cheaper in extreme western Ks. (stay away from there - lower rainfall). Might give it a good think-over...

doggone it-- I was going to tell you that you had described our area perfectly, despite the fact everyone has discovered it----but perhaps " us clannish hillbillies" wouldnt fit after all. lol
really, arent you judging us without knowing us?my 2 best friends are from rockford, ill, and new mexico.but--if you come into the ozarks with the attitude we're all dumb hillbillies, and you're going to show us how everything should be done---well, then you would find yourself shut out.
to me, this is the perfect area, thats why i've stayed 66 years--and no, i wasnt born here.

Kenneth,

I tried to PM you about how to have it all in the mountains of North Alabama, but you don't have that feature activated. Send me an email and I'll get you the info.

I'm so glad you never heard of any place on the rim that runs across Arizona. Better hurry fast. The door is closing....