What is the value of an acre in your area?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

If it's buildable land in the mountains outside of Denver, that has road, power and water you're paying a lot more than that for a building site. They were going for more than $50k for iffy sites 20 years ago.

Yeah, Pueblo's a good distance away and a lot cheaper. I know the general area and it's nice other than the fact that it's a 20-mile drive to the grocery store, but I figure there has to be some fatal flaw for it to be that cheap. In Colorado, that's usually water.

I saw a nice looking little A-Frame cabin outside of Idaho Springs a couple of months ago that was very tempting. It was outside of town in a very wooded area, and it was around $115,000 for 600 or 700 square feet. The lot wasn't big, but was big enough to give you a little seclusion with the woods (maybe 1/4 or 1/2 acre - don't recall). It was quite tempting, but for that price I can take a lot of vacations and not have to keep two houses maintained.