Wow, dh and I are a bit overwhelmed at how much land goes for in TN!!! With a house, of course it is more expensive but it doesn't even matter if the house is in good shape.
Dh talked to some people at the USDA looking for grants, incentives, etc.. anything to help out new farmers. They pretty much told him that 1. you needed to be an established farmer 2. if you are not, then you either need the land to be willed to you or win the lottery :eyes: \
I can't believe these folks told him that. We are hoping to win the lottery :lol: because any of our local family members, who once owned land sold it all long ago!

Anyway, I would say, on average, in nice rural areas land goes for anywhere between 5 and 10K an acre...

How about in your area?

In the town we live an acre is $100,000, yes, all of those zeros are correct. This is without a house. But, we live in CT and in a coastal town. the closer you get to the water the more money the land. we have 3 acres, house with 3 bedrooms (small house though) and a post and beam 2 car garage with 2 horse stalls and tack room on the back. We got lucky and paid $330k for this.

More rural towns are less but it comes at the cost of the school system so we only looked in this town.

I would love to have more land. When we looked for a house I refused to look at anything under 2 acres and DH thought I was nuts :lol:

**adding that we are designated rural for taxes so it isn't as though we aren't "country folk" LOL

There are no acres left in my town but in my area....you couldn't get one for less than 400k.

Its unbelievable here!

$4-6k per acre here. We got a 900 sf log cabin, 600 sf shop, couple of outbuildings, on 25 acres of hillside, about 10 cleared, with a brook, for $160k.

rural? Like with water and gas and power? my dad bought some with road frontage that has power lines on the road-- would have to have septic and well water and propane if he used it (he bought it because he likes to own land LOL), but he pd 3k and acre. Now thats pretty darn rural though-- abt 20-30 miles from a store of almost any sort.

eta this is only very loosely my area-- the land is at least an hr from me, prob an hr and a half. Its abt an hr from where he lives.

Cropland is about 3500.00 an acre right now.
Wooded with an approved building site, but unimproved (no utilities) is 10,000.00 an acre.
If it already has a viable well, add 50,000 to the total price.

ok, then I don't feel quite so bad... I was just having a bit of a pity party at not finding anything that was right for us!! I know, be patient and the right place for us will come at the right time!

I also didn't take region/cost of living, etc into consideration in this question. That is huge. TN still has lots of land (mostly crop land like Katie mentioned) and it is affordable (and some is even perked for homesites). Some of it just absolutely breathtaking.
Getting my dh to understand that we may have to purchase a manufactured home but can sell later might have to be the way. I am not meaning for that to be derogatory in anyway, I have lived in many types of housing... from vw busses to cabins in the mountains with lots of mice to regular cookie-cutter neighborhoods. I am flexible and just want some land and a home that dh doesn't have to slave over!! He comes from a different world and I think he was afraid that his family would look down their noses at him. yep, they would and will but who cares!


Thanks for the land pity party!!! I will just have to live through thinking of you guys working on your land each day... and I do!!! I water my tomatoes in their pots, on my back porch and think of one of you and what you must be doing at that same hour of the morning!

I am weird and I need something else to do don't I LOL