You've always wanted land. You just never knew where to start.
You've been on Zillow for two years. Everything in your budget is a lot in a subdivision, and everything with a creek and some woods is $400,000 or gone in four days. So you've started to think a few acres is something other people get.
Here's what nobody told you. [Most / About half] of the rural land in this country is owned by someone over 60 who's had it for decades, pays almost nothing in taxes on it, and has never once thought about listing it. They're not selling because nobody asked.
When a family calls and says "we'd like to raise our kids on it," a lot of them say yes.
I'm Patrick. I bought my first 2 acres in 2017 and built on them. Since then: 550 acres, 34 deals, all of it bought before it hit Zillow. I still buy land around Cincinnati, some to keep, some to farm, some to split into homesteads for families like the ones in this group.