Alaska State Owned Land-good Deal?

[thefemalesurvivalist]

While at the library, I saw I flyer for buying land here ...either auction or just over the counter, as they're calling it.

http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsale/otc/regions_subdiv.cfm?region=SOUTHCENTRAL


What do you all think?

5 acres of wooded land would be really nice.

[hunter63]

Looked over that site a bit, seems like no matter what, you need to buy it at market value at some point.....
If you check out this site....(from the other one)....talks about "staking a remote cabin site"......

http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsale/remote_recsites.htm
Don't see too much about access, so maybe water, air, and trails......?

[Cast-Iron]

This has been discussed here before in some detail. This program is only open to Alaska residents. There may be some existing parcels available over-the-counter, otherwise you will need to stake out a parcel within certain "eligible lands" and pay for the required legal survey. You can make improvements but cannot establish full-time residency upon it until the land has been paid for in full. It maintains a "recreational" status until then. From what I've seen, many of these properties are in some fairly remote wilderness. Bush/Float planes may be your best access in the summer, snow machines or sledding come winter. I think Sourdough is a licensed realtor there in Alaska. If you're lucky he might be able to chime in and correct any errors or omissions I may have made. Two old sayings about real estate: 1) location, location, location; 2) they're not making anymore of it!

[BENESSE]

It blows my mind that one can get an acre there for under $1,000, whereas here, a square foot is well over $1,200!!!

[Sourdough]

If you join that forum tell them AGL4now referred you

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/forumdisplay.php/70-Alaska-Cabins-and-Remote-Living
http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/forumdisplay.php/82-Relocating-to-Alaska
http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/forumdisplay.php/6-Alaska-Hiking

[Sourdough]

If you have a lot of time to kill: http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/39834-I-m-moving-to-alaska

[thefemalesurvivalist]

Then this is way more complicated than I thought. The auction says for residents and non residents. Then, the over the counter of the non sold auction parcels are residents, only?

and, its only a down payment...glad I asked. It seemed straightforward on the website: credit card, buy land, own land.

thanks for your replies