6 Mistakes to AVOID when Buying Raw Land {for a HOMESTEAD}

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  @bettertogetherlife · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @psor9983 · 5 years ago

  My tip for buying land is find something that already has utilities on it! &nbsp;I bought 12 acres with well, septic, electric AND an asphalt driveway already there. &nbsp;The house was abandoned and falling down so I got a really good deal. &nbsp;Saves you a lot of time and money. &nbsp; &nbsp;It literally has everything that I was looking for. &nbsp;End of a dead end road, no visible neighbors, surrounded by a creek, huge trees, easy access and 15 minutes from walmart and chinese takeout lol. &nbsp;I like the idea of waiting a couple years before putting a permanent house this way you can really see where you want your house and how you want to use the land. &nbsp;For now I&apos;ll fix up an old mobile home and have no mortgage! &nbsp;Good luck to everyone else out there trying to live their dream!!!

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  @Noisy_Cricket · 6 years ago

  As a city planner, I can definitely tell you-- you are right about trees. That&apos;s why so many cities are trying to add them back in. Trees also raise your property values (in the city and the country). People REALLY underestimate the value of trees.

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  @fradee2830 · 6 years ago

  the thing about buying a property with trees, is that you know there’s enough moisture in the ground to support tree growth.

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  @farocean111 · 5 years ago

  I can’t agree you more! HOA said I’m not allowed to plant flowers on my balcony because everyone’s balcony must look identical. That’s insane!

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  @TheNonMakeupGuru · 5 years ago

  The biggest tip I can suggest when building on actual land is to spend a few years living on the property before building your long term home. Experience a couple seasons and get familiar with how the land sits and settles

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  @HUFORIC · 6 years ago

  if you&apos;re single, Boonies is easy if you pick a fertile spot, I&apos;m in an abandoned logging town, seen zero people in almost 3 months, large creek nearby, my dogs, chickens and I getting fat off wild hog meat, fish and deer meat! lol... btw, I have solar powered RV, food stash which I&apos;ve not had to tap into yet and satellite internet, zero bills, free food... chickens bring in the wild hogs looking to eat them and end up on the campfire rotisserie and partially fed to the chickens!

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  @WritingAppReviewsjjob · 2 years ago (edited)

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  @robins5880 · 6 years ago

  Another tip, consider the lay of the land and what you want to do with it. Nice young eager family bought the 10 acres next to our farm. They immediately got 8 dogs, 3 horses, a llama, chickens, ducks, goats, a donkey, 3 beef cows and 6 pigs. The chickens constantly get out and into our garden, we understand and just put up a fence. However when they put the pigs along our fence line and allowed their waste to run down the hill into our pond we had to act. The pond is part of a larger drain system so affects all the neighbors downstream. The county health department got involved.

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  @TheWilliamHoganExperience · 5 years ago

  Excellent point about regulations. I&apos;m a licensed architect, and I always tell my clients that the FIRST thing I do before designing ANYTHING is to find out what&apos;s LEAGL to do on their property. This isn&apos;t as easy as people think, and as you pointed out, the more urban the property, the more complexly regulated it&apos;s likely to be. Jurisdictions often overlap, and it can be difficult to determine who&apos;s calling the shots and what&apos;s permissible. Even land out in the boonies can be freighted with onerous restrictions. There are parts of the West where it&apos;s illegal to capture RAINWATER from your own property because it feeds streams and rivers claimed by downstream property owners or municipalities. Drilling wells, diverting streams, cutting down trees, grading land, and especially building structures, installing sewage or septic systems, electrical systems and a host of other things necessary to form a safe, self sufficient and comfortable homestead require thorough research and careful planning to avoid trouble with authorities. And it&apos;s not government bureaucrats driving around looking for illegal construction you need to worry about. It&apos;s your neighbors reporting you because of a feud of some sort, or just because they are jerks. You can and will be forced to remove illegal construction if caught, and can face high legal fees, heavy fines, and eviction, seizure, and even prison if you fail to comply with the law. Yes, it sucks to be told what you can and can&apos;t do on your own property, but just wait until your neighbor decides to build a hog slaughtering and meat rendering factory 100 yards upwind of your homestead, and you&apos;ll understand why there are such laws. Use them to your advantage, and the world&apos;s your oyster. Ignore them, and your gonna get screwed.

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  @bryanjaeck4828 · 6 years ago

  1. Make sure you have road access to your land, sometimes there is no road access, or an good easement. 2. Get mineral rights to your land. 3. Avoid old industrial sites with bad hazards left in the soil. &nbsp; 4. Make sure &nbsp;you are not going to be too close to the busy road or future &nbsp;road expansion. &nbsp;.

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  @hoofandpeck · 6 years ago

  I had another one. Make sure to get quotes for well, septic and electrical BEFORE purchasing the land. There may be issues you aren’t aware of that prevent you from installing the systems. It may even cost way more than you thought!!

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