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Old 08-19-2009, 06:31 AM
 
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A real Chicagoan shutters at hearing "Chi-Town".
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Old 08-19-2009, 08:37 AM
 
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A real Chicagoan shutters at hearing "Chi-Town".
Then there's 8 million "non-Chicagoans" living up there.
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Old 08-19-2009, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Illinois
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Glad I'm downstate from Chicago. I could not live there. Looking forward to living in Arkansas when I retire tho!!
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Old 08-22-2009, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Evening Shade, AR
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What I've been seeing is an average of $2,000 for unimproved land.

The factors that affect the price are how close to pavement, how hard is access, does it have a pond, is there grazing area or is it all timber, is it mostly level or is it all a rocky mess, etc.

Currently I'm seeing some acreage go as low as $1600, and some as high as $4000.
We paid a little over $2,000 an acre for our 17 acres. My stepdad tried arguing with us that we're paying too much for unimproved land, so we took one of our local "sales rags" (from Middle TN) out and showed him how much higher the prices are for the same thing around here, for worse property (strictly our opinion).

Our land is right off of the highway, level to gently rolling, yet close enough to several small towns in 2 directions. We'd pay an arm and a leg for that kind of property here in TN.

Here's 8 acres +/- for sale in our present area:

267 Woolf Pass Lane, Sparta, TN, 38583 - MLS ID#136673 - Land real estate - REALTOR.com®

More can be seen here:

Sparta real estate & Sparta homes for sale | Land - REALTOR.com®


Dawn
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Old 08-23-2009, 06:07 AM
 
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We paid a little over $2,000 an acre for our 17 acres.
You didn't get hurt none.

That's a pretty decent price for a small parcel. Especially as close to 167 as you are.
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Old 08-23-2009, 10:15 AM
 
Location: The City of St. Louis
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I'm looking to move to Shannon County, Missouri and am facing the same broadband connection issue. I am a web designer who works from home, and dial-up just won't do. Satellite makes me nervous, I don't feel like it is reliable enough or fast enough. Plus I can't game, heh, but I can quit gaming if I have to. If I have to.

I'd love to get any advice I available.

Thanks,
Kim
Satellite internet sucks as well. My parents live not too far from Shannon County and have Wild Blue Satellite internet. It is better than dial-up...I'll give it that...but not by much. If the weather is bad it will sputter and fail just like satellite TV. The upload speeds are also horrible, and the download speeds are barely faster than the 56k dial up they had before.

If you want high-speed internet, you can't live in Shannon County. Some of the towns around that area offer DSL in the city limits, but you can't get it out in the country. That likely isn't going to change for quite some times...especially in sparsely-populated Shannon County.
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Old 08-23-2009, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Evening Shade, AR
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You didn't get hurt none.

That's a pretty decent price for a small parcel. Especially as close to 167 as you are.
That's exactly what we were thinking, RogMar...

Dawn
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Old 08-24-2009, 09:43 AM
 
Location: MD/Arkansas
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You did good Dawn. We bought our land (south of Evening Shade) about 3 1/2 years ago and it was around $1200 an acre then but we're sure it would be more now although we did buy 41 acres. Around here (Maryland) we'd pay more for 1/2 acre than we did for 41 acres in the same shape! And we like our Arkansas land much better no matter what the acreage!!!!

Glenn and Deb
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Old 08-25-2009, 08:38 AM
 
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about 3 1/2 years ago and it was around $1200 an acre
You guys would cry if you knew what I gave for mine 16 years ago.

On the other hand, my Farm Bureau rep has about 600 acres down the road from me that he told me a story about.

He said he and his brother went together on that, and gave $17 an acre for it.

He grimaced and said that they swallowed hard when they did that, because that was a whole lot for land, and they figured they'd never get it paid off, but they did it because it was mostly all grazeable land.

They filled it with cattle.

To say that boy could buy and sell me a number of times over is an understatement.

Since I've bought, I've seen it happen again and again.

I would be down here, somebody would buy land, and a neighbor would say, "I heard the durned fool gave $600 an acre for that place".

Then it was $700........$1,000.....$1,200........

The popular saying around here is, "One thing about land, they ain't making no more of it".
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Old 08-26-2009, 10:51 PM
 
Location: SW Michigan
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We are looking for land along 62 between Pea Ridge and Eureka Springs or along 23/412 area south and east of Beaver lake... Is there CABLE internet in that area???
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