"I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. 
Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."  ~ Steven Wright

 
Dramatic Mountain Parcel, $232 per Mo.

by Neil Shelton

Dear Reader,
 
Since I've been trading in land almost since its invention, I guess it's only natural that I've developed quite a few truisms about how one goes about doing this. One of these is that the more I know about a property, the easier it is for me to sell it, because the more I learn, the more I like the place myself. This Week's Featured Property, Saffron Mountain Parcel T is a typical example. We made a deal to purchase it last winter, and I drove out to look it over early in March. It seemed like a pretty enough little parcel, so I took a few quick pictures from the road and trundled on home.

In August, however, Zach and I drove out to mark the front corners and take pictures for the website, and we spent enough time to climb up the parcel to near its center, where we found a nice little open area which was also more level than the rest of the surrounding land. The forest is 80-90% tall pines there, and a few pretty rock outcroppings to be seen. 


Poised about a hundred feet above the road, anyone who visits this scene and doesn't instantly imagine a little cabin perched up here must be suffering from Imagination Deficit Disorder.  It's a really pretty tract of land, and the high ground gives you the feeling of a cathedral as you stand surrounded by the tall, straight pines in the peace and tranquility ten stories above the access road.

The parcel is sort of a quarter-dome in shape, and this level-ish area makes up about a quarter of the parcel's total area. The road that the property fronts on is Shannon County Road 19-301, which, of course, is maintained by the county. The County Seat of Eminence (pop. 590) sits on the banks of Missouri's best floating stream, The Jacks Fork River, just two miles down the mountain. Besides being home of the county offices, Eminence touts itself as the Trail Riding Capital of the World, and was chosen as "the top outdoor sports town in Missouri" by Sports Afield Magazine. Suffice it to say, there's a lot of canoeing and horseback riding going on around here.

This little parcel is a big slice of the mountain, and in a very scenic part of the Ozarks. If you have Google Earth already installed on your computer, you can reply to this email and request an overlay of this or any of our properties that will delineate the boundaries of the parcel. Just let me know.

Meanwhile, check out all the information on Saffron Mountain T here:


 

Remote forest in Texas County, Mo.

 

Currently, our lowest-priced property, this is big woods in a down-right remote, off-grid setting; there's land-line phone, but no electricity. It's great for campers, hunters, people who enjoy the forest, and foresters. As an investment, it's currently covered with valuable hardwood forest that only improves with time, and it's permanently attached to the only planet currently deemed hospitable to humans, whose ever-burgeoning numbers are legion.


Ergo, growth potential is great.


Located about 18 miles from the nearest town, Cabool, Missouri you really should have a vehicle with good ground clearance to get here, and 4WD will be needed in winter if you simply can't stay home.


The property has a slope to the north, making for moister soil conditions that benefit tree growth, but not so steep as to be unmanageable. The lower parts of the parcel in particular make a nice place for a cabin that's both cool and shady in summer, and cozily protected from the cold north winds in winter.

 

$171 per month
Small Creek in Texas County: Good Access

 Lillium Brook Parcel H has a lot to recommend it. First and probably foremost, as mentioned, it has a small creek running through the bottomland portion of the property. We get several times more requests for creek frontage than we can ever hope to fill, so it's pretty obvious this is something a lot of folks are interested in. Even though this is a small creek, you'll find it to be quite reliable, showing water even in some of the very driest Augusts. The property east of the creek used to be an open meadow as recently as the 1990's but these days it's grown up in Eastern Red Cedars fifteen or twenty feet tall, so as to create about as much privacy as you could ever imagine having. However, you'll need a chain-saw, and perhaps a weekend's work, to enjoy it fully, because we think that most people will want to make a driveway from the access road down to the creek. This is also where the electric line and the best soil is located. West of the creek, you have a rather wild area of larger cedars, as well as some really big mature oaks and hickories.
 
 We've recently applied a layer of new crushed rock to the access road, which is 4/10ths of a mile from Highway 137, making it just that much quicker to drive the 12.6 miles to Houston, Missouri, the County Seat of Texas County. (I know, some early Missourians weren't very imaginative.) You can expect to access this property in any sort of truck or car.
 
 You might expect to pay... oh, maybe a zillion dollars in cash for such a dandy little property as this, but we'll sell it to you for a lot less than that, and we'll finance you 100% (you just start making payments). PLUS, like nobody else we're aware of we'll give you a warranty deed to the place after you've made only 6 timely installments. How can we do this? Well, unlike others, we actually own this property--free and clear--so you don't need to make payments for ten or fifteen years without knowing for sure whether you'll get clear title to it when you've paid off. We've been in business selling and financing rural properties such as this since 1982, and people have learned that they can expect this from us. Compare our deal with the others you may find.


 

$222 per month
Off grid, big woods, small price

It's not hard to find bargains on "wooded" property that's been recently timbered, but this fully-surveyed off-grid parcel hasn't had so much as a stick cut off of it in over 50 years!  It's located on a ridge-top a little over 12 miles from town on an old road that, while it's been in use for decades, is still pretty rough and will require that you own a four-wheel-drive for year-round access.  There's a cross-country electric transmission line running along the west side which will provide you with a ready place garden or locate solar panels without having to cut any timber yourself. The long view in the corridor that this provides probably means this wouldn't be a bad spot for deer hunting either.
 

$151 per month

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About Us
Ozark Land Company and Woods & Waters Inc. have been marketing rural properties in the Ozarks since 1982 and on the web as OzarkLand.com since 1996.  We have always specialized in making land available to anyone with our no-down payment financing plan which we extend to anyone regardless of race, religion, income level or credit score.  We are accredited by the Better Business Bureau which gives us an A+ rating.

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By Martina Kuhnert

     


"We haven't set the mountain on fire... yet. But it is always a possibility, of which we are acutely aware, every time we practice our bit of hillbilly alchemy. Most of our neighbors are used to seeing the plume of smoke. But occasionally, one who is not aware of our endeavors comes up to make sure it's not our cabin that is on fire. They usually give us that look when we explain what we are doing. It's the look that says, 'You all are so weird.' I smile when I hand them a bag of our wares and say, 'Once you try this, you'll never want to use that other stuff again.' They may look dubious, but I know they'll be back when they run out. They always come back for black gold.
We started out making the black gold for our own use. But since people have found out what we are manufacturing, they have come to us. They have come for their grills, for their livestock, for their gardens, for their health, and for cosmetic ingredients. They have done this because we have found how to take trees and turn them into the black gold known as charcoal.
Like most people, my previous experience with charcoal was buying a small bag at the store in order to produce hamburgers, hot dogs, or chicken that tasted slightly reminiscent of lighter fluid. It was only after my family began making natural charcoal for our own use that I learned of its versatility and surprising historical significance.
We have always been outdoor cooking enthusiasts, burning hardwood for over an hour to get the hot coals necessary to prepare food in the colonial hearth-cooking tradition. Nothing can beat the flavor of food cooked with wood...
Our experience with charcoal making has been life changing for us. We have thoroughly enjoyed the many and varied benefits that this black gold has brought to us and our neighbors. Now that we know how to make it, I don't think we'll ever want to be without it."



 

Learn How to Make a Living at Home
by Neil Shelton