If you think you will be going off grid or something similar it might not matter. However, it still might make sense that you can get a well and private septic on the property some day. It is hard to invest much in a cabin without those options available. Not every property qualifies for both of those due to regulations/zoning etc. Also, building a nice place that none of the family will visit because it doesn’t have running water or septic might not be what you want (or it might 😊).
Even with off grid, you can get wells and septic and have a pretty comfortable place. We have built 3 different hunting cabins on properties in North Dakota and Minnesota. Access to potable water and septic are the biggest challenges it seems like. Building the structure and making it inhabitable is the easy part. Hauling water is fine, but you can’t really leave it at the cabin for weeks at a time without a good storage system and you need to treat it. If you are planning to use the place for any amount of time, hauling water gets pretty old. Hit me off list if you want some ideas on lower cost options for well and septic, we ended up doing a variety of things at the three different shacks, some worked better than others. Also, for inexpensive structures, have talked with some folks that have had luck with shipping containers for the cabin. Can do some pretty fancy stuff with them. We looked at that, but didn’t end up going that route as one property had an old quanset we converted and we had access to a lot of lumber at the others. Regards, David Coudron From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 6:27 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Buying land Thankfully, I love bullets. On 1/3/2021 4:48 AM, Steve Jones wrote: If you can tolerate all 4 seasons in a day and an occasional bird size mosquito Arkansas is the place to go. Just make sure to not buy anything next to me if you dont like bullets On Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 12:21 AM Cassidy B. Larson <c...@infowest.com<mailto:c...@infowest.com>> wrote: Sources of water or water rights for the property. Here they don’t let you build a cabin without it. Taxes. Not sure about your state, but here “greenbelt” (grazed on/agricultural) land gets substantially lower tax rates. Make friends with a live stock owner near your property to have them graze yours so you don’t pay more than you should. Here it’s a minimum of 5 acres to qualify. Do you need to fence the property? Costs to maintain? Easements/access agreements. Who bares the cost to maintain the roads? Good luck! > On Jan 2, 2021, at 22:29, Adam Moffett > <dmmoff...@gmail.com<mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I'm poking around Zillow for a piece of cheap land. > > Basically looking for some place to play around in the woods, with the > possibility of building an off-grid camp/cabin in the future. > > The pitfalls I'm aware of are wetlands and places with no access. What else > should I watch out for?' > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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