Deep Forest Wilderness
by Neil Shelton
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Dear Reader,
Know what I'm looking forward to this summer? Spending time with you down on your property above Bull Shoals Lake. Swimming, fishing, boating... it'll be about as much fun as we've had since...
What's that you say? You don't have property at Bull Shoals Lake? Oh, I guess that's right, now that you mention it. I got confused because it just seemed like such a YOU thing for you to do, to own a place where we can all get together and have a good time. BUT, now that you bring me back to reality... well... we can still have a nice enough summer I suppose. I understand they're going to be repaving several major highways, and it won't be long before the gas stations switch to their summer blends, so it's not like we're not going to have any entertainment at all.
But you have to admit, it would be cool if you had a getaway spot like that where you and your friends could gloriously ignore all the social conventions, relax, kick back, and really enjoy yourselves.
Well, by a remarkable coincidence, we've just decided to make This Week's Featured Property all three of our parcels in Arkansas. (Just barely in Arkansas, that is; these properties are only about 2 miles south of the Missouri line on the north side of the lake, so they all have a Missouri mailing address.)
Let's take a quick look at all three:
Arkansas Lake Parcel One
The first of the group, also the smallest and least expensive, is Jones Point Estates Parcel G, which is 4.21 acres on a county-maintained cul-de-sac. This parcel is covered with oaks, hickories, and cedars, and lays fairly level along the access road, then it slopes down to find a small but unreliable spring that runs along the back boundary. This intermittent spring isn't anything you can depend on for irrigation, but it is a pretty reminder of springtime and it would make a nice thing to have in one's back yard.
Next I turn your attention to Christina's Cove Parcel K. This is 9.23 acres that used to have a view of the lake (some cedar trees are blocking it now) and a modern drilled well, just like the kind that can run up to 10 grand in cash, but we'll finance it along with the land with no down payment like all our other properties. It has several neat building sites, and then the lake is only half a mile to the bottom of the hill. (Actually I guess the bottom of the hill is now the bottom of the lake, so you maybe won't want to go there, but the shore is half a mile.) It also has electricity and phone service to the parcel, and of the three would be the easiest to move to.
Arkansas Lake Parcel Three
Finally, right down on the Bull Shoals take-line, we have Yocum Cove, 21.5 acres of pretty woods with a seasonal creek running through it and access to the thousand-mile shoreline of Bull Shoals. You'll need four-wheel-drive and a desire to start from scratch building this place into a unique sort of place to live or vacation. The Jones Point Wildlife Refuge is just a couple of miles away, so you can expect quite a bit more wildlife than neighbors, and you've got some great natural areas along the shoreline all within walking distance.
Get all the details, photos and maps here: Yocum Cove
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Weather-protected Hollow Near Lake
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Clearwater Mountain is the only location we've ever started that restricts what you can build, but even there you still have a lot of leeway. The rules say homes must be built of whole logs (no, not faux-log siding) and/or native stone. This can mean one of those wildly-expensive kit homes you see advertised, or -- more what we intended, middle-class homes made of very affordable materials: logs -- the kind you find growing all over the Ozarks, and stone -- the kind you find laying all over the ground.
The goal being that the Clearwater Mountain area remains natural in appearance, but you don't have to be fantastically wealthy to live there.
Parcel J is one of the more attractive properties there, and perhaps the one with the most level ground. It's located near the back on a county-maintained road that gets very, very little traffic because it ends only a few hundred feet beyond the property. If you thought having extreme privacy meant having to maintain a long private road, you really ought to investigate this location.
So when you're back there contemplating your navel, or whatever you especially like to do when you're enjoying your solitude, you'll find it hard to believe you're so close to the fun times at the Webb Creek Marina and Webb Creek Park facilities, as well as several zillion fish. (You're also pretty close to a tiny neighborhood tavern if that's more your kind of recreation.) You'll find that Reynolds County has lots of National Forest, State Forest, and National Park land, so hunting, fishing, and all sorts of backwoods amusement awaits.
Ellington, Missouri, one of the least expensive places to live in the United States, is only 12 miles away.
$175 per month
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Mountain-top near Eminence, Mo.
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This parcel is located on the very tippy-top of an Ozark mountain, and only a mile and a half from Eminence, Missouri, which is one of the more picturesque little towns along the Jacks Fork River. Eminence, the county seat of Shannon County, also touts itself as the Trail-riding Capital of the World, so who are we to argue? If you're into canoeing, horseback riding, or any of the zillions of other outdoor experiences the Ozarks has to offer, this is clearly the place for you.
The parcel fronts on a narrow little access road and, despite its shortcomings of small width and large bumpiness, you can still get a passenger car into the parcel, albeit carefully. Additionally, there's a level turn-out made so that you can pull your passenger car off the road and have a level place to camp, or, later on, build a little cabin overlooking the abyss and enjoying a fantastic view of the valley and mountains to the north.
This parcel is currently off-grid; the nearest electricity is about a quarter-mile to the east. We get good cell-phone reception there.
$242 per month View the Full Portfolio of Saffron Mountain Parcel C |
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Small Creek in Texas County: Good Access
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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
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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
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This week at Homestead.org
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"Dollar signs filled my 12-year-old mind as I gazed, fascinated, at the hundreds of chicks scurrying under the heat lamps at the farm supply store. The store's annual chick days had arrived with Easter, and so had spring fever, attacking the farm folk with vigor after the cold, dark winter. Chirping with all the enthusiasm of new life, the helpless little chicks seemed proof that warmer days were coming, and thoughts of an egg business ran through my young entrepreneur's mind. Assuming each chick would eventually lay an egg a day, I quickly convinced myself of the profit I'd make selling eggs, but more than the money, I wanted an excuse to own some of the fluffy creatures myself. Having no clue that the tub of chicks marked 'pullets' would grow up to be hens while the 'straight run' tub contained both sexes, I carefully stuffed my cardboard box with the cheaper, unsegregated chicks. As I gleefully handed my money to the cashier after collecting all the feed and dispensers I thought I might need, I had no idea that I'd already made my first mistake. It was weeks later when I realized that a large proportion of the chicks I had selected would never lay eggs-they were roosters.
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This wasn't our first plunge into the world of chickens. My siblings had given them a try before, with only temporary success, and a couple of years earlier, a kind lady friend had given me six fat, ancient hens, which never laid a solitary egg the entire time I dutifully kept them. I learned the hard way that the saying about not looking a gift horse in the mouth doesn't apply to chickens. The same year, my family spent an unforgettable day at an animal auction, where one of my parents unknowingly bought a flock of incurably-diseased hens that later had to be destroyed and a grouchy old duck, while a kind stranger stopped my other parent and me from buying a goat with a bad case of mastitis (infected udder). With the help of our new friend, we bought a healthy dairy goat in milk instead. When a baby miniature horse suddenly showed up in the auction ring, somehow mixed in with the dairy goats, he was so cute that we had to buy him, too. We managed to fit all our newly-acquired animals into our 15-passenger van along with all my siblings and spent the 2-hour drive home listening to the squawks and neighs coming from the backseat and petting the goat tied in the aisle way."
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Learn How to Make a Living at Home
by Neil Shelton
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