Originally Posted by Remington270
Originally Posted by Teacher One
I turned down twelve thousand five hundred an acre a few months ago for some pasture land in Colbert County. It's in the Robert Trent Jones whatever, and is currently a hayfield. Man wanted to start a subdivision on it. I would have sold, but the wife (A Realtor) said no. The land was purchased in 1973 for one thousand an acre. Looks like we made a pretty good investment.


No doubt a good investment, but a grand an acre back then was a lot!

My grandad bout 39 acres in late 70s that banker didn't wanna loan money to cuz it was around 2000 an acre in boaz...hes sold 2 acres for 225k still got 37 lol


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