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 land investment. 5 articles.
Three ways to turn a parcel back into money, and they trade off against each other in a way nobody spells out: the more you want for it, the longer you wait and the more of the work you do yourself. Including where a cash buyer like us fits, and where we do not.
Land without an address is not land without a record. How to identify any parcel from a map, a coordinate or a neighbor, what the county actually holds on it, and why the unclaimed property database everyone recommends will never find you land.
Every land site tells you the same three things and most of them are selling something. Here is what USDA, the FDIC and four Federal Reserve banks actually publish about rural land values, including the year one region went negative and the decade values fell by a third.
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.
Land is one of the few things you can hand down that cannot be wired anywhere. It is also one where the difference between giving it now and leaving it later is measured in tens of thousands of dollars, and where four cousins on one deed can end in a forced sale.
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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