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All I could find is expensive online listings (Around $20K-$25K for an acre or two on average). Generally talking about land in America but I'm open to Canada or parts of Europe.

All I could find is expensive online listings (Around $20K-$25K for an acre or two on average). Generally talking about land in America but I'm open to Canada or parts of Europe.
[–] 8 pts

I bought a 52ac undeveloped piece from an 85 year old for $27K back in 2003. No one in his family wanted it. It was a back woodlot on top of a hill with no deeded access, prior owner had to ask abutters for access to cut/remove his own wood. It abutted my 14ac piece and so I bought it dirt cheap. Turned the two of them into $3.5M worth of fabulous mountain/water view house lots ... 2005 pricing.

"There's gold in them hills..."

[–] 3 pts

Damn, I really want to retire in such place. Away from this clown world.

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Most of the folks that bought lots and built were 50+, the working well-to-do crowd. Every house is different, built by different local contractors and the overall project reflects beatiful homes on +/-1½ acre lots in a rural New England setting. No sidewalks, no street lights (underground utilities), just incredible unobstructed big-sky water/mountain views and sunsets facing west-southwest. 50 acres of open space woods with trails, vernal pools, granite outcrops, plenty of critters, abuts 1000+ acres of woods with trails owned by others. I can also see to the Atlantic Ocean and 2 more lakes to the East from my last saved lot and from a half dozen other lots along the top of the hill. If I built and put a 2 story house on that lot with the upper floor mostly windows, I would have unobstructed elevated views to the East, South and West. The subdivision is about 90% built out now, few unbuilt lots left.

That project is the proudest achievement of my life. This is what I quit my 24 year engineering career to do. I made the right decision and it turned out better than I could have imagined, allowed me to retire at 45.

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Sweet.

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I never ever made so much money and had so much fun doing it. Night and day difference from my 24 year career of bleeding edge engineering in the sweaty salt mine of semiconductors.

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Arent there typically easememt laws which prevent someone from locking themselves out of access to their own land?

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Not here in Maine for raw land./undeveloped land.

You need road frontage, a deeded right of way, deeded easement .... something in order to get a building permit. In my case my 14ac lot was the last remaining lot of an old subdivision, marked as future expansion on the old plan. The existing road ended at my lot. I bought the 52ac, paid surveyors and engineers to design a new subdivision, got town and state approval to proceed and extended the road through the combined parcels so each new house lot had road frontage. Violá!

[–] 6 pts (edited )

You can try tax acquired property. Check with towns for tax delinquent properties.

Ask on fb or craigslist. There might be someone out there that would sell off a small lot from their much bigger parcel. Make sure you have deeded road access and it's not a swamp, passes perc tests for a future house/septic system.

[–] 6 pts

Typical nigger. Looking for gibs from white people

[–] 4 pts

Northern Arizona or Nevada. Water is a problem, be prepared to cart it in (not terribly expensive) or get a cistern and collect rain water. Many places in Texas are affordable, or other dry areas like eastern Colorado, panhandle of Oklahoma, etc.

[–] 3 pts

Remember 15 or so years ago an F5 tornado made hay of the town of Greensburg, KS? A few years later as part of their rebuild efforts, they were giving away land if people would move there and build. It's not a frequent occurrence, but towns still do this. Gotta move to BFE to reap the rewards though. That swath of land from western Texas northward up into the western Dakotas - dry land farming paradise - is the ticket. Base your searches there.

How do you feel about dust, pasture and cattle?

[–] 3 pts

The homestead act is still in place in Alaska so "free" but you have to work and improve the land and it won't be easy.

Other than that, there is cheap land all over but it is probably somewhere you don't want to be... which is why it's so cheap.

[–] 2 pts

If you want to live in places with no other people and 0 chance of an easy time. You can find land pretty damn cheap.

Yes garbage site... but useful all the same

AZ - 3k for 2.4 acres (zillow.com)

NM - $1800 (zillow.com) for 1

UT - $3200 (zillow.com) for 1

WY - 18K (zillow.com) for 40 acres

There are many more. You would have to be pretty specific on what you are looking for. Populated areas. Not gonna be anywhere hear as easy.

[–] 1 pt

I slept on it and remembered another way to get a house with little money.

Assumable mortgages. Some mortgages can be assumed, taken over. If you can find someone down on their luck and they just want to walk away from their home to get out from under the payments, you might be able to take posession of the house and mortgage with little money. A big benefit right now is that older mortgages are usually well below current interest rates and the mortgage has already been paid off for a few years, so the term will be less than typ 30 years, and the mortgage is usually smaller because it was purchased years ago. Few/no inspections and other expenses required to close the transaction. Small amount of money down, take over payments.

Beware, these houses have usually been neglected for lack of funds and may need some repair, but you can usually do a lot of that yourself, especially if you've done carpentry work or learn how shit is supposed to be repaired on YT.

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Out in the boonies land is cheap, but you are out in the boonies.

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If you are considering Europe you are probably thinking about English speaking areas. UK is North Korea 2.0, so only other option is Ireland.

If you can work remotely you could probably find cheap land in rural Ireland since like in many European nations, everyone is running to the cities to find work.

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Depends your wants and needs for it. There are plenty of desireable places in the US where you can have land at $1000/acre or so. It wont be developed at all or near anything of note but if you just want the land to go hunt or set up a true off the grid set up it's there.

This is just an example (redf.in)

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