Homesteading programs

The more I think on it, the more seriously I think on it, and the more realistically, too. I want so badly to disappear into the wilderness. But I know that in the world, and in this age, that is all but impossible. It's hard to find real information online about these things (information that doesn't date back to 1971, at least) so I'll ask here: Do any of you know of a land program, homesteading program or anything of that sort that would allow an individual family to buy *ahem, inexpensively* land far out where nobody else, or at least very few people, are located? Specifically, I'm thinking about the Yukon or anywhere in Canada. At least it's mostly unspoiled. I'm not talking about just a small "lot" big enough to put a house on. I want enough space to live without seeing neighbors every day. I will save up the money necessary. I don't have Canadian citizenship,which I"m sure will complicate matters, but I'm serious here. I want to work something out. Because of my dogs, though, I pretty much need to end up in North America. I don't see any way around that. Any help and information you guys could share will be appreciated!

 

I would like to find a program like that as well.

 

I've never found true homesteading deals, as in free, anymore. A lady I used to work with (she's retired) and her late husband are the only folks I know who actually got the land for nothing and developed in from the Homesteading Act of ?? I think they did this in the early 70's. Anyway here in interior Alaska you can get acreage (5+ acres) in the bush, on the road system for $2000 down and $200 a month.

 

Minnesota *apparently* has some programs that over very affordable land to people. I heard the governor of the state on the radio talking about it, and he specifically said "I wish we had more homesteaders" but I couldn't find any information about land available from the state, and all of the homestead info in the state related to a tax program, not actual homesteading.

 

i've met people in oregon who got free land
ihad trouble following the logic they stated for how they went about it
cause he kept wandering all over and talking about the original 5th amendment (titles of nobility and honour act) and soverign citizenship (aparently your no longer required to have a drivers liscence and are only subject to district magistrates and no other court) and leins nd claims and alotta stuff that would take some serius research to find out about

 

If you want to play the game, can do the paper work,ect,you could get mining claim for 200 dollars a year in ID.The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (202-452-5125;www.blm.gov) sells off parcels of land considered to be "excess" public acreage.

 

whats that entail?
can u build a house and live there and maybe just mine a few crystls? damn that sounds good to me
as long as i didnt have to rape the land

 

To adopt your own mustang,mule or burro,call 800-417-9647 or go to www.blm.gov After 1 year,the B.L.M. will give you title.

 

The last homestead acts I read about and to my undertanding are begineing to start up again,went as follows, the govement would give you 20+ acers of land and you had a certain amount of time( I don't remember) to make half of what you have a productive buisness. So if you took 20, 10 would have to be used for a farm or cattel or whatever you want as long as is generating revenue.Then you get to keep it free and clear....just pay your taxes!

I say save you pennies and by some out right! Then you don't have to do shit to it but live on it....oh and pay your taxes!

Your in tennesee? shit I'd think you could find something in that state to your liking and relatively cheap! some thing thats already got things going in the right direction for you ,Check out tax repose, sometimes you can buy a place just for what the people who got the boot owed!

I'm behind you 100% I know you can do this and I know you want to, now take a deep breath, and relax!

 

Tennessee is odd, and it's difficult to find land that's affordable simply because the smaller/managable tracks are in high demand (at least within a 3 hour radius of Nashville, and that's alot of the state) so they are expensive... $2,000 an acre is a decent going rate on less than 20 acres, seriously. The affordable land at less than $1500 an acre is usually only 85+ acres or so. I've not been able to find decent land here that is undeveloped and meets my requirements (@ around 20 acres) for less than $45,000....

 

I think in S. Cali they will give you some land (or give you a good deal for sure) if you're going to farm it commercially. There's lots of water from the diverted colorado river and the labor's there to pick it. man, stuff sure does grow great there.
I'm surprised tennessee land is so expensive, what about around summertown?
when I moved to colorado I thought I could homestead something but they told me they dont' do that anymore, and I think they meant anywhere in the usa.
I've been looking for awhile and the only stuff I've found is terrible! the last place I looked at was in trona ca (out where charlie manson stayed at the barker ranch) by death valley but I passed on it.

Oh, and watch out for those mining claims; often they are toxic. I was going to buy 20 acres up in the mountains by Boulder Co and it was full of bad stuff like arsenic, cyanide, mercury etc. I guess the find gold where that kind of stuff is at, plus they used i think the cyanide to make the gold show up. I want to buy something so bad.

 

Check here:
http://nutmeghr.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=homes

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

Union and Grainger counties in East Tennessee have a lot of undeveloped land fairly cheap, atleast last time I check. I don't know about homesteading though.

The problem with Tennessee is that things have been so cheap here that a lot of people are moving in from the North and West where there prices are pretty high so here their money goes a lot farther. Thus driving up prices.

 

^I've noticed that. Anyway, all these plans are being put temporarily on hold for a little while. My partner just got promoted and he's really happy with his new job, etc. so I'm trying hard to be the supportive wife-y character in all this! Maybe now we can save up some money and in a couple years buy some acreage.

dad - great site! Thanks for that link!

 

well, I only have a couple grand now but the way it's going should be up to a max of $10,000 eventually. That's not a lot but for me it is. I bought a used 30' sailboat for that much and lived on it but now we have hurricanes etc. I have convictions so buying a trailer wouldn't work because they do background checks (misde'pot charge) I tried the living in a van, motorhome etc all suck. but anyplace I find residential property for that much is in the ghettos or worse, the sticks. Honestly the best deal going seems to be these habitat houses but I couldn't get approved for a loan with my student loans looming overhead. Forget s. cali, I've only been there in the winter and even then it got pretty hot sometimes near spring and right now it's still in the 90s.
I think realtors and speculators have bought all the land so why would the government want to homestead it out? unless maybe to big developers or something. Oh well.

 

there's a land office outside of camden tn where you can buy land for about 950 an acre. they finance at kinda high intrest but there's no credit check and no penelty for early payment. some friends of mine have about 30 acres out there. there is a branch office right off exit 126 on I 40. and most of the land is on the other side of the river in perry county, in a place they call "pond holler". it's about 1 hr from nashville and 45 min to jackson, and about 45 min from "the farm" in summertown, tn. most of the land back there is either owned by loggers or hunters, or people living in little dwellings they built themselves.

 

I so wish I was around back in the 60s or early 70s, thats when homesteading stopped in the lower 48, I would have jumped on that, 600+ acres, just farm ten of it, build a house and dig a well and live there for 5 years, Alaska went out in the 80s,

Im thinking about doing it anyway, Just go out in the woods old school mtn man style, axe, bow and arrow, a bunch of seeds for a garden, esp pot seeds, build my own cabin, hunt, fish, gather, just go out in the middle of some national forest and do this, like 30 miles into the woods, and if anybody tries to stop me, just do it like the old days, think about it, back in the day, if you were a mtn man and built your own cabin and someone came and tried kicking you out, or told you you couldnt live there, what would you do? youd fight right?

 

Yeah, thats happening in a lot of places, prices going up that is, tennessee, NC, SC.
WV is still dirt cheap I hear

 

Not exactly. Some friends bought a mountain (yup, a whole mountain) near Spencer, WV. Used to be an RV park. Has a natural gas well, so free gas for cooking and heating. But they still paid over $200,000.00. Wishing I'd bought a share or three when they only wanted $14,000.00 buy in. Probably three times that now.

 

are there any type of squatters rights here in america?
Someone told me if you live in an abandoned house that no one claims ownership for for like 5 years or something, its legally yours, any truth to this?