CHRIS_WNC
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Hello all.
My wife and I recently purchased a piece of property for our future home site. I wanted to start a thread following along with our initial planning and such.
We picked up 125.1 acres here in Rutherford County, NC. Price was $5300/acre on the start. We ended up purchasing for $3600 in a cash deal. The land is 99% pine on gently terraced terrain and has an active creek and spring head on it. It's very rural. Our current house/horse farm is on 106 acres now, but it is mostly open pasture land and has minimal trees on it. The new property is covered in trees. When we are in the center of it, it is like we are cut off from the rest of the world. We love it.
We have a house plan picked out and have been spending time riding our ATVs through the property looking for suitable sites. Where we are located, there will not be a view of the mountains so it is open game on location. We think we have the area for the house site all taken care of. Our plan is to harvest about an acre of the pine to make a home site. Harvest another 20 or so acres for a barn and pasture and some shooting lanes. And if necessary have the rest of the pines thinned out for future rotational harvesting.
I asked about creating a "driveway" in another thread on here that I slightly hijacked. The just of the answers was to contact the local DOT guys and see what they require. I made a note of that and moved on to contacting forestry people.
The previous owner did not have the property listed as "present use" with the county tax office, so we are going to have to initiate that. My wife's family has a forestry/land management guy that they have used for years. I called him yesterday and he is going to look the property over for me and give me options. We are going to meet over there in a few days and do some walking around. This will be our first experience with selling timber. I'm very curious on how it all works. We'll see soon!
That's the end of my first post. I'll update with new posts and edit the date in the title as things happen.
CHRIS
My wife and I recently purchased a piece of property for our future home site. I wanted to start a thread following along with our initial planning and such.
We picked up 125.1 acres here in Rutherford County, NC. Price was $5300/acre on the start. We ended up purchasing for $3600 in a cash deal. The land is 99% pine on gently terraced terrain and has an active creek and spring head on it. It's very rural. Our current house/horse farm is on 106 acres now, but it is mostly open pasture land and has minimal trees on it. The new property is covered in trees. When we are in the center of it, it is like we are cut off from the rest of the world. We love it.
We have a house plan picked out and have been spending time riding our ATVs through the property looking for suitable sites. Where we are located, there will not be a view of the mountains so it is open game on location. We think we have the area for the house site all taken care of. Our plan is to harvest about an acre of the pine to make a home site. Harvest another 20 or so acres for a barn and pasture and some shooting lanes. And if necessary have the rest of the pines thinned out for future rotational harvesting.
I asked about creating a "driveway" in another thread on here that I slightly hijacked. The just of the answers was to contact the local DOT guys and see what they require. I made a note of that and moved on to contacting forestry people.
The previous owner did not have the property listed as "present use" with the county tax office, so we are going to have to initiate that. My wife's family has a forestry/land management guy that they have used for years. I called him yesterday and he is going to look the property over for me and give me options. We are going to meet over there in a few days and do some walking around. This will be our first experience with selling timber. I'm very curious on how it all works. We'll see soon!
That's the end of my first post. I'll update with new posts and edit the date in the title as things happen.
CHRIS