Pat Curtis

My advice would be find a land auction on a (very rare) week day. There are many large plots of ag land with wooded land on it up my way, but they separate them into many 10+ acre tracts. As long as they don't slap a contractwith it saying you can't put a permanent residence on it, you could get 10 acres for 50k or less..easily.


One of my good friends bought 12 acres...mostly wooded...with a pond...and an old house (value deemed "zero") for 62,500. He got a loan for 100k for the land andto pay to fix up the house, even though the fire department would have burned it down for free.