I own two properties here in AL in the "No-Go Zones". 1. It Is 7 acres between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. It's very hilly really suited for a taraced gardens but secluded way off the highway. It has a creek running through it and a natural artesian well and is walking distance from the Cahaba River. The Chaba has a beautiful unique and state protected lilly. I'm developing it as a off grid dry cabin for recreation. 2. is 15 acres north of Selma it has more neighbor issues but is mainly setup for hunting with a soy bean bait field and a pecan orchard great seasonal crop with very little maintenance after the initial set up and matureing time. My grand father blessed me with planting it in the early 00s at first it was just personal consumption but now we go to a local farmers market and can sell all our crop in a couple of weekends. It pays for christmast gifts for my neese and nephew.
Alabama is wonderful for homesteading. VERY LOW taxes, some counties have zero required building permits for housing. Most do require a permit for septic systems. This is for land outside of any city/town limits. We have everything from mountains to beaches. Forests, caves, rivers, lakes, great hunting and fishing. The southern part of the state rarely has snow and other than the three months of summer the weather is beautiful. The southern parts of the state offer better values with lower taxes and less regulation. I have a small place in Houston county on a dirt road with no neighbors in site. I am 1.5 miles from the Florida state line.
I was looking for land in Alabama at first, I have a house in NW Florida, just north of Destin. But during the plandemic the prices went WAY up. But I found a good deal in southern Mississippi($1889 an acre) and 25 miles from the Gulf coast. So that's where you'lll find me. I love Alabama and have been there MANY times. And I plan on going there MANY times in the future. Long live the South!
Lots of homesteaders and preppers moving from all over, many from Seattle, buying up property making the price per acre go up. I love Alabama, but thinking of Mississippi myself due the growth rate and older farms being sold off to out of state buyers. I have a neighbor who said they will only sell to someone out of state because they can get a higher price than from locals, so I can't expand my homestead due to this kind of thinking.
@@jenniferwilliamson309 You better hurry, prices in Mississippi are going up. I can sell my property that I bought in May of 2023 for almost double now.
Please do GEORGIA 😊 I almost moved to Alabama, moving from the Florida panhandle. But I've settled in Georgia. Curious to see what you see in the state. I've only got 1/2 acre. But I'm thrilled and loving it. Finally at 63 setting up some systems of self sufficiency. The future is bright
Love living in coastal AL and places here would make amazing homesteads and there are some--but the land prices have gone nuts during the last few years. Every investor swarmed in here in 2020 gobbling up everything and they all believe they're going to be millionaires selling off to DR Horton and Lennar Homes building these overpriced crap boxes in HOA controlled neighborhoods. No good deals to be had anywhere south of Interstate 10.
Don’t forget the ticks, gnats, venomous snakes and spiders, chiggers, poison oak and ivy, 107° heat index or more with the high humidity requiring a shower after 20 minutes outside. There is a lot of rocks and red clay in areas making gardening difficult and what survives is attacked by 7,000 species of insects.
Yep, chicken farms are big in Alabama. Lots of forestry, especially in central AL. There are counties that pretty much have nothing but forestry, so not many folks, low cost of living, low regulation. The biggest problem is Alabama Power has the southern half of the state and they are part of Southern Companies and have a solar tax! Better off being 100% off grid, which is allowed in most of the rural counties.
Do they tax you if you have solar connected to batteries? Alabama is where I want to go, because of the low property tax. In CT, it's very difficult to homestead due to the high property taxes. We even pay high property taxes on our vehicles. It's ridiculous out here. I want to go completely off grid, with the exception of having internet to run my business.
@@DoubleDown310 If you are using their service at all and you have some solar power anywhere on the property, they tax you every single month for the loss of profit it will “cost” them. Alabama Power paid off the legislators to have it written in law they have permission to do this. There are no state rebates for using solar and there are NO SOLAR PROVIDERS OR INSTALLERS to put it up. And there are of course no grid tie set ups. You will have to find someone willing to come from out of state or put it up yourself. You do have to have batteries to store your energy. At least there is a lot of sun shine.
@@DoubleDown310 I have my barn and sheds on solar and batteries, no problem. It is having a tie into the grid, if you have solar and plug into the grid the power company taxes you with a permit and extra charges. Best to be 100% solar/battery. Yes, very low property taxes!
Thank you Curtis for your coverage of Alabama. I identified the Hamilton/Phil Campbell area as perhaps the best prepper homestead area in the South-East in one of my videos maybe three years ago. That said, I have a homestead north of Huntsville which I am liquidating to move to northern Arizona. The tops of my in-ground worm beds will become a part of my rain water collection system. I have lived on my homestead in Alabama for 33 years. Time to move on.
Hamilton is horrible, 1 of the most crookidest places to be... had my door kicked in cause my neighbor was a meth dealer, cops stated they had a warrant but when asked to provide it they refused to show it, and when embarrassed because of their misconduct they retaliate in some sort of way... Good Ole boy system to the fullest
Alabama is a wonderful place for homesteading, very safe outside the cities, long growing season, just note that Huntsville is growing rapidly, might wanna keep that in mind when buying land in North Alabama. Also make sure your land has some shade because this type of heat and humidity is downright dangerous to work in. I've had multiple episodes of heat exhaustion. I keep thinking I will learn someday. I eat watermelon every day for the electrolytes and hydration and that helps so much. Also for the past two years we have gotten down to 0 degrees in winter, first time in my 40 years that I know of. Another thing is that if you're going to be selling organic veggies or meat some people don't understand the value and don't always wanna pay extra for it because they just don't understand how corrupt our food system is.
I'd like to see your thoughts on northwest florida, which you were jusst right by in this video - interested in your thoughts around how to choose given the environmental factors brought on by the potential of hurricanes and other factors related to ocean
That's where I'm from, just north of Destin. If you already have land, you're good. But if not, it's too expensive, at least for me and why I moved to Mississippi.
Mr Stone, do you mind doing a Kentucky video? My wife and I are looking at that area with our 4 kids. Prepping for it for the next 2 years to be 100% debt free and do it right. Our oldest will be 10 at that point.
I did not look it up, Most small, chemical like one or to crackers or waterever they use to combine separate distill - chemical use processing facilities must have preliminary treatment of waste onsite, usually 1 2 3 settlement ponds for satellite plants usually near a river for emergency dumping..
Couple thoughts: something to consider with any of the states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico is the potential for hurricane damage/destruction (with increasing potential the closer to the coast). ...and larger cities have impact further out (e.g. the Atlanta area actually has impact on land prices even into eastern Alabama). Just from what I've seen larger metro areas tend to have longer/larger commuter areas.... as people will work in the city and live out where they can afford to live.
I actually had been considering Alabama for a long minute but everybody keeps saying no. So now I'm considering Augusta just because of the fact that the rates are so normal and it's been an overlooked sick for such a long time
I live in Tuscaloosa Co. and well I don’t know who said the taxes are low here but they are not! Plus AL has state tax. I can’t wait to get back to my home state of Texas! Lower taxes, no food tax and no state tax! THAT is low taxes folks.
I’m in Huntsville. Do t come here. The city is agressiveive,y promoting businesses moving here, and the FBI has built an auxiliary office here. So the population has grown incredibly, …….and too many of the people are from Blue states and are making Huntsville into a purple area wirh their complaints and demands for changing this or that………and the infrastructure in Huntsville has not kept up. There’s an Amazon warehouse here too. Any where that near Huntsville is fast turning into bedroom communities for Huntsville. But I do t know if it’s Huntsville or all of Alabama but you don’t pay property taxes on your primary dwelling if you are disabled . Thats makes a difference.
I would love to know where you come up with these assumptions because I personally live in Bama, born here, and now own property here... it can be humid at times because we are in the south, what water are you smelling exactly??? Must be talking bout reused city water cause the springs on my property are clean and tastes amazing, you state prices highest in the nation, how so!?! Alabama is in the top 10 for the lowest cost of living in the country, hence why minimum wage is still only 7.25 an hour here. Go to the new England area or California and see how much it is there. Taking property without reason, again how so!?! Have had my property for 5 plus years and I pay my measly 125 dollars a year property tax and can do whatever I want, build whatever I want without having to pull permits etc. So again where are your assumptions coming from!?!
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I own two properties here in AL in the "No-Go Zones". 1. It Is 7 acres between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. It's very hilly really suited for a taraced gardens but secluded way off the highway. It has a creek running through it and a natural artesian well and is walking distance from the Cahaba River. The Chaba has a beautiful unique and state protected lilly. I'm developing it as a off grid dry cabin for recreation. 2. is 15 acres north of Selma it has more neighbor issues but is mainly setup for hunting with a soy bean bait field and a pecan orchard great seasonal crop with very little maintenance after the initial set up and matureing time. My grand father blessed me with planting it in the early 00s at first it was just personal consumption but now we go to a local farmers market and can sell all our crop in a couple of weekends. It pays for christmast gifts for my neese and nephew.
Why do they call it "no go zones?" In between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham is plenty far enough away from the city imo
How profitable are Pecans ?
@@mikejones3155 I'm not sure. Pecans aren't cheap.
From my experience the trees only produce pecans every other year.
@@wrenbird8352 how profitable are pecans ?
@@mikejones3155 $1.50/lb to wholesale, $14/lb Publix 😅
Alabama is wonderful for homesteading. VERY LOW taxes, some counties have zero required building permits for housing. Most do require a permit for septic systems. This is for land outside of any city/town limits.
We have everything from mountains to beaches. Forests, caves, rivers, lakes, great hunting and fishing.
The southern part of the state rarely has snow and other than the three months of summer the weather is beautiful.
The southern parts of the state offer better values with lower taxes and less regulation.
I have a small place in Houston county on a dirt road with no neighbors in site. I am 1.5 miles from the Florida state line.
I was looking for land in Alabama at first, I have a house in NW Florida, just north of Destin. But during the plandemic the prices went WAY up. But I found a good deal in southern Mississippi($1889 an acre) and 25 miles from the Gulf coast. So that's where you'lll find me.
I love Alabama and have been there MANY times. And I plan on going there MANY times in the future. Long live the South!
Lots of homesteaders and preppers moving from all over, many from Seattle, buying up property making the price per acre go up. I love Alabama, but thinking of Mississippi myself due the growth rate and older farms being sold off to out of state buyers. I have a neighbor who said they will only sell to someone out of state because they can get a higher price than from locals, so I can't expand my homestead due to this kind of thinking.
@@jenniferwilliamson309 You better hurry, prices in Mississippi are going up. I can sell my property that I bought in May of 2023 for almost double now.
I live in Piedmont. 180 acres. Love small town living. Love it here.
Please do GEORGIA 😊
I almost moved to Alabama, moving from the Florida panhandle. But I've settled in Georgia. Curious to see what you see in the state. I've only got 1/2 acre. But I'm thrilled and loving it. Finally at 63 setting up some systems of self sufficiency. The future is bright
If you decide to move here, look at the tree lines to see where the tornadoes track every year.
The City Mobile is pronouced 'Mo-Beel'
Has there ever been a word with so many ways to pronounce it. Mobile, Al.....Mobile 1......MO- Bile
I was wondering when someone was gonna point out the correct pronounciation.
Love living in coastal AL and places here would make amazing homesteads and there are some--but the land prices have gone nuts during the last few years. Every investor swarmed in here in 2020 gobbling up everything and they all believe they're going to be millionaires selling off to DR Horton and Lennar Homes building these overpriced crap boxes in HOA controlled neighborhoods. No good deals to be had anywhere south of Interstate 10.
Same in NW Florida, that's why I moved to Mississippi. lol
Thanks for the info. We relocated from the north east to West Virginia. I think we made a good choice but would love to hear your observations. Thanks
11:20 Anniston Army Depot- storage of chemical weapons. "The last chemical munitions were destroyed in September 2011" but still a place to avoid.
I live 5 mins from the depot at the foot of the mountain range. This is a really good place to be actually.
It's horrible here. Mosquitos, rattlesnakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and Birmingham.
AND BIRMINGHAM 😂
Don’t forget the ticks, gnats, venomous snakes and spiders, chiggers, poison oak and ivy, 107° heat index or more with the high humidity requiring a shower after 20 minutes outside. There is a lot of rocks and red clay in areas making gardening difficult and what survives is attacked by 7,000 species of insects.
@@kathypittman5854 Home Sweet Home
Don't forget the fall weather. Where it keeps alternating between hot and cold, and you don't know how to dress
@@ChickenDaddy_DucksAlot
Exactly! 🤫 lol
South Alabamian here!
Yep, chicken farms are big in Alabama. Lots of forestry, especially in central AL. There are counties that pretty much have nothing but forestry, so not many folks, low cost of living, low regulation. The biggest problem is Alabama Power has the southern half of the state and they are part of Southern Companies and have a solar tax! Better off being 100% off grid, which is allowed in most of the rural counties.
You are not kidding about weathering!!
Do they tax you if you have solar connected to batteries? Alabama is where I want to go, because of the low property tax. In CT, it's very difficult to homestead due to the high property taxes. We even pay high property taxes on our vehicles. It's ridiculous out here. I want to go completely off grid, with the exception of having internet to run my business.
GP owns much of the timber too.
@@DoubleDown310 If you are using their service at all and you have some solar power anywhere on the property, they tax you every single month for the loss of profit it will “cost” them. Alabama Power paid off the legislators to have it written in law they have permission to do this. There are no state rebates for using solar and there are NO SOLAR PROVIDERS OR INSTALLERS to put it up. And there are of course no grid tie set ups. You will have to find someone willing to come from out of state or put it up yourself. You do have to have batteries to store your energy. At least there is a lot of sun shine.
@@DoubleDown310 I have my barn and sheds on solar and batteries, no problem. It is having a tie into the grid, if you have solar and plug into the grid the power company taxes you with a permit and extra charges. Best to be 100% solar/battery. Yes, very low property taxes!
The land with your ponds and one road in is an old strip mining area. FYI
Thank you Curtis for your coverage of Alabama. I identified the Hamilton/Phil Campbell area as perhaps the best prepper homestead area in the South-East in one of my videos maybe three years ago. That said, I have a homestead north of Huntsville which I am liquidating to move to northern Arizona. The tops of my in-ground worm beds will become a part of my rain water collection system. I have lived on my homestead in Alabama for 33 years. Time to move on.
Hamilton is horrible, 1 of the most crookidest places to be... had my door kicked in cause my neighbor was a meth dealer, cops stated they had a warrant but when asked to provide it they refused to show it, and when embarrassed because of their misconduct they retaliate in some sort of way... Good Ole boy system to the fullest
North west alabama. Here. Love Bama
Alabama is a diamond in the ruff of places to have a homestead.
Please do a homesteading critique for Kentucky. Thank you
Alabama is a wonderful place for homesteading, very safe outside the cities, long growing season, just note that Huntsville is growing rapidly, might wanna keep that in mind when buying land in North Alabama. Also make sure your land has some shade because this type of heat and humidity is downright dangerous to work in. I've had multiple episodes of heat exhaustion. I keep thinking I will learn someday. I eat watermelon every day for the electrolytes and hydration and that helps so much. Also for the past two years we have gotten down to 0 degrees in winter, first time in my 40 years that I know of. Another thing is that if you're going to be selling organic veggies or meat some people don't understand the value and don't always wanna pay extra for it because they just don't understand how corrupt our food system is.
Curtis, just wondering if there are any homesteading properties in the good old Illinois. 😅
These are so helpful even beyond the area covered bc it just reinforces how to view this wherever you might be. Thanks!
I'd like to see your thoughts on northwest florida, which you were jusst right by in this video - interested in your thoughts around how to choose given the environmental factors brought on by the potential of hurricanes and other factors related to ocean
That's where I'm from, just north of Destin. If you already have land, you're good. But if not, it's too expensive, at least for me and why I moved to Mississippi.
Mobile is pronounced Mo-BEEL 😊
A long growing season is important good.
Mr Stone, do you mind doing a Kentucky video? My wife and I are looking at that area with our 4 kids. Prepping for it for the next 2 years to be 100% debt free and do it right. Our oldest will be 10 at that point.
I'm between Montgomery and Birmingham.
I am in Columbiana
@@survivinginalabama5584 nice lol we are practically neighbors. I'm in jemison. Before that I was down by you in Shelby on the river.
Mate i have 20 acres here in North Alabama & its awesome -
That second property in AL is a strip mine area.
Been waiting for this one. Thanks!
@ the 6 min mark I think that may be a water treatment facility
I did not look it up,
Most small, chemical like one or to crackers or waterever they use to combine separate distill - chemical use processing facilities must have preliminary treatment of waste onsite, usually 1 2 3 settlement ponds for satellite plants usually near a river for emergency dumping..
I’d be interested in one of TN & TX if possible? Thank you so much!! ❤
waiting for the texas video
Couple thoughts: something to consider with any of the states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico is the potential for hurricane damage/destruction (with increasing potential the closer to the coast). ...and larger cities have impact further out (e.g. the Atlanta area actually has impact on land prices even into eastern Alabama). Just from what I've seen larger metro areas tend to have longer/larger commuter areas.... as people will work in the city and live out where they can afford to live.
Have you done a Maine homestead ?
Nice! Do you have any breakdown on Georgia
I actually had been considering Alabama for a long minute but everybody keeps saying no.
So now I'm considering Augusta just because of the fact that the rates are so normal and it's been an overlooked sick for such a long time
The "crazy development" At 11:28 time stamp is the Anniston Army Depot - military storage of chemical weapons. Not a good area.
I live in Tuscaloosa Co. and well I don’t know who said the taxes are low here but they are not! Plus AL has state tax.
I can’t wait to get back to my home state of Texas!
Lower taxes, no food tax and no state tax! THAT is low taxes folks.
Have you done IDAHO?
Come on, man, you're from Canada. Things don't get shackled down here in the south just because of all of the rain.
Not sure I understand what you’re saying here.
Idaho? Please?
How about Pennsylvania
I’m in Huntsville. Do t come here. The city is agressiveive,y promoting businesses moving here, and the FBI has built an auxiliary office here. So the population has grown incredibly, …….and too many of the people are from Blue states and are making Huntsville into a purple area wirh their complaints and demands for changing this or that………and the infrastructure in Huntsville has not kept up. There’s an Amazon warehouse here too.
Any where that near Huntsville is fast turning into bedroom communities for Huntsville.
But I do t know if it’s Huntsville or all of Alabama but you don’t pay property taxes on your primary dwelling if you are disabled .
Thats makes a difference.
I really want to see Northeast Texas
Not a bad place as long as you like really hot sticky summers that seem to last forever!
Mobile pronounced Mo bill.
In central Alabama we say Mo beel LOL
@@jenniferwilliamson309 lol well that’s the way I say Bill. I guess he’d have to know to slow that down to beel because I’m from Alabama as well.
stilll someting with that up hill flowing water
Watch your zoning. It's expensive now.
First non-bot comment. Just stay away from the "urban people".
Are there a lot of "those" in Alabama? They're causing so much trouble here in CT. It's getting so crazy!
@@DoubleDown310 ironically enough in the worst case scenario, theyd be gonzo in the first 2 weeks.
Check demographics before buying land.
Especially in the south east.
East of the Mississippi you may live rural but it’s all private property so you can’t enjoy it
This guy says the same thing about every state 80% of the time!.Nothing about why Al would be good or bad. Just trying to sell his PDF's!
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hunting clubs are buying up land.
Chicken houses. Industrial
Learn how to pronounce Mobile. Its not Mobil Oil!!
Do you do this to people in real life or just online?
Too humid too racist .water stinks prices are higheast in the nation, crime is out of control . They will take your property with out reason.
I would love to know where you come up with these assumptions because I personally live in Bama, born here, and now own property here... it can be humid at times because we are in the south, what water are you smelling exactly??? Must be talking bout reused city water cause the springs on my property are clean and tastes amazing, you state prices highest in the nation, how so!?! Alabama is in the top 10 for the lowest cost of living in the country, hence why minimum wage is still only 7.25 an hour here. Go to the new England area or California and see how much it is there. Taking property without reason, again how so!?! Have had my property for 5 plus years and I pay my measly 125 dollars a year property tax and can do whatever I want, build whatever I want without having to pull permits etc. So again where are your assumptions coming from!?!