Crazy88

like the subject says, how many acres does your house sit on?

im just curious to see if people prefer very small lots or nice yards or ranches/farms.

GreenMonster

I've got .41 acres (17000 plus sq. ft) and I wish I had a lot more. I'd love a little gentlemans farm, but with the way prices are up in my area, I don't think it's gonna happen (unless I marry a rich old farmers wife).

Acres/Sq. Ft. calculator:

http://www.prudentialcalbestrealty.com/convert_from.htm

odessa

1st on 75 ac, 2nd on 11 ac.

o3jeff

.24 acres

keg1997

just over half an acre for us....

Whiskers

I got about a 1/2 now, but will be much less soon.

zeroday

.4 acres

joerockt

I own a house in SoCal...Whats an acre?

03SSMTL-S

old home: .97 ac
new home: .48 ac

Scribesoft

A hair under 3 acres total

Water-S

the home place sits on 3 acres but the family owns 600 acres.

zeroday

600? damn how many acres did you guys have before you sold some of it for hundreds of billions?

Whiskers

Its Ohio, maybe he got a fifty for it....

Scottman111

365...House sits on about 2, the rest is fields and cow pasture...

doopstr

.5 here and it no longer looks like death, now it's on life support

Water-S

we got 10 grand an acre.

Water-S

we had 750 prior to the sale of 150 acres to a land developer.

S A CHO

2 acres...

Crazy88

Back in Chicago burbs, we had 3 acres. But we relocated to Colorado and now its 15 and surrounded by U.S. Forest Service lands.

It would be sweet to have hundreds or thousands of acres to just do whatever on.

bdimc2001

Land is scarce here in the Northern NJ area. I have .43 its about 76x250 lot.

pmptx

1.94 acres, enough to keep me mowing for a while

95gt

Less than one. I don't prefer less land, I have no choice.

I want 5 hectars at least

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

Little under a half-acre...

fdl

0.1 acre here.

I prefer a big lot, but I dont live in the sticks (or have millions to buy a 1+ acre lot in the city).

Sclass88

$10,000/ acre???

An acre in my area goes for around $400,000!!!!

My house sits on about half an acre. It works for us...

juniorbean

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Well, it makes sense that land values in MA are significantly higher then Ohio.

Plus, not that it would make a huge difference, but when you sell a large tract of land, the per acre price drops. When you sell 600 acres in Ohio, the average price may have been $10k per acre, but if they were just selling 1 acre... it probably would have been closer to $60k-$70k per acre. If someone sold 600 acres in North Shore, MA the per acre price would be no where near $400k.

ric

um, hate to tell ya, but Ohio is selling for what Joisey sells for, you Irish Mic, depending upon location. and - I'd match Chagrin Falls right up there with Short Hills or the Joisey Coast.

fdl

Not if its $10k/Acre. Thats extremely cheap.

mamboking

.37 acres

mt6forlife

I think its like .2 and that's considered slightly oversized for here.

GunnmeTaLCURA04

There is no more space for an acre in miami.

Scottman111

So do you guys plan on buying more land in a couple years when you can afford it? Or are you satisfied with a small lot?

MikeCLS6

my family has 58 acres in northern va, and are looking at buying another 15......its time for me to build a house

juniorbean

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Doesn't really have anything to do with being able to afford it. For us it had more to do with the type of people you are living with. We could have bought much more land and a bigger house but we'd be in a country club type setting and those are not the type of people we want to hang out with. So we chose a more family oriented community which had smaller lots.

Our next house will be on a larger piece of land though. Whether we decide to go into another community or just buy a nice piece of land somewhere is still up for debate, and it's too far away to start really thinking about it now...

TBone2004

Yo. don't even start talking about moving or next houses - spend at least one summer in that pool first!

TBone2004

More to maintain. We are only 3 people in my family so we do not need too much more...unless my son grows up to be soccer champion and wants a field in the back yard. For me I am moving from 1/4 acre to 1/2 acre this year - I am sure once the initial feeling of wow - look at all this space wears off, I would like more just to keep annoying idiot people away from me - since the Township will not let me dig a moat around my property. Otherwise, having more land just means more taxes NJ is going to suck from me...they are getting enough as it is.
As a kid I think we had 1+ acre - mostly woods - it was cool as a kid - could ride our dirt bikes or go-karts in there - made trails and jumps, nowadays I do not know where kids can do that stuff.

GreenMonster

I'd like to have a couple of acres... (2-5). That would be good for me.

Will I be able to afford it ?? Probably not, but I can dream, can't I ??

t_in_maine

2.7 acres; mostly wooded.... for that and a 3 BR ranch, I paid just over $36,000

Also have first option on buying another 2.4 adjoining acres.

juniorbean

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LOL. Ugh, you have no idea. We went to a open house about a month or so ago to see a 9800 square foot house on 1.5 acres. The wife has a fresh head.

We're not going anywhere for a while. We may buy some land in the next year or so just to have it since prices of land keep going up and up, but we're not going anywhere for at least 5 years

Scottman111

Yeah I figured taxes would be pretty rough for some of you that live in the more urban areas. I'm not sure about other states, but here if you own over 10 acres it is considered a farm, which means you get big tax breaks. But anyways I just always hear people with small lots wishing they had some more land.

This is why I liked having so much land when I was growing up. Me and my brother made our own baseball field when we were growing up since there isn't any around us. Whenever we had friends over that's all we would do