10 Towns Offering Free Land. (Real Estate) - YouTube

What is going on everyone are you like me?

Do you like free stuff? most people do everyone likes a free meal most people

cherish a free beer in the 1960s if you were lucky you scored some free love

with that one normally you had to score some free penicillin not long after but

still it was a good time while it lasted I once scored a free massage this was

the best massage ever I've been married to that massage giver for 25 years now

coincidentally I haven't had a quality massage from her in 24 years probably

the king of all freebies is free land the United States government gave away

free land back in the late 1800s with events like the Oklahoma land race

basically people would register for the event the participants would meet at a

starting line in the middle of the Prairie at a certain time they would

fire a gun and people would race on horseback into the Prairie where the

government had set up claims no less than a couple acres whoever grabbed the

flag on that claim the land was theirs free land there's a lot more that goes

into that one but that's it in a nutshell it's very interesting you

should read about it Oklahoma land races there's a couple other events that

happened over around that time but it's really interesting for all the history

nerds out there I just brought brushed it ok did you know there are state and

local governments that will give you free land to this day really sure

there's always a reason it's free like it's out in the sticks or something like

that but some people don't mind that and are happy to take the free land for

those of you I give you number 10 Plainville Kansas now these are no

particular order you're looking for free land so they're all going to be about

the same but Plainville has a population of about 2,000 people they have lots

that are 150 feet wide and 93 feet deep I did read that they only have one lot

available and because of the magic of free long-distance calling all cell

phones have now for you young kids that wasn't always a thing but I was told

that once someone takes the available lot they offer another sort of a way to

build up demand I guess they also have an airport or at least they call it an

airport most people call it a field somebody smoothed out any flights

heading to the plane fill Airport have the chance of being delayed the pilots

normally have a crop dusting side hustle they do require all homes be on a

foundation that one I find kind of strange I mean it is Kansas and the

mobile home is sort of a tradition in the Jayhawk State

they also require a $500 deposit to hold the property but it will be refunded

once the land is deeded over your home must be completed within 18 months or

they won't due to the land it's up to you you know got to get it done in 18

months a year and a half should be enough time to put a manufacturer at

home on this lot right number nine Anderson Alaska about an hour and a half

drive from Fairbanks is the small town of Anderson Alaska if you want to escape

the rat race I found the place for you Anderson only has traffic when Sir Elton

John is in town the population is 300 301 if Elton's in town if you never want

to sit in traffic again Anderson Alaska's for you now I'm not

saying the place is remote but they don't have a gas station or a

streetlight and if you want any big city items like groceries you have that

hour-and-a-half Drive to Fairbanks but you got free land coming to you if you

show up you get free homestead land by applying and a $500 deposit which again

like a lot of these places is refunded when the building is complete I couldn't

nail down how much time you have to build it but I'm sure they have a time

limit and for all of you who didn't pause the video to do some googling

Elton John doesn't live here I'm sure if he did live in Anderson Alaska there'd

be some news report on some newspaper that started off with WTF Sir Elton

something like that I just like to keep people on their toes

number 8 Elwood Nebraska Elwood Nebraska is a small village that is offering free

lots of land to build a home on at least six homes have already been built on

Lots that are about 110 by 150 feet they have nine left and that's as of October

2009 they require a minimum home size of 1400 square feet with a two-car garage

not sure why the two-car garage is required is that like some sticking

point maybe it's a cross-promotion with a car company what was that marketing

meeting like okay sales are down how do we get people to buy more cars uh make

better cars no no that's too hard make better-looking cars no we tried

that with Pontiac Aztek didn't sell we could have towns forced people to have

two car garages hold on a second I think you may be on to something

but what town is dumb enough to do it oh my cousin sects wife is from Elwood

Nebraska genius this town is so boring if someone has a

sale people can't stop talking about it for three weeks but hey you get free

land number seven Clermont Minnesota Clermont is offering free landed just

about anyone that would be considered middle class get your free land you have

to meet a few requirements you need a gross income of less than eighty four

thousand two hundred dollars for a family of two that's per year obviously

you can get into their free land homestead program if you you know like I

said meet the middle class and below standard and you're prepared for a few

other things people are really polite it's very very cold and they used to

have a bar and now they just have a soda machine like in this picture you might

also not get your mail the post office had to suspend service back in February

because that too much snow had screwed up the roof it was a safety issue now

they probably fixed it but I'm sure it's gonna happen again these people get a

lot of snow number six Flagler Colorado now this is the first one for businesses

they have a lot of people that need jobs 110 miles east of Denver's where you

find Flagler Colorado this is the part of Colorado without the Rockies so don't

move here expecting some mountain views you will be sadly disappointed it looks

a lot like Kansas here four hundred and eighty free acres for a business to set

up shop that's what you could potentially have here the amount of land

you can receive will depend on the number of jobs the business will create

for this small town of approximately 650 people they have a subway a liquor store

and a Cadillac on a stick place I guess they also have internet so I would think

it would be a great place to set up an online company maybe a factoring company

data room medical coding something like that so if you want to give your company

a leg up maybe Flagler is the place for you

you just gotta watch out it looks awfully boring here

number five Muskegon Michigan now this one I have been to a couple times the

last time was in 2016 and when I found out that they were at the point of

trying to coax businesses into Muskegon I thought it was a mistake what I

learned is they're not in half as bad a shape as other places on this list I

think more than anything they're trying to make moves to make sure they aren't

like some of the places on this list in the future the city of Muskegon Michigan

is offering free industrial park property for businesses to come in and

operate they are open to offering tax incentive reduced water and electricity

rates among other benefits Muskegon is a beauty

city unlike a lot of other cities in the Wolverine state I asked one of my

Instagram followers who I knew is from Muskegon if there was anything wrong

with the city that I was missing I think he lives in Seattle now anyway

he's about 25 or so and his response was yeah all the females are old said what

do you mean by that I thought was kind of funny he said it's like they all move

out when they're 18 and don't come back till they're like 30 you know old I said

dude I'm 50 he said but dude you're like really childish like an uncle that buys

a beer in high school apparently I'm uncle Ricky now number

four Buffalo New York as part of the Buffalo New York's urban homestead

program they're offering land for $1 and in my opinion that dollar may be a

little steep Buffalo was a really nice city for a lot of years it took a

serious turn for the worse some years back the program offers a variety of

options of land some of which already have homes built on it the thing is you

have to bring them up to code the first thing you'd have to do is probably

spackle all the bullet holes then remove the blood-stained carpet then you would

probably have to repair the bars on the windows you might be up to code then but

then of course you got to go out back and chase the operators of the Breaking

Bad lab out of your garage luckily the lab isn't that big because it's a one

car garage they didn't get bought out by that whole

corporate America thing number three Marquette Kansas Marquette is a diamond

in the rough this is a decent town of 641 residents they have an extremely low

cost living they offer great school system and safety not a lot of crime

goes on down here it's like well it has so few people it's like one of those

places if someone bumps into someone's car and decides to drive off and not

leave a note you've got a crime spree this is a cute little town that I

wouldn't mind visiting I love the small town Main Street they got going on here

and I'm not sure what's going on with this little gas station but I really

like it they require you to fill out a land application it's also required if

you're accepted into the free land program that you begin building within

120 days so yeah like four months not that hard your home must be completed

within one year from the date of signing the land agreement you are also required

to live in the home for one year there are certain specifications that your

home must meet in order to qualify but it's free land in a quiet small Kansas

town again if your will those people that can work from home like

much I can this is a perfect place to live number two love via Texas now

here's a good one l'viyah Texas or la Villa if you're from the east coast it

isn't an hour's drive from everything like most the entries on this list this

quiet little town is situated in the southern part of Texas about 30 minutes

from McAllen gallons a decent-size City it's offering around a hundred plots of

land for residential development land is given for free however you need to pay

the property taxes they also put a five-year lien on a lot should you sell

the property within that period you owe the local government a certain amount of

money it's usually the equivalent to the value of the property basically they

want residents not developers l'viyah has certain income requirements to get

that land so you might want to check with them to see what those are I really

couldn't nail it down I saw three or four different things but the good news

is you're right down the road from two really good taco places in else' Texas

taqueria Zamora and taqueria Don Juan they're like right across street from

each other and it's some of the best tacos I've ever had nominal tacos there

I'm gonna make a list on the best taco places I've ever visited

and number one Camden Maine this one is my favorite I think Maine is one of the

best states in the country if you don't mind the cold and you really enjoy

seafood Camden is just north of Rockland Maine this coastal town in May is having

a tough go at finding someone to take free land it's free land a three acre

plot of commercial land in Camden Maine is free to anyone that wants it the only

catch is the buyer must start a profitable business within five years so

far it's filled at zero offers since it was first offered in 2010 this is a

nice-looking town I haven't been there physically myself to Camden but I've

been to Rockland and I gotta tell you it's hard to find an ugly town in Maine

it really is you actually have to go looking you have to get advice from

people on where the ugliest town in Maine is you just don't wander into one

Maine's a really great state I can't believe it nobody's taking this one I

don't know

all right that is my list places you can get some free land I hope you guys

enjoyed it I hope you got some information out of it these are places

that you know it's potential maybe you are looking for a place and you don't

have a down payment to buy a house you know might be a good chance for someone

to start a new life anyway don't forget all the links below give this video a

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