Where can I buying land at $1,000 acre?

I just saw prices on a website so I am glad you told me this. It is something for me to keep in mind now.

Lynnabird is right about Oregon. The only place in Oregon where you'd still be able to get land at that price is in the remotest parts of Eastern Oregon. Water might be six hundred to a thousand feet down and alkali, and there wouldn't be anything on the property but sagebrush.

You can still buy land from the State in Alaska for that price (have you checked the Alaska Dept. of Nat. Resources land sales site? http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/mlw/landsale/ ). However, it's going to be pretty remote. Not all of it is fly-in. I've been eyeing some land over by Manley Hot Springs (Kentucky Creek II subdivision on the ADNR website) that meets all of my criteria and is on a road. However, it's about 150 miles from Fairbanks, and the road is often closed in the winter. The parcels in the subdivision haven't been selling very fast. (As of last time I checked, the only ones that had sold were the ones right on the road -- nothing back in farther had sold.) With gas prices going up and up and up, places like that are going to be back to relying on pack trains and dog sleds before too many more years. So consider carefully before you buy anything.

There are probably still parcels in Northern Maine within your price range. It's isolated but not as isolated as the land in Alaska that I mentioned. Check out Mooers Realty http://www.mooersrealty.com/

Have fun -- and don't be in a hurry. Real estate prices are probably going to be dropping for several years yet.

Kathleen

That's how it is here too.

It's not isolated in northern Maine, it just takes a while to get to somewhere else. The main selling point for the farm land I bought here was that it was 4.2 miles from wally world (next town over). As the saying goes, "If they don't sell it you don't need it." Having only 397 residents in the town with no school system was icing on the cake! (low taxes)

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I wished I could have found land for as little as $10,000 per acre here in Central FL.

Here your looking more in the neighborhood of $30,000 - $50,000 per.

Of course that was before the housing colapse here, Levitt and Sons has left 17 multi-thousand home developments unfinished or not even started in the Orlando area alone when they went bankrupt.

So who knows if the prices will drop soon.

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Mark NC off your list. You would be lucky to find it for $10,000 an acre here. The cheapest I found in the state was $3000 and it was 200 acres of swampland.

"and NC, but it will be the most vertical, inaccessable, rugged country you will ever want to see"

There's a 75 acre tract like that just up the road from here but the very large sign says "18,500 per acre".

An 8,300 acre tract within sight of my front porch just sold for $39 million, thats $4,700 per acre. Its remote, steep, inaccessible with rock cliffs up to 800' tall.

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$1,000 per acre?

I do not know of any land around here for that price.

I bought 42 acres of riverfront forest two years ago for $900 per acre. Good county road with power, phone line and DSL at the pavement.

My inlaws bought 105 acres of forest across the road from me at $350 per acre. Of course they have no river frontage. So their land is much cheaper.

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Our taxes are real high though, I pay $1.05 per acre in property taxes each year. That is all of $47 I pay. Ouch.

Good luck in your search though, keep looking and I am sure that you will find land for $1,000 per acre.

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One thing I have to decide on is how remote I want to be. I figure with 40 acres I should n't be bothered by anyone I suppose. How did most of you decide on how remote to be when you decide to get your land? What were you main things or questions you asked yourself when looking? I figure once I decide on this it will help alot on picking a location.

I drive 7 miles to get onto the freeway, 12 more miles gets us to Bangor [which is the state's second biggest city], which has a shopping mall, two hospitals [one of which is a teaching hospital], and an international airport.

We have a state university about 14 miles away [UM at Orono].

We have moose, deer, bear, and wild turkey on my land; I keep two kayaks in the water behind my house; and yet we feel fairly close to society.

You can get remote land in AK for a great price. You don't need 40 acres. Get 5 in the right place and it will be 20 years before you have a neighbor.

http://www.landinalaska.com/K075/K075.htm

Here is a deal:

http://www.landinalaska.com/B182/B182.htm

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http://www.landinalaska.com/images.htm?var1=Photo's&var2=B182&var3=B182f1.jpg

Actually Lewiston is Maine's 2nd largest city and Bangor is the third largest.

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I stand corrected.
Thank you.

Try Arkansas

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Some areas of Indiana are available for that. In particular, Greene and Owen counties in southern Indiana usually have at least a few listings for that.

HTH,
Mike

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We've been looking in New York, if you go north of rt 90 (the Thruway) you can usually find something around $1000 an acre but it gets pretty darn cold and you have a lot of snow to deal with. It also requires picking around because the taxes here bite you pretty hard.

Kayleigh

Figure agin! With only 40 acres you will have to be carefull of where you site things and where your 40 acres is and you need to build a REALLY good fence!

Not always.

I have river on the 'back', county road on the 'front', and the properties on either side are both forest.

My land is forested fairly thick along the road. with wood lot management paths cut at about 40 foot intervals. There are a few clearings here and there. You walk ten paces into the forest and in many areas it is dark, the canopy is fairly thick.

I can produce a lot of: firewood, Maple sugar, honey, fish, eggs, and veggies. We get a few different flocks of turkey that wander across my land, a few moose, some deer, and beaver.

No neighbor [if I had any] could see my home, nor what I am doing here.

If anyone was really all that curious their best opportunity to 'watch' me is via satellite. But no fence is going to stop that.

I see no need, nor purpose in a fence.