Land ho!
The wife and I have decided to invest in raw land. To be honest, we've been looking at this for over a year now. Initially we attempted to find something close enough to downtown Houston that I could, with a rough commute, continue to work at my current position. Prices anywhere within about 90 miles of Houston are absurd, though. We'd spend about as much as a nice suburban home just for the land! Consequentially, we gave up on the keep-my-job approach and started looking elsewhere. If it was going to be elsewhere, we wanted a place with a winter, and if I wasn't going to be able to keep my current job...why not somewhere with mountain views? Also, I wanted a lot that was rectangular to the point that I would be able to shoot 1000 yds on my own property. We looked for a lot that was at least 50 acres. That amount is relatively arbitrary, but seemed like a good number. We ended up finding a lot in far Northern Wyoming that was 70 acres, and after several attempts