Posted: 7/15/2014 12:13:49 PM EDT
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Looking around on some real estate websites, I see some cheap, remote mountain properties for sale in the eastern part of the State.
What has me curious is the question of access. Alot of these places are not adjacent to any road. Instead, they talk about logging roads or paths that go through other properties. If I were to buy one of these properties, as a "furriner" Texan, would I be likely to run into problems from the surrounding landowners every time I tried to visit it? Or put the shoe on the other foot... how can I be sure that other people will stick to the path on their way through my property? My "too good to be true" sense is tingling at the sight of 500 to 1k per acre prices. |
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I have looked at those properties as well for weekend getaways and hunt etc... I also noted that any kind of electrical service is not existent to the properties along with being able to get the necessary supplies to some of these to build a structure to stay in. While I could rough it for the weekend, wife would not be up to it anymore.
Also, after reading some of the other threads in this HTF about the hospitality of locals to outsiders in the area, makes me a skeptical any thing I built out left down there to be there when I got back. So building a shed type cabin with Solar/Wind generator may not be there when I came back. anyway, that is my two cents... Sure is Beautiful country down there also. |
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Based on what I've heard, I would personally be very hesitant to invest in something like that. If its on a regular county road, that's a completely different situation. I'm of two conflicting minds about that. On one hand, the more remote it is, the less likely you are to have city planners, code enforcers, tax assessors, etc... being a nuisance. But then there's that guy (also from Texas) who bought some property up there years ago and has the neighbors from hell who constantly trespass, hunt on it, and tried to landlock him by installing cement posts in the middle of the easement right of way.. The ideal method would be to get enough people together to buy enough adjoining properties and in such a configuration that no one outside of that group would have any reason to use the roads that cross the properties to get to their own. Essentially, turn it into a private road. But that would be really hard to organize. |
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I'm of two conflicting minds about that. On one hand, the more remote it is, the less likely you are to have city planners, code enforcers, tax assessors, etc... being a nuisance. But then there's that guy (also from Texas) who bought some property up there years ago and has the neighbors from hell who constantly trespass, hunt on it, and tried to landlock him by installing cement posts in the middle of the easement right of way.. The ideal method would be to get enough people together to buy enough adjoining properties and in such a configuration that no one outside of that group would have any reason to use the roads that cross the properties to get to their own. Essentially, turn it into a private road. But that would be really hard to organize. Quoted:
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Based on what I've heard, I would personally be very hesitant to invest in something like that. If its on a regular county road, that's a completely different situation. I'm of two conflicting minds about that. On one hand, the more remote it is, the less likely you are to have city planners, code enforcers, tax assessors, etc... being a nuisance. But then there's that guy (also from Texas) who bought some property up there years ago and has the neighbors from hell who constantly trespass, hunt on it, and tried to landlock him by installing cement posts in the middle of the easement right of way.. The ideal method would be to get enough people together to buy enough adjoining properties and in such a configuration that no one outside of that group would have any reason to use the roads that cross the properties to get to their own. Essentially, turn it into a private road. But that would be really hard to organize. Or just buy a whole section |
| I'd just check the land out and if you are interested, visit the lands neighbors, tell them you are considering buying land next to them and see how they react. I wouldn't just assume they are going to be @ssholes and give up. That is absolutely beautiful land in far east OK, north to south. |