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As the title says I'm house hunting. Really I was land hunting I'd like to find 5-10 acres of wooded land in my area for a reasonable price. So far I've exhausted every real estate agent web site and have found nothing. It seems the only acreage people are selling is clear cut, or very small (less than 1 acre) the few locations I have found that fit what I want come out to be 6K+ per acre (which is high for around here, and some got close to 10K) or is more land than I can afford and the owner won't divide it.
So while looking the other day I spotted a Log Cabin sitting on a little over 7 wooded acres. It's a 25 year old, 2 story, 1350sf house. It has 3 bed rooms 2.5 bathrooms. Living room w/ stone fireplace and hearth (wood or gas). All rooms have ceiling fans. It has a 220sf front porch, a 726sf tri-level deck off one side, and a 92sf back porch w/127sf deck. It has a paved driveway and double car port w/adjoining workshop (probably 10x10 or 10x12). It has a new roof, new hot water heater, 2 new Central Heating and Air units (upper/lower), and new wet pump in the well. Oh and no sheet rock inside the house. Only thing gas in the house is the gas logs in the fire place. according to them the heating bill (assuming this means electric bill) runs about 250 during a couple months (hotter month), with closer to 150 being the norm. They are asking $130,000 price negotiable, hoping maybe get it down to 115 or 120.
Given what I've seen for sale I've got 2 other options. Option 1. Buy something else closer to town with .5-1 acre of land, that'll run 100K-150K price range. Option 2. Find 5-10 acres in my price range and put a manufactured home on it. There you are talking anywhere from 67000-130000 (what I want would likely be on the higher end). That range isn't taking into account building permits, well, sewage system, etc. it's just for the land price plus manufactured home price.
So 115-130K for this log cabin -vs- 67-130K (plus additional fees) to build. If I build I'll be getting what I want not whatever I can find so it'll probably be more on the 130K end, after the additional costs it'll probably be more like 140-150K. I refuse to only have one acre of land so that's out. Also the places like I want are going to do nothing but go up in price, so I don't want to wait very long.
It's such a problem trying to figure out what to do.
So while looking the other day I spotted a Log Cabin sitting on a little over 7 wooded acres. It's a 25 year old, 2 story, 1350sf house. It has 3 bed rooms 2.5 bathrooms. Living room w/ stone fireplace and hearth (wood or gas). All rooms have ceiling fans. It has a 220sf front porch, a 726sf tri-level deck off one side, and a 92sf back porch w/127sf deck. It has a paved driveway and double car port w/adjoining workshop (probably 10x10 or 10x12). It has a new roof, new hot water heater, 2 new Central Heating and Air units (upper/lower), and new wet pump in the well. Oh and no sheet rock inside the house. Only thing gas in the house is the gas logs in the fire place. according to them the heating bill (assuming this means electric bill) runs about 250 during a couple months (hotter month), with closer to 150 being the norm. They are asking $130,000 price negotiable, hoping maybe get it down to 115 or 120.
Given what I've seen for sale I've got 2 other options. Option 1. Buy something else closer to town with .5-1 acre of land, that'll run 100K-150K price range. Option 2. Find 5-10 acres in my price range and put a manufactured home on it. There you are talking anywhere from 67000-130000 (what I want would likely be on the higher end). That range isn't taking into account building permits, well, sewage system, etc. it's just for the land price plus manufactured home price.
So 115-130K for this log cabin -vs- 67-130K (plus additional fees) to build. If I build I'll be getting what I want not whatever I can find so it'll probably be more on the 130K end, after the additional costs it'll probably be more like 140-150K. I refuse to only have one acre of land so that's out. Also the places like I want are going to do nothing but go up in price, so I don't want to wait very long.
It's such a problem trying to figure out what to do.
