Alaska remote land sales! (Lakes: for sale, real estate, 2009)

[msta999]

Last year I signed up to receive word from the State of Alaska, when they put more remote land up for sale/bid. I just got word they will do this again this spring. I thought maybe some on here would be interested, if they don't already know about it.

"The Department of Natural Resources is pleased to announce its 2009 land sales, Remote Recreational Cabin Sites"

Alaska State Land Offerings

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by msta999

Last year I signed up to receive word from the State of Alaska, when they put more remote land up for sale/bid. I just got word they will do this again this spring. I thought maybe some on here would be interested, if they don't already know about it.

"The Department of Natural Resources is pleased to announce its 2009 land sales, Remote Recreational Cabin Sites"

Alaska State Land Offerings

As a note of warning... Much of the land (not all) is very remote and will require either airplane access or boat, so be expecting to put a lot of energy/money into getting access to it and a tough time of hauling in building supplies.

**As a added note, many of the people that buy land from the Over the Counter side, don't normally ever finish the buying process, they make payments for awhile and find they can't get to it, or Alaska, and let it go back to the State which will sell it again. The office once told me that they expect only about 5% of the buyers ever see the land.

What happens is alot of the out of state real estate developers buy the land from the State and resell it at ten times what they paid for it on places like EBAY and fully expect people after putting hefty down payment on it and make payments for a few months or years, to default so they can resell it again. I see the same lots over and over for resale on the web.... Same sellers after getting it back to re-list and get another deposit from another fish....

[Metlakatla]

I've never agreed with putting this out in the open.

[arctichomesteader]

Only the over the counter sales are open to non-residents.

[msta999]

I guess, after reading some of your posts, maybe it shouldn't be posted. But some are buying and it might be good info for them to read about what is really happening. Anyway, I was going to remove it, but doesn't look like I can edit past posts. If the mods read this, they can go ahead and take it down and remove the link from starlites post too. That might be best.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by msta999

I guess, after reading some of your posts, maybe it shouldn't be posted. But some are buying and it might be good info for them to read about what is really happening. Anyway, I was going to remove it, but doesn't look like I can edit past posts. If the mods read this, they can go ahead and take it down and remove the link from starlites post too. That might be best.

Well not all of the land sales are trash land in tundra or bog. But much of what the state sells is, which almost falls under a scam of it's own, which I think that is why they sell poor/bad land.

Regardless, having a thread like this is good because it may open people's eyes and stop them from buying either land they can't access or trash. They rarely sell good timbered land, lake front (although I did buy lake front land from them, but it was an oddity, not the norm and I stood on it first), Ocean front or even good river frontage that isn't going to get cut away by the river.

The scamers of the land figure the same way the State does and keep reselling the same lots over and over again at inflated prices and bogus claims of access because they can.

I think that this type of thread puts some red flags up so that people that think they are getting a good deal will do some homework first or give up on the idea that they are buying a place they can't get to or in some cases, even build on.

Buying the land that is good and useable is what the State needs to sell, and they do that once in awhile, and having people realize that, is by far the best bet...

[RayinAK]

Completely agree with Starlite9.

Someone I know was explaining to me about a nice State land lot for sale, and how it would be extremely expensive to build on the specific lot, for the following reasons. One can get to it from inland (an island), or by boat on the ocean. However, the ground is very rocky and steep. It means that in order to build a house on that lot, one would have to get a large bulldozer to grade the lot on the side of the rocky hill.

One should really look at the land, not just at a topographic map.

[notreesininceland]

I just looked at a parcel of 4.99 acres (Otter Lakes region) priced at $4800. Is that the entire price? Or am I missing something?

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by notreesininceland

I just looked at a parcel of 4.99 acres (Otter Lakes region) priced at $4800. Is that the entire price? Or am I missing something?

If that is state land, at that price, it is in the "Iffy" range, not a prime spot, and not by the water for access. Could go either way, but in in a few months, it may be on Ebay or other internet sales place listed as "Prime Alaska Land" for about four times that much, just depends on who buys it.

Good land starts about $15,000.00 or so, which is a good way to figure on what you are looking at from the State for that much land.

$3,500.00 for that sized parcle is bog, tundra or permafrost normally... So you can kinda go from there.

I looked up Otter Lakes and all that is back away from any real access, you can get there by snowmachine or floatplane and then have to hike half a mile to get there from the lake. It also states that it is a "Bog" type area and "Well drained Peat", which is another red flag....

[notreesininceland]

Originally Posted by starlite9

I looked up Otter Lakes and all that is back away from any real access, you can get there by snowmachine or floatplane and then have to hike half a mile to get there from the lake. It also states that it is a "Bog" type area and "Well drained Peat", which is another red flag....

Parcel 723 is close to the lake and is priced at only $11k. Those are unreal prices!