psstt... you know.. you can buy empty land and BUILD on it right?
LMAO
Good luck even getting a call back when you try to buy land suitable to build in many places (especially foreclosures). And you’ll need even more luck when you try to build.
The bidding and permit process has become so ridiculous in many places by design so only good ole boy insiders can come out on top.
Development corps with gubmint connections buy up the land and build rows of packed identical boxes that sell for several times more than building your own home used to cost.
It is equivalent to buying up all the gas in town after a hurricane and selling it to your desperate neighbors. Many towns have called for outlawing this behavior but some will still call these people good capitalists and blame the neighbors for not being first to cash in on this “great idea”
And if you want to live in an established neighborhood, maybe send your kids to a school you prefe?. Or, if you don’t want to commute from a rural area?
No shit I know I can build, have done it before.