Bought land in Scotland County (Lumberton, Laurinburg: rental, houses, college)

[steve in RI-NC bound]

I have receintly purchased 13+ acres in scotland county and plan on building on it. Is thier anything about the area i need to know? I will be looking for contacts about well drilling,septic,+misc. We have a 1-2 year plan to build+move down. But plan on a few trips down to kind of spruce up and think about things around March for a few weeks. THANKS Steve

[cw44]

I Have Lived In that area you better be ready for a boring activity list taxes too hig nothing to do cost out of site been trying to sell my land for 7 years no luck it has been devalued down a no win situation

[mm34b]

The last I read, Scotland County had the highest county property tax rate in the state - 1.0600 per $100 of value. Long, hot summers too on the average.

Property Tax Rates - http://www.dor.state.nc.us/publicati...ertyrates.html

Climate Summary - http://www.sercc.com/cgi-bin/sercc/cliMAIN.pl?nc4860

[whippeteer]

I don't know if this thread is still being read. However the last place I owned a house my tax rate was 3 times the rate in Scotland county.

[whippeteer]

Given all of this... Does anyone know of any rental houses in the Laurinburg, Pembroke and Lumberton areas? I'm currently looking for a house to rent that accepts dogs. Hard to do from almost 800 miles away.

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by whippeteer

I don't know if this thread is still being read. However the last place I owned a house my tax rate was 3 times the rate in Scotland county.

Which county?

[whippeteer]

3.3% in Binghamton NY, Broome County.

[suzie suzie]

Highest taxes in the state of nc, nothing to do here, nothing for the handicapped/special population either

[zthatzmanz28]

Originally Posted by suzie suzie

Highest taxes in the state of nc, nothing to do here, nothing for the handicapped/special population either

How about for a SpEd teacher?

[arbyunc]

Originally Posted by suzie suzie

Highest taxes in the state of nc, nothing to do here, nothing for the handicapped/special population either

Not sure what you mean regarding handicapped/special population. St. Andrews Presbyterian College was, at one time, one of the most handicapped-friendly campuses in the nation. They've had to cut back many programs and services in recent years, but they did a lot of cutting edge things to accommodate the physically disabled. Because of this, the town of Laurinburg became much more accepting and understanding regarding physical disabilities, and did a lot of things to make the town more accessible for the disabled students. They also had Special Olympics there at one time--are they not doing that anymore?

The point is, overall I think Laurinburg is much more supportive of the handicapped/special population than other small southern towns of similar size. What is it that you're missing?