Looking for a 70 min commute to Manhattan

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by underwater

Does anyone know where i can buy a cheap piece of land, just a small one, under $20,000 within 70 mins commute of the city (via trains)

I posted this in NYS also.

How small? There's some ~40x100 lots in Newark for that price, close to light rail (to Newark Penn).

[Kefir King]

How many square inches do you want?

[brooklyn1234]

trulia is going to be your best bet.

I ran a quick search for you and found a few properties just west of Newark. But they are all just city sized lots in not so nice areas. There was also one listing in Hamburg, NJ that was about 10k higher than what you were looking for. Everything else was way higher.

[underwater]

I'm checking homes.com, a dozen or so of local real estate places. The sites are there, it's just leg work and constant checking, they are zoned residential, anything that is .20 is good enough for me.

I'd much rather go to Jersey, but i just don't know jersey well enough to know where is sketchy or not, so i'm stuck with NY

[underwater]

Originally Posted by nei

make sure they're zoned to allow house building

Absolutely. I have a place in Hudson that we built ourselves, so we've figured out all the pitfalls and what to look out for etc.

Thanks for the tip though!