If I include my other house, I may be able to claim 1/2 acre for the both.
How Many Acres?
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We have a little over 5 acres. It's almost more than we can take care of... as much as I'd like to believe we'd be happier with more. So thankful for what we have and little by little it's coming together!
just under 3 acres, but have a neighbor who owns over 200 acres and told me to treat it as my own. Plus the 103 town owned across the street as every resident is part owner.
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Our property is 100% surrounded by over a million acres of National Forest land. That is land that will never be developed or built on. We lease access across the FS to reach our property. The area surrounding our property is a "no vehicle allowed" area between October and May. Most hunters are too fat and lazy to walk up here so there's little to no hunting pressure around here. I can climb up to the highest point on our property and not see another house in any direction, and at night there are no yard lights to be seen anywhere. I can shoot a rifle in any direction and not come close to hitting another house.
The only negative here is that I've heard rumors that the FS wants to take part of our property for an "endangered" squirrel that lives here. To me, a squirrel is a squirrel and I shoot, trap, poison and gas them all.
The only negative here is that I've heard rumors that the FS wants to take part of our property for an "endangered" squirrel that lives here. To me, a squirrel is a squirrel and I shoot, trap, poison and gas them all.
We have 21.7 acres that's up against almost 1000 acres of woods that we have use of except for the timber. We can hunt, trap, fish with license in season and take/use all dead fall.
Have 3 houses and 10 other structures on about 2.5 acres of it and .25 acre of garden, 3.5 acres of cleared/pasture, .3 acres of ponds and a small creek adjacent that runs through the 1000 acres and connects to a river and eventually leeds to Lake Ponchatrain. The rest is woods.
I don't really need more, but I'd like to have more if I could get it.
My other land is not as large in the Ozarks and is only for emergency bugout purposes. All other information about it is top secret.
Now if we could only find a way to truly own our land. No property taxes after a certain amount of time. Pay for roads with registration and inspection sticker taxes on every vehicle that's not a farm vehicle, pay a school tax for every school aged child. Pay for emergency services by billed invoice, like you do for utilities and sanitation services, etc... this should probably be on a separate thread.
Have 3 houses and 10 other structures on about 2.5 acres of it and .25 acre of garden, 3.5 acres of cleared/pasture, .3 acres of ponds and a small creek adjacent that runs through the 1000 acres and connects to a river and eventually leeds to Lake Ponchatrain. The rest is woods.
I don't really need more, but I'd like to have more if I could get it.
My other land is not as large in the Ozarks and is only for emergency bugout purposes. All other information about it is top secret.
Now if we could only find a way to truly own our land. No property taxes after a certain amount of time. Pay for roads with registration and inspection sticker taxes on every vehicle that's not a farm vehicle, pay a school tax for every school aged child. Pay for emergency services by billed invoice, like you do for utilities and sanitation services, etc... this should probably be on a separate thread.
Land prices are insane now. I thought they were reasonable here until last week. Was talking to a neighbor over back of my place. Some guy from wisconsin paid $5500 an acre for a 12 acre plot next to him.... Scrub timber without a spring, insane.
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A couple years ago a 55 acre property about 10 miles from here came up for sale. I was interested in buying it until I heard the price was $750,000. It had nice timber, meadows and a creek, but no way that I was going to pay that much. Insane is right.
