free land/almost free land/ $5/acre up to 160 acres........ Is this true????? Anyone tried????
Sam
I was wondering if all the stories about a possibility to claim
US government land based on some little known law of 1800s are true.
Did anyone actually try this????? It sounds too good to be true to me.
Thanks.
Sam
Penal Blister
long as you homestead it
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dave
cheap especially in Deming New Mexico.There is a subdivision that shows
promise of development in a place called Deming Sunshine Ranchettes and it's
nice flat land with so far good dirt packed down streets leading up to the
properties.The climate is great and the scenery is gorgeous with
mountainscape.Taxes are low too where the tax is $8 per half acre lot and a
$12 fee is added to that per year for garbage disposal.etc.I have 3 half
acre lots myself and got them all for a grand total of $1300 which included
all deed work delivered etc.You can get one lot for about a third.
Robert Kim
that the land on the one side of Mauna Loa (one of the two active
volcanoes there) could be bought for $200 per acre. But only because it
is not insurable as there is a 60% chance that the next volcanic eruption
will go right through it.
Pretty darn cheap for land in Hawaii if you don't mind possibly living on
the shores of a river of lava.
Bettina
"Robert Kim" <rob...@purdue.edu> wrote in message
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> Sam, on my last trip to the big island (Hawaii), the helicopter pilot said
> that the land on the one side of Mauna Loa (one of the two active
> volcanoes there) could be bought for $200 per acre. But only because it
> is not insurable as there is a 60% chance that the next volcanic eruption
> will go right through it.
>
> Pretty darn cheap for land in Hawaii if you don't mind possibly living on
> the shores of a river of lava.
>
On a Discovery channel (no idea which one) show, I saw a story of how Hawaii
is offering some of the land that is hard to get to for free to natives (no
idea how many years there means native, since one of the people was born in
like Iowa) but you MUST make it livable, ie: put in water, some kind of
power, and access.
The one family was living in tents, growing their own food, the kids were
home schooling and they were using solar power for the well and radio and
such (that would be power). they were hand building a house, and the dad
worked in whatever city is closest to them, but was gone all week living in
the city, so it must not be too close. Their road was little more than a
trail at that point, but was getting more roadlike every time they drove
over it (or so they indicated). It was really beautiful, but I'm not sure
which Island it was on. Sorry! :-(
I *can* tell you that ND and SD do NOT have any homesteading deals anymore.
I wonder if that "Homesteading" info is on that "Mega CD" that has the "Free
Microsoft Software Info"...I gotta find some fool selling that for a buck, I
can't see paying more than that since I plan to spread it around and ruin
their "fun" :-?
Food luck on the search!
dave
forfeit land in North and South Dakota and get it for almost nothing from
open county bids and then sell it cheap but at a big profit.I bought a
couple lots from him when I was a greenhorn buyer not realizing that he was
just a middle man.North and South Dakota has some really cheap tax forfeit
land if you are willing to freeze your butt off and live there.hehe!To boot
there are few trees there for firewood to keep your little cabin warm.I live
in Minnesota and there are builders here that build small trans-portable
cabins that are beautiful,neat,efficient and cozy for about five thousand
dollars so a person or rustic couple could live a nice life on very little
money if they sacrifice some of the luxuries in life.What the heck,you have
internet,satellite t.v.,video games and a Super Wal Mart close to these
places,why do you need culture and the rat race.hehe!
{ôŋô}
>A guy named Larson from Sioux Falls South Dakota used to bid on tons of tax
>forfeit land in North and South Dakota and get it for almost nothing from
>open county bids and then sell it cheap but at a big profit.I bought a
>couple lots from him when I was a greenhorn buyer not realizing that he was
>just a middle man.North and South Dakota has some really cheap tax forfeit
>land if you are willing to freeze your butt off and live there.hehe!To boot
>there are few trees there for firewood to keep your little cabin warm.I live
>in Minnesota and there are builders here that build small trans-portable
>cabins that are beautiful,neat,efficient and cozy for about five thousand
>dollars so a person or rustic couple could live a nice life on very little
>money if they sacrifice some of the luxuries in life.What the heck,you have
>internet,satellite t.v.,video games and a Super Wal Mart close to these
>places,why do you need culture and the rat race.hehe!
Check out this building system, its flood,wind, and seismic resistant.
I've helped build three of them and it is cheap, simple, comfortable
and energy efficient, The last one I built is in a part of Arizona
where the temp ranges from 0 to 130 F. It would be perfect for the
upper midwest where our ancestors lived in sod houses. Two people with
only shovels, coffee cans, a pair of wire cutters and a length of
light chain and a stake in their tool kit can build a house this way
in a couple of weeks.
http://calearth.org/
http://gnat3.gnat.net/~goshawk/other.htm
To keep it on topic, the primary building material is free in most
areas of the world.
Bud
Bettina
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> A guy named Larson from Sioux Falls South Dakota used to bid on tons of
tax
> forfeit land in North and South Dakota and get it for almost nothing from
> open county bids and then sell it cheap but at a big profit.I bought a
> couple lots from him when I was a greenhorn buyer not realizing that he
was
> just a middle man.North and South Dakota has some really cheap tax forfeit
> land if you are willing to freeze your butt off and live there.hehe!To
boot
> there are few trees there for firewood to keep your little cabin warm.
HEY! I resent that remark! We got NO trees, AT ALL! so you cant' even
build a cabin (heeheehee, kidding, but yes, they are few and far between)
I live
> in Minnesota and there are builders here that build small trans-portable
> cabins that are beautiful,neat,efficient and cozy for about five thousand
> dollars so a person or rustic couple could live a nice life on very little
> money if they sacrifice some of the luxuries in life.What the heck,you
have
> internet,satellite t.v.,video games and a Super Wal Mart close to these
> places,why do you need culture and the rat race.hehe!
In ND at least, if you want to have energy efficiency, and can get a plot
outside a city's jursidiction, you can build an "earth ship" like they make
in New Mexico. You dig into the side of a hill (we got lots of those!),
facing south (passive solar) and use old tires to build the outer walls
(packing them with the dirt you dug out) and for inner walls, its' not such
a big deal for the mass.
any city is NOT going to let you use tires cause of the fire problem they
can cause, but it really does use the cass thermal energy of the ground very
efficiently. and if on the chance you come to ND, ALWAYS put your front
door facing south or east, cause the wind ALWAYS comes fromt he west or
north and is usually very strong.
Bettina
Robert Kim
> On a Discovery channel (no idea which one) show, I saw a story of how Hawaii
> is offering some of the land that is hard to get to for free to natives (no
> idea how many years there means native, since one of the people was born in
> like Iowa) but you MUST make it livable, ie: put in water, some kind of
> power, and access.
> The one family was living in tents, growing their own food, the kids were
> home schooling and they were using solar power for the well and radio and
> such (that would be power). they were hand building a house, and the dad
> worked in whatever city is closest to them, but was gone all week living in
> the city, so it must not be too close. Their road was little more than a
> trail at that point, but was getting more roadlike every time they drove
> over it (or so they indicated). It was really beautiful, but I'm not sure
> which Island it was on. Sorry! :-(
Very interesting. I wasn't aware that land could be had for free in
Hawaii, Bettina.
Our chopper pilot took us past some places where lava completely
decimated a village. Even several decades after the eruption, only lichen
was starting to form on the lava. The pilot was saying that it would be
about 100 years for the lava to start becoming soil again.
Now if anyone could make THAT into livable land, they truly deserve to get
it for free!
Bob
Bettina
"Robert Kim" <rob...@purdue.edu> wrote in message
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Seems to me it was something along those lines. Though I think it was
"ancient" lava areas, and there were certainly "weeds" growing where they
were homesteading. Maybe it was that home and garden channel...or the
travel channel. tho I think those are still part of the Discovery
family...the red-headed step children, heeheehee
Bettina