Where would you put.....

What are you going to irrigate? Are y'all going to do a crop?

Uh, just like a woman; answered her question and she dumped me. I had an old girlfriend like that one time.

Cool. That's where I told my husband I wanted the house.

Nope. People already see me as too negative. I just wouldn't buy that property.

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I had a feeling you were a negative person that liked to make negative comments on people's posts. I bet you like popping kid's balloons too, hug?

right... sure... (don't give up that day job to be a psychic or shrink)

I've just been around a bit, long enough to know to not plop myself smack in the middle of a family split where the two sides could shoot over my property, and a bunch of other stuff. There is more land for sale on earth than that one patch.

This actually happens a lot. I would make sure through a deed on file for that property that there is a permanent easement recorded and that you in fact can put a road in. Not always will the county let you put in a driveway off their roads. This is a huge issue in our area. Good luck.

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Haha you're too much. If you would have read my previous posts you would know that it wasn't a family split with feuding sides. The patriarch of the family passed and the daughter is selling the land she inherited because she already had her own property. I personally know the family and the property beside this one belongs to my cousin. Not every family in the world hates each other.

I'd get it perked, figure out the best spot for the septic, also find out where the well will go, then study the seasonal sun exposure, and also study the property for a year before building... Before we begin building on our new property, we are living here for a year in a motorhome. Our property already has well/septic/power/driveway, but we have multiple building spots to consider. One would give us quite a view, but taxes would go up, and less privacy. The most privacy would be higher up on our property, but then we would need to pump our water uphill from the well, but septic is downhill, and we would have to run all the utilities further (more expensive). The other spots aren't as appealing, for different reasons. We have decided to do our studies and have a site visit before we opt for the building spot. The decision may be made for us.

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Good ideas. We are tempted to put a temporary home on the land so we could get a feel for everything like you said. We probably won't build for about a year so we can save for the loan down payment.

We are definitely getting it perked. Our realtor gave us a list of things that we should do before buying since we want to build and have animals. It would be terrible if we bought it and it didn't perk. :-/

Absolutely! How will you determine where the well will go? It was "dumb luck" the well driller chose the spot for our well. When this guy drilled 5 wells on surrounding properties, including ours, it had the best output and water quality of them all. Based on its location, I'd wager they just picked the spot out of convenience for the existing structures and driveway. Our property had this existing well, yet the seller (she was in a care facility, so her DD acted as POA) didn't seem to know anything about it. They had disclosed the well pump was bad, only had a drawing from her father (drawn when he was dying of cancer). We had the well/water very thoroughly tested. I sure was surprised how expensive it was (most of my Clients don't opt for the level of testing we did). It was money well spent! The well pump, pressure tank, and everything worked great. Funny thing, the family had bypassed this good well and were using the insufficient one next door for both properties over the past 5 years! It was still hooked up when we bought the place a few months ago.

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"Not every family in the world hates each other."

Give 'em time. I've seen it happen too many times when a matriarch or some other leader of family politics dies. With other issues I see just from the overhead, I would pass on it anyway, but that is just me.

i would really suggest taking a couple of days and reading Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway and Introduction to permaculture (avail as a download online)..before planning any new land..this will help you to make the proper decisions on what, when, where and why

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Good question. I wonder if we can give several possible locations for them to perk test. I told my husband I would like the water tested because the land was used for farming which means chemical fertilizers and herbicides etc.

Welp. That's why you are you and I and me. 👍😁

Thanks for the recommendation!

I have some of the same concerns as other writers. In general, though, anything you have to pay for yourself you want close to the road or access: your access road, driveway, electric, gas (if you're lucky enough to have a service line), phone/cable, municipal water or sewer (ditto). This could get $$$$ really fast. Your County extension might be quite helpful. I know they are around here. You should get information about soil, soil depletion, all the services above, flood plain. If more of the land might flood or the water might spread out, creating a wetlands, you could be running into into federal restrictions & requirements.

As has been said, the further you run things from the road, the more it costs. Also, bad weather and flooding or snow can isolate you if you're away from the road. Also consider how far and by what means children have to travel to get to school bus. Neighbours aren't always a bad thing - you and they can provide mutual security - neighbourhood watch - for each other.

Also, if you are closer to the road, it makes it easier to notice and control anyone coming onto your property - and that place looks like it might well attract hunters if any part of it was unguarded.


I'd be inclined to keep orchards or decorative trees far away from beavers.

Remember, good fences make good neighbours. You'll need to build lots of brand new fences along newly-surveyed boundaries. In theory, your neighbours should put in half the cost of boundary fences, but that depends on local laws. This is a situation where they might not be happy about having to build new fences to lock them away from land they used to farm. Consider also that the land is long and narrow. That makes a LOT more fence that if it were square.

Build 200 yards off the road if possible and 200 yards from neighbors, if possible.

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Hey there...

My wife and inherited a piece of family land because no one else wanted it....... Until it became ours lol

I know a bit about this situation, you can figure out the family politics it may be a hassle in the beginning but they will get the picture pretty quick. One of our biggest problems were actually the neighbors, constantly trespassing, atvs in the fields after it rained and then of coarse hunting season.

Our farm is 60 acres that was just left to grow no one ever took care of it, they took what they needed from the land and never thought of the future. So we had and still have a lot of clean up too do. But it's still better than having to buy a piece.

The only real concern I would have if I were you would be the beavers, they really can wreak havoc and destroy great pieces of land. Then again beavers have accidents everyday.......

It's a nice looking piece of property, especially if you can afford it. Lots of negative comments but honestly if it has water and you can get a septic the rest is easy. One thing I want to mention we were forced by the town to build an above ground leach field with special sand that cost is just under 20k! If I had it to do over I would have waited another couple months to start building and brought some fill in to avoid that.

I didn't want to move here at first because of all the other reasons mentioned on this thread, but now we are living our dream and I wouldn't trade it for anything else