Cattle on Boyd Farm

The Oakley Boyd Farm is 167 Acres located in Floyd County Virginia. This is one of the best farms in the area, and I have personally kept cattle on this property for years. It has everything you could want in a farm for raising animals or growing crops.

About 85% of the property is suitable for hay and pasture. The other 15% is big woods. This is ideal for maximizing the amount of usable land while still maintaining privacy from your neighbors.

This property fronts on two state maintained roads, and there are three different entrances that you can use off of Mack’s Mountain Road depending on which way you want to enter the property. It maintains its privacy even though it fronts on two roads.

Buffalo Mountain

This property is also very near the community’s fire department, elementary school, and rescue squad. In fact, the rescue squad is at the crossroads of the two roads this property fronts on.

Hay - Second Cutting

The Little Mountain property is 71 Acres located in Floyd County Virginia. It boasts breathtaking 360 degree views where you can see for miles around, with the privacy you expect from a property in the mountains such as this. There is an abundance of wildlife including deer and turkey, and walking trails through BIG timber. In fact, its almost like walking through a park.

This property has multiple springs and pond sites, some open areas with great building locations, great campsites, and picnic locations. This is a perfect property for either building your dream home, or as a recreational property for hiking, hunting, or 4 wheeling.

It is only 8 miles from the town of Floyd, with frontage on one of the two main roads that leads directly into town.

This property can be sold either as the entire 71 acres, or in tracts of 44 Acres and 26 Acres.

The Yopp property is 14.8 Acres and located in Floyd County Virginia. It is secluded, but also very accessible, only 9 miles from the town of Floyd.

It has a beautiful view of Buffalo Mountain. The property has water, and there is 3 Phase Power available.

The Indian Creek property is 22 Acres located in Floyd County VA. It features 800 feet of stream frontage along Indian Creek, a Virginia stocked trout stream.

It has an absolutely amazing 360 degree view at the top of the ridge, and excellent building locations. It is extremely private and secluded, but still only 12 miles from Interstate 81 and Radford hospital.

This property can be sold either as 22 acres, or in tracts of either 8 or 12 acres.

The Oakley Boyd Farm is 167 Acres located in Floyd County Virginia. This is one of the best farms in the area, and I have personally kept cattle on this property for years. It has everything you could want in a farm for raising animals or growing crops.

As you can see, about 85% of the property is suitable for hay and pasture. The other 15% is big woods.

This property fronts on two state maintained roads, and there are three different entrances that you can use off of Mack’s Mountain Road depending on which way you want to enter the property. It maintains its privacy even though it fronts on two roads.

There are multiple spots with 360 degree views. You can see some of the views in the pictures.

There is an abundance of water on this property, with bold springs and streams, and multiple pond sites. It is also fenced for cattle.

This property is also very near the community’s fire department, elementary school, and rescue squad. In fact, the rescue squad is at the crossroads of the two roads this property fronts on.

This is truly one of the best farms in the area, and is both private and accessible. There are numerous potential building sites on the property if you chose to build your dream home here, or perfect just the way it is if you choose to farm it.

This 10 Acre Farmhouse is in an ideal country setting, and sits far back from the road. It would be perfect for gardens or an orchard, and is fenced, so it would be perfect for keeping horses or other animals.

The house is solid wood, with 6 rooms. There are also two barns, a chickenhouse, and a woodshed on the property.

The land is mostly cleared, has a stream going through it, and has an excellent site for a pond.

While this property is in an ideal country setting, it also offers the convenience of being located only a quarter of a mile from Indian Valley Elementary school, and just 17 miles from the Radford Hospital, and Interstate 81.

For more information on this or other rural properties, please call Phillips Real Estate at (540) 745-3700.

The High Meadows Property in Floyd County Virginia is one of those unique pieces of real estate that only comes along once in a life time, and is truly something that has to be seen to be believed.

At just over 300 Acres, once you set foot on the property it is ALL YOURS. You would never have to see another person again unless you wanted to. A mile and a half long graveled road winds through the middle of the property. From there you can enjoy the big three, privacy, water, and views, in a setting where you wouldn’t even know that there were any other people in the world.

It has already been divided into tracts ranging from 12 to 50 acres, and this division has already been approved by the Floyd County Planning Commission. If someone wanted to, it would be very easy to sell or gift these tracts to friends or family, knowing that each tract maintains complete privacy. Or, you could enjoy the property all by yourself.

There is only one entrance that a vehicle can access this property from, which is gated. This assures your privacy from unwanted visitors. It has also been paved very recently, and is a VDOT approved commercial entrance.

The mile and a half gravel road leads you to various points of interest on the property. This road is nice enough that a sports car as low to the ground as a viper or corvette could easy travel on.

At the top of the roads diverge, with one path lined with hardwoods. It’s a very pleasing experience driving or walking down this road, almost like you are escaping into an even more secluded section of the property. This road leads to the first of 4 houses on the property. This cabin is tucked away in the woods, has a deck with an amazing view, and is close to a decent sized bamboo grove.

The main part of the road continues on to a 4 bedroom farmhouse out in the cleared section of the property. There are also two barns in the vicinity of this farmhouse. Also close to the house is one of the ponds on the property, and one of the many streams that flows through it.

Up along the top of the ridge you have a wonderful view of Buffalo Mountain.

While this property is tucked away in the mountains and offers complete privacy, it also allows you the convenience of the outside world, if you choose. It is located in the county of Floyd, a small one stop light county that is big on culture. In fact, the town of Floyd was featured in Mother Earth News last year as one of the best places to live that you have never heard of. It features the Old Country Store, where people from all around the world pack the house and flow out into the streets every Friday night to listen to old timey fiddle music. Floyd is also host to the nationally renowned FloydFest music festival. If you want to go out on a beautiful drive, then the BlueRidge Parkway runs through the county. Directly off of the parkway are local wineries such as the state renowned Chateau Morrisette, which hosts Jazz festivals bi-weekly during the warmer 6 months of the year.

This property is also less than an hour away from Virginia Tech, a top research university, who I also hear has a pretty good football team. And if the need arises, a major hospital in Radford is only 40 minutes away. Finally, if you did decide to travel elsewhere, both Interstate 81 and Interstate 77 are less than 40 minutes away.

There are many, many possible uses for this property. It could be called an upscale hunting preserve, with plenty of deer, turkey, and an abundance of other wildlife. In fact, it was on this property that I shot my first buck when I was a boy.

This property could also be used for people who want to live off the land and off the grid. For anyone interested in sustainable living, this would be the perfect property to be able to raise all of your own food, with gardens, orchards, and plenty of cleared fields for cattle, goats, or other livestock.

This property would also appeal to the survivalists out there, in case things got a little crazy out there, and having this property to go to would be of great piece of mind in case, well, it hits the fan. You could even build a runway for a plane along the ridge.

Horse lovers (and their horses) would also love the High Meadows property. Just imagine the experience you and your horses would have exploring this property.

It could also be used for hosting large events, such as music festivals, with all the privacy you could want, and the capacity to handle large numbers of people.

And finally, anyone with a group of families who wants a place for communal living would find this to be an optimal location. This is especially true since the property has already been divided into 12 tracts, each with complete privacy from the others, and with perfect building spots. You would have to look very hard to find another property that could accommodate so many families in such a perfect environment.

Or, it could just be your own private paradise, all to yourself. With the property of your dreams, you could build the perfect house for you, and enjoy the wonders of this property for a lifetime.

This 10 Acre Farmhouse is in an ideal country setting, and sits far back from the road, as you can see here. It would be perfect for gardens or an orchard, and is fenced, so it would be perfect for keeping horses or other animals.

The house is solid wood, with 6 rooms. There are two barns, a chickenhouse, and a woodshed on the property.

The land is mostly cleared, has a stream going through it, and has an excellent site for a pond.

While this property is in an ideal country setting, it also offers the convenience of being located only a quarter of a mile from Indian Valley Elementary school, and just 17 miles from the Radford Hospital, and Interstate 81.

For more information on this or other rural properties, please call Phillips Real Estate at (540) 745-3700 or visit PhillipsRealEstateVA.com

Just saw the proof for an ad we are running in the January issue of Natural Awakenings, and it seemed too pretty to only be used offline, so decided to post it here.

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Thanks Brandi Gray

A friend told me a few months ago that her parents were selling their home in Richmond. I asked if they already had an agent they were using, and she replied that they had just gotten a new one, because they weren’t satisfied with the one they had previously used.

“I wish you had told me, I could have helped them out.”

How can you possibly help? You don't live there.

“How could you help, you are in Floyd, and my folks are in Richmond.” she asked.

And it’s a good question, one most people don’t readily know the answer to.

The main reason is that I probably know a real estate professional in your area that goes above and beyond in helping their clients, and if at all possible, I would love to put someone I know in touch with them. Also, I’m sure that if I recommended a Realtor to one of my friends, then they would want to ensure I was pleased with how well everything worked.

How do I know a Realtor in your area? Mainly because I try to attend things like National Association of Realtors convention and the Virginia Association of Realtors convention whenever possible and get to know other Realtors there.

If I am lucky, then I know someone in your area that I met at a Real Estate BarCamp. The people I meet at those events really go out of their way to learn the most effective and technological ways to sell real estate. People like Dawn Bricker in New Jersey, Jay Thompson in Phoenix, Debe Maxwell in Charlotte, Debbie Malone in Lynchburg, Heather Elias in Loudoun County, Sarah Stelmok in Fredricksburg, Brian Block in Richmond, Tara L. Christianson in NOVA, Amy Smyth Harris in Houston, and Ben Kinney in Washington St. Why would I recommend people like that? Because I know that they know what they are doing, and are some of the best out there (otherwise most of them woulnd’t be speakers at seminars across the country.)

And if I didn’t actually know a Realtor in your area? I would probably check out who is the most active on a couple of real estate communities I am a part of, like ActiveRain or has their Internet Marketing Specialist Designation.

And I sincerely doubt that if I recommended you or someone you know to one of these people, you would end up like the parents of my friend from the beginning of this post, which is being unhappy and switching agents in the middle of selling.

If you already know a Realtor in your area, great. But if you don’t, then instead of picking someone at random from a yard sign or the phone book, give me a call and I’ll set you up with an agent that can help you, almost anywhere in the USA. Even if I am “Just in Floyd”.