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- David P Beiter
- 1/2 Fast Software Div of
- CAVE, Inc
- 1/2 Fast Road
- Ritner, KY 42639
- 606/376-3137
-
- 18 Aug 93
-
- Dear Analog Coprocessor,
-
- Are you interested in cheap land in The Boonies? Here is an update of land for
- sale in and around Wayne County, Kentucky. Note that most of this is rural
- land with no or old buildings. If you want a house in the city, then go talk
- to a realtor. I am not a realtor. My interest is in cheap backwoods land with
- little value other than a place to build a shack, grow a garden, and pasture a
- cow. If that's what you want, then perhaps we can do business.
-
- You don't get somethin' for nothin'. There is no public transportation system,
- no police, no fire department, no jobs, horrible schools (but the County School
- Bored is home school-friendly), the nation's highest illiteracy rate, the
- nation's highest birth rate to girls less than fifteen years of age, etc, etc.
- In general, all of the things which you would expect from a third world country
- but with the old familiar language, law, & money. Sorta. It might even be a
- good place to which to move a small business. Obviously I'm not the Chamber of
- Commerce, but I might be able to find what information you need.
-
- I am not a realtor. I am a retired geochemist. Realtors represent sellers
- looking for a buyer. I consult with buyers who are looking for a seller.
-
- I do not operate like the standard realtor. I don't keep a front office in
- town with a receptionist, secretary, and daycare administrator. I'm not even
- interested in becoming rich. Ritner (pop 25) is at the edge of The Boonies,
- halfway between Denney's Gap and Jones' Holler, if you drive an amphibious
- jeep. Or it is halfway between Slavans and Freedom by canoe. If you want to
- do personal business with me, you must come to my farm. And unless you are
- curious about my reception for the local drunks, you'll have an appointment.
-
- Appointment: $25 1½ weeks in advance (preferably by check payable to CAVE,
- Inc). You get your money back if you show up here at your specified day &
- time. I keep Central Time. I'll even leave the gate unlocked. If I'm not
- here, you get an apology and triple your money back. Special dispensation for
- N.S.S. members and acquaintances of over 20 years duration: just call 1½ hours
- ahead.
-
- I'll show you any of the places, or hunt for something else that fits your
- specs, for $25 per ½ day. This is deductible from my 5% Finders Fee, so you
- pay only if I am wasting my time. Thus, it is to the advantage of both of us
- for you to tell me beforehand exactly for what you are looking. If you don't
- know for what you are looking, then I'm not likely to be of much help finding
- it.
-
- You owe me a 5% Finders Fee on the purchase price, if and when you buy.
- Elsewise nothing. For this you get a preliminary land survey, a preliminary
- title search, and a geologist's opinion of the mineral and water resources. I
- do not negotiate price or arrange financing. I am not a realtor.
-
- Lake Cumberland is an artificial lake, damned [sic joke] in 1952. The Lake is
- 100 miles long, has a surface area of 50,000 acres, and a shoreline of 1200
- miles. It is a popular fishing and recreation area. Good hunting too. There
- is no private lakefront land. The Corpse [sick] of Engineers owns all land
- fronting on Lake Cumberland. This strip of government land is usually about a
- hundred feet wide between the property and the actual water.
-
- Quad refers to the USGS topographic map. Topo maps are available for
- inspection at your local University Geology/Geography Dept Library. They may
- be purchased for less than $5@ from Timely Discount Topos, Inc. 800/821-7609
-
- Some folks are willing to play Banker; that is, ¼ down & 10 year payoff. Some
- would even play Uncle Sap; that's $100 down and $100 per month for 8762
- months. These places generally have the mineral rights, timber rights, water
- rights, access rights, and right rights unless otherwise stated.
-
- Monticello (pop 7000) is the county seat of Wayne County (pop 17,700), KY.
- There are no building codes, no health codes, and no zoning for farm dwellings
- in Wayne County. Taxes are about $0.70 per $100 of deed value. That's per
- year, not per week.
-
- The electric company will run 1000 feet of line free. Then it costs you about
- $4 per foot. For alternative energy (solar, wind, hydro), contact Vertis M.
- Bream, Energy Options, 1755 Coon Rd, Aspers, PA 17304. 717/677-6721
-
- I do not supply pinup pictures. I have some photos of some of these
- properties, but there usually isn't much to see in the woods but trees. Send
- me $10 and I'll send you a set of prints which should be of great interest to a
- botanist.
-
- What's wrong? There's something wrong with every place. If it were not so,
- then you couldn't afford it. Or else it would be long ago sold. The trick is
- to find a place where what's wrong don't matter. Or better yet, is a benefit.
-
- Here's what I know at present. Or think I know.
-
- 14 Acres, top of hill west of Sandy Valley; 36 acres, south of Jimtown; 62
- acres between Wind Cave & Horse Pound Ridge; 125 acres, Hall Hollow; 138 acres,
- west bank of Dry Hollow. All woods. All hilly to cliffy, some small patches
- of flat land. All lousy to horrible access. Wayne Co, KY. Powersburg Quad.
- What's wrong? I've not seen these, so I don't know. Owned by a large
- corporation who takes written bids. Probably around $200 per acre.
-
- 6.5 Acres, $3500. Woods fronting on Lake Cumberland. Bugwood, Wayne Co, KY.
- Jabez Quad. What's wrong? There are a bunch of dead people in the road.
-
- 1 acre, $8,000. 4-room shack, well water at porch, outhouse, electricity, tiny
- garden. Path to Lake Cumberland. Gravel road. Cracker Neck (pop 50) Pulaski
- Co, KY. Burnside Quad. What's wrong? You tell me. It is kinda touristy.
-
- 54 Acres, $8000. Woods, big timber has been cut in part. It will be cheaper
- if they cut the rest of it. Near Mt Pisgah, Wayne Co, KY. I've not seen it,
- so I don't know much more about it.
-
- 6 Acres, $12,000. 5 adjacent lots in a rural subdivision of Monticello. All
- pastureland. Paved road, city water, electricity, phone. Shaw Valley, Wayne
- Co, KY. Coopersville Quad. What's wrong? Subdivision lots for pseudoyuppies.
-
- 110 Acres, $12,000. Wooded hills and grown over fields on Lake Cumberland.
- Parnell, Wayne Co, KY. Jabez Quad. What's wrong? I couldn't find it.
-
- 100 Acres, $12,500; 200 Acres, $25,000; 200 Acres, $25,000. National Park
- kinda land. All trees & rocks. 100 foot cliffs in places. Several
- rockhouses. One on the 100 acre tract is 200 feet wide & 100 feet deep; big
- enuf for the whole tribe. 6.5 mile jeeptrail from Pickett Park, TN. Another
- way is 5 miles sometimes driveable by sturdy car, but not a legal access.
- Middle of Nowhere (pop 0) Wayne Co, KY. Pall Mall TN Quad. What's wrong? Not
- suitable for permanent habitation by white man. The rockhouse has become a
- local party place. Wanna have your own forest preserve?
-
- 30 Acres, $15,000. Stoney Acres. Lake Cumberland. Garden, a couple acres of
- pasture, rest woods. 2 springs, creek, pond. Barn, no house. Electricity &
- phone installed. On KY Rt 92, 10 miles to Monticello. Piney Woods (pop 100)
- Wayne Co, KY. Jabez Quad. What's wrong? You are paying for Lake Cumberland.
-
- 50 Acres, $18,500. Long abandoned farm on a ridgetop. No usable buildings,
- but there is a nice habitable cave. [I prefer it to any house in which I have
- resided.] Plenty of garden space and more than plenty of woods. Springs &
- ponds [puddles], an ancient orchard. No utilities and no hope of ever having
- them. Two mile jeeptrail (in good weather) from a truckroad. A ½ mile walk
- (uphill, for the health freaks) in from a paved road. Burfield, Wayne Co,
- KY. Coopersville Quad. What's wrong? Not fit for habitation by
- Californians. The cave really isn't on (beneath?) the property.
-
- 67 Acres, $20,000. Mostly north facing wooded hillside, with a few acres of
- overgrown fields. Small spring, plus frontage on creek & Lake Cumberland.
- Dirt road. Delta, Wayne Co. Coopersville Quad. What's wrong? The creek has
- been hidden in a cave by an underground conspiracy of deep ecologists. Lake
- Cumberland frontage only during high water, but then the road is flooded.
-
- 120 Acres, $25,000 [89 A for $13,000?] No buildings. Mostly south face. About
- 20 acres of rocky fields, the rest in woods. Includes 2300 feet of The Little
- South Fork of The Cumberland River, a genuine "Wild and Scenic River". On
- gravel road at Ritner, KY. Mostly in Wayne Co, KY with a footbridge to about
- 20 acres in McCreary Co. Coopersville & Nevelsville Quads. What's wrong? Big
- Brother owns The River. Two time zones. High tension lines.
-
- 600 acres, $25,500. All woods on Sulphur Springs Mountain (pop 10), Wayne Co,
- KY. 5 miles to Monticello. Parnell Quad. Bank terms. What's wrong?
- Delicious mineral water, has commercial potential as a cockroach killer. The
- Amazing Shrinking Forest. Last I heard, it was down to about 117 acres, and
- still shrinking. Believe it's 600 acres and get a bargain! Utilities
- undetermined.
-
- 53 Acres, $68,000. All woods (timber worth $10,000+) except for a couple acres
- of organically grown orchards (50+ trees) & gardens. 6 beehives, 2 water wells,
- several springs. 3 houses: #1, 14x70 1982 model "manufactured home" [what I
- used to call a trailer], with additional carport, utility room & sunroom. All
- electric, brick foundation, septic system, all appliances, wood stove. #2,
- 34x46 hand built house with 3 bedrooms & sleeping loft, combination kitchen-
- dining-living room, full drive-in basement with loading dock, machine shop &
- commercial woodworking shop. #3, 12x16x2 story guest house. 24x60 concrete
- pad for a factory or maybe just a garage. 1982 model Ford 1300 4WD tractor
- with plow, disc harrow, bushhog, Ph.D. [Posthole Digger], & 2 wagons. Might
- divide out machinery & timber. End of little used gravel road, mile from
- pavement. Powersburg Quad. Located at Chestnut Grove (pop 100) 15 miles to
- Monticello, KY; 3 miles to Bald Rock, TN. What's wrong? No pasture. For more
- info: Billy Brusewitz, Rt 86, Bx 366, Monticello, KY 42633.
-
- 264 acres, $70,000. About 10 acres in cleared fields along a creek, the rest
- is woods. An old family farm. Electricity, spring water, but no house. A big
- barn tho. Back by itself a half mile from a paved road at Cedar Hill, Wayne
- Co, KY. Coopersville Quad. What's wrong? Seems overpriced, but I've not
- looked at it.
-
- 145 Acres [187.0 if you can believe our government], $75,000 plus $15,000 for
- the timber. 1/2 Fast Farm. 10 acres cropland, 50 acres rocky pasture, [Big
- Brudder thinks there are 52.3 acres of cropland!] fenced & crossfenced, balance
- woods. Mile middleage & surrounded on 3 sides by The Little South Fork of The
- Cumberland River, a "Wild & Scenic River". 5-room slightly modernized Civil
- War vintage log house, springwater, electricity, phone. 2 barns, 2 sheds,
- garage. Mile private driveway, 18 miles to Monticello. Ritner (pop 25) Wayne
- Co, KY. Coopersville & Nevelsville Quads. What's wrong? This is my home.
- Wanna play Nature Conservancy?
-
- 375 acres, $70,000; 850 acres, $165,000; 1575 acres, $305,000. Assorted woods
- in Scott Co TN. Have your own private National Forest!
-
- 100+ Acres, $85,000. 50 acres fields, fenced & cross fenced. 5 ponds. ¼ mile
- frontage on Lake Cumberland. 6-room & bath house, electricity & phone,
- cistern, 2 springs, 2 barns. Paved road. Echo Point (a vacation area on Lake
- Cumberland) Pulaski Co, KY. Burnside Quad. What's wrong? Nothing, if you
- want to live in a tourist trap. Could be subdivided; there's even some lake
- lots surveyed out.
-
- 800 Acres. Can be cut up. Mostly hills, cliffs, some flat land here & there.
- We are still dickering, but I'd say about $200 per acre. This is a minor oil
- production area. You might even get an oil well in the bargain! Hog Mtn,
- Wayne Co, KY. Powersburg Quad.
-
- ~90 Acres, ?$22,000? It's own little valley. All woods, tho there were a
- couple homesteads there in the past. Several springs. Gravel road to
- ridgetop. Brammer Hill, Wayne Co. Coopersville Quad. What's wrong? This is
- still a rumor. The road down into the hollow has not been maintained for
- years.
-
- There are many more similar places available. Many are "kinda" for sale.
- Oftentimes the owner wants to take a look at the prospective neighbors before
- deciding if the place is really for sale or not. If the owner likes you, if he
- needs the money, if you have cash, and if you are a good negotiator, then you
- might find a good deal. There can be some real bargains, but don't expect them
- to wait on you. It is possible to find usable land for $200 per acre, probable
- at $300, and for $500 per acre the choice is vast. Since I am not a realtor, I
- have better things to do than look for people who want to list their property.
-
- There are also some places for rent here. $100 a month rents a shack &
- outhouse, $200 gets an inhouse. This would be a good way to see if the county
- is good enuf for you. If so, then it would be a good way to scout for land to
- buy.
-
- If you don't have any questions for me, then I have some questions for you!
- Fill out the enclosed land spec sheet and perhaps I can find something else for
- you.
-
-
- Yours truly,
-
-
- David P Beiter
-
- When elephants and jackasses fight over the turf, it's the grass which loses.
- -Confusionus
-