Tired of the hustle and bustle, crime, poor schools and high cost of living. Make Rawlins County your new home and spend your free time at one of our area lakes, hunting, golfing, trap shooting, hiking, camping, attending your child's or grandchild's school event, driving in the countryside, eating Kansas steaks or just relaxing!
Most of you remember your hometown as a wonderful place in which you grew to adulthood. "YOU CAN STILL FIND THAT WONDERFUL PLACE!" Atwood, Herndon, and McDonald are offering a free lot to anyone willing to move their family to their community and build a new home! We are excited about your becoming a part of your community again. If you have a business you would like to relocate, or perhaps you are ready to be your own boss and start a business, we need you in Rawlins County. We would like to visit with you about business opportunities and incentives in Rawlins County.
Each of the communities in Rawlins County is also a wonderful place to retire! There are many retirees choosing to move to small rural communities. Retirees report they enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of "Small Town Living". They also report many have started small businesses they can now afford to own in our less expensive rural areas. Where else can you enjoy a cup of coffee at the local cafe, and everyone there is your friend?!!!!!
Qualifications for a free lot and property tax abatement on new home construction in Herndon or Atwood, Kansas:
Call 785.626.3640 to review application and qualifications.
Select a home builder and obtain financing approval.
Submit your new home construction plans and financing to RCED.
Begin construction within 6 months of approval of your house plans.
Construction must be completed within one year of approval of plans.
You must live in the home 5 years and pay property tax on the land.
Currently there are 4 - 110' X 130' lots available. Water and sewer lines are in the street and it is the owners responsibility to bring from the street to the building site.
Qualifications for a free lot and property tax abatement on new home construction in McDonald, Kansas:
Call 785.626.3640 to review application and qualifications.
Select a modular or new home builder.
Complete construction within one year.
You must live in the home 5 years and pay property tax on the land.
FREE LAND for your business too!
Find available jobs & business opportunities @ Rawlins County Job Bank
For more information, please contact:
Rawlins County Economic Development
Director, Chris Sramek
Email or 785-626-3640.
The City of Mankato, located in Jewell County in north central Kansas, is offering free lots for the construction of new homes. The Johnson addition housing lots will give people a chance to build a home and live in a small-town atmosphere.
Mankato is a city of just over 900 people in a county that has a population of around 3000 people. The major industry in the area is agriculture, health care, and outdoor hunting and fishing.
There are currently 26 lots available in the Johnson addition on a beautiful horseshoe shaped drive on the east side of the community. The lots are close to a high school, hospital, steak house, motel, and 1/2 mile from the shopping center of the community. All utilities are at or near the lots. There are no assessments against the lots at this time.
Requirements to obtain a free lot in the Johnson addition:
An application including personal information and home plans shall be filled out and submitted to the zoning board.
Applicant must be pre-approved for new home construction by a lending institution and be interviewed by the city council.
Applicant will have a written agreement with a contractor to begin to build a house within six months of acquiring the lot.
Construction shall be a single-family unit built on site or modular construction of all new materials complying with the most recent Uniform Building Codes and National Electric Codes, and will be completed within 2 years after receiving possession of the building lot.
New home will be a minimum of 1200 sq. ft. excluding basement, garage, and porches and have an overhang of at least 18 inches.
Welcome to Lincoln, Kansas... the city "the size of a dime with the heart of a dollar!"
Imagine a 720 square mile county with buffalo, farm animals and wildlife scattered across picturesque hillsides. Imagine that it has 3500 residents and no serious crime - but also local medical care, broadband internet and nine miles of Interstate 70.
It exists. Lincoln is its county seat.
This north-central Kansas town has worked since 2002 to create a fully improved subdivision. It has cost roughly two-thirds of a million dollars in local funding. In October 2004, the city council voted to give away the building sites to the first 21 qualified applicants who agree to build homes which comply with city requirements.
The subdivision is in the city limits, near a baseball field, the city park and the new junior-senior high school and athletic facilities. It is an easy walk to the industrial park and medical complex, and not far from either downtown or the golf course. A 45 minute drive takes you to a major regional center for shopping, medical services, colleges, air travel and entertainment.
New subdivision streets, curbs and gutters are finished and the lots are ready for construction. Home sites of various sizes and shapes are connected to two new cul-de-sacs. Underground utilities service each lot.
Local residents point with pride to other recent advances in their schools, quality-of-life amenities, public safety and recreation. For a small town, Lincoln has a surprising amount to offer the new families it wants to attract.
Lincoln's turreted limestone courthouse is on the National Registry of Historic Places. A hundred yards away, side by side, are the Lincoln Art Center with a boutique gift shop and permanent visual art collection and the Finch Theatre for films, meetings and occasional performing arts.
Local restaurants specialize, variously, in pizza, barbecue, and traditional Midwestern cooking. Three museums bookend the main street's primary shopping area.
The community continues to look forward. Some residents are pursuing a long-term dream of building a wellness center, complete with indoor swimming and other facilities, immediately adjacent to the new subdivision.
Lincoln's traditions date back to the 1870's - but its focus is on the future. Home site information is available from the city offices at 785-524-4280 and from the county economic development offices at 785-524-8954. City Hall ~ 153 W Lincoln Avenue - PO Box 126 ~ Lincoln, KS 67455 ~ Phone 785-524-4280
ALASKA!!
Free land in Alaska!!!
Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land -- and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground. In a modern twist on the homesteading movement that populated the Plains in the 1800s, the community of 300 people
Alaska: Free Land Is Snapped Up in Hours
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 20, 2007
A town in Alaska’s frozen interior that offered free land to people willing to put down roots had it all spoken for within hours of its being offered. People from as far away as Florida traveled over the weekend to the town, Anderson, population 300, and camped out in weather as cold as 25 degrees below zero. In the morning, 44 parties were waiting in line for a shot at the 26 large lots offered to the first people who applied and submitted refundable deposits of $500. The winner of the 26th lot was Ross Shoger of Portland, Ore., who boarded a 6 a.m. flight on Saturday, just hours after he heard about the offer. Mr. Shoger, 23, flew to Fairbanks, then hitchhiked to Anderson, where he said he planned to do odd jobs to make a living. Those who failed to make the initial cut for the lots still have a chance because city officials gave the first 26 people in line a week to change their minds about making the commitment.
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