I want to ask you guys about land prices where you live at.<br><br>We are wanting to buy some land and build a new house<br>look at maybe 10 to 25 acres but good lord here in fla<br>that like in the price of $65,000 to over $4,000,000.00<br><br>I am not crying poor mouth but wow I have lived here in fla all 36+yr and have seen the big changes and stuff but land here has got out of hand.<br><br>And for the price as above you have to deal with wet-lands<br>and stuff its like all the good land is gone.<br>We found a 25 acre plot over in pierson its about <br>a mile or so off the main road for $35,999.00<br>But it also like 26 miles from town so I may keep looking.<br><br>So whats the price of land up were you guys live?<br><br>Ron.

 

Out here in Colorado a few years back the wife and I were looking for &quot;retirement&quot; land (whenever the heck that happens). We found a lot of land for cheap as long as you wanted to drive 50 miles to the grocery store or gas station, or didn't want access in the winter time, or wanted to pay 30k+ to get on the grid (in several places you couldn't), and 10k+ for a well (many places you had to have 35 acres + to get a well permit). We finally found some land in a part of the state we loved, 8 miles from town with most everything you would need and 35 miles to a much bigger town with great facilities, power, water and phone right to the property line, year round access, even have a volunteer fire station 2 miles away and a fire hydrant right next to where our driveway will be (which for here sure helps on fire insurance, many people in the mountains/rural areas can't even get it) for the relatively cheap sum of 35k for 10 acres. The area is surrounded by BLM land and a National Park. Can't wait to start building. Just keep looking you'll find it sooner or later.

 

[quote author=BarryG link=board=10;threadid=6893;start=0#65029 date=1037024840]<br>Out here in Colorado a few years back the wife and I were looking for &quot;retirement&quot; land (whenever the heck that happens). We found a lot of land for cheap as long as you wanted to drive 50 miles to the grocery store or gas station, or didn't want access in the winter time, or wanted to pay 30k+ to get on the grid (in several places you couldn't), and 10k+ for a well (many places you had to have 35 acres + to get a well permit). We finally found some land in a part of the state we loved, 8 miles from town with most everything you would need and 35 miles to a much bigger town with great facilities, power, water and phone right to the property line, year round access, even have a volunteer fire station 2 miles away and a fire hydrant right next to where our driveway will be (which for here sure helps on fire insurance, many people in the mountains/rural areas can't even get it) for the relatively cheap sum of 35k for 10 acres. The area is surrounded by BLM land and a National Park. Can't wait to start building. Just keep looking you'll find it sooner or later.<br>[/quote]<br><br><br><br>Thats sounds like a nice property BarryG <br>Yea we have been looking for about 10 to 14 months just<br>hard to find the right one.<br>

 

In the Raleigh metropolitan area you can't afford the land unless you are planning on developing it. Anything within 30 miles of Raleigh is going for 25-30K/acre with no guarantee it will perc. Any tract over 5 acres is subdivided and developed, it seems like.<br><br>I have my eyes on the land I used to help grow tobacco on growing up. 11.5 acres and I think I can talk the farmer's widow into letting me have it for 10-12K an acre - BUT - I may not be able to afford it when (if ever) she decides to sell.<br><br>Other than that you have to go at least 25 miles out to get any semi-affordable land and then have to fight bad traffic to get anywhere.<br><br>Just ask Jack what trafic is like around here

 

Land in central Massachusetts, 65 miles west of Boston, along I-90 is going for 45K-60K per acre depending on the terrain. It goes out of sight as you get within commuting distance of Boston, 100K and up. Heck, a condo parking space in town recently went for $165,000!

 

I was looking on the Michigan DNR website, they have a plot of land 150' x 150' for sale for $12,0000.00 if that tells you anything.... <br><br>Tony

 

Been looking in Missouri for cheep land. If you don't mind being a distance from a town, you can pick up some nice land for less than $1000.00 per acre. Good hunting land, near lakes, streams and rivers. <br> We finally decided on a nice home with 5 acres to retire on near Springfield, Mo. for about $130 k. The farther out you go ... the cheaper things get. <br><br>Where I am in Key West, Fl. a person has to be extremely well off to by a TRAILER HOUSE !!! Not even worth looking at.<br><br>PISTOL

 

We bought 45 acres about 18 miles west of Little Rock for just under $1,800 per acre. Depending on where you go, land here is $500 to $5,000 per acre.<br>My nearest neighbor is about a half mile away. Got a good store a mile and a half away and plenty of shopping about 20 minutes away.<br>I drive 27 miles each way to work and wouldn't move back to town for anything.<br>Hunting and fishing is great. Nailed a slick head off the back porch as she was headed out across the garden. 200+ yard shot.<br>Will be having tenderloin, gravy, and homemade bisquits for supper tonight. It'll be ready about 6. Let me know NLT 4:30 if you're showing up.

 

Here in Rosenberg, Texas, land is around $20,000/acre. We just paid $22,000/acre for 22 acres. Land is expensive around here cause of where it is and the amount of expansion that is going on around here.

 

connecticut runs anywhere from 3000 to 75k an acre for prime building land. just went and looked at a 20.6 acre mountian with 1 building lot for 200k

 

parts of southern Maine and southern New Hampshire have gotten down right rediculous. all the newby rich people come in and basically force the originals out due to taxes constantly getting higher. sure, you can head up no-ath and get land/a house for cheap!, but the economy is very little/poor up there.<br><br>Tom