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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:16:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2A1912]
Wife and I are looking to find a new place to call home. Here's our checklist
10+ acres with a house. Can be small, it's just the two of us. Conservative Be wooded and or have mountains Not retired so it still needs to be close to some type of work. (Jobs are flexible and are not area specific) Budget is 450k Let the ideas fly! |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:18:09 PM EDT
[#1]
$450k and 10+ nice acres? Does OP own a good tent?
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:18:45 PM EDT
[#2]
Not Idaho
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USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:19:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lou_Daks: $450k and 10+ nice acres? Does OP own a good tent?  |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:20:07 PM EDT
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Is that even possible?
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:20:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 2A1912: Does OP's wife like a "rustic" lifestyle?
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USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:20:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Probablynotacop: Is that even possible? |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:21:12 PM EDT
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You and everybody else. Good luck. Our budget starts at 1M for this same project
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:21:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lou_Daks: $450k and 10+ nice acres? Does OP own a good tent? Not everywhere is Arizona. That is extremely doable and then some in many areas. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:22:10 PM EDT
[#9]
What are you opinions on rural Somalia OP
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:22:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Probablynotacop: Is that even possible? Easily. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:22:57 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Probablynotacop: Is that even possible? Parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, sure. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:23:40 PM EDT
[#12]
Originally Posted By 2A1912: Wife and I are looking to find a new place to call home. Here's our checklist 10+ acres with a house. Can be small, it's just the two of us. Conservative Be wooded and or have mountains Not retired so it still needs to be close to some type of work. (Jobs are flexible and are not area specific) Budget is 450k Let the ideas fly! Welcome to West Virginia |
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USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:23:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: miseses]
[#13]
Easily doable in rural arizona. I spent 40k on the house (built it myself), 40k on utilities, 40k on land (~5 acres). All 2023 prices. Get desert land with a well share, haul in a prefab or build a tiny home. Find someplace with minimal to no building codes.
There's people around me that have done 10 acres including the house for more like 60k but at that point you won't be near a job and you'll be really scrappy in finding recycled materials. |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:23:44 PM EDT
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Op send me a pm I know of places that more then fit the bill and you will have all 4 seasons for a lot less then you are looking for plus lots of employment
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:23:53 PM EDT
[#15]
Southeast Kansas if you want trees.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-S-15th-St-Independence-KS-67301/2054758226_zpid/ |
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USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:24:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HRoark87: Parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, sure. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:24:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MethaneMover]
[#17]
Could be done here, in OK, but it greatly depends on your idea of a nice acreage.
Here- https://www.landwatch.com/pittsburg-county-oklahoma-farms-and-ranches-for-sale/pid/419307522 |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:25:11 PM EDT
[#18]
Idaho or Mississippi
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:25:11 PM EDT
[#19]
I hear quite a few houses are gonna be available in CO
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:25:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: CouchCommando22]
[#20]
 Attached FileWe only have 5 acres in a town of 800. We couldn’t afford to live here now if I were looking to buy. In a small town, there are no creature comforts aside from running water and electricity. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:25:52 PM EDT
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I have a friend that lives in upper Florida. I'm amazed at how affordable it is and how much she paid for a two story house, and 10 acres. It might even be 20 acres. Everyone has horses there. It's the area around perry Florida, I think she lives in live oak.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:25:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By miseses: Easily doable in rural arizona. I spent 40k on the house (built it myself), 40k on utilities, 40k on land (~5 acres). All 2023 prices. Get desert land with a well share, haul in a prefab or build a tiny home. Find someplace with minimal to no building codes. OP specified wooded/mountains. Yes, there is bare-ass desert land in AZ for cheap. 10 acres and a single wide is doable in those areas. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:26:54 PM EDT
[#23]
Parts of far west Texas . . . maybe . . . but you really wouldn't want to live there.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:27:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Greyswandir]
[#24]
Depends. Do you mind if your neighbors to either side of you have a side business selling meth?
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MT, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:28:02 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor: Not Idaho Thanks to all the fucking Californians pouring in... |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:28:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BFskinner]
[#26]
Could probably swing that in some parts of West Virginia. Try the area around Lewisburg and Beckley.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:29:05 PM EDT
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That got me 60 acres and 7k sq/ft house (2k finished, 5k unfinished) 6yes ago.
Now you better bring $2MM to the table. Prices went through the roof. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:29:24 PM EDT
[#28]
It's very doable in SE Ohio.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:29:25 PM EDT
[#29]
Central PA. Cambria (poor county), Blair, Huntingdon, Juniata, Bedford counties.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:33:02 PM EDT
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Depending on area and how close to town, pretty doable in NW NC. Also mountain land varies a bit.
Here it goes from rolling land to steep and rocky. Also no local may pay more, hence many call for price listings. If the seller refuses a perk test at your expense, run. I don't have acreage but but had to buy neighboring lots to perk to new codes. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:34:11 PM EDT
[#31]
OP, depends where you want to live. I bought 10 acres for 7K in SW OK in 2006 and you can still find small parcels for not much more. Lots of wide open land in Western OK but you need to be retired or a remote worker.
I am negotiating on another 10 acre parcel but the owner is play hard to get. I should be able to snag it for 25 to 30K soon and I will only pay that high of a price because it butts up to mine. There is no shopping or dinning closer than a 45 minute drive but I prefer it that way. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:34:56 PM EDT
[#32]
10 acres with a house isn't easy in my area. That much land will probably need to be split off something bigger.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:36:20 PM EDT
[#33]
14 uears ago I got 2 acres for $155k with a 3 bed 2.5 bath house on it next to state land, but it's in city limits so I can't shoot on it.
 You can't see any hint of civilization out the back windows though, so that's nice. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:36:46 PM EDT
[#34]
Plenty of places in WI with that.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:36:54 PM EDT
[#35]
Can do it in West Tennessee but we are full.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:38:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: CaliContractor]
[#36]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MtnMusic: Thanks to all the fucking Californians pouring in... Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MtnMusic: Originally Posted By CaliContractor: Not Idaho Thanks to all the fucking Californians pouring in... Ah, did I hurt your feelz? |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:39:19 PM EDT
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Try to find a Democrat's house and go squat on it.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:39:33 PM EDT
[#38]
Both McKean and Potter county Pennsylvania offer housing in that price range, but the decent paying jobs are a bit more rare.
Not saying they're not out there but they are more rare than other areas I've lived. Best bet would be to commute to Olean NY and get a job at Cutco or something similar and live in PA for the better laws, etc.... PA currently has some of the better gun laws, but being a purplish kinda state who knows what the future brings. The Dem house keeps trying to send tbe Dem governor antigun legislation, but the GOP has a majority in the Senate and have kept them from reaching his desk. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:39:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Southernman077]
[#39]
Another vote for Ohio. They have fine cuisine there as well.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:40:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hoss622: It's very doable in SE Ohio. Sure but then you are in Ohio |
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USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:41:33 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lou_Daks: OP specified wooded/mountains. Yes, there is bare-ass desert land in AZ for cheap. 10 acres and a single wide is doable in those areas. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lou_Daks: Originally Posted By miseses: Easily doable in rural arizona. I spent 40k on the house (built it myself), 40k on utilities, 40k on land (~5 acres). All 2023 prices. Get desert land with a well share, haul in a prefab or build a tiny home. Find someplace with minimal to no building codes. OP specified wooded/mountains. Yes, there is bare-ass desert land in AZ for cheap. 10 acres and a single wide is doable in those areas. Arizona is one of those weird places where the bare-ass stuff actually tends to cost more. Phoenix is basically bare-ass desert but prices are through the roof. On the flipside It's often only ~5k/acre to get next to something like this: 
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:41:36 PM EDT
[#42]
Very doable in my area SW of Atlanta. No mountains but plenty of wooded rural properties.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:42:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor: Ah, did I hurt your feelz? Fuck off Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor: Originally Posted By MtnMusic: Originally Posted By CaliContractor: Not Idaho Thanks to all the fucking Californians pouring in... Ah, did I hurt your feelz? Fuck off You really can’t take the California out of them I see. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:45:18 PM EDT
[#44]
You could do that pretty easily in parts of SC.
I paid $354K for my 144 acres, it didn't have a house but it had water, power, septic, a 4000sqft warehouse and a couple old cabins on it, along with bass ponds, access roads, and deer stands. Pretty decent timber too. That's about an hour from any big cities but only 15 minutes from a town with a Walmart and a Home depot and so on. Closer in, well in my county this came up: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/345-341-Shirway-Rd-Lexington-SC-29073/2053200508_zpid/ |
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CT, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:45:27 PM EDT
[#45]
450K 10 acres with a home already built and mountains your choice is limited to a few states
Do you own any bootstraps ? |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:46:12 PM EDT
[#46]
Just get on Zillow, put in your parameters, and start searching. Thousands of places available.
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WV, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:47:14 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: Welcome to West Virginia Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: Originally Posted By 2A1912: Wife and I are looking to find a new place to call home. Here's our checklist 10+ acres with a house. Can be small, it's just the two of us. Conservative Be wooded and or have mountains Not retired so it still needs to be close to some type of work. (Jobs are flexible and are not area specific) Budget is 450k Let the ideas fly! Welcome to West Virginia Now get off my lawn!!  |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:49:12 PM EDT
[#48]
I got 65 acres, a 3BR house, and a tractor for a little over half that in Georgia.
That was 8 years ago. Now you could do it for your budget. |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:49:34 PM EDT
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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12022-Flax-Blvd-Drakesville-IA-52552/86919908_zpid/
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Posted: 4/15/2024 6:51:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Probablynotacop: Is that even possible? Yes. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/340-Winford-Dr_Richmond_KY_40475_M95870-26475?from=srp-list-card $185k into a home and $35k driveway. |
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