Cheap Rural Land for Sale

The most expensive land for sale in the United States is situated in the downtown sections of the larger cities and the least expensive land is located in the outlying rural portions of the nation. The best deals regarding cheap rural land for sale anywhere in the United States of America will be found in the larger Western states: Texas, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Mexico and Nevada. In the remote rural areas of these states land can still be found for prices under $500 per acre.

The advantage of finding cheap rural land for sale is that purchase prices will generally be very reasonable and easy seller financing is usually available. Of the various investments available to people today – rental properties, commercial buildings, business franchises, oil drilling partnerships, commodities, bonds and stocks – cheap rural land is the easiest to acquire, the easiest to maintain and in 25 years from now is the most certain of all the other assets to still be here and to be worth more money than it is today.

Cheap rural land is a finite asset, meaning there are only so many acres available in the United States and there is no way to manufacture more land. The United States of America contains 2.4 billion acres of land and 100 years ago, in the year 1910, the population was 92 million people. That equated to 26 acres per person. Today there are still 2.4 billion acres of land in the United States and the population is 307 million. This now equates to only a little over 7.5 acres per person. Thus is there any doubt but that cheap rural land for sale today will become much more valuable in future years?

As evidence of this inevitable price increase consider that in 1990 cheap rural land in parts of Texas, Wyoming or South Dakota could have been purchased for $50 per acre or less. Today some of that same land is now priced at closer to $500 per acre, an increase of 10 times the 1990 price.

How did the stock market perform over this same period? In 1990 the Dow Jones was 2900 and today it is around 11,000, an increase of approximately 4 times the 1990 price. What about the value of cash over the same period of time? According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics it takes $167 today to buy the same goods and services that $100 purchased back in 1990. In other words inflation robbed the dollar of 40% of its purchasing power is just 20 years time.

Finding cheap rural land for sale and purchasing under beneficial terms might well be one of the surest and safest methods of building wealth in future years. History has taught us that it is virtually impossible to lose money owning large tracts of rural land if purchased cheap enough and held long enough.

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