Critique this property!

Tomorrow, Mark and I are going to look at a piece of property. We are renting an awesome farmhouse with a barn to keep our horses in, plenty of pasture, and hay.. but there's something missing here. It's not ours... not to mention personal issues with our LLord.
So the place we're looking at has 95 acres and a small; I mean, small.. house. 400 square feet is how small! But supposedly it has a basement also, which would double space. We wuld probably live here until we could build something bigger; thinking of getting a brand new doublewide. Don't laugh; they are Nice; 2 bathrooms, etc.
Here are some pics; the listing states it is about 75 percent wooded (awesome!) and roughly 10 acres of farmed land rented to a farmer (think it's hay.) You cannot even see an inkling of any buildings from the road; there's a long driveway that snakes into the woods to it.
Now, I am pretty upset on how small the house is; I always pictured myself livin' out my days in a huge open plan farmhouse.. we were thinking we could build-on since there's already the "basic" building aswell as septic, elec, etc. The price is in the neighborhood of 180k. So please, my awesome friends at BP.net, give me your honest opinions! The negative is, we will have to build a small shelter for the horses (my man is awesome at building though.) If we logged a path into the woods, we could probably get around 40K to add onto the mrotgage. And no, I will Not get rid of a single pet! (just the 2 horse babies we were selling anyway this fall, and maybe a few fish I could consign at my friend's pet store.).)
EDIT: OMFG; I just read that it is only 20 foot by 20 foot!! How could i stand it? lol; it would only be until we could add on; and there is a basement (what's a "slab basement?") and 1 detached garage.
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Sigh.. it has this awesome pond too.
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With 95 acres couldn't you just build as big of a house as you want? That current one is way small...

we love it yeah the house is smale but like you said you can buy a 2000 squre foot nftued home for around 35000 so say yeah

I would buy your doublewide and put it their and tear down the old house.Also when can i come over to find out if there are any fish or frogs in your pond? Yes i love frog legs :D .

We might want to leave the cabin there; see, Mark's uncle is possibly divorcing his wife, and he is sick of living in the city; he would be glad to rent from us. We were also thinking of maybe renting it out in the fishing season, for weekenders, to make a few bucks :)
Hell, if all else fails and Mark and i get into a squabble, I could just live in the trailer next to it!

On a side note, I am really pist right now; there are people shooting shotguns off now (at 10mp at night, in pitch blackness!??!) and they're so close I can hear the echoes of the shots, like the bullets are going right by the house; and I am home alone.. just waiting for that fugitive Bucky Phillips to come knocking at the door; guys I am SCARED right now!!!!!! :bolt:

It looks like a fabulous piece of propery! I'd be drooling if it were my opportunity! And if I could afford something like the double-wide to go on it right away, I wouldn't hesitate. Hehehe...maybe you could turn the existing house into the "barn"? Or it would make a lovely little guest house.


I do agree that 20x20 is way too small. That's about the size of my master bedroom! :O LOL Craziness! But well worth a bit of extra expense and inconvenience if the rest of the property is so perfect!

And then, once you get settled into the trailer, you can make plans to build your dream house! How fun would that be?!? :bounce:

180k for 95 acres isn't bad. I live in Vegas, and right now 180k buys you about 0.125 acre w/o a house on it or a condo.

Bull Doze that cabin or enlarge it. Make it a 2000+ square feet house (we have 1600 or so, plenty big). Keep the rest and invest in some ATV's and Dirt Bikes. 8)

Sounds good :) We already have one ATV; I use it for hauling horse poopy everyday and also to rip around; I swear I feel 100% safer on it than I do driving a car. The one thing we need is a tractor for mowing and snowplowing; no way around that. Mark wants to make a mud pit somewhere and get an old Jeep to mess around with.
I hear ya Judy; the living room I am sitting in right now is bigger than 20x20!!!!

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

We might want to leave the cabin there; see, Mark's uncle is possibly divorcing his wife, and he is sick of living in the city; he would be glad to rent from us. We were also thinking of maybe renting it out in the fishing season, for weekenders, to make a few bucks :)
Hell, if all else fails and Mark and i get into a squabble, I could just live in the trailer next to it!

On a side note, I am really pist right now; there are people shooting shotguns off now (at 10mp at night, in pitch blackness!??!) and they're so close I can hear the echoes of the shots, like the bullets are going right by the house; and I am home alone.. just waiting for that fugitive Bucky Phillips to come knocking at the door; guys I am SCARED right now!!!!!! :bolt:

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Wow they are just shooting there guns off with no regards of neighbors :mad: .That would be enough for me to cancel the deal on buying it.Who knows what they will do once you move in.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

On a side note, I am really pist right now; there are people shooting shotguns off now (at 10mp at night, in pitch blackness!??!) and they're so close I can hear the echoes of the shots, like the bullets are going right by the house; and I am home alone.. just waiting for that fugitive Bucky Phillips to come knocking at the door; guys I am SCARED right now!!!!!! :bolt:

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Wow...I totally missed this part somehow. If I were there, I'd be calling the cops!

Sorry i thought you were at the place with the pond:oops: .You say you have someone wanted by the police? Maybe thats who is doing the shooting(the cops).If you are in a valley or such gun fire echoes will carry.

No, lol; the shooting is goin' on here at home. I bet it is just some lowlife deer poachers; it seems to have died down. I yelled some "nice words" out the window; maybe they heard me :)
There's this guy named Ralph "Bucky" something; escaped from a nearby jail and is still on the loose. Big manhunt going on the next county over; the cops have been going into private citizens' cars, garages, etc without warrants looking for this guy!! And the guy had, about, 5 days or so of his sentence before he would have been released anyway; dummy!

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

No, lol; the shooting is goin' on here at home. I bet it is just some lowlife deer poachers; it seems to have died down. I yelled some "nice words" out the window; maybe they heard me :)
There's this guy named Ralph "Bucky" something; escaped from a nearby jail and is still on the loose. Big manhunt going on the next county over; the cops have been going into private citizens' cars, garages, etc without warrants looking for this guy!! And the guy had, about, 5 days or so of his sentence before he would have been released anyway; dummy!

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They never said criminals were smart :P .Give your local police a call and have them give a look see.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

No, lol; the shooting is goin' on here at home. I bet it is just some lowlife deer poachers; it seems to have died down. I yelled some "nice words" out the window; maybe they heard me :)
There's this guy named Ralph "Bucky" something; escaped from a nearby jail and is still on the loose. Big manhunt going on the next county over; the cops have been going into private citizens' cars, garages, etc without warrants looking for this guy!! And the guy had, about, 5 days or so of his sentence before he would have been released anyway; dummy!

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That's happened all too often. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by brainman1000

180k for 95 acres isn't bad. I live in Vegas, and right now 180k buys you about 0.125 acre w/o a house on it or a condo.

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Yeah thats an awsome deal, here (dont ask me why) 6 acres is around 300k.

sounds like a perfect situation to me. you have a nice little rental property to make some $$ and you can put a doublewide on it...

ahhhhhh the serenity of that pond. go for it!

my husband and i are shopping around for a house right now and let me just say that that much land for that price price seems like an awesome deal, no matter what size the house! you can always upgrade, build your own, get a trailer, whatever--no reason to turn it down based soley on the size of the house that is currently there.

What is on that 95 acres? If you dont need all of it, could sell some of it off, and then put a bigger house on it with the money from it :) that pond kicks ass :)

I would keep the little ole house and build later if that is what you really want, but myself being a ole country boy I wouldnt hesitate to just live in it. I dont know about property values because around here it is dirt cheep. Not much but farm land here. But I think you ought to do it....I know I would if I could.

Besides, small house...less to clean...lol

The house does look small, but with all that land I know I would never be inside! The pond looks sweet! And like Jamie said, with 95 acres you could build as large of a house as you want. Good luck with your decision.

-Jason

Wow, 95 acres for that price I'd sleep in a box!! I've always been happier in the country and now I'm stuck in the middle of town.:(

Thanks! We are going to look at it this afternoon after I get out of work. I will give an update later.

Looks good Jen! I wish we could find land like that around here for that kinda price...

....lol....what flood zone is it in?

Looks like a pretty sweet deal from where I'm at. Like everyone said, you could do a lot with that much land. I'd go for it. :gj:

Well, we went to look at it; the land itself is stunning. Rows of pine trees along every pathway and driveway; an apple orchard; that pond is more like a small lake. Stocked with bass And koi; I was just stunned. I see so much potential, it is ridiculous. A couple of shanties for storage; awesome flat grassy area for the horses; no logging would be done because someone has already reaped that benefit, but there are tons of pines everywhere that they apparently didn't value for that..
The house is COMPLETELY TINY; there's a miniscule bathroom that a mediumly fat person could not turn around in; we just could not live there. The washing machine is OUTSIDE with an EXTENSION cord!! I mean, I am redneck, but I cuoldn't live with that!
The point is, we could never live there; we are looking into how much a singlewide or a slab house would be to plop down; there's a great drained location for that.

That many beautiful acres for that price....I'd be jumping on it and planning on "roughing" it in the tiny house until I could at least get a nicer trailer put up. Or maybe you can get the land, but stay in your current house for however long it takes to get an alternate house set up.

The land looks and sounds amazing...and it's something great to build on. Suffering through a bit with the dollhouse, moving up to a trailer while you build a real house might be a great way to go...

95 acres for 180K....180K gets you a closet right now in Southern California...and not a walk in closet either. =P

Crappy, slapped together houses go from 500-700k without batting an eye...hence, I live in an apartment. =P