Post any land for sale in your area that you think hunters might want

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BigFatKen

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A group of hunters might buy this. At age 71, I'm too old to move away from doctors.

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Property video located here:

The farm is approximately 60 miles southwest of Atlanta on the the Georgia-Alabama line. It is about 5 miles outside of West Point Ga. across the Alabama line. The distance is perfectly located for a quick trip from Atlanta Georgia or Montgomery Alabama.

This is a working cattle farm with approximately 339 acres. It is a hunter's and fisherman's paradise with an abundance of deer, turkey, and big mouth bass. Excellent farm management is in place if needed.

This property is the perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of the big cities. It is ideal for a family or business retreat. The property has many trails and access roads so hiking and camping areas are plentiful. The two houses provide ample sleeping quarters for families, friends, and business associates. Your kids will love it.

The land has a 2 bedroom home as well as a lake cabin making it ideal for hunting and fishing groups. The lake has a covered dock for 2 boats and is well stocked with bass, bream, and crappie. West Point Lake is right around the corner if you prefer the big water bass fishing and boating.

Located near the new Kia Plant, which makes it an ideal investment. There is an influx of money flowing into the area and an abundance of new jobs. The pastures are nicely fenced and the pastures are very well maintained.

The farm is valued at $1.2 million and I am selling for $1.1 million with some owner financing available. A great buy and hold property! Realtors Welcome!

Interstate 85 is about 6 miles away and the property is convenient to Atlanta Ga. and Montgomery Alabama. Smaller metro areas of Opelika Al. and LaGrange Ga. are approximately 30 Minutes away. The property offers a very private setting with few neighbors close by. West Point Ga. and Lanett, Alabama offer close grocery shopping as well as a super Walmart.

Seller FINANCING AVAILABLE.

https://auburn.craigslist.org/reo/d/seller-finance-acre-farm-br/6199699182.html

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Alabama raw timberland has been $3000/acre for a decade. Due for a rise. Land became the "new gold". Unlike gold with its negative Rate of return, counting storage fees, vault, etc., at least you earn something. Best Iowa corn land hit $16,000 last year.

A decade ago, the hunting lease for the Wis. Tigerton timber co. was $40/acre.
 
Bug-out? Too close to Hotlanta.

Large corporations can buy expensive farm lands via direct trades of assets bought cheaply in the past but have appreciated. Simple example: Stock bought at $10 is now worth $100. So, the public per-acre price is thus a cost of only 10% of the sale price. And no taxes on the $90 increase in stock value.

Hunters with middle-class assets are buying small tracts which are surrounded by game habitat. Relatively affordable.
 
If you have $400k+ that you can spare, you can buy 100-150 acres of semi-flooded Florida marsh/woods that is useful for nothing else except hunting.

PS: Pretty sneaky way of advertising your farm for free.
 
Rural land in Kansas and Oklahoma has also gotten expensive in the past 20 years. Not just the farm land but the rough "hunting land" especially. There is relatively little public hunting acreage in the state so that tends to raise it's value.
Will Rogers is attributed as saying, "Buy land , they ain't making any more of it ." And, whether he said it or not, it still rings true.
 
BigFatKen said:
Alabama raw timberland has been $3000/acre for a decade. Due for a rise. Land became the "new gold". Unlike gold with its negative Rate of return, counting storage fees, vault, etc., at least you earn something. Best Iowa corn land hit $16,000 last year.

A decade ago, the hunting lease for the Wis. Tigerton timber co. was $40/acre.
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Good Iowa ground has sold for as much as 20K/acre but the prices are a little deceptive. Often when a piece of ground sells for a very high price it is because adjoining land owners need more acres to spread manure from dairy and hog operations.
Prime deer hunting ground in Iowa sells for 3 to 5K or more.
Mine isn't for sale.
 
At 3000 an acre, my search stops at 10 acres. :rofl:

The land around here is 10K an acre, but it's divided up into mostly 10 to 20 acre plots. Still, 100K is a breathtaking price for just 10 acres to ME.

I have a 10 acre plot of hunting land up for sale for 50K, at least the real estate guy said that's what we should ask for it. It hasn't sold in a year and a half on the market, though, so take that with a grain of salt. :D Good hunting, though, for a small place. Location, location, location.

There are lots of weekend absentee owners here. We're 100 miles from Houston and 130 miles from San Antonio and there's tons of game here. Mostly, it's city folk getting out of the rat race on their days off. I sometimes wish I'd have moved to the western hill country like we were thinkin', but then family would be farther away and I wouldn't have my duck and goose hunting and I wouldn't be able to drive 70 miles to go salt water fishing. Meh, I like it here a lot. :D
 
From a $$$ standpoint, you have to compare the cost of buying hunting land with the cost of a hunting lease or a hunt club.

And taxes. My family's long-paid-for ranch land wound up with school taxes of $35 per acre per year. It became obvious that there was more money in building condos than in pasturing cows.
 
Art Eatman said:
From a $$$ standpoint, you have to compare the cost of buying hunting land with the cost of a hunting lease or a hunt club.

And taxes. My family's long-paid-for ranch land wound up with school taxes of $35 per acre per year. It became obvious that there was more money in building condos than in pasturing cows.
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Leases and clubs have gone up, too, and that's IF you can find something. I bought that 10 acres originally in 1988 because of the fact that I couldn't find a decent lease. I got in a hunting club for a while, was pretty good. It started going up in cost and I dropped out. I had good hunting that I wasn't using at the tine in that 10 acres. I killed a lot of deer and hogs on that place, not to mention late season doves. I'm glad I had it at the time. The taxes on the place went from 10 bucks a year to 80 when they dropped the ag exemption. NOW, they're over 650 a year. That's been a gripe of mine for years. I tried protesting it. Might as well back off, run headlong full speed into a brick wall as to "protest". The gubment don't care about land owners, but I'm getting into a verboten subject, I suppose, politics. So I best not get started. :D But, to look at it another way, that 650+ a year ain't squat to what a lease that good would cost me now days. Quality leases ain't cheap. Not that there's quality deer down there, nope, but there's LOTS of good meat running around. It's a five deer county for a reason.
 
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Maybe I should have said "Land in Alabama, with its low property taxes, is "new gold". The big problem with gold, IMHO, is if you are very very rich, if you buy a lot, (meaning tons) you just drive up the price. Warren Buffett bought so much silver in early part of new century at $6.50, he drove prices to $7. Then prices went back down to $6.50. Investors laughed. Buffett held and sold half when market price rose to $14. He then called the rest "no-risk, paid for by profits" and sold remainder over $30.

President (then Mr.) Trump did this all the time. When New Jersey was considering gambling in late 1970's, he did not buy land but instead started the long process of getting a gambling license. Then he got an option on some land at greatly increased prices. Then Hilton or Holiday Inn paid Mr. Trump in a buy-out because they did not try to get a license until they bought land. Mr. Trump did not make the most money, but he then had 49% of shares for free. It's all in his book.

I lived in Wisconsin where in 1993 the taxes shot up due to bad assessment by local tax assessor. I then enrolled 120 acres into some kind of "grow trees for 30 years" program. This cut taxes to almost nothing. Mandatory to allow hunting, fishing by public.

There may be a program like that in your State.

see; http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/forestlandowners/financial.html
 
I find this whole disscusion remarkable. For 1.1 million in Alaska I could buy 5 acres up north (Talkeetna about $10,000 for 5 acres) spend $50,000 on a very nice cabin maybe $10,000 on generator, well etc. Now I spend $100,000 on a first class super cub. So what can I do with with this super cub? Hunt caribou,moose,Dall sheep(native mountain sheep not some zoo animal sheep from Iran like they "hunt" in Texas) brown and grizzly bears and so on.
Oh and fishing? Land on a wilderness beach and catch 5 different kinds of wild salmon.
And I've got $930,000 left over.
But I know you gotta be by the grandkids.
 
BigFatKen said:
Maybe I should have said "Land in Alabama, with its low property taxes, is "new gold". The big problem with gold, IMHO, is if you are very very rich, if you buy a lot, (meaning tons) you just drive up the price.
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Who buys tons of gold? You can fit $1,000,000 of gold in a safety deposit box.

Warren Buffett bought so much silver in early part of new century at $6.50, he drove prices to $7. Then prices went back down to $6.50. Investors laughed. Buffett held and sold half when market price rose to $14. He then called the rest "no-risk, paid for by profits" and sold remainder over $30.
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Not true, he bought 129 million oz. silver at $3.50-$4 around 2002-03. He sold at $6 and by 2007 silver was at $17.

I don't see how a hunting lease makes sense, for $500 I can bring home a lot of pork from a TX private hunting operation. For about $1,500 I can get a cow elk at a private ranch, without any lease/ownership headaches.

 
Well, I guess it depends on personal likes and interests. My father's comment was that a deer on the ground isn't worth much. But the lease was worth it, to traipse around on 7,000 acres and to sit around the camp fire yarning with friends. Getting away from town and jobs and all that civilized stuff.

Dunno about Texas zoo hunting. I know of aoudad running loose on a half-million unfenced acres, some 20,000 of which I can meddle around on as I see fit. :)
 
Art Eatman said:
Well, I guess it depends on personal likes and interests. My father's comment was that a deer on the ground isn't worth much. But the lease was worth it, to traipse around on 7,000 acres and to sit around the camp fire yarning with friends. Getting away from town and jobs and all that civilized stuff.

Dunno about Texas zoo hunting. I know of aoudad running loose on a half-million unfenced acres, some 20,000 of which I can meddle around on as I see fit. :)
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Art I am by no means making fun of Texas hunting. (I have a invite from Mcgunner!) but I am just saying I wonder if you lifetime Texas know how cheap and easy it can be to hunt in some other states. No need to buy property or leases just go hunting.
 
$1,000,000 would buy about 75 troy pounds of gold at current rates. I don't think I could lift that safety deposit box in my current condition .. but I sure would like to try. :D
 
Well, for 8 bucks, I can buy 4 pre-seasoned pork steaks from HEB. :rolleyes: For me, it was never as much about the meat as the fun and experience. Yeah, you can hunt geese, ducks, doves, and hogs DIRT CHEAP in Texas on day leases. You CAN come out better off than paying taxes on 10 acres. :rofl: And, you'll have quality experiences. I've got enough pigs right here, though, I'm not really in to pig lease hunting anymore. I have quality duck hunting on public land, quality dove hunting on a friend's farms, and quality goose hunting for a day fee right near my house, guided hunts, they furnish the deeks and dog. I'm pretty well set up now so long as my old body don't give out. Even if THAT happens, I can walk 200 yards into the woods behind my house and sit in my box blind. :D At some point, I might pave that trail for a motorized wheelchair if it comes to that. :uhoh:
 
MCgunner said:
Well, for 8 bucks, I can buy 4 pre-seasoned pork steaks from HEB. :rolleyes: For me, it was never as much about the meat as the fun and experience. Yeah, you can hunt geese, ducks, doves, and hogs DIRT CHEAP in Texas on day leases. You CAN come out better off than paying taxes on 10 acres. :rofl: And, you'll have quality experiences. I've got enough pigs right here, though, I'm not really in to pig lease hunting anymore. I have quality duck hunting on public land, quality dove hunting on a friend's farms, and quality goose hunting for a day fee right near my house, guided hunts, they furnish the deeks and dog. I'm pretty well set up now so long as my old body don't give out. Even if THAT happens, I can walk 200 yards into the woods behind my house and sit in my box blind. :D At some point, I might pave that trail for a motorized wheelchair if it comes to that. :uhoh:
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Yes, you're in pig central, lucky you.
 
Art Eatman said:
Well, I guess it depends on personal likes and interests. My father's comment was that a deer on the ground isn't worth much. But the lease was worth it, to traipse around on 7,000 acres and to sit around the camp fire yarning with friends. Getting away from town and jobs and all that civilized stuff.

Dunno about Texas zoo hunting.
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No zoo hunting where I go in Texas, they are wild animals, and we sit around the campfire too. Hunting and hiking for miles don't have to be the same thing. I doubt the settlers and Indians did it the hard way if they didn't have to.
 
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