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Originally Posted by KentuckyDreamer
My ex was in Adair County, Ky. But after looking at several properties I think the land he had was not "the norm". It was at the end of the road, house set back, etc.
When I contacted a realtor, the properties for sale had homes set on the main road, within throwing distance of the neighbor's home, or literally built within feet of the next property.
I looked at a typical Amish farm but the house was not built well.
We are very cautious about what we want...mineral rights, limited regs, etc.
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You may look from here until the end of your days for property with mineral rights and still not find any. Most people do not sell those, and for whatever strange reason, our screwed up laws separate them from the property rights. Probably as some ancient mechanism to let oligarchs screw us over.
There's what you want and what you're going to get, and they may not be the same thing.
Realtors are ... not good about finding you homesteads. In my experience, they don't have a clue what you're looking for and aren't going to show you the cheaper properties. They're not going to go off the beaten path until they've exhausted their pool of easy-to-reach properties.
Call around before you get too tied to any one realtor. Tell them exactly what you're looking for and point out that you won't appreciate them wasting your time with anything else. Probably 9 out of 10 will not help you at that point and you can move on to looking for that special one.
The one we had in Illinois must have shown us fifty properties that weren't anything like what we wanted. We finally gave up on her and went looking on our own ... weekend after weekend. We used Google Earth to scout out good locations ahead of time and drove down backroads until we saw what we wanted for sale.
As for property sitting right next to the main roads, any house built after rural electrification will probably be like that. If it's not, then it's going to be a big mansion built back in the woods, because that's the only folks who could afford to run electricity back out there.
One of the reasons we were able to get our property here in Texas for so cheap was that it had no access to water and no access to electricity. Nobody else wanted it. For 99.999% of Americans, it wasn't suitable as a homesite.
When we showed up, it was just a big pasture. We cut an old barbed wire fence to get in. Every post, every nail, every board was put exactly where I wanted it. I didn't have to settle for what some previous owner had decided (for right or for wrong).
That's always an option for you. Don't stop and think "well I can't build a home myself". You can buy nice sheds and convert them to a house, or you could pay a couple of good ol' boys to swing by and build you something, or you could just buy a more modern trailer home and park it there too.
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