We bought 6 ACRES to build our own home!! (Property Tour and Drone Footage)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2020
- Welcome to the site of our future home(stead)! In June, we bought a 6.2-acre parcel of vacant wooded land that we will be starting the marathon of all projects - developing raw land and building our own home. In this video, check out some aerial footage of the property and listen to the fairly unconventional way we found and purchased it.
We will take this piece of land from a bunch of trees in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania to the place that we will call home for the foreseeable future. Hit the subscribe button to follow our build journey - it will be different than most others for three reasons:
1) We are designing the house from scratch ourselves.
2) We are going to work as our own General Contractor, hiring subcontractors as we need to.
3) We will finance the project without taking on any debt.
In the end, our goal is to move into our dream home with no mortgage to show for it.
We will document every step of the way in the 'Self Building Our Home' playlist, so make sure to subscribe here and follow us on social media to stay updated!
About Us: We are Alex and Elaina, a couple in our mid 20s who are currently living on the 3-acre farm in southern Pennsylvania where Alex grew up. We have a garden, backyard chickens, and build or fix anything that we need to. We still work corporate day jobs, but are working to eventually leave the 9-5 lifestyle in favor of a self-built, debt-free, homestead on 6 acres nearby.
Something that differentiates us from other TH-cam homestead channels is our transparency on the cost of our projects - there is usually a breakdown right in the description!
Follow our journey here on TH-cam and @masondixonacres on Instagram and Facebook!
Instagram: / masondixonacres
FB Page: / masondixonacres
Congratulations on the purchase of a beautiful property. I truly hope you will be eternally happy.
Thank you!!
Wow AMAZING piece ofnproperty! Super great drone footage !
Thank you so much!! We are very happy with it. The drone shots just highlight the natural beauty of south central PA in general, we love this area.
Very excited to see how this process turns out! Best of luck as your adventure continues!
Thank you, Steele! We are very excited. Stay tuned for the next update which will be floor plan design! 🙂
@@MasonDixonAcres dont toy with my emotions like that!!!
" Welcome to our property " ... I smiled ...
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Wow congrats on getting such a land..
Thank you!
Like the drone views, it really helps to show location and views. Nice overview of your process to obtain land. PS: Boopers were fun!!!
Agreed, the drone is an excellent video tool! Thank you!! 🙏🏼
Love love the drone view! Especially the drive up to your property!!! .... so exciting to watch as things start happening!!! Keep those bloopers coming!!!👍🏻
We are excited for next steps!
Very nice vid, cool drone footage. Beautiful property
Much appreciated 🙏🏼
@@MasonDixonAcres it is our pleasure
Just starting this series! I love the information! I'm actually in Maryland myself hoping to do this later in my life. Just need to figure out where I'd want to be.
Awesome, thanks for joining! It will be the toughest but best thing you'll ever do
Did the EXACT same thing! Sent 5 letters... Received a response from 4/5. The 1 response we received was for a plot we didn't even look at, but it has worked out. Now, we are close to purchasing 6 acres of wooded land about 4 miles NE of where we currently live. God works in mysterious ways! We look forward to clearing the land and making it our homestead!
That's so weird! What a coincidence.. best of luck on your building journey! Keep your channel updated with it :)
Just found your channel! Can’t wait to watch your journey. How smart to make letters and send out. How did you find out the landowners? We will be embarking on this same journey in a couple of years.
That's awesome! I tried talking to vacant land owners through mail/Facebook. Didnt work so well. Contacted about 30, and nothing came of it. Wish I known about that program you used! Lol Following along as we're about to close on our land in about 3 weeks!
That’s awesome! It’s really a numbers game, sending more letters enabled us to see as many as we did. Congrats on the purchase, it is certainly the start of quite a work marathon. Best of luck, don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions!
This is amazing right now we live on 5 acres but we rent we weren’t really looking to buy a big property but one of my parents side of the family are and we’re BIG farmers pretty soon one of the farms will be ours it’s a dairy farm located on 600 acres we’re NEVER gonna live there but hopefully we can buy a nice property but I say you two are very lucky for this property I believe you will be able to get 100 acres than 200 all the way up to 1000 because you guys have a lot of potential I see keep it up!
Wow a 600 acre farm would be a handful. I'm not sure if we could manage more than 6! Haha thank you for watching, more to come!
@@MasonDixonAcreshahahaha yeah it’s a lot I’m not sure how my parents are going to handle it while we’re back at home over 200 miles away because there are over 3000 cows but there are a lot more animals..
Okay, 35K. Not bad! We're currently looking in Fairfield, PA and we live in Smithsburg, MD and Waynesboro, PA. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get this property? We're on the Mason Dixon line.
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Ok - that was a creative way to find property.. Where did you learn to do this? Self baked idea, or learned it from somewhere? Oh, and loved the outtakes. funny.
Not totally self-baked, a similar tactic is used in some niches of real estate investing, we just applied the basics to our situation. Haha thanks! thought we should include the fact that we’re still not good on camera 😂
Hello I was wondering if you had any advice for someone who is interested in doing this ! ( buying land and building house on that land ) it’s always been my dream to do so and I would love it if you could shed some light on y’all’s experience
We are just getting started and will definitely be sharing along the way so stay tuned for more videos!
What is the name of the site again?
How were you able to use agent pro for searching for the specific absentee or abandoned land? I’m planning on moving to North Carolina from New Jersey and will like to buy land. Please help thanks.
They have easy filters to use, basically like Google maps but there’s a check box for “absentee owner”. There’s a guy named Seth Williams who has a whole website and program dedicated to buying & selling vacant land, called REtipster.com. do some googling on that and I’m sure he has a good agentpro walkthru article that explains it
@@MasonDixonAcres Thanks
How many year did you finance it for? What kind of payments? Restrictions? How many trees can be cut?
Paid cash, no restrictions. See our video on our timber harvest for details there
Can you reverse the house build playlist? It doesn’t properly play in the current order
Did you have to get a loan? And if so about how much for mortgage?
We did not take out a loan! Our plan is to build our house debt-free.
how did you find the information for the land owners?
at the time, AgentPro 24/7. That site is now done, DataTree is a good replacement. It's all available from the county anyway, those services just make it searchable
uhm my mom said that are family is going to save up for a year and get 6 acres... we only get 80 grand a year...
No company will take those trees.
See our timber harvest video!
The problem with that area is it’s in the eastern part of the country that land was priced right at 35k but you could have got 4 acres for 10 k like prepper life did his channel is on youtube from NC I paid way less then that for around 10 acres In Montana with a couple old but still useable for storage outbuilding buildings if I were you guys I would have went to a better State out west or find another country to live in internationally because if there is ever gonna be a ww3 nuclear war your gonna have a front row seat sitting in PA and people that live in Montana and Wyoming will be viewing events that could happen from a little safer away you can find out the nuclear targets on line they are located mostly all along the east coast.
Nah we love PA! No sense moving away from friends and family in our opinion.