Country Real Estate

By Steve Gillman - 2009

Looking for some country real estate? One of the best resources you can use is the guide put out by United Country. No, I am not paid to say that. I just picked up a copy recently and was once again fascinated by the variety of rural properties for sale all over the country. This is a fun little catalog of possibilities.

For example, they had a fifteen-acre "mini-farm" listed in Alabama, with fruit trees, pasture, a four-bedroom home and some outbuildings--all for $145,000. If you want just land in Alabama, 100 forested acres with a stream running through it was listed for $180,000. And if you want to buy less expensive properties in Alabama, there were nice homes as cheap as $65,000 (of course if it isn't country real estate you want, you can find many $5,000-houses in Birmingham).

More Country Real Estate Listings

Hardy Arkansas - Cabin on 3.5 acres for $48,500.

Sterling Colorado - Rural grocery store on busy highway for $164,000.

Bieber, California - Mountain home on over three acres with four bedrooms, koi pond, and a Jacuzzi, for $120,000.

Avon Park, Florida - 2100-square-foot home on a lake, with four RV rental spaces for extra income. Includes a travel trailer, shed, and shop building. Price: $199,000.

Quincy Illinois - 96 acres with woods and water for $89,900.

Salem, Indiana - 159-acre dairy farm for $950,000.

Mount Ayr, Iowa - Profitable small town pub for $74,000.

Albany, Kentucky - Cabin with eight acres close to a lake and bordering two mountain streams, all for $97,000.

Grand Rapids, Michigan - Three-bedroom home on a lake for $135,000.

Pine River, Minnesota - Fifteen-acre fruit and vegetable farm with three-bedroom home, greenhouse, pole barn and garage, for $275,000.

Alamogordo, New Mexico - Fifteen acres with a rodeo arena for $50,000.

Those are just a few of the examples of country real estate found in the United Country guide. There were also riverfront properties, hobby farms, stores, and more. They also had a new section that I haven't seen before, on real estate in Costa Rica. I'm not sure why they are straying so far from their theme (they say, "No One Knows the Country Like We Do" - and that's a registered trademark). But in any case, looking at the prices in Costa Rica, it seems that now is the time to buy in the United States.

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