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> If you were to actually buy the land to fit this tiny home, you'll likely end up with a bill north of $700k-1M+ depending on your location.

The house is ridiculously priced, but you're way off about land.

Let's be honest, this doesn't need much land. But you can still easily buy land for $2,000/acre and less. I paid 60k for 40 acres, and that's if I value the EIGHT buildings at $0 (about 6 years ago).

Interestingly, some locals have sold property recently at exorbitant rates by marketing in NYC and similar markets. I think people in the city just have no idea.

There's a whole country out here.

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Yeah, but the people in the market for $400k sheds aren't going to buy land where its $2,000/acre.

Land is absolutely cheap in some places in the world, but any place you'd actually want to live in this house is going to have expensive land.

If you're living in a place with $2k/acre land, you'll likely want to build a proper house anyway.

>Land is absolutely cheap in some places in the world, but any place you'd actually want to live in this house is going to have expensive land

You are probably correct if you restrict to exactly $2K.

However, right now on Zillow there is an 18+ acre lot advertised at $65K, which is 17 miles or about 25 minutes drive from the capitol of the fourth largest state in the US.

That's about $3.5K per acre.

My first thought is it's not buildable, but it says there's electricity and a well. Suggests it would be good for a hunter, but I don't know what a hunter would consider adequate.

You know this doesn't add up right? Who exactly is paying $2000/acre and then sticking a 540 sq ft house down? You build these tiny houses because you're paying a premium for the space. You don't build extraordinarily expensive tiny houses in areas where land value is cheap.

Maybe not this prefabricated house, but in general it makes more sense to plop a trailer or something on your (large, inexpensive) property if it's way out and isolated, because it's harder to get materials and contractors to build a conventional house. Or you can build your house yourself; I know people who did that.

Where, and how, did you buy 40 acres for 60k? Where do you go to bulk purchase land?

I'm in the Ozarks.

Rural property is usually listed as a lot. 40 acres is the most common size in my area--most of the original 40 acre plots have stayed intact and not been broken up.

I bought it in a pretty traditional manner.

Here's a site selling acreage in southern Missouri starting at under 2k/acre: https://www.landwatch.com/missouri-land-for-sale/southwest-r...

I find the phrase "bulk purchase land" to be vaguely amusing for some reason.

My neighbor's 11,000 sq-ft house sits on two 15 acre lots. You buy the land in places where a 40-acre lot isn't considered unusual. IOW, pretty much anywhere that's not a city or a suburb of a major city.

As for the "how," you contact a realtor who specializes in rural properties and tell them what you're looking for.

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