How And Where To Buy Your Piece Of Homestead Land In ALASKA - Watch this video!
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- This video is packed with helpful advise and information on finding land for your Alaska homestead.
Check out these helpful links!
Alaska Dept of Natural Resources Land Sales - dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsales/
Alaska Dept of Natural Resources Remote Cabin Site Staking Program - dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsales/...
Alaska Mental Health Trust Fund Land Sales - alaskamentalheal bythtrust.org/trust-land-office/land-sales/
University of Alaska Land Sales - www.alaska.edu/ualand/land/
Fairbanks North Star Borough Land Sales - fnsb.gov/840/Land-for-Sale
Kenai Peninsula Borough Land Sales - kpb-land-sales-kpb.hub.arcgis...
Matanuska Susitna Borough Land Sales - matsugov.us/landsales
Allowed Uses of State Land - dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/cdn/pdf/fa...
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Alaska is very expensive to live here. Do not come up here without money. Be prepared to work hard for your dream. It can be grueling. Don't romanticize it.
Winter can last 8 months here in the Interior of Alaska.
It can get -50 below zero, but -30 is the norm.
Winter is dark, prepare yourself for that.
Come with a plan and money.
Building season is very short.
Be willing to rent a place during winter until your homestead is ready.
Also- be prepared for bear encounters *at all times*.
Right! I came in January 2023 to experience it at its worst. I am liking it!Yeah it expensive, living here but the peace and quiet and the people's politeness make it worth trying.
Thank you , good info, would love to live there
Well thought out and presented. Best Alaska land info by far
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m gonna watch every video, but I started with finding my slice of Alaska which has become a priority at this juncture of life. Thank you for the info.!
Welcome aboard! And thanks for hanging out!
I've lived on the Kenai for a couple of decades now and I find your information to be very accurate. You obviously know what you are talking about. Well done.
Cool, thanks! I guess Ive picked up a thing or two since I landed here in 82'. But Alaska has definitely changed....and not all for the better.
Thank you so much for this information. I'm taking notes.
You are so welcome! Feel free to reach out if you need more advice. And please sub if you havent already.
Nice to know stuff. Thanks for the info.🙏🌞
You are so welcome!
You helped me a lot with this video, thank you very much
Youre verywelcom. Glad it helped!
Thanks for being honest and forth coming
Hope you found it informative. And please stay tuned.
Thank you for this video!!
You're very welcome. Hope it gave you some things to consider.
Thanks for sharing!
Our pleasure! And FYI...I just posted the links promised for land sale offices.
Thank you...best information I come across.
Youre very welcome. And thanks for hanging out with us!
Excellent excellent video. The best I've seen on the topic. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good and well balanced info... Thanks,,,
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for hanging out!
Thank you for sharing 👍
Thank you too. Hopefully it was helpful.
Very informative and great music! Keep up the good work. I was up in the Fairbanks area this past summer and you aren’t kidding about the shacks and junkyards. Good points, scout the area.
Awesome! Thank you! Yep....they should do an episode of Extreme Hoarders - Alaska Edition.
Thank you 🙏🏾
You are so welcome! And FYI...I just posted the links promised for land sale offices.
Excellent information. Glad I found your channel and I definitely subscribed. Native Texan but me and the family are considering purchasing some property in Alaska for a second residence / vacation getaway place. Looking forward to learning more from your videos
Welcome aboard!
Great video!
Thanks for the visit and the kind words!
Hello from Texas. New sub here. Thanks for the information. Alaska is an interesting place.
Thanks for subbing and thanks for watching. Stay tuned. We're noobies at this but we'll try not to disapoint!
Awesome info, thanks for sharing! I'm moving up with my youngest son in spring of 24. I'm going to wait to explore a bit before buying a larger property. These tips will definitely come in handy! Also I'm now subbed and following along. Looking forward to some good content. -Dusty
Definitely a good idea to explore the State first. But it takes years to really get to know it. Feel free to reach out if you need more info! And thanks for subbing!
Great video 👍🐿️
Glad you enjoyed it! And FYI...I just posted the links promised for land sale offices.
@@FarOutAlaska cool hanx 👍🐿️
Nicest, most informative and information packed video - thank you so much, I am planning on coming up this year to work with the goal of finding land to build on.
Thanks for hanging out and for the kind words!
Big help...thanks
Glad it helped! Let us know if you have any questions. And thanks for hanging out with us!
@@FarOutAlaska will do
ONE DAY. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for watching! Hope you got some info you can use...."one day" :)
I love your channel. thank you for the information
Thanks for the kind words and thank you for watching!
Great information thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the video! Wish my wife would move there.
Have you guys ever been up for an exploratory visit? It's not for everybody for sure. If it was, it would be too crowded up here. For some lucky people, the magic happens when you put your feet on the ground.
I love being stationed here!
Wow just saw some of your video it is on point we took 2 trips up this year walked many properties and ended up with 40 acres in Glenallen
Hoping that we did a good job of choosing the right place about 2 miles from the Copper river and 26 from the Wrangles
We know it well. There are pros and cons to that region. Out of 40 acres, you'll have some boggy spots in different seasons and likely some permafrost. There are a few areas where the creeks overrun their banks every spring and cause some problems.
If you have drive-up access, make sure to keep it up or it will turn into a muck pit. Take a few rolls of Typar ground fabric and sock away a few thousand dollars for gravel to go on top of it.
And I wouldnt bother trying a septic system unless you have really good soil drainage. Lots of ground in the area just doesnt perk. Its dense sediment with underlying permafrost. We did an above ground dry composting outhouse and it works like a charm (see our video on it).
Good luck on your new adventure!
Thank you for your input I would like to stay in touch with you for your knowledge that is important stuff
We made several friends while we were up there one lives near Copper center and has volunteered to continue the drive in and the pad for the cabin
@@scottford8736 In the Copper River valley, a friend with a dump truck is worth their weight in gold.
Your demeanour and vast overview are vehemently appreciated :>
I am visiting friends in Juneau again (last was Summer in 2010s) early 2024 before onto Chena Hotsprings and Anchorage both also again, though this time partially for research into relocation.
Youre very welcome. Feel free to reach out if I can offer any more guidance in your search.
I agree. I miss normal people
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
I've Been Looking for Alaska Land to live off grid have visited several websites and real estate sites and so far you've told me about 3 or 4 different ways to cheaply buy land in Alaska very informative
Glad we could be of help. Let us know if you need anymore guidance. I do recommend the State Land Sales thru DNR but strongly advise you to inspect the property first. And please subscribe if you havent already :)
I have a lot. In Chugiak. Diana cir. It's listed. It will pop up. Listed for 50,000. Take $35,000
Thank you very much for the info. My fiance and I came up there in september. Absolutely love it! We were already talking about moving there. But now we're set on it. I'm a builder by trade. She works remotely. Plan on starting a homestead while she still works.
Glad it was helpful! Feel free to reach out if you need any more advise. And please sub if you havent already.
I also want to avoid the bigfoots and the other cryptids, I hear they are bad up there Lol. Wow you pretty much covered everything else very thorough and very good information
Thanks for watching and hope it helped. We have some documented critters that we need to be mindful of (bears and moose). So Bigfoot is pretty far down on our list of worries :)
Best Wishes❤
I live in Ohio. It’s pretty pricey to get electric to a remote area here too. Everyone seems to think that their meter has to be at the house but that isn’t necessarily so. We live 1400 feet from our property line. The nearest electric is just a few yards from our property line, so we set the meter pole on the property line and ran an 8 guage (three wire) cable through our property to our house. I operate all of my power tools including a 12” plainer but we do have to turn everything else off when we do. We also run a shallow well pump at 220v and it has lasted over 8 years. The voltage drops a bit (down to about 108 v per leg) but we can do just about anything up to 15 amps. You can’t use much of anything that requires a heating element, so we use LP gas to cook with and heat our water. Also use an LP frig and heat with wood. We’ve been doing this for 10 years now and our biggest electric bill was just $34, though we ran a window a/c that entire month, also a small deep freezer. The only drawback is maintaining the line from the meter to our house. If you go this route, I recommend trimming your access thoroughly.
For us, its a few hundred feet to where the meter base would be. And they want $20k to get it that far. Honestly, the land around us is undeveloped and Id like to keep it that way. So Im inclined to leave electric service up the road and just do a little off grid system for our needs. Thanks for watching and for your ideas!
I love Alaska , coming every year to Kenai peninsula for salmon fishing , I will love to own small pice of land and cabin somewhere there !
Some of the programs I mentioned (and linked) make it very easy to buy your land. In some cases the auctions are limited to residents. But non-residents can still jump in at a certain point during the process. Check out the links and feel free to reach out of you need further advise.
Excelente!
Glad you enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching!
We have a few properties here that we bought through the state over the years. One property is ATV or snowmachine access about 8 miles east of Talkeetna and the other isn’t far from Wasilla with a great southern expose and east and west views. The property near Wasilla we had to pay over $6,000 just to get power to the property. I lived near a dog farmer once. I’d close a door and hear dogs barking for about 10-15 minutes. I know in 1988 you could get a rural homestead. To qualify it to be free you had to live on it 20 months the first five years. You could also just buy it. We won forty acres near Hiline Lake in a drawing then.
Yep....my dad and I did a homestead in the mid 80s but it wasnt exactly homestead land. It was technically a remote cabin staking parcel. We could have obtained ownership if we'd have lived on it for a certain number of months in a 5 yr period. But we still had to have it surveyed, which required a survey crew via helicopter. The survey would have cost more than the land was worth. And the whole area was infested with grizzly bears. My neighbor got damn near slashed to pieces one night. We let the state have the parcels back.
@@FarOutAlaska Ours was already surveyed, but we still had to put our markers on it to verify we went to there.
Sounds like I need to start a water well service up there 😂
The southeast Alaska attractives me the most cuz i love grey and wet days, but something that has been bothering me is that the southeast Alaska cant be reached by car. It needs to be by water or by air. Its a big problem for my wife's family who is from Connecticut.
The Aleutians Territories are nice just like the south, you should make a video talking about it.
You''ll have plenty of gray wet weather no matter where in Alaska you go. We have had continuous rain at our cabin for 10 straight weeks in recent summers. And the area is typically pretty dry in summer. I hate it but without some rain, the wildfires up here can wipe out regions the size of whole states.
The Aleutian Islands are way out there and super expensive to visit. And the weather is really rough. I do like the isolation of SE Alaska though. Having no highway access helps keep the crowds down. Your parents from back East can fly in or even better, take the ferry from Bellingham WA. Its a beautiful trip!
Thanks for watching and hanging out with us!
clearwater wells in Wasilla doesn't charge a mob fee and 58$ a foot, just checked last week. Still expensive.
No mob fee to go 170 miles? If they'll do that, we may be doing a well next summer! Thanks for that and thanks for hanging out!
they may combine it with another well in your area. There is a guy in Tok also can't remember his name. I liked the clearwater people, they will be drilling my well in the spring.
Ten years ago I had a 100’ well drilled and it was $4,200 in Meadow Lakes. We have good water at 40 gallons a minute.
@@Chris_at_Home That sounds about right. Meadow lakes is close to town and 40' is shallow. Youre lucky! We'd be going 250' deep and we're 170 miles from town.
@@FarOutAlaska I can see why you have to pay a fee as they have a days round trip travel time to get there. I priced getting an air drill into our remote cabin. They wanted $5,000 just to get to the cabin a half dozen miles off the road and then I’m sure it will be another $4to 6K for the well and another couple grand for a good pump. I think the pump at our house was about $2,500 installed. It is a constant pressure/ variable speed pump. I’ll keep collecting rainwater and melting snow for that of money.
Nice
Thanks for watching!
Alaska is where I want to be
We all bitch about the weather, the bugs, the prices, etc. But we're all here because we love it.
Thank you so much! I just joined the Alaska Air Guard, from what I understand this automatically makes me an Alaska resident, but I cannot find those exact words in writing, (I still live in Missouri) I would like to participate in the land auction but not sure who to inquire to make sure I’m eligible
Thanks for watching. In fact, our next video is all about Alaska residency. It is a bit complex. So maybe hit the notification bell and subscribe if you havent already. That way youll get notified when we publish it.
Take your time on the land auction. Get to know the areas and once you narrow down a region, then get out and explore some of the subdivision offerings. Remember, once you get settled in, your wants and needs and preferences will change. So ease into it. The land auction comes around once per year and there is PLENTY of notice. You will eventually be eligible for the veteran's land sale discount which is 25% on certain parcels.
And dont overlook the OTC parcels which are available to anyone, any time. It skips all the stress of a sealed bid auction and you can take your time selecting. Ive seen people pay WAY too much in the auctions....simply because they got too emotionally attached to a parcel and you cannot see what others are bidding. Ive seen people bid double the minimum bid on lots where there were barely anyone bid.
If you have specific questions, give a call to the Anchorage DNR Public Information Center. 907-269-8400. I worked there for a while and they can usually get whatever info you need. If not, they'll connect you with the right person.
Good luck in your new adventure and stay in touch!
@@FarOutAlaska dang bro, you seem to genuinely care thanks a million… I’m also still law enforcement full time, stay safe. I will definitely subscribe.
Thankyou
Thanks for watching and please subscribe if you havent already.
Nice video very informative.Love the music it adds a lot to your message.Glad it wasn’t punk rock.Hahahaha.
Rock on!
Soon Come!!
Thanks for watching. And let me know if you could use my 2 cents along the way.
Greetings from New Hampshire. I purchased 10 acres off Herringbone Street in Talkeetna a few years ago. I may relocate and settle there eventually. The spot does not yet have a legal mailing address. I understand that a legal mailing address is required in order to claim residency. Please help me understand the process of establishing a new mailing for an off-grid property so that I can eventually claim residency in Alaska. Perhaps this topic would make another helpful video. I look forward to it. Thank you in advance…
Excellent idea! But residency in Alaska is a bit complex. Residency is defined differently for different purposes. For example, for resident hunting and fishing lic, you have to establish residency for 12 months. For the permanent fund dividend, you have to be a resident for 1 full calendar year. So it really depends on the purpose for which you're claiming residency.
Thank u u are the best 😂
Alaska is full!
I need to correct you sir. Government land is not OWNED by the government, it is managed by the government!
There is a big difference between the two.
The "government land" is land of the people.
Curious how it was that you were not being harassed by swarms of bugs while you filmed.. It’s the one biggest reason I’ve never considered Alaska property..
We shot this video in early Fall. The bugs are mostly gone by August. But scroll back to some older videos. In June, no matter what we do, the mosquitos are horrendous.
I love junk and I love dogs 😂 my dogs are trained to bark as much as the lord lets them
Goodness, you're so cute.
You are so kind. Thanks for watching.
from what i have seen there is nothing affordable in alaska.
Its definitely not a cheap place to live.
@@FarOutAlaska not even affordable, at least for a retired, fixed income. i was born in 1960 and definitely remember the 1970s Alaska boom. guess i should have run away from home then. LOL.
You may want to consider not using music when you're talking. It's quite distracting. I couldn't watch but a minute of this and definitely wouldn't subscribe if this is the norm
Just my opinion
You basically threaten him while calling your threat an opinion… Your a legend in your own mind.. Doubt he cares or wants your attention anywhere near as much as you need everyone else’s…#douchebag
Thanks for the feedback. The audio seems to come across differently on different devices. We do pre-screen the videos on a few devices before we publish. And we're still learning the editing process. But we'll try to keep background potted down in future videos.
Yes please Ytubers noooo music!
I think the music is unobtrusive enough, not too loud in my opinion.
There is no homesteading in Alaska that ended in 1976
Yes I know. I cover that explicitly a few minutes into the video.
Well, I know you can actually go out to the Bush in Alaska. Build a cabin and stay in it 6 months and it actually is yours And the homestead act is still in effect only insert areas
@@travisleiske204 State, Federal or private property? Obviously, if you did that on private property, it would be called trespassing. And govt land where camping is allowed requires you to move every 2 weeks and prohibits permanent structures. Respectfully, I believe you are misinformed.
Well, I actually had a official told me that I can actually build a cabin. Stay there for months and it's actually mine And out was actually in two thousand and twenty three in august
@@travisleiske204 What official? Which agency did they work for? Do you actually think it's logical that anyone can just roll out to the woods, build a hut on public land and say they own it?
For a short while, I was a State official with the Dept of Natural Resources. You can be assured that building an unauthorized perm structure on public land in Alaska will not end well for you. And it will not end in you "owning" the land.
Don't take my word for it. Call the AK DNR Public Information Center and ask them. For reference, I'll attach a link in the video notes to a AK DNR handout.
Affordable is your perspective. Me, I see rich asshole problems.
We're all coming from a different place I guess. Thanks for watching tho.