acem Posted October 14 Posted October 14 How often are you contacted by someone wanting to buy your land? I get texts several times a week. Letters and calls occasionally. Overall, I probably get contacted 4 times a week. It's annoying to me. Quote
560Dennis Posted October 14 Posted October 14 buy land ,they ain’t making any more of it . Who said it? I think I know ? Quote
885 Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Almost every day. The bad thing they are trying to buy land i dont own Quote
Alan Dinan Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Get a letter from the same place about every other month and then I’ve gotten several texts from some one wanting to know if I’m interested in selling. I delete them and report them as spam. The letters go right in the circular file. Quote
mmi Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Some are scams phising most are scammers looking for low fruit.We get near every month,"enclosed" faux check is $ 1/3-9/16 TAX value. Others in the "know" believe you have mineral X /ROW etc of $$$$ and low ball offer. Have data center or cidioteville in planing and need your x As a peasant it would be rare you want a rezoning to x or farming,and even get on the adjenda.And farms have to be included in the "base" master plan. This happened to farm in our family <1750-2021. $1500/mo property tax doesnt cover enough nepotism jobs.Obviously 55ac farm-able of remaining 90 ac doesnt $ pencil.7 yrs for sale,unfarmed, so auto default then official rezoned.sold FAST for $1/3 value/listing ,with $0 "developer" tax for 10 yrs. EACH of the 125 lots now generate $8-1200> /mo. Just last month in the regional paper,it was praised as a badge of "honor" as the preferred method, "spot/on demand" rezoning to cidioteville = profitable and sustainable government! Here machalluss had "Greet us "great stewards of the LAND"" Parties, where they outright stole entire farms for tax value. machellus and 3 other layers of gas + x mineral just happen to be free. OTHERS with slick lawyers got 30-80% of gas value (1 layer ONLY)......NOw own thier land/farm and pay full tax ,BUT have ZERO rights. Best fields destroyed on purpose,cant build anything within 1500' of gas xyz. Cant do ANY farm activity within 100' of any line/xyz Quote
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Almost every day by text. I did get contacted about putting a cell tower up, I may let them do that if they want to based on what they said the payments could be. The worst amount of spam I get is from DOT compliance companies. I get calls and texts and emails from them constantly. Quote
acem Posted October 14 Author Posted October 14 Two friends have cell phone towers. Calls it a money tree. Gets a decent but not big check. Helps pay the bills. 1 Quote
Chester5732 Posted October 14 Posted October 14 11 hours ago, 885 said: Almost every day. The bad thing they are trying to buy land i dont own Sounds like you should sell!!😄 2 Quote
IHandJDman Posted October 14 Posted October 14 About 2 texts and week and letters once a month. It's always our 1 farm in another county. I think they search owners and see we only own 1 parcel in the county and contact me. Quote
766 Man Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Form letter comes about every other month. "Offers" about the same. Just got one last week about cutting lumber. Quote
Cattech Posted October 14 Posted October 14 It's been 1-3 calls a week on my 40 in Northern MN. I use the online county plat and OnX maps quite often. Both of these list the land owner names. My west side buts up against a large swath that has been listed under various trust and LLC names. I could swear the name changes every year. I was curious what has been going on with this so I started doing a little research. What I found far from a simple environmental conservation program. It appears that some non-profit group has been sucking up large tracts of land in areas where the local or state governments are willing to look away. They then "lease" the land out to the highest bidding corporations that use the land as "carbon offsets". The money trail grows cold quite fast from the non-profit level out. The county and state are plenty happy to get some sort of property tax revenue off land that would otherwise be a liability. I'm sure some money trickles into political campaign funds, and no doubt the non-profits have healthy "operating costs" themselves. So, it may be different in your areas, but it looks like a great big scam to convert what would otherwise be tax dollars into private funds here. 1 1 Quote
England806 Posted October 15 Posted October 15 23 hours ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said: Almost every day by text. I did get contacted about putting a cell tower up, I may let them do that if they want to based on what they said the payments could be. The worst amount of spam I get is from DOT compliance companies. I get calls and texts and emails from them constantly. One of my neighbours has a cell tower in her yard. She said it pays quite well and the phone company regularly trim the hedges and trees for her as part of the deal. 1 Quote
Mudfly Posted October 15 Posted October 15 20 hours ago, Cattech said: It's been 1-3 calls a week on my 40 in Northern MN. I use the online county plat and OnX maps quite often. Both of these list the land owner names. My west side buts up against a large swath that has been listed under various trust and LLC names. I could swear the name changes every year. I was curious what has been going on with this so I started doing a little research. What I found far from a simple environmental conservation program. It appears that some non-profit group has been sucking up large tracts of land in areas where the local or state governments are willing to look away. They then "lease" the land out to the highest bidding corporations that use the land as "carbon offsets". The money trail grows cold quite fast from the non-profit level out. The county and state are plenty happy to get some sort of property tax revenue off land that would otherwise be a liability. I'm sure some money trickles into political campaign funds, and no doubt the non-profits have healthy "operating costs" themselves. So, it may be different in your areas, but it looks like a great big scam to convert what would otherwise be tax dollars into private funds here. It runs in streaks for me. Some weeks i don't get any. Other weeks I get 2 to 4 form letters in the mail, usually postmarked from Florida, and up to 6 texts. They always say 40 acres, but never state which 40 they would want to buy. Several are land locked and there is at least 1 40 that you can walk across, but I wouldn't stand in 1 place for 2 long (i.e. all floating bog). Wetland credit scam would make sense. Quote
iowaboy1965 Posted October 15 Posted October 15 1 hour ago, Mudfly said: It runs in streaks for me. Some weeks i don't get any. Other weeks I get 2 to 4 form letters in the mail, usually postmarked from Florida, and up to 6 texts. They always say 40 acres, but never state which 40 they would want to buy. Several are land locked and there is at least 1 40 that you can walk across, but I wouldn't stand in 1 place for 2 long (i.e. all floating bog). Wetland credit scam would make sense. Tell them you will sell the bog for 10 billion....... Quote
Mudfly Posted October 15 Posted October 15 8 minutes ago, iowaboy1965 said: Tell them you will sell the bog for 10 billion....... They usually offer about $0.30 on the dollar for what its worth.... and floating bog isn't worth much. Quote
iowaboy1965 Posted October 15 Posted October 15 1 minute ago, Mudfly said: They usually offer about $0.30 on the dollar for what its worth.... and floating bog isn't worth much. Tell em your land identifies as valuable...... 3 Quote
MacAR Posted October 15 Posted October 15 On 10/13/2026 at 8:37 PM, acem said: How often are you contacted by someone wanting to buy your land? I get texts several times a week. Letters and calls occasionally. Overall, I probably get contacted 4 times a week. It's annoying to me. The come and go for me. Had several last week, none this week. I like to mess with them, so tell them all kinds of BS then when they "jump on a quick call" I pretend I'm a 102 year old man in a nursing home with no idea what they're talking about.... guess I'm easily amused! 2 Quote
brahamfireman Posted October 15 Posted October 15 Weekly, I tell them I want $1 million and they never send the paperwork. Quote
ray54 Posted October 16 Posted October 16 Phone calls 2 to 6 times a year. I think all hoping for a mentally impaired person. I tell them yes, 300 acres of prime vineyard land bordering The Wonderful Company's, Justin Winery. Cash only 50 million. Some vineyard land has traded at $50,000 an acre. But the wine business is dying rather fast after 30 years of crazier and crazier prices. Yes the Wonderful company is a billionaire's play thing, so little chance they go broke. They were buying 4 years ago yet, but made no offers on 2 other ajioning parcels since. Quote
chevenstein Posted October 16 Posted October 16 So, I'm (or people who work for me) are on the other end of those letters and calls sometimes. I broker merchant bulk electric power for data centers and run operations for some of their battery and power plant portfolios. Don't get me wrong: there are tons and tons of speculators out there who will try to pull one over on you and always have been for one goal or another with land, but right now if you have acreage that you can get serious power into (ie: it's next to or close to a substation or power plant) there are literally tens of billions (BILLIONS with a of dollars chasing that. They don't even have to be that big anymore - there's so much pushback on the really big sites that we're splitting them up into chunks of a dozen shipping containers or so and putting them where people don't mind - next to an airport, an old quarry, an industrial area. Some of the crypto guys do this too but those are obnoxiously loud - the modern AI stuff is all liquid cooled (closed loop) and fairly quiet. This is how I support my old iron and farming hobby - I know it's not popular, but it's a livelihood. PM me if you want me to smell test an offer you've gotten - I will give this community virtually unlimited free advice. Quote
Sledgehammer Posted October 16 Posted October 16 We get a few here and there but not daily or weekly. Quote
1586 Jeff Posted October 18 Posted October 18 On 10/14/2026 at 2:52 PM, 885 said: Almost every day. The bad thing they are trying to buy land i dont own That is the most profitable land for you to sell!! 1 Quote
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