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<blockquote data-quote="ICanFixIt" data-source="post: 3507948" data-attributes="member: 45888"><p>I looked for rural land about 12 years ago. After almost giving up, I found the perfect place. 21 acres that had a year round creek in the canyon. From the nearest paved road, you had to drive 2 miles on gravel/dirt roads to the cattle guard, then drive down the 2-track road, over another cattle guard to get to the land. It was a great place to hide from the gangs of city folks that were sure to show up after the fall of civilization. It even offered great fields of fire, should I need to defend my hidden bug-out home. The first thing I had to do was build 1,100 feet of barbed-wire fence to keep the neighbor's cattle out. 20 of the t-posts had to have holes drilled in a rock that was about the size of a battleship. My original plan was to build a house on the property, but the reality was that builders demanded a huge premium because of the remoteness of the potential building site. I decided to put a quality double-wide on it instead. </p><p></p><p>Gotta' get a perc test before they will put in the septic tank. Getting people to make the trip to somewhere beyond the middle of nowhere to do those jobs isn't easy and it isn't cheap. Gotta' drill a water well. $$$$ Just the footing necessary to place the double-wide cost $7,000. The sections of the double-wide are too long and wide to get around the corners on the county roads, so I had to do some creative tree trimming with my chainsaw. Those sections are also too wide to make it thru the cattle guards, so we had to lay down a couple of sections of barbed-wife fence and go thru a neighbor's fields. Not off to a good start with the neighbors.</p><p></p><p>The installation crew got everything in place and leveled after a few days. You wouldn't believe how much damage the move did inside the double-wide. It eventually got fixed, but it wasn't exactly fun to see my 6 figure investment in such a state. Guess what? We still have to get electricity from the nearest pole that is over 1,000 away. No, the electrician did NOT feel sorry for me and give me a special deal. Oh, We still need a trench dug to bury the pipe and power to and from the well that is about 100 feet from the house. It wouldn't do much good without putting a couple thousand dollars worth of pump in the well. </p><p></p><p>The nearest supplier of concrete was about 50 miles away, so those prices made my new garage floor cost a bit more than expected. We got the garage framed and roofed. That 31 inch step up from the ground to the floor helped us decide that we needed porches and steps front and rear. The gravel for the driveway cost $270 per truckload. I'm getting tired of typing and I haven't even gotten to the lawn sprinklers, water hydrants, trees and bushes for landscaping, sod to control some of the blowing dust, fences around house and telephone installation. By the time it was done, I was so sick of it that all I could think about was selling it and moving to town. That is exactly what we did. Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you to just get some land and stick a trailer on it. It doesn't work that way in the real world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ICanFixIt, post: 3507948, member: 45888"] I looked for rural land about 12 years ago. After almost giving up, I found the perfect place. 21 acres that had a year round creek in the canyon. From the nearest paved road, you had to drive 2 miles on gravel/dirt roads to the cattle guard, then drive down the 2-track road, over another cattle guard to get to the land. It was a great place to hide from the gangs of city folks that were sure to show up after the fall of civilization. It even offered great fields of fire, should I need to defend my hidden bug-out home. The first thing I had to do was build 1,100 feet of barbed-wire fence to keep the neighbor's cattle out. 20 of the t-posts had to have holes drilled in a rock that was about the size of a battleship. My original plan was to build a house on the property, but the reality was that builders demanded a huge premium because of the remoteness of the potential building site. I decided to put a quality double-wide on it instead. Gotta' get a perc test before they will put in the septic tank. Getting people to make the trip to somewhere beyond the middle of nowhere to do those jobs isn't easy and it isn't cheap. Gotta' drill a water well. $$$$ Just the footing necessary to place the double-wide cost $7,000. The sections of the double-wide are too long and wide to get around the corners on the county roads, so I had to do some creative tree trimming with my chainsaw. Those sections are also too wide to make it thru the cattle guards, so we had to lay down a couple of sections of barbed-wife fence and go thru a neighbor's fields. Not off to a good start with the neighbors. The installation crew got everything in place and leveled after a few days. You wouldn't believe how much damage the move did inside the double-wide. It eventually got fixed, but it wasn't exactly fun to see my 6 figure investment in such a state. Guess what? We still have to get electricity from the nearest pole that is over 1,000 away. No, the electrician did NOT feel sorry for me and give me a special deal. Oh, We still need a trench dug to bury the pipe and power to and from the well that is about 100 feet from the house. It wouldn't do much good without putting a couple thousand dollars worth of pump in the well. The nearest supplier of concrete was about 50 miles away, so those prices made my new garage floor cost a bit more than expected. We got the garage framed and roofed. That 31 inch step up from the ground to the floor helped us decide that we needed porches and steps front and rear. The gravel for the driveway cost $270 per truckload. I'm getting tired of typing and I haven't even gotten to the lawn sprinklers, water hydrants, trees and bushes for landscaping, sod to control some of the blowing dust, fences around house and telephone installation. By the time it was done, I was so sick of it that all I could think about was selling it and moving to town. That is exactly what we did. Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you to just get some land and stick a trailer on it. It doesn't work that way in the real world. [/QUOTE]
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