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Old 03-15-2009, 11:10 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Parcel 723 is close to the lake and is priced at only $11k. Those are unreal prices!
Not if you are standing on it wearing hip waders and are in water up to your knees, at the high point of the property... Even at that price, the $800.00+- price for a float plane trip is money well spent, or at least a snowmachine ride out to see what kind of trees are on it. Good birch or heavy tall spruce is good ground, sickly looking short and scraggly looking like spruce is bog...

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Old 03-16-2009, 06:14 AM
 
Location: The Woods
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Parcel 723 is close to the lake and is priced at only $11k. Those are unreal prices!
Maybe, but assuming it's decent land (check on that, I believe they usually have enough dry land on any given lot to build on, but the rest of it might be bog/swamp...), the catch is you're going to spend a lot of money building there and transportation to and from will be very expensive or difficult...one of the main reasons I didn't buy some land near a remote lake was because it'd simply be too expensive for me right now to do anything with it...someday I will though.
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Old 03-16-2009, 07:01 AM
 
Location: Houston, Alaska
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I'm itching to get some land and go to work!



I found this image and had to use it somewhere.
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Old 03-16-2009, 07:28 AM
 
Location: The Woods
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I'm itching to get some land and go to work!



I found this image and had to use it somewhere.
Might want to use some safety equipment while using that chainsaw. LOL

There is some good land available including some with road access at decent prices in AK (both for sale by the state and privately), you just have to look for it and find it. I found some of it. One of the best things about buying from the state is how easy it is to do so. Good luck finding a bank to lend you money to buy a piece of land in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness...getting a loan on rural land in the lower 48 would be hard enough...
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Old 03-16-2009, 08:06 AM
 
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after reading these posts, the words of PT Barnum come to mind--------

"There is a sucker born every minute"

I can understand how Maddoff got so rich !
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Old 03-16-2009, 09:42 AM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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The Kenai Peninsula has a great interactive parcel lookup tool that lets you see satellite images, erosion rate for water parcels, etc. I don't know if there is this tool for other areas of Alaska but I was really helpful to us when looking to by lakefront property. We ruled out serval pieces without haveing to go see them, just by what we could see (images and data) on the interactive map.
check to see if this is available in the area your looking for land.
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Old 03-16-2009, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, California
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The danger is that big developers will buy up land at these cheap rates and then 'develop' it. That will be the beginning of the end of Alaska.
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Old 03-16-2009, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Over the Rainbow...
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The danger is that big developers will buy up land at these cheap rates and then 'develop' it. That will be the beginning of the end of Alaska.
These sales have been going on for years and again, they are "out in the middle of nowhere" 99% of the time. Will be quite some TIME before Alaska becomes what California has become. Matter of fact I'd bet Alaska will never become that bad or even close.
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Old 03-16-2009, 04:42 PM
 
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I don't think that developers can buy it and even if they could most of it really isn't land that can be developed.

People need to do what Arctic did and go out and actually see the land before buying it.
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Old 03-16-2009, 05:45 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, California
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I agree. I would never buy land without having seen it firsthand.
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