Where can I buy worthless land?

[VOW]

To drachillix:

You’d probably like it where we are. We’ve got 36 acres in the middle of nowhere, NE AZ. About 2-1/2 miles from the paved highway, our own well, septic, and solar set-up.

Husband and I are transplants from SCal. This is like HEAVEN in comparison.
~VOW

[Saint_Cad]

I think an important question that never came up in the thread is how much the OP is willing to spend. It may help if we get something like “$1000 including tax, title and license.”

[bahia_hombre]

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[Renee]

@VOW

To casdave:

Curious you should mention having people “walking around and about” your private property.

As stated above, I live on my piece of heaven, 36 acres out in the Middle of Nowhere, USA.

For us, that’s in Arizona.

Arizona is a “Free-Range” state.

Simply put, if you are not in an incorporated town or city, range animals have the right to meader at will wherever they choose to go. Highways have fences along the right-of-way, and cattle guard crossings are placed where roads meet the highways, to keep unwanted stock off the traveled way.

A stock owner pays a fee to the State to place his animals out on the range, and they turn 'em loose.

If a property owner does NOT want these animals (typically cattle) on his or her property, a fence must be erected, that meets the legal standard of a “stock-controlled fence.”

I am eagerly awaiting the day when we can put up our fence. It’s more than annoying to see the cows sauntering across my land, and it can scare the bejeezus out of me to look up from whatever I’m doing and see a cow staring in my window at me! (My sister-in-law calls them “peeping cows.”)
~VOW

Really?! That is SO cool. Easily the most appealing thing I’ve ever heard about AZ. Are there other free range states? We’re living in rural Maine right now, and it just amuses the hell out of me when I’m walking my dogs and one of the neighboring dairy cows has escaped, wandering around begging for treats. Cracks me up.

casdave, no, unless you’re trying to keep animals in or for privacy in a backyard, a great deal (I’d say most, but don’t know for sure) of property in the US is not fenced. Certainly most front yard areas aren’t fenced, at least out of major cities. I guess people could walk on your yard, and maybe in some areas it’s a problem, but not generally.
OK, done with the hijack. Taxes aren’t always a big issue. We own 40 acres right outside Little Rock, AR, and only pay about $60 a year in taxes on it, with roads, city water and everything. We recently considered buying another 300 acres a bit further out for $1600 an acre, but eventually decided not to. Beautiful area with good road access and water, but we didn’t want that much land and we had to buy all of it. So, yeah, buy in bulk for low prices.