Updated and Complete Property and Sale Information as of July 22, 2008

UPDATED PROPERTY AND SALE INFORMATION

INFORMATION COMPLETE AND UPDATED AS OF JULY 22, 2008
House, Building, Barn, and 2 1/2 Acres for $23,300

Have you ever wanted to own a property in a peaceful and totally private location, with no zoning hassles of any kind? Have you ever wanted to get more property for your dollar than you can get virtually anywhere else? Now is your chance.

This web site will most likely answer all of the common questions about this property. But if and when you do have any questions that you can not find answered on this site, please email or phone me with them.

Last year I advertised this property, but I ended up not having anywhere near enough time to sell it. Now I am ready and eager to sell it, and I am working on selling it almost full time during April, May, and June of 2008. I am emailing everyone who ever expressed interest in the property, either last year or this year. I am at the property and ready to read your emails, take your phone calls, make appointments for you to see the property, give tours of the property, and sell the bargain priced property to the first buyer.

LOCATION
Visit the Map Page!

Also, to see the location of the property on printable internet maps, type “Burdett, Kansas” (KS) on any of the following map sites. The property is 3 miles south of this town. Use the zoom control to see where the location is in relation to the rest of Kansas and to neighboring states.

Expedia Maps
Mapquest Maps
Rand McNally Maps

THE BLOG FOR SELLING THE PROPERTY
I have discovered that email is a very poor and time consuming way to try to get pictures to those interested in the property I have for sale. So I have gone to plan B, which is the blog which you are reading right now. Below all the words, you will find 63 large pictures of the property for sale.

Please bookmark this page, because the link in your email may or may not work. This is one of those very strange and very annoying internet/email problems that make emails in general a relative pain in the neck.

However, if you forget to bookmark this page, and the link in your email does not work, then either of the following should work to get you back here:

1. Copy and paste the following address from your email into your web browser.
2. If that doesn’t work, simply type the address into your web browser exactly as you see it in the email:

www.kansaspropertyforsale.blogspot.com

In the days ahead, blog posts will be added that will answer all the questions that I get via emails and by phone. Look for a questions and answers post to appear by about April 25. I have already added posts that have very detailed descriptions of all of the rooms of the house, the basement, the quonset building, the barn, and the land. If you read these, it will almost be like you are touring the inside of the house and other parts of the property in person.

The longer it takes to sell the place, the more the blog will be packed with additional details. But naturally, I am selling to the first bona fide buyer. I am going to go all out to have the place sold by the end of June.

There are pictures of the inside of the house, of the inside of the quonset building, of the outside of the house, of the outsides of all of the other outbuildings, and of the land. The descriptions of the inside of the house will be at least as good as the inside of the house pictures, however, better in my opinion, due to the limitations of photography. The pictures of rooms I have seen on the internet have been largely worthless for really determining the details about that room. But for those who need the inside of the house pictures, we have them.

I am terrible paper organizer, and a poor housekeeper in general, so the pictures of the inside of the house will have some of my messes in them. Don't worry; all of my stuff will be removed before the new owner takes possession.

The inside of the house is in good, livable condition. The only room that most buyers would want to do a little work on is the kitchen. Most buyers will want to choose a new floor for the kitchen and paint the walls in the kitchen as well. For full details regarding the kitchen, see the post titled "The Kitchen." All other interior rooms are in no work necessary condition, so to speak. But work is needed if you want to update the rooms to a 2008 appearance, so to speak.

PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED IN THE SALE
1. A good working stove/oven/range in the kitchen
2. A microwave oven that is in good working order
3. A new 6 foot ladder
4. A large 8 feet by 3 feet Costco metal folding table
5. Two very good condition upholstered reclining armchaires
6. A very large wood storage cabinet in the master bedroom

OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY
I am selling a 1180 sq. ft. house with an excellent metal roof and good siding, a 4,000 sq. fot quonset style metal / wood framed building, a 1,000 sq. ft. barn and a 2 1/2 acre plot of land in good hunting country in Western Kansas for $23,300. The location of the property is in one of the lowest cost real estate areas of the country, which is the one and only reason for why the price of the property is so surprisingly low. If this property were located in other regions of the country, the price would be higher, as much as 15 times higher in fact.

There are plentiful walk-in hunting tracts close by, in all directions. The deer. pheasant, and turkey hunting are especially good, but there is much more game to hunt. Non-hunters can use this as a 2nd home retreat on the peaceful prairie, or as a full low-cost country residence.

This property is 23 miles from the substantial sized town of Larned, home of the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility and the Larned State Security Hospital. Both of these government facilities are always looking for employees of various types.

THE HOUSE
One of the most outstanding features of this house is the full, maintenance-free metal roof, which was installed extremely securely about 4 or 5 years ago. There is also good metal siding on all sides of the house.

The house has 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, and a bathroom. There is 2/3 of a full basement and there is attic crawl space. There is a propane furnace and a propane tank outside, along with propane pipes for additional heating appliances in the kitchen and in the west end bedroom, for additional heat as desired.

The well water is excellent quality and the well and plumbing systems are in good working order. The bathroom and kitchen plumbing fixtures are all in good working order.

The electrical system is fine and there is a pantry with washer and dryer hookups. Reasonably priced DSL high speed internet service is available, with a speed of about 1.5 Mbps, and there is even T-1 ultra high speed service available as an option.

QUONSET BUILDING
This is a very close to 3,000 sq. ft. corrugated metal and steel quonset style building, which has extensive wood beam supports on the inside. The building has a large garage door along the property driveway, huge sliding doors on the back end of it, a cement floor, and electricity. Some possible uses of this building include:

1. One huge garage for the owner.
2. Storage space, some or all of which could be rented.
3. Hunting party use, such as processing game.
4. A garage for storing multiple cars or trucks.
5. A place of business, such as a tractor repair business for example, or a farm equipment storage business.
6. A place for storing inventory of a business.

THE LAND
The size of the land is 370 feet by 300 feet by 370 feet by 300 feet, so the amount of land is 2.55 acres. For much detailed information about this land, see the post titled "The Land."

THE BARN, THE CORRALS, TWO STORAGE BUILDINGS, AND THE SMALL WORKSHED

There is green barn that is about 1,000 sq. ft. in size. There are two fenced in areas off of it that could be used to keep animals such as horses or chickens. See the post about the barn for much more detailed information.

There are two circular, metal storage buildings. One of them is about 200 sq. ft., and the other one is about 107 sq. ft. For detailed information about these buildings, see the post titled "The Two Circular Storage Buildings."

There is also a small work shed type of building, at the end of a sidewalk from the south door of the house, not far from the house. The roof of this work shed needs to be repaired to some extent, but this work shed has electricity; there is an electric socket that is working in it. See the post about the small work shed for much more information about the work shed.

PEACE, PRIVACY, AND FREEDOM
The most unique thing about this property is that when you are here you have total peace and tranquility, as well as total privacy. You can do as much as or as little as you wish to the property and not have any regulatory hassles at all. For all practical purposes, there are no zoning regulations here. But there is a friendly farmer just down the road a short ways, and a very small town 3 miles away, so you are not totally isolated.

PRICE
The price to a cash buyer is $21,500! The price to a mortgage buyer would be $23,500, which is still a very fair price.

The low price I am selling for is mainly due to (1) the area has always had low cost housing and (2) my wish to sell relatively quickly.

The location of the property is in one of the lowest cost real estate areas of the country, which is by far the biggest reason why the price of the property is so surprisingly low. If this property were located in other regions of the country, the price would be higher, as much as 15 times as higher in fact.

Another fairly big reason for the extremely low price is the fact that the inside of the house is mostly updated to 1975-1985 and not to 1998-2008. Since updates would be needed to bring the inside of the house up to average among the County properties in its appraisal class, $4,800 has been deducted from the appraisal value for that purpose, which is almost certainly more than enough money to get the house up to average.

This property is appraised at $26,000. This appraisal value is supposed to be a close estimate of the fair market value of the property. Not one but two appraisals were done on this property within the last two years. Property taxes are less than $1 per day, and will not be going up substantially for at least several years.

INFORMATION FOR HUNTERS
There are maps of the walk-in hunting areas near this property on the Kansas web site. The maps of the land that is closest to this property will be numbered as follows:

Map 21: The property for sale is located in the northwest corner of this map, near Burdett. Shows areas to the east and to the southeast of the property.
Map 20: Shows areas to the west and to the southwest of the property.
Map 14: Shows areas to the northwest of the property.
Map 15: Shows areas to the northeast of the property.

Here is where you can view and/or download these maps:

http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/kdwp_info/locations/hunting_fishing_maps_by_county/2007_fall_hunting_atlas

You will see on the map of Kansas on this page that there are many maps available to view. The areas closest to this property are as indicated above, Maps 14, 15, 20, and 21.

For general information about Kansas hunting:

http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/hunting/about_kansas_hunting

For more information about the walk-in hunting program, you can go to this address:

http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news//other_services/private_landowner_assistance/wildlife/walk_in_hunting

Remember though, you by no means have to be a hunter to buy and enjoy this property. I am not a hunter, but I have enjoyed the total peace and tranquility of this property.

TOUR APPOINTMENTS
Appointments to physically tour the property can be made for any day until the property is legally sold or until I decide to discontinue active marketing of the property and to wait for buyers trying to gather funds to get that done. With each passing week, I am more and more tempted to discontinue tours and active marketing, so if you are interested in a tour, you should not delay.

I hope that you will make an appointment to tour the property and/or make an offer. Anyone needing more information, or wanting directions and an appointment time, please either email me or call me using any of the contacts above. I will try to answer emails very promptly. If you call and get no answer, please try your call again later.

CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions, and/or want to make an appointment to see the property, you can contact me in any of the following 3 ways:

michael_tinney1@yahoo.com
You CAN schedule an appointment to tour the property via email, or else you can do so by phone, it's your choice.

504-324-1691
Vonage Internet Line; this line is preferred because you can leave a message on this line if there is no answer because I am outside.

620-525-6654
Land Line; a message can not be left on this line and if I miss your call I will have no record that you called.

Either phone number rings at the property for sale, and I am resident on the property through at least the end of June, and I am ready to show it and sell it. I am the one and only owner. The property is free and clear of any debts, liens and so forth. I have title insurance, and the new owner will most definitely be able to get title insurance as well.

Sincerely Yours

Michael Tinney