willvr - 2/3/2011 13:11 I bought my first quarter in 1982 for $200,000. Two years later I could have bought it back for half the amount. It took 19 years of making payments before my land was worth what I had paid for it. My brother (who was born at a better time) bought his first land, very similar land to mine, in 1994, for less than $60,000. Of course, now, 29 years later, mine is worth more than double what I paid for it. But his is worth almost 10 times what he bought it for.