Looking for land for sale... want to start our homestead!

[Jen Harmon]

Hello everyone,

I'm Jen, and new to the forum. My husband and I are in search of some land, unrestricted for building and minimum of 5 acres. We want to start our own homestead. We are currently in Tennessee, but are looking in other states as well. If anyone has any land for sale, or knows anyone with land for sale, please forward the info. We are looking to buy but are open for a rent to own option as well.

 

[Weedygarden]

Hello everyone,

I'm Jen, and new to the forum. My husband and I are in search of some land, unrestricted for building and minimum of 5 acres. We want to start our own homestead. We are currently in Tennessee, but are looking in other states as well. If anyone has any land for sale, or knows anyone with land for sale, please forward the info. We are looking to buy but are open for a rent to own option as well.

Welcome, Jen!

You have started a thread which has been on my mind for a long time!

I have been searching for land to purchase for years, decades. I do not make decisions like this quickly. I also know that you almost have to be right there where the land is to purchase it.

I am a native of South Dakota. I have looked at real estate listings by realtors there. Many have a "request" to purchase land along with their listings.

 

[sonya123]

don't get discouraged if you don't find anything right away. We did what you want to do but with more land ( been in our homestead for over 8 years now) and it took us about 5 years ( we did have regular jobs at the time) of searching and looking to find this.
If you want some details on how we did it I can post them

 

[zoomzoom]

Welcome to the forum!
Have you tried realtor.com
Here's a search I did - TN with 5 acre minimum.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Tennessee/lot-sqft-217800

Maybe apply more filters (e.g. price) to narrow it down.

 

[Hooch]

Welcome...
LandWatch.com is another good site for looking..

 

[Bacpacker]

Welcome. Land Watch is very good. Lots of filters to choose from

 

[Caribou]

Here is a realtor that specializes in homesteads. Their family is world noted preppers.
https://preparedpropertybuyer.com/

 

[montanabill]

Welcome.. we sold everything and moved to montana from washington state. Best thing we have done and we are never moving back.
We moved with a travel trailer and searched and talked to everyone....the realtors were the least helpful.
Unless you are rural it might be a good time to get rural and rent right now...There is a storm coming.

 

[Pearl]

Welcome Jen! A lot of great advice here! Hope y'all find what you are looking for!!

 

[Mountain trapper]

Good luck with your search. There are days when I want to sell our place.

 

[old tex]

Jen, first off welcome. As to your question about buying land to me I think your looking at it backwards. First off you should figure out what state you want to settle in. Research taxes, weather & everything else that you can think of. Once you have a state or two as options then you research areas in that state (cost of land etc.). Then go there & spend some time, a week or so at least. Find out if there are drawbacks that you hadn't heard about or thought of. Then you start looking for land to buy.

 

[Cascadian]

There are also websites that let you look up info on towns/cities nearby. You can check all kinds of demographics and weather info etc. For the life of me i cannot remember them right now. That and landwatch are how we found our little red island in a sea of blue in Oregon. Good luck and be patient. We managed to not make any costly mistakes so far.

I think Old tex has a point. Don't move to a desert if you want to live on rainwater etc.

 

[Bluetick21]

From one who resides in the hills of tn. Taxes ain’t that bad. I’m sure there’s other states that may be better. And the weather we’ve got the best of both worlds Sure it’s a lil warm in the summer but the growing season is long and for the most part the winters are mild.
For me Tennessee is home.
Just my 2 cents.

 

[Sourdough]

Alaska "SUCKS", igloos are hard to keep clean.

 

[Amish Heart]

Kansas corn fields have ears

 

[Cascadian]

These sites were helpful. https://www.bestplaces.net/ https://www.areavibes.com/

 

[joel]

Have you talked to Ag First about a loan?

 

[OldSchool]

Good luck with your search. There are days when I want to sell our place.

I’m pretty sure you’re better off than I. I mean I’m in a liberal city that turned the whole country blue in the latest election. I’ve had about enough of it.

I agree that the decision to decide where you want to move is the first step.

And… welcome to the forum family @Jen Harmon

Edit: My neighbors turned the "county" blue, meaning in favor of the socialist/communist left.
I missed-typed with "country"

 

[montanabill]

When we moved from our childhood growing up area and where we had a modest paid for house.......We mainly looked for better politics, lower population density and we formulated a short list of things we would not put up with..
After that we grabbed the first place that came along.

In a way it was a lot like my mid life divorce and then looking for other compatible people.....At first I started out with the whole pina coladas and sunsets on the beach....Then reality set in and I had just a few solid things I would not abide by. It worked for me and I met the love of my life and 30 years later it is still wonderful.