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02/20/07, 01:25 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Browntown, WI--the land of cheese!
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I found my cheap land, btw. It's in Missouri, in the middle of nowhere, for about $1000/acre. Sometimes less, depending on how remote it is.
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02/20/07, 05:19 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Utah, as low as $200 an acre.
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02/26/07, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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So can anyone beat $200 ?
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02/26/07, 09:19 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: la playa
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So can anyone beat $200 ?
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yep 
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02/26/07, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Maine
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But does it have water on it?
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02/26/07, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: la playa
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Originally Posted by BTO
But does it have water on it?
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Now, now  Nobody said anything about it being good usable land....just said could you beat $200 per acre. Just because even the longhorns and wild burros won't bother with it .....it's still land
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02/26/07, 11:48 PM
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Does the milk cow come with the land? **wink wink**
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02/27/07, 07:41 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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We bought in E. TX (near Pittsberg) a year or so ago and paid $95K for 63 acres, half pasture, half woods. I understand from locals that this was a very nice deal. I've seen similar sized/type land for 2000-2200 / acre, recently.
BTW, ETX can be very hot and humid!
Scott
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02/27/07, 08:25 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: la playa
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Originally Posted by lonelytree
Does the milk cow come with the land? **wink wink**
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Uh......cow? Errrr.....<peering at picture>....ya might want to go back and retake that biology course lonelytree. I'm pretty sure that there critter won't give no milk!
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02/28/07, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by simon66
We bought in E. TX (near Pittsberg) a year or so ago and paid $95K for 63 acres, half pasture, half woods. I understand from locals that this was a very nice deal. I've seen similar sized/type land for 2000-2200 / acre, recently.
BTW, ETX can be very hot and humid!
Scott
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That is a good deal.
How do you like Pittsburg?
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02/28/07, 08:09 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Hi, Southern Illinois is nice. I am originally from No. Illinois and know Freeport quite well. I went to SIU in Carbondale and have always said that it would be nice to return. The Shwanee Forest is really a great place to wander and land from Carbondale to the west toward the Mississippi R. is really pretty. Central Illinois is out for me, way to boring and flat. NW Illinois reminds me of So. Illinois, very nice. Scott
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02/28/07, 08:15 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by Trixie
That is a good deal.
How do you like Pittsburg?
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We live in Dallas presently and visit our land often. Pittsberg and Mt. Pleasant seem to be nice little towns. Mt. Pleas. is much larger and has I30 access plus most convienences. Seems like they have decent economies. Lowes has a huge dist. place there, Pilgrams Pride has their HQ's there and Peaches are big in ETX. Perhaps some day soon we will make the move, but until then we will cashflow the improvements to our land from our day jobs! Presently building a cabin in or recently cleared "park" and looking at business cases for Peaches or Grapes.
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02/28/07, 08:55 AM
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A man's man
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: southern Iowa
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land in the bottom tyre of countys in Iowa is between 1500 and 2000/Ac
just across the line in Mo. there is land that is selling for 1200 and 1500/Ac
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02/28/07, 09:18 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Originally Posted by bob clark
land in the bottom tyre of countys in Iowa is between 1500 and 2000/Ac
just across the line in Mo. there is land that is selling for 1200 and 1500/Ac
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Wow,
Thanks for reminding us to avoid that area.
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02/28/07, 08:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Washington
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My husband and I are selling our place here in Southern Oregon and have been looking for a better place to buy. So far what we have found is West Virginia to be the cheapest we have found. Lots of places for sale with acreage also have free natural gas to the property. Although we have decided on Virginia to move to. What we have decided has to do with homeschooling laws and the fact that it doesn't matter if there are jobs or not, as my husband is retired and doesn't have to work. Especially if you can be self sufficient! Just my two cents!
Deborah
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02/28/07, 09:26 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Originally Posted by Happyfarmwife
My husband and I are selling our place here in Southern Oregon and have been looking for a better place to buy. So far what we have found is West Virginia to be the cheapest we have found.
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Looking over this thread I saw nothing cheap about WV.
The cheapest was the Chihuahua desert, followed by Maine.
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02/28/07, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 273
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Originally Posted by SteveD(TX)
Cheap land most of the time means either poor soil or no jobs in the area. Or both. Why are people obsessed with "cheap land"? Why not look for land that offers "value" instead? The availability of decent soil, tolerable weather, availability of jobs nearby, good schools, medical facilities, etc.. at an affordable price makes a lot more sense to me. Believe it or not, there's still a lot of that available if you really look around despite what the naysayers will tell you. If you can't find a job to pay for it, or have the amenities necessary for a comfortable lifestyle, what's the point in cheap land?
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People differ in what they want from the land they buy.
Not everybody needs to have a job available nearby -- some folks can telecommunicate to their workplace, others are retired. Decent soil matters to those who plan to grow crops in their ground, but for those who do not plan to grow anything more than a few flowers around the front of the house do not need good soil. Also, nowadays alot of folks are building raised beds instead of tilling the ground, and they do not need great soil either.
Some folks would rather live well away from other folks than live near state of the art medical facilities.
Etc.
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03/01/07, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MI
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Good farmland in mid MI is 1800 - 2000 an acre in large plots.
Jack pine in northern MI is still high - 2500 or more in large plots.
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03/01/07, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 5,373
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Originally Posted by MsPacMan
People differ in what they want from the land they buy.
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Some folks would rather live well away from other folks than live near state of the art medical facilities.
Etc.
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Until they need it.
Land that is cheap and good for very little...... will always be cheap and good for very little, at least in our lifetimes. Except to sustain one's need to become a hermit, I guess. Or to brag about how much land they have. 
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03/01/07, 11:12 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 176
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Originally Posted by simon66
Hi, Southern Illinois is nice. I am originally from No. Illinois and know Freeport quite well. I went to SIU in Carbondale and have always said that it would be nice to return. The Shwanee Forest is really a great place to wander and land from Carbondale to the west toward the Mississippi R. is really pretty. Central Illinois is out for me, way to boring and flat. NW Illinois reminds me of So. Illinois, very nice. Scott
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Be nice about Central IL, I love it there. After years of hating it, I moved and now pine for it.
So my dh has interviews for Belleville, IL and Rockford IL. Anyone know the best bet for cheaper land and such?
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