us govt.land grants/homested?
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Here's a great link about that.\nhttp://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa030702a.htm
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Generally it really takes one or the other. Also buying land is even a little trickier than buying a house. Its tough to get land financed since there is really nothing used as collateral. So usually it requires a bigger down payment. Having said that some other options might be to check out your local courthouse and find out if there are any tax sales in areas you might consider. These properties are behind on taxes and get auctioned off to the highest bidder for usually significantly less than market value. Also drive around and inquire about run-down properties, research owners, or find buy-owner properties. Working with an individual person might get you a deal you can handle. But try to save up for a down payment because without good credit, money is the only talker left.
511553
there are free goverment funds.try starting out at the shelters voluntering and someone may know of other funds.
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What sort of grants are you looking for?  There are school grants, small business grants, research grants, HUD grants and so on.  Firstgov.gov is a good place to start as is Google.
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Contact a realtor or browse the Sunday paper.  You can lease or buy land.
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This is the HUD page on available grants. Check your state and contact them if the grant is available in your area\n\nhttp://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm
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If you know about where you would like to purchase land, such as state and an approximent location in that state, look online for real estate for sale in that area. Alot of places may have land for sell that you are not even seeing because they only advertise locally and not on a list that will go out nationwide.  \n\nAlso you could just do a search for "land for sale" and it will give you alot of other nationwide listing sites of land available in different states.
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Ok, first off, if it were me...\n\nI would select the part of the Country that I would like to live in... Desert, Forest, Mountain, Plains...\n\nI would get a topographical map of the area...\n\nI would also download  "Google Earth"  It gives you a map where you can see rivers, streams and houses in 3D!  Roads and all kinds of features, in order to find out what the place will look like.\n\nNow, I would also contact the nearest Government office near the place I would select.  First to find out more about the place, its amenities, and populations and regulations about everything there is to know about the area...(some are pretty indept about everything, if they know you want to relocate in thier area!).\n\nI would contact the Better Business Bureau to find a "reputable Real Estate Agent", and after that, I would also find out if they have the "listings online" for your perusal...\n\nPark Services would only let you know "where you cant build", or what the Fire Regulations and all other sort of ecological "no-nos" that you are not allowed to do, around thier lands.\n\nIn some Parks, you can "rent the land" but not own them, so you can put up a house, and if they say you gotta go, THEN, you gotta go, no ifs ans or buts, and you DONT get the price of your home back either!!  Because they may want to use the land for something else, and you are basically renting off them, and the house is there at "thier convinience" and they can tell you to skedaddle in a few days or weeks notice.\n\nSo, I would not want Government land, but private lots of sections with forest on them.\n\nAfter I have done all that, I would want to know of the lumber yards, (to build the house), and other things like stores, Groceries, and supplies, and if your going to grow vegetables a good greenerie... (gerneral store if they still have them :).\n\nI would want to know about law enforcement and the criteria on what your going to have to know about local codes and regulations, and also cellular service in the area, as you will probably be too far away for landline service, and too remote for cable, so a Dish would be a necessity if you want to keep up with news and programming.   \n\nIf there is a good running stream, you might think about investing in a good water Generator, to keep some electricity flowing to your home...(yep, they still make those things!).\n\nYou would have to find all the information about those things, and if you need a Doctor, or emergency room, find out how long it would take you to get to there.. or if they have helicopter service, for a true emergency...(depends on how far back into them thar hills ya want to go).\n\nGet enough acrage to farm, as you will be growing your own vegatables and crops to survive on, if you dont have a lot of money...(this REALLY takes a good amount for an undertaking like this!)...\n\nOther than that, if anyone else has anything I might have missed, then see what they have that I have forgotten...\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Land leases from the government are for specific purposes like grazing cattle.  If you build a home on land that is leased you would not own the home.
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Try this, government website
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Check out the Small Business Administration web site -- they're a great resource for the small business owner. I listed their information below as well as a direct link to Federal Grant Resources.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Alice, you are going down the rabbit hole!\nIn a nutshell, there is a law that could be used to get anyone but the Rockefellers themselves out of a home/ off of land etc. they own. You aren't inquiring about real estate, you are neck deep in politics on local, State and Federal levels. So here's the worst case. A citizen can't own real estate in the USA. The best case is, a citizen can pay for real estate in the USA. Actuality/Reality falls to either side of the middle on a per case basis.\nMain concers Federally now are hydrological. Contaminated (defined by Clean Water Act standards et al) water from your property cannot mingle with natural runoff. However, Farmers seem to be exempt from this in the recent cases in Columbus, Ohio, where public water was under toxic advisories due to fertilizer runoff. I guess "if everybody is doing it" it isn't unlawful to poison the public water supply....\nOn the other hand, an egg farmer in Ohio has faced years constant Federal litigation and multiple fines for chicken farming runoff into a non contributing (to public water supply) stream. \nI don't know what your intentions are, but if you have a life to devote to these issues, you will resolve that laws are selectively enforced, which is the real issue or theme of you querry as I see it.\nWith respect to land development, Clean Water Act standards are the sword over the involved parties heads at the negotiating table. Hydrological studies by competent parties are scutinized on both the sellers side and the buyers side and some large deals are pending elections. \nClinton enacted The Clean Water Act so we can deduce what is good for business....\n\nWith regards to drug laws and real estate. Feds have carte blanche. Even large sums of cash on hand can allow for land/property siezure. \nbuzzflash.com (watchdog journalism Homeland security legislation pertaining to land use/rights)\ntheforbiddenknowlge.com (has some useful links pertaining to Federal/international real estate legislation)\n\nYou are going to be busy for awhile.....
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Try taxation office of the county.  Whoever owns 50k acres of the land pays a lot of tax on it :).\n\nRival
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check out homes and land magazine or on the web.\nThere you can find out the info you are looking for
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Lots of decent places in USA to do that. Most of them are in economically depressed rural America. Heck, I am in Nebraska and there are places where you can buy Huge houses on Acreages for under $50,000. There are not any jobs there unless you are a farmer...but the property is cheap!
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Things to consider. Sometimes the land maybe behind other land(owned by someone else)you need to make sure you also get access to your land. How close is power lines to your land (the power company might charge you the cost if the main is far away and they have to do extra. What about water, do you need to drill a well? sometimes water back East can be real rusty,orhave a bad sulphur smell Or if you are Out West does water rights come with the land or do you have buy them. Does the land have good drainage? Are the taxes paid up (if you buy it you become responsable for any back taxes).
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You can find the list of grants provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on this page http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm . I don't think there is any for your purposes.\n\nYou can also go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. \n\nhttp://www.cfda.gov\nhttp://www.grants.gov\nhttp://gtionline.fdncenter.org\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm\nhttp://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html