just land (Charlotte, Raleigh: purchase, utilities, price)

[Weis02]

In addition to a home, we are also looking to purchase 40 or so acres in a rural area but everywhere we look, it is limited and pricey...anyone have any suggestions of areas to look? Thank you.

[silverwing]

Originally Posted by WenIs02

In addition to a home, we are also looking to purchase 40 or so acres in a rural area but everywhere we look, it is limited and pricey...anyone have any suggestions of areas to look? Thank you.

What's rural, and what's pricey to you?

I posted a couple of tips to finding rural/country realtors in this thread
http://www.city-data.com/forum/north...-big-move.html

Mind that large tracts of rural land within reach of metro areas like Charlotte and Raleigh seem to be priced for the developer's eye. I wouldn't pay $20k/acre for 10 acres of land, but a developer probably would, with the eye to breaking it up into 1/8 acre lots. If the utilities to develop it are available or look to be available in the future.

Dh and I still kick ourselves at some of the opportunities we passed up. One tract of land near Mt. Airy was advertised as "40 acres and a bold stream" - $40,000. Another was 12 acres of land on the New River with a restored log cabin - $55,000. Of course, this was like 12-15 years ago, when we didn't have that kind of $$, but if we every come across something like that again (next to impossible) we'll snap it up

[Weis02]

The land can be 2-3 hours away, something that a developer would not want to build (if that even exists) - nice week-end gettaway type...our research is leading us towards eastern NC, but was told to be careful as many areas will not pass a perk test -