There's PLENTY of land that's undesirable. Not worth anywhere near $1,000/acre. Plenty. No timber value, no utilities, maybe poor access, etc. Poor dirt...

Yeah, I think pine is over rated. Unless you have over a thousand acre plantation.

Maybe for some people and some areas, with each situation being different. The articles I read always seem to have an example of a landowner in a bad local market area that is mill deficient - and of course that’s gonna be a problem.

But if you think it’s a bad investment, you need to come sit at the intersection of Hwy 5 and Hwy 10 in Pine Hill, AL for a day. It will change your mind.

Timberlands will always have value. Tracts in our area (So Cullman) $1000/ac is the floor. There is still money to be made by buying cheap land and making improvements and resale. Small to medium size tracts with good access roads and a pond are in high demand if located close to a populated area (which is most of No Alabama). I understand that the biggest threat to farming in North Alabama is increasing land values. Land is getting too expensive to farm. Also when we went through the financial crisis in 2008 I was glad that part of my investments was in land. I watched my IRA go from a $1 to $.54 while land values held firm. Don’t let chicken little scare anyone away from buying land. I think, weather it’s 1 ac or 1000 acs, everyone should own some land

Plus it's not like it's still being made. What land we got is what we got. It's not gonna devalue

Find me some in North Alabama for under A 1000.

Go find some Lamar county clear cut with red dirt hills. $1,000 will get you 2 acres.

Not even clear cut, and $850/acre

https://www.landandfarm.com/property/Sulligent_Hunting_Tract_on_Blue_Bird_Road-8410364/

Totally agree

NO, but it will be. 20 acres of 9 year old planted pies but the remainder is under contract to be cut, according to the ad details. Still looks like a good deal to me on the surface. Wonder about access? The pic showed not much in the way of roads in the area. You could spend $200 per acre replanting the place after they cut the contracted timber and still be in it for $1100 an acre or less.

Might could get it for less. Maybe not replant and work with a blank canvas.

Just a pinch to far for me.

There's plenty of other places. I just posted that one to dispel the myth that "you can't get land for $1k/acre in north Alabama". Sure you can. But it will be ugly. Not a mature hardwood bottom with a gobbler on every white oak at dawn.

To far and for the record that ain’t North Alabama. That’s at least an 1and a half from me.

How is something that is north of North of Birmingham not considered North Alabama?
Doesn't the state work like, North of Birmingham is North Alabama, between Montgomery and Birmingham is Central Alabama and Montgomery south is South Alabama?

Ask someone from Dothan if Lamar county is North Alabama.

Hell it's right next to Connecticut ain't it?

Yep, that's the way I always figured it.

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