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Newsletter from Montana
October 2004
Mini Storage buildings for sale
for $ 325,000 in Basin, Wyoming - This brand new 54 mini storage unit sits on app. 6 acres between Greybull and Basin on Highway 20 in Wyoming. A 3-bedroom trailer and a commercial storefront building of approximately 3500 sq. ft are included in the purchase! Lots of income potential.
Two buildings have been finished this year; one and a half building are already rented out! The concrete slab for the third building has been poured and is ready to be built upon.
Here you can
buy a cabin kit Log homes are well insulated, depending on the size of the log. You can get a cabin with 4" logs and up to 24" logs. The thicker, the better they insulate, but also the more expensive they are. You can buy log homes that have chinking between the logs and logs that are "dove tailed" and fit into each other, or even logs that are filled with insulation! You can buy logs that have been long dead standing in the forest before they were cut, or logs that have been kiln dried, or dried outside. If you get machined logs, they are cheaper, but the hand peeled logs have all the interesting knotholes and parts of branches that can be integrated with the design. Some logs are squared.
The Tamarack log home on the river
has hand peeled logs up to 24" in diameter; they have been aged and are artfully crafted into a home with a ceiling that soars to 28'. Tamarack grows in western Montana, and they loose their needles in fall after turning bright yellow. It is a beautiful reddish wood.
The price has been reduced to $ 975,000
The little log cabin in Sheep Mountain Ranch now has a contract on it,
but there are still beautiful parcels left. The Sheep Mountain Ranch looks like a wavy wing sitting in front of the tallest Mountains of Montana with a 700ft cliff on one side and Douglas Fir and Aspen on its "back" interspersed with 35 different wildflowers, springs and coulees. Truly one of a kind and can be seen for miles around from the grassy hills that surround it. The grassy hills are part of the alluvial fan the glaciers spread when they spilled out of the canyons during the last four ice ages in these parts. It seems Sheep Mountain ranch is a geological oddity, resisting the general humdrum around it. Those that are able to buy a piece of it and even live on it are truly privileged. The owner just called me last night and reduced the prices to $ 7,500 an acre for the 20 acres pieces and $ 7,000 an acre for the 40+ acres pieces! Such a bargain, the grassy hills on the bottom of the cliff have sold for $ 9,000 and $ 10,000 an acre recently!
There are moose, deer and elk to keep you company, along with shooting stars at night.
If you like to find out more about geology, I added a new link on my Listings page: http://www.mbmg.mtech.edu/ and for the kids this site features an interactive Montana Map,
which I love to play with. I put a link for that in the fun margin of my personal page
Looks like Red Lodge is the only city in South Central Montana!
I took a pilot from "Fish and Wildlife" on a ground tour of our area. He usually just flies to count elk, deer and moose around here. He told me there is a herd of 200 - 300 elk living in and near the Buffalo Jump subdivision,
where I just had listed those two 10 acres parcels.
He said every once in a while he chases all those elk through the yards there with his helicopter, which doesn't make him the most popular guy around... he was looking cautiously over his shoulder while I was showing him the land there. He said there are 1,400 deer between Absarokee and Nye!
If you have a decent income, but just cannot seem to be able to save up for a down payment, there are
creative ways to solve that problem. This webpage explains how to go about it. You usually need a co-operative seller, but it can be done. This page is easy to understand and has lots of cartoons to keep things lively. I put a link to that on my finance page.
I have some farm ground in Wyoming for sale. The owner now has the parcel divided into smaller and more affordable chunks. There are two 100 acres pieces for $ 175,000 each. 50 acres are irrigated and will yield excellent alfalfa.
The irrigation rights are straight out of the Big Horn River, so you will have enough water - not like some other places in Wyoming where they turned the irrigation water off in June, or worse yet, never turned it on! Each parcel has a quarter mile of treed riverfront to go with it and views of the Big Horn Mountains and the bright red foothills in front of it. There is also excellent antelope and pheasant hunting. It is a little out of the way - about 20 miles from town and surrounded by BLM and National Forest, which in those parts is mostly colorful sand hills. Some hills look like lollipops and if those would be in a more populated area, I am sure they would charge you $ 20 to see them! Also the area is still strewn with Native American artifacts and dinosaur bones.... Only 4" of rain a year.
After the storms on the East coast, I ran a small classified ad in the local newspapers in Florida with the heading "Relocate to Montana!" - if your business needs a boost, send an email to Michael Wise at "Wide Area Classifieds" They can run ads for you in any state you like at a reasonable price. Well, I was advertising in the Sky Magazine (Delta Airlines) as well, which yielded around 1,500 visitors a day on my website for a while and now I have 5,000 subscribers to my newsletter...
Our rural electric company here is Beartooth Electric and I found out it costs about $ 8 a foot to bring in electric underground in these parts. If you like to know more, call 406/446 2310 and ask for Marvin or Thed. Talking about stringing electric along.... in Alaska they strung up a Moose by accident. I think they lay cable there for about 5 miles before they tighten it up. Something did not feel right, so they went back and there was the Moose hanging on the power pole! The story is in the Fairbanks News Miner
The Billings Gazette recently featured an article about "Solar Wind"
They provide off-grid as well as grid-tied electricity to homes around Montana, but the area of their business that has seen the steepest curve in local interest is remote-site solar powered water pumping. They are getting calls from ranchers around the state who would like to water their stock consistently in remote areas without hauling large quantities of water over long distances or paying the brutal cost of running grid-power to their remote wells. Until now this technology has been completely underutilized. If you want to know more, contact Conor Darby, Independent Power Systems, Inc. in Bozeman (406) 587-5295 cdarby@montanadsl.net
If you enjoy longer stories, here is a different one by Russell Conwell. It is 51 pages long called
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell went around the world and gave this talk 6,000 times. The gist of it is that your opportunities are not over there somewhere, but at home with your friends, family and business associates. Russell would go to a town and meet teachers, merchants, librarian, politicians, etc and find out what the opportunities in that particular town were and then talked about it with the locals - anyone who makes such a thorough search about something seems to be in search of himself. Russell Conwell made a fortune giving this talk, but he gave it all away. He was the founder of the Temple University in Philadelphia. He also arranged for an evening school for the working people who would not have time to take up studies during the day. Interesting how some people approach life.
My husband bought a Stinson - which is a vintage airplane - it is all in parts and to me it looks like a jungle gym, but supposedly, it will be a beautiful airplane when it is put back together and covered with fabric. The plane was in WWII in England, so it's a warbird. A few weeks ago he had finished restoring a Cherokee Piper 140 and since nobody has bought it yet, we are using it for a loaner and my 18 year old daughter had her first flying lesson with it yesterday. She was absolutely thrilled. Now there is a good way to keep your teenagers occupied, buy them an airplane - the Cherokee is $ 40,000 and a friend of ours specializes in financing aircraft, I will be happy to hook you up, just say the word!
Our airport is owned by the city and we are trying to get a little group together so we can get an airpark started. Let me know if you are interested!
Today is Halloween and we already have glowing pumpkin faces peeking out of most of our windows since Monday, along with a black crow and ghosts on our front porch. We have an old Colonial Revival to go with that, to the delight of my 12 year old daughter and her little friends next door... Talking about kids, when we had the homecoming in Red Lodge, they were making a snake after dark by holding hands, then running through all the bars in town - in the front door, out the back, then through the isles at the grocery store and the highlight after that was a huge bonfire!
Our program for this month is:
November 6, 2004 · Taste of Red Lodge
Sample foods from local restaurants, then dance the night away.
November 13, 2004 · Feast for the Beasts
Feast for the Beasts is the annual event to raise money to feed and care for the animals at the Beartooth Nature Center. The evening includes a cocktail hour beginning at 5 pm, silent auction, fabulous dinner and dessert, Director's Announcement, live auction, and dancing to the popular band, The Geezers. This is a sell out event. Please get your tickets soon.
November 19-21 & 26-28 · Holiday Open Houses
November 19, 20, 21 and Thanksgiving weekend Nov 22, 27, 28. Merchants serve refreshments and treats some offer discounts. The kick off for the holiday shopping season, stores decorated for Christmas, lots of new merchandise and extended hours.
November 26, 2004 · Red Lodge Mountain - Projected Opening
Ski and snowboard 1,600 acres, 2,400 vertical, and 71 trails on this mountain which offers 100+ mile views of 7 mountain ranges.
Watch out for the goblins until my next newsletter at the end of November.
:-)
Best Regards,
Dorothea Lowe, Broker
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