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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I find search can be quite limited. Been looking at land that is in unorganized townships but can't input that as an option and if I add it as a search term I miss out on a lot including unorganized township ones.

I just set search type as vacant land and price range and acres and that filters out most of the in-town lots.

For shop you can maybe tick the "garage" option if there is one. I would just look for lots that are decent size so you can build a shop yourself. You want unorganized township for that though as most places will require a permit to build a shop and that costs a lot of money and makes your taxes go up.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
62,838
19,057
136
Searching for stuff is such a clusterfuck. Some favorites of mine when we were looking for an apartment: 1 bedrooms show up under 2+ bedrooms only, studios show up in 1 bedrooms, rooms for rent show up as if they're a whole apartment for rent. Also, people checking the box for "pets allowed" but then the listing description says "no pets allowed".
This. Such a PITA.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
62,838
19,057
136
I find search can be quite limited. Been looking at land that is in unorganized townships but can't input that as an option and if I add it as a search term I miss out on a lot including unorganized township ones.

I just set search type as vacant land and price range and acres and that filters out most of the in-town lots.

For shop you can maybe tick the "garage" option if there is one. I would just look for lots that are decent size so you can build a shop yourself. You want unorganized township for that though as most places will require a permit to build a shop and that costs a lot of money and makes your taxes go up.
Don't know if Zillow works up there, but here you can draw the area you want to search in on the map, so if you know where the unorganized areas are you could draw them out.