Survivalist Properties For Sale in North Idaho

I have two Survivalist Properties for sale in North Idaho.  It was only after I began getting inquiries from prospective buyers that I realized they fit into the Survivalist Property niche.  This niche had just plain not been on my radar screen before.  Now that I have been clued in, I have begun researching Survivalist Properties locally for the potential buyers that have been calling me. 

I find that two of my current listings fit some of the basic parameters, resulting in the inquiries I have been fielding. For more information on those basic survivalist parameters, see the Wikipedia info at the end of this post.  Now that Survivalist Properties ARE on my radar screen, I have begun compiling a list of North Idaho Survivalist Properties with as many of the desired survivalist characteristics as I can find.  My list contains properties from under $100K to over $2MM.  Give me a call and I will be happy to forward it along to you.  Meanwhile, here are my two current listings that fit the survivalist/self-sufficient lifestyle.

A little Slice of Heaven on 20 Acres 

A turn-key, self-sufficient lifestyle is waiting for you just a couple miles south of the Spokane River, directly south of Post Falls.  With a quaint 1920 farmhouse, this idyllic property has a year around creek that feeds a pond which is used for irrigation.  The water for household use is from a spring, with a water system powered by gravity.  If the power goes out, the water just keeps on flowing! Roughly half the acreage is timber (firewood) and half is pasture (animals and crops). It is surrounded by 900 acres of privately owned forest land. With a barn, root cellar, and HUGE 35x85 garage/shop/machine shed, you can't duplicate this property ANYWHERE in the greater Coeur d'Alene area. 

Thirty Acre Hide-Away

Here's a beautiful, timbered parcel with awesome views. Great home for ANYBODY, but it also has huge potential as a survivalist property. Your water supply is a private well, but there are also three springs with gravity powered systems serving the homesite. You'd never know it to look at it, but the home was built and wired to run off of a back-up generator, solar or wind power. Midway between Coeur d'Alene and Kellogg, 20 minutes in either direction will get you there! This quality home was built by North Idaho's premier Green builder, Shelter Associates, barely 3 years ago. It sits on 30 mostly timbered acres and overlooks the most peaceful and serene valley.

Here's a bit of Wikipedia info on the survivalist movement:

In recent years, advocacy of survivalist retreats has had a strong resurgence after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001 and similar attacks in Bali, Spain, and London.

Several books published since 2000 advocate survival retreats and relocation. Some that have been particularly influential in survivalist circles are How to Implement a High Security Shelter in the Home by Joel Skousen, Rawles on Retreats and Relocation by James Wesley Rawles, and Life After Terrorism: What You Need to Know to Survive in Today's World by Bruce D. Clayton.

Online survival websites, forums, and blogs (such as SurvivalBlog) discuss the best locales for survival retreats, how to build, fortify, and equip them, and how to form survivalist retreat groups.

Economic troubles emerging from the credit collapse triggered by the 2007 US subprime mortgage lending fiasco have prompted a wider cross-section of the populace to get their day-to-day homes prepared as well as establish dedicated survival retreats. James Wesley Rawles, the editor of SurvivalBlog was quoted by the New York Times in April 2008 that "interest in the survivalist movement 'is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s'". He also stated that his blog's conservative core readership has been supplemented with "an increasing number of stridently green and left-of-center readers."

^{Here are some of the locale parameters, again according to Wikipedia:}

Common retreat locale selection parameters include light population density, plentiful water, arable soil, good solar exposure for gardening and photovoltaics, situation above any flood plains, and a diverse and healthy local economy. Fearing rioting, looting and other unrest, many survivalists advocate selecting retreat locales that are more than one tank of gasoline away from any major metropolitan region. Properties that are not in "channelized areas" or on anticipated "refugee lines of drift" are also touted.

One of the key goals of retreats is to be self-sufficient for the duration of societal collapse. To that end, plentiful water and arable soil are paramount considerations. But just behind these comes isolated, defensible terrain. Typically, retreats do not want their habitations or structures jeopardized by being within line of sight of any major highway.

Because of its low population density and diverse economy, James Wesley Rawles  and Joel Skousen  both recommend the Intermountain West region of the United States as a preferred region for relocation and setting up retreats. Although it has higher population density, Mel Tappan recommended southwestern Oregon, where he lived, primarily because it is not down-wind of any envisioned nuclear targets in the United States.

Janna Rankin Scharf provides a superior level of real estate services to home buyers and sellers in Coeur d'Alene and Kootenai County, Idaho. Visit www.JannaScharf.com to search for homes in the Coeur d'Alene MLS for anywhere in spectacular North Idaho.