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Whenever they build a new and modern highway... Hijacked for a price. But who wants to sell?
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There's a risk in everything you do. But I'd rather take my chances holding the deed to our place and the government be the only risk. When you rent you are also at the mercy of the needs and wants of the owner or his heirs. We did everything we could to lessen the chances of being homeless.
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Yes buy land, the more you can buy the happier you will be. But remember that the more you buy the higher the property tax you will pay. A small chunk of land in the middle of some woods as close to a water source as you can get. Now that's liven.
Buy America they aint gonna make any more of it.
Buy America they aint gonna make any more of it.
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Well, actually, that begs an interesting question. When the .gov wants to open up new territory, what do they do? They build a road through it. Used to be a railroad.
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There is a risk of a meteor hitting your house.
There is a risk of a wormhole opening and a fire-breathing dragon flying out at you and .....
There are 311Million people in the USA. How many lost their homes last year from Eminent Domain? How many?
The government paying you for your home, is far better than a tornado taking it.
I am happy to have bought 150 acres of river side forest. Odds are good that I will own this land for the rest of my life.
There is a risk of a wormhole opening and a fire-breathing dragon flying out at you and .....
There are 311Million people in the USA. How many lost their homes last year from Eminent Domain? How many?
The government paying you for your home, is far better than a tornado taking it.
I am happy to have bought 150 acres of river side forest. Odds are good that I will own this land for the rest of my life.
Or, you could get lucky like my friend did. The gas company needed to put a main line through his property and a utility is "quasi governmental" with rights to eminent domain.
They buried the line 10 feet deep across an area he doesn't use anyway, and paid him $50,000 for the easement. (He has 2,000 acres.) Remember, they can't just take it for free.
He got the money tax free because it was considered a depreciation to his property. He'll never know the line is there again in his lifetime.
They buried the line 10 feet deep across an area he doesn't use anyway, and paid him $50,000 for the easement. (He has 2,000 acres.) Remember, they can't just take it for free.
He got the money tax free because it was considered a depreciation to his property. He'll never know the line is there again in his lifetime.
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Buy land. They aren't making it anymore.
Don't get in over your head to do it, though. Pay cash if you can. If your area is too expensive, move. Or just get a copy of a plat map and start writing letters of inquiry to people who own land you are interested in buying... you could get lucky.
Letting a little thing like eminent domain scare you out of owning land is silly.
Don't get in over your head to do it, though. Pay cash if you can. If your area is too expensive, move. Or just get a copy of a plat map and start writing letters of inquiry to people who own land you are interested in buying... you could get lucky.
Letting a little thing like eminent domain scare you out of owning land is silly.
I can relate, and say this. We tackled unimproved land and improved too much of it. We should have left as much as possible just native. Now we have major work maintaining what we improved, including a 1/4 acre lawn just for starters.
I'm sorely tempted to hit about 1/2 of it with Roundup, whack off the sprinkler system lines and let it go back to nature. We are surrounded by woods and I should have left most of it.
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I can relate, and say this. We tackled unimproved land and improved too much of it. We should have left as much as possible just native. Now we have major work maintaining what we improved, including a 1/4 acre lawn just for starters.
I'm sorely tempted to hit about 1/2 of it with Roundup, whack off the sprinkler system lines and let it go back to nature. We are surrounded by woods and I should have left most of it.
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Maybe you could plant some cherry trees or berry bushes that would take advantage of the water system, and let it go back wild to a degree.
I love wild plums. They make the best jelly. They're almost impenetrable to people. They also attract quail and wildlife.
Good ideas! Any trees I plant have to already be big enough, or have to be deer fenced or they get killed the first year. Those danged deer will eat young limbs right back to the trunk not to mention eating all the leaves off.
We do have some fruit trees. One problem is that we are in major orchard country and there is already a pest problem here which the orchardists religiously spray for. If I don't, the fruit or even trees die, or the fruit is full of worms or something.
I do have a 100 year old apple tree which is dying from something. This year only one side has fruit. I'm going to save seeds this year, winter them over properly and clone that tree since it is an heirloom. 100 years ago they mined for gold and started logging here, and there are remnants of it including that tree and an old road cut into the hillside.
That heirloom apple tree can be seen in my pic above, just above and overhanging the irrigation ditch just to the left of the foot bridge, about center bottom. The apples remind me of Fuji apples, but I have no idea what they are. They are sure good. The tree is small kind of like today's dwarfs. I'd guess it's only 15' tall.
Most of the native plants around here aren't used to and don't do well with irrigation so I have to go one way or the other. Maybe some of each?
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I use the cheaper cattle panels in a triangle configuration around young trees to keep the deer out. They're easier than building fence. And they can be moved quickly to mow and weed eat.
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I just bought 10 acres of land with a year around creek running though it. I found wild plum trees lined up on both sides of the creek and wild raspberry bushes everywhere.
I got the property for $44,000.00 on a contract of $500.00 down and no qualifying. Just finished closing the deal at the county courthouse yesterday.
I got the property for $44,000.00 on a contract of $500.00 down and no qualifying. Just finished closing the deal at the county courthouse yesterday.
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They take so much, they auction it off;
http://www.governmentauctions.org/labels/seized land.asp
http://www.usa.gov/shopping/shopping.shtml
http://www.seizedluxuryhomes.com/references/government-seized-land-auction.html
What, you never heard of the corrupt Local Govt's taking land and then selling it to Wal Mart?
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Not disputing your claim or anything, but I knew a guy who sold farm land to Walmart that normally sells by the acre, but he sold it by the square foot. :thumb:
I think the guy lives in Scottsdale now on a golf coarse.
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