Field notes
Guides and honest answers about buying raw land, living on it, and making the most of your acreage. No jargon, no pressure, just what we would tell a friend.
Articles tagged day one use. 7 articles.
What actually leaves your account to reserve a parcel, how low the down payment really goes, and what it does to the monthly.
State by state, what the deer country actually looks like where we sell, and what a hunting base camp costs when the bank won't finance it.
Yes, from the day you sign. Here is the framework: what needs no permission, what needs a quick call first, and what waits for the deed. Plus the two rules that catch people, your county clock on camping and the line on commercial use.
A small parcel is not there to hold a herd. It is there to put you where the animals already are, on your own ground, with your truck parked and your camp set. What to look for, what it costs, and what you can do before the deed is in your name.
Otero County is a desert basin and a mountain range wearing one name, and the two are nothing alike. Here is what the water, the septic rule and the roads actually do to your plans.
Fifty things to do with raw land, split by what works while you are still making payments and what waits for the deed. Including an honest accounting of which income ideas are real on forty acres and which ones are not.
Two numbers decide whether a land purchase works, and neither is the price. Here is the honest version of both, including a correction to what this article used to say about using owner-financed land before it is paid off.
While you are here
Pima County, AZOcotillo, cholla and prickly pear crowd a raised, flat pad across the middle of this acre, the natural spot for a home with a view of the Tucson Mountains. It sits in Diamond Bell Ranch about 33 miles west of Tucson, at 3,297 feet where summers run a little milder. Cell service is strong, and the zoning lets you build when you're ready.
Putnam County, FLArea photosHoot Owl Road is paved and power runs right past the lot, which is more than most of this old Satsuma subdivision can say. It's a quarter acre in St. Johns River country, twelve minutes from Palatka and a short run to Dunn's Creek and Crescent Lake. The lot is mapped wetland and most of it sits in a FEMA flood zone, so it's priced for what it is today.
Hudspeth County, TXArea photosGuadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, sits about a half hour east of this ground, and the salt flats that set off a war in 1877 are closer than that. It's open desert outside Salt Flat, Texas, with no zoning and no HOA, so you can pitch a tent this weekend and build off-grid whenever you get around to it.
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