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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

Tim Oppenheim wrote:
> Don,
>
> Congrats! That's a great area. You will soon have a great rock  
> collection : )
>
> Since you studied so much real estate. What were prices looking like?
>   
Prices were all over the place.  Bare land ranged around $2000 an acre.  
Larger acreage was cheaper.  Most of the bare land needed a well (approx 
$10,000) and power brought in.  Houses were all over the place.  A new 
mobile with a shop on 5 open acres ready to move in was $70,000 while a 
poorly built and not completed log cabin on 38 mostly wooded acres was 
$130,000 and needed a good share of the existing work torn out.  An 
uncompleted house on 10 wooded acres was listed for $67,000 and needed 
maybe $30,000 more to complete.  A smallish house that would be very 
difficult to expand with no shop, on 17 wooded acres was just under 
$100,000.  Another place on 10 open acres, finished house but weird, big 
shop, big hay barn, was $137,000.  Another place on 15 acres, with no 
shop was $125,000.  And so it went, somewhat discouraging.

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html