Recent freehold swaps up here are much lower in price, but we are talking about more than twice those acres. They typically have gone for $200/acre. At that price they don't get to worked up over a cruise. Much of the land will have been cut, thinned out or planted. It's a good deal for the buyer in my opinion. Even $400 is pretty good to for the buyer. How many woodlots can you purchase at those dollars?
We have one mill here that has been buying up woodlots with full timber for far less than $400. $20,000 is a lot more $$ than a lot of old widows seen at once for their 100 acres.
The ones whose husbands were woodsmen have better knowledge. I've seen some vultures try to swindle an old lady after here husband passed away, she was one step ahead of the game, she knew the woods business. He had hundreds of acres he left behind and much of it wooded. Some fellas never cut their own ground.
