>>15930327It's all good. I do this for a living -- scouting, researching, curating, marketing, and selling rural land for investors. So along with the other things I do, I get paid to go out and walk around the woods with my dog and figure out if we should or should not buy various parcels and decide what they'd be good for -- hunting or other recreation, homesite, etc.
If you want to find the real screaming deals, you need to find land while it's off market. Which means sending letters to owners or pulling lists and cold calling owners, along with other methods. You can go through parcel maps, find vacant parcels you like, and send out letters or do it the mass mail way where you pull lists and refine data and then mail merge them and let a mailing company send out 1000+ letters to different counties for all parcels that are in the range of what you're looking for.
You can sometimes get 10 acre parcels for like $5,000 depending on the situation the owner is in. Sometimes they live out of state, or they inherited it, or they're behind on taxes. You can commonly get land at 40% of market value by approaching people proactively. Undeveloped, raw land can be hard to sell and cash in hand is hard to ignore.