Lake Area Hide-out;
$151.13 per month
by Neil Shelton
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Dear Reader,
What with all the rain we've had this year, driving around the Ozark countryside is like wandering into a magazine cover: everything is lush and green, and this year, the wildflowers are wilder than ever! There's color everywhere with more and bigger blooms than we've seen in decades. Along with that, the weather is often pretty cool, for the season, so it's just nice to be outside a lot.
Speaking of which, a nice way to get outside, would be for you and your significant other to pack a picnic lunch and drive down to the Bull Shoals area to check out This Week's Featured Parcel.
Driving down from Springfield, MO to this property will lead you through 75 miles of some of the most scenic countryside the Ozarks has to offer. Once you arrive, you're on a county-maintained gravel road two miles inside the Arkansas border.
The parcel has frontage on this road, Marion County 164, and at the corner of an almost unused road that is also subject to county maintenance - if it ever gets enough traffic to need any.
Among the many nice things I can say about this property is that you can make it your own for a paltry $151.13.
So what will $151.13 per month buy you? A pretty nice little parcel of land actually: just shy of one acre of ground that's been professionally surveyed (and the survey recorded at the county). Not only that, but this parcel is located less than a mile from the 1,000-mile shoreline of Bull Shoals Lake, and about that far from the Jones Point Wildlife Management Area.
The property, which is 100 feet wide and 430 feet long, is covered with oaks, hickories, and cedars, and is just about level, with quite a bit of road frontage on the two county roads.
Although the property is in Arkansas, it's only about a mile from the Missouri border and since the rest of Arkansas is on the other side of the lake, the mail comes out of Theodosia, Missouri--the nearest town--which is 10.6 miles to the north. Electricity is close by, and we get pretty decent cell-phone reception from here. At the present time, all the other parcels at Jones Point Estates have been sold, and none of them are occupied, so it'll just be you and about as much wildlife as you'll find anywhere.
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We're making a slightly different deal for this property than all the rest we offer: because we don't own any of the adjoining property, we're not placing any deed restrictions on this property at all. That could mean that whatever your neighbors do, you're stuck to live with, but currently the adjoining properties are a vacant lot and the back corner of a large cattle ranch.
We're selling this property as 2.14 acres, but in fact it is actually 2.29 acres because the southeast corner is on the far side of Highway 137. (You're probably having fantasies of setting up your very own toll-booth already.)The location is 7 miles north of Willow Springs, Missouri.
Despite the fact that this property fronts on both the state highway and a peaceful county-maintained road, the terrain is pretty steep. Chapel Road runs north along the western boundary. From that frontage, the parcel descends quickly into a narrow valley which is just large enough for you to install an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Then there's another steep hill up to the east fence, where you have a truly inspiring view across the rolling hills leading toward the South Jacks Fork Valley.
The parcel is covered with lovely summer-flowering Mimosa trees and daylilies dating back to when an early Ozark cabin was located here, Electricity and land-line phone are already on the property.
$273 per month
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Off-grid and Remote Big Woods
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About as secluded as you can get without hiring a sherpa, this nearly-square parcel is covered with big hardwood timber and has a very slight southern slope. It's located just below 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 east 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.
$161 per month
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This .9-acre parcel fronts on a blacktop road just four miles from the sleepy little burg of Centerville, Mo, which is the county seat of Reynolds County. It's fairly level along the road frontage, and slopes down to the northeast as you go further back. Electricity is within 600 feet of the property. There's also a MoDoT-approved driveway into the parcel, and a clearing in front with a mixture of pines and hardwoods in the back. As near as Centerville is, there's a convenience store with gas pumps just a mile down the road. See what else your money will buy for $130.83 per month.
$131 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.
Ozark Land Company PO Box 1
Willow Springs, Missouri 65793
OzarkLand.com
417-889-0277 |
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"Summer is a time of year everyone looks forward to. The garden is growing. Children are on holiday. There are reunions, picnics, cookouts. Everything is great, with the possible exception of the heat. One way I've found to beat the heat is with fun and delicious drinks made from ingredients growing in my yard. They're great to drink and serve to your family, and a lot of them are great for the get-togethers that always seem to happen in the summer."
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