Sounds Good: 40 Acres for $40K

They’ve been pushing land sale opportunities at Eagles Springs Ranch pretty hard here in Seattle lately. Radio ads for the high desert development 20 minutes from Moses Lake in Central Washington have been coming in loud and clear during our morning commutes.
We put a call into the developers to ask if they were having a [...]

Texas Two-Steps On Land Sale

Good article in The New York Times today about a mountain wilderness tract that was, and probably will be again shortly, on the block. The delay of the sale will give Texans a better chance to debate the destiny of this 9,700 acres of wilderness.
“This is a fortunate mistake,” said the land commissioner, Jerry Patterson, [...]

Wind Farms: Fair or Foul?

Count central Washington as a battle ground between environmentalists clammering for renewable energy and local landowners who think their environs will be compromised by the sound and sight of the giant wind machines.
Washington state governor Christine Gregoire said she will over-rule local officials and permit a wind farm near Ellensburg.
As much as LandCrazed would like [...]

Online Land Inquiry Nets Credit Offer

As we drove through Seattle the other morning, a radio ad for land near Moses Lake, Washington caught our attention. The announcer seemed to be signaling a distress sale at Eagles Springs Ranch, considering the urgency conveyed in the 30-second spot blaring in the middle of the morning commute.
Basically, 40-acre parcels were being advertised, hard [...]

Chickening Out on Buildable Lots!

It is a long story, but after much deliberation, LandCrazed (the blogger) has decided to PASS on acquiring (at minimal cost) 6 lots in Hampshire County, West Virginia. The lots would have been a lovely gift, but … and here’s the part that’s embarrassing to admit … too much of a liability — at [...]

Pretty site for pretty land

An interesting site has cropped up and grabbed our attention.
Idealdestinations.com is a search site that aggregates all kinds of land/housing/retirement “opportunities.” It’s an offshoot enterprise of RPI Media, which publishes Ideal Destinations Magazine and others, like Live South.
Look, Ma! The web is really growing up! In the next few years, some of these new [...]

Where The Hell Have You Been?

Wow. Major embarrassment here in the land of LandCrazed. The only explanation: We weren’t particularly LandCrazed for the ENTIRE SUMMER OF 2007. But, alas, that would be a little white lie. We were, even in absentia from the blog-o sphere, land obsessed.
Let’s get down to business, which is the specter of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown [...]