Private Acres in The Running Y
Lot 936 Dunlin Road : Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Klamath County, Oregon
Land Description
Private Acres in the Running Y
0.84 wooded acres inside the Running Y Ranch Resort, Klamath County, Oregon, room to build the home you have in mind. Owner financed or cash, no bank, no credit check, Warranty Deed at payoff.
The Home You Have Been Meaning To Build
Picture the home you have always meant to build, set back in a private stand of pines on close to an acre of your own, inside the gates of the Running Y Ranch Resort. The morning sun comes down through the trees, one of more than three hundred mornings a year it shows up here, and the only sounds are the wind in the pines and a few birds working the branches. This is your ground, 0.84 of an acre, wooded and quiet, with room for the house you have been drawing in your head for years and the space around it to breathe. A few minutes from your door sits the only Arnold Palmer Signature golf course in the state of Oregon, the lodge, the trails, and everything else the resort keeps for the people who own here. You get the privacy of the trees and the life of the resort, both at the same time.
This homesite is for the buyer who is ready to build something real and wants the right place to put it. A bigger, heavily treed lot like this one is the kind of ground a custom home deserves, private, settled in the timber, with the resort and its golf wrapped around it. Pay cash, and the day we close the deed is in your name and the lot is yours, free and clear, to plan and build on your own schedule. No bank, no mortgage, no credit check. If you would rather spread it out, you can do that too, and I lay both paths out plainly below.
I am Jay. I have been selling Klamath County land since 2016, and when you call or write, you talk to me, a real person, not a call center reading from a script. Read the whole thing, take your time, and if this is the ground you want to build on, let's make it yours.
At A Glance
- Size: 0.84 acres, one of the larger homesites in the resort
- Location: Dunlin Road, Running Y Ranch Resort, Klamath County, Oregon
- Cash price: 38,000 dollars, with the Warranty Deed transferred to you at closing
- Owner financing: 699 dollars down, a one-time 250 dollar document fee, then 699 dollars a month for 60 months, all-in
- Total on terms: 42,889 dollars
- Interest rate on terms: zero, with no prepayment penalty ever
- Resort dues: about 1,929 dollars a year, bundled into the monthly on terms
- Carrying cost after payoff: about 2,125 dollars a year in dues and property taxes
- Utilities: power, water, and internet at the lot, paved roads, underground utilities
- Trees: heavy cover, a private and wooded building site
- Homes: site-built to the resort's standards, the right setting for a custom home
- Amenities for titled owners: Arnold Palmer Signature golf, horse trails, tennis and pickleball, swimming pool, fitness center, the lodge, the spa, dining, and lake access
- Deed: Warranty Deed at payoff, the highest level of deed available in Oregon
- Guarantee: 120-Day money-back guarantee on every owner-financed purchase
- Financing: no bank, no mortgage, no credit check, no Pmi
- The seller: Jay at Dakota Skyhook, a real person you deal with directly, in business since 2016
The Ground, And The Home That Goes On It
Let's start with the lot itself, because for a buyer who wants to build, the ground is the whole thing.
This is 0.84 of an acre on Dunlin Road, one of the larger and more private homesites inside the Running Y. The tree cover is heavy, which is what gives this lot its character. You are not buying a bare, scraped pad on an open street where your house sits in full view of the road and the neighbors. You are buying a wooded parcel where a home can be tucked back into the pines, with mature trees around it, shade in the summer, privacy on every side, and the feel of a place set apart. For the kind of custom home a lot of people picture when they think about building once and building right, this is the setting that makes it feel finished.
The size matters too. At 0.84 of an acre, you have room for a substantial home and the grounds to go with it, a real yard, a shop or a garage, a patio set among the trees, space between you and the property lines. A lot of resort lots feel tight. This one gives you room to spread out and to put up something with presence.
Privacy like this is hard to put a price on until you have lived without it. On a wooded lot set back in the trees, you are not looking into a neighbor's window or listening to traffic. You step out your back door into your own quiet, the pines close around, the light coming through soft. You can build a home with big windows that look into trees instead of into the street. You can put a fire pit in a clearing you cut just for it, a garden in the sun, a shop set back where it is not the first thing anyone sees. The space and the trees give you choices an open lot on a busy street never can, and for a lot of people that privacy is the whole reason they want to build out here in the first place.
And it is fully serviced, which is the part that keeps a build from turning into a project before it even starts. Power, water, and internet are at the lot. The roads in are paved, not gravel and not seasonal. The utilities run underground, which is part of what keeps the Running Y looking the way it does, no poles and no wires strung across the view. So while the lot is wooded and private, the infrastructure your home needs is already there and waiting to tie in. That is the difference between building inside a finished resort and building on raw, remote acreage where you are a mile from power and hauling your own water.
Homes in the Running Y are site-built to the resort's standards, which is exactly right for the buyer this lot is meant for. You bring your building plans to the homeowners association for approval before you build, the same as every owner here does, and then you put up a home built to last in a community that holds its standards. That approval and those standards are the thing that makes a resort a resort, and they protect the home you build and the value of the whole neighborhood around it.
One honest word on the trees, because heavy cover cuts both ways and I would rather you hear it from me. The privacy and the beauty of a wooded lot are the upside, and they are real. The tradeoff is that you will clear the footprint for your home and your driveway before you build, which is a cost and a step you would not have on an open lot. For a custom home set in the pines, most buyers count that as money well spent, but I want you walking in with your eyes open.
The Life That Surrounds It
A private home in the trees is the heart of it, and the Running Y wraps that home in a full life. As a titled owner here, you have the run of the resort.
It is built around an Arnold Palmer Signature golf course, the only Arnold Palmer Signature design in the state of Oregon, the kind of course people plan trips around. As an owner it sits a few minutes from your door, ready when you are. Beyond the golf, the resort keeps horse trails for riders, miles of paths winding through the high desert and the pine. There are tennis courts and pickleball courts, a swimming pool, and a fitness center for the days you want to keep moving. There is the lodge, where you can have dinner you did not drive thirty miles for, meet neighbors, and watch the light go down over the water. There is the Sandhill spa for the days a body has earned a rest. And there is lake access for the water.
So the picture is this. You build a private home back in the pines, the place that is yours and quiet and yours alone. And then, a few minutes away, there is golf when you want it, the lodge when you want company, the trails and the courts and the pool, and the whole social life of a resort community of people who chose the same good place. The privacy when you want it, the life when you want it. That is a rare combination, and this lot puts you right in the middle of it.
Now picture the year, because the climate out here is part of what you are buying. Klamath County sits in the high desert of south-central Oregon, and it gets more than three hundred days of sunshine a year. The summers are warm and dry, the kind of dry heat that is easy on a body, with cool nights that let you sleep with the windows open. The fall turns crisp and gold, the larch and the aspen lighting up the hills, the best weather of the year for the course and the trails. Winter brings snow to the mountains around you and some to the valley, the kind that makes the place beautiful and gives you a reason for a fire in a home built well, and then it clears and the sun comes back. Spring greens up the basin and brings the great bird migrations through by the thousands. Four real seasons, and the sun out for most of them.
And the nights. Out here, away from the glare of a city, the stars come back. The dark skies over Klamath County are something people who grew up under streetlights forget exist. From a private home in the pines, on a clear night, the whole sky is yours.
More About The Course
For the golfer, this is worth a few more words, because the course is a real one and you would have it as part of your daily life.
The Arnold Palmer Signature course at the Running Y is the only one of its kind in the state of Oregon, and it was laid out to use the land it sits on. It runs through stands of ponderosa pine, across high-desert openness, and along the natural roll of the ground, with the Cascade peaks standing behind a good many of the holes. It rewards thought, gives you a different look on every hole, and stays beautiful from the first tee to the last green. Players who have golfed all over talk about this course, and for you it would not be a place you travel to, it would be your home track.
Think about what that does for your weeks. A course you can play whenever you like, a few minutes from your door, means you get out and play. You walk nine before the day warms up. You make a foursome with neighbors on a Saturday. You take a grandkid out for a first round on a real course. For a lot of owners here, the golf alone is the reason they came, and for the rest it becomes one of the best parts of living in the Running Y whether they planned on it or not.
A Strong Price For A Running Y Lot
A quick, honest word on the money before the full numbers, because it matters and I will keep it short.
A larger, private, wooded homesite inside a golf resort like this one carries real value, and this lot is priced well for what it is, sitting under what homesites inside the Running Y usually bring. I am not going to lead with price or dress this up as a deal of the century, and I will not tell you land goes up in value, because I do not make that promise about any land. What I will tell you is that you are getting a strong piece of ground at a fair price, inside a resort most people only drive through, on a lot with the size and the privacy that a custom home wants. The price is fair. The ground is the reason to buy.
And the value here is more than the price tag. It is the size, 0.84 of an acre when a lot of resort lots run smaller. It is the privacy of heavy timber that you cannot add to an open lot at any price. It is being inside a resort with an Arnold Palmer course and a full set of amenities that most people only ever visit. Put those together and you are getting a strong piece of ground, worth more than a low number on a thinner lot somewhere with none of it.
Why Cash Is The Move, And Why Now
I sell these lots on owner financing and for cash, and for a buyer who is ready to build, cash is the move I point to. Here is why, plainly, because it comes down to one thing, and that thing is time.
When you pay cash, the closing makes you a titled owner the same day. The Warranty Deed goes into your name, and the lot is yours, free and clear, right then. You become an owner of the resort, which means the golf, the trails, the courts, the pool, the fitness center, the lodge, and the spa are open to you from that day. And the moment the homeowners association approves your building plans, you break ground and build on your own schedule. Nobody to ask, no waiting on anyone. If you have a home you want to build, cash means you can start this year.
When you finance, you lock the lot and spread the cost, and that is a fine path for the right buyer. The deed, the build, and the run of the resort come to you at payoff, when the note is paid and the lot transfers into your name free and clear. On a 60-month note, that is five years out. So the difference between the two paths comes down to time, when you get to start building. Cash turns the key this season. Financing turns it in five years.
For a buyer with the means and a home in mind, that difference is the whole decision. You are ready now, the ground is ready now, and there is one of this lot, 0.84 wooded acres on Dunlin Road, and when it is claimed it is gone. So if you can pay cash, that is what I would do, and I would do it now. If you would rather finance, the terms are real and good, and we will get you there the patient way. Either road ends with a Warranty Deed in your name and a home in the pines at the Running Y.
The Numbers, Plain
I keep the money simple, and I put all of it in front of you, because a careful buyer only relaxes when nothing is hidden. Here is every number, both ways.
Paying cash. The cash price is 38,000 dollars. You pay it, and the Warranty Deed transfers to you at closing. The lot is yours free and clear from day one, with no note, no monthly, and no waiting. This is the path I would take on this lot if I had the cash and a home to build.
Owner financing. If you would rather spread it out, the terms are straightforward. You put 699 dollars down and pay a one-time 250 dollar document fee at signing. Then you pay 699 dollars a month for 60 months. That monthly is all-in, which means it already includes your Klamath County property taxes and the Running Y resort dues, bundled together so you write one check and never get a surprise bill. The total you pay over the life of the note comes to 42,889 dollars.
There is no interest. The rate is zero. You are not watching interest pile onto your balance month after month. Because it is zero percent, any extra you pay goes straight to principal and shortens your note, and you can pay the whole thing off early at any time with no prepayment penalty whatsoever. There is no bank in this deal, no mortgage, no credit check, and no private mortgage insurance. You sign from your kitchen table, the payments run automatically, and when the note is paid, the Warranty Deed transfers into your name.
About the dues. The Running Y is a resort, and resort living comes with resort dues. Here they run about 1,929 dollars a year. On the terms deal those dues are already folded into your 699 dollar monthly, so you cover them as you go. After the lot is paid off, the cost to hold it runs about 2,125 dollars a year in dues and property taxes combined. I want you to see that number now, up front, before you ever send a dollar, because resort living comes with that cost and I would rather you walk in with your eyes open than feel surprised later.
The deed and the guarantee. Whichever way you buy, when it is paid you receive a Warranty Deed, the highest level of deed available in the state of Oregon. It gives you full, clean ownership, and it is the thing that separates a real land sale from a contract-for-deed arrangement where you can pay for years and still lose everything. On top of that, every owner-financed purchase carries a 120-Day money-back guarantee. If something is not right in the first four months, you get your principal back, or you can exchange it toward another parcel in my inventory. The document fee, taxes, dues, and the setup fees are not refundable, but your principal is. That is the longest guarantee I know of in owner-financed land, and it is there because I would rather you feel safe than rushed.
Two Things I Will Always Tell You Straight
I do not bury the hard parts in fine print, so here they are out loud.
First, resort living comes with resort dues. Those dues run about 1,929 dollars a year, and after payoff your total carrying cost runs about 2,125 dollars a year with property taxes. That is the price of paved roads that stay graded and plowed, of underground utilities, of a course and a lodge and a pool and courts kept up to a standard, and of a neighborhood that holds its value because everyone pays in to keep it that way. For the right buyer that is money well spent, and for a buyer who wants no dues at all, this is not the lot, and I would rather tell you that now.
Second, you build before you live here. When you pay cash, the lot is yours at closing, to walk, to plan, and to break ground on as soon as the homeowners association approves your plans, and the resort amenities are open to you as an owner from that day. The one thing you cannot do is camp on the bare lot or live in an RV on it while you wait to build. You put the home up first, then you live here. On the terms path, full use, the build, and the run of the resort come to you at payoff. So this lot is for a buyer ready to build a home. Someone looking for a place to park a trailer and live cheap should look elsewhere, and I would tell them so.
And one more honest word, because it matters. This is land and a life, a place to build a home you will love in a setting that is hard to beat. I will not dress it up as an investment that appreciates or pays you back, and I will not tell you the lot will go up in value or make you money. What I will tell you is the truth: this is a private, wooded, build-ready homesite inside a resort worth living in, with a Warranty Deed coming to your name, in one of the most beautiful corners of Oregon. If that is what you want, it is exactly what this is.
The Running Y, Up Close
Let me tell you more about where you would be building, because the Running Y is its own world and it is worth understanding.
The resort sits in the rolling high country just northwest of Klamath Falls, in south-central Oregon, where the Cascade foothills give way to the high desert. It is a planned resort community, the kind of place built to be lived in, with full-time residents, retirees, second-home owners, and folks who came for a season and never left. The land rolls between stands of ponderosa pine and open meadow, with long views to the mountains and out toward the water. It is quiet in the way the country is quiet, but it is not isolated, because the amenities and the town are both close.
The Arnold Palmer Signature golf course is the centerpiece and the reason a lot of people first hear of the place. Palmer designed it to work with the land it sits on rather than fight it, so it plays through the natural contours, the pine, and the high-desert openness, with the mountains as a backdrop on more holes than not. Golfers who have played a lot of courses talk about this one, and you would have it close to home.
Around the golf, the resort is built for a settled, social life. The lodge is the gathering place, with dining and a bar and a place to meet neighbors and watch the day end. The Sandhill spa is there for the days you want to be taken care of. The fitness center, the pool, the tennis and pickleball courts, and the trails keep the community moving. There is lake access for the water. And the whole thing is wrapped in the high-desert landscape, so even a walk to the mailbox comes with a view.
What you buy, when you build in the Running Y, is a place among people who chose the same thing you are choosing, a beautiful, quiet, well-kept setting for a home and a life. You buy neighbors who play the same courses and walk the same trails. You buy paved roads that get plowed, utilities that stay underground and out of the view, and standards that keep the neighborhood looking the way it looked when you fell for it. That is what the dues pay for, and that is what makes it a resort and not just a subdivision with a nice name.
Klamath Falls And The Town
A private home in the pines is wonderful, and you still need a town. The Running Y has one close, and a good one.
Klamath Falls sits about 10 to 15 minutes southeast of the resort, a city of roughly 21,000 people that serves as the hub for this whole corner of Oregon. So you get the best of both, the quiet and the privacy of a wooded lot in the resort, and a real town with real services a short drive away.
For health, and this matters more as the years go on, Klamath Falls is home to Sky Lakes Medical Center, a full regional hospital. You are not an hour from care out here. You are minutes from it. That is a thing a lot of buyers do not think to check until later, and it is one of the quiet strengths of this location.
For travel, the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport is right there, so family can fly in to see you and you can fly out to see them without a long drive to a far-off airport first. For everything else, the town has full shopping, groceries, hardware, restaurants, and the services you run on day to day, all about fifteen minutes from your door, which is also where you will find a lot of what you need while you are building.
Klamath Falls has its own character, too. It is an old railroad and timber town that has grown into a basin city, with a walkable downtown, a college, museums, and a community that takes its outdoors seriously, because the outdoors here is the main event. It is the kind of town where you can get what you need, find a good meal, and still feel like you live in the country, because you do.
And one more Oregon advantage worth saying plainly, Oregon has no sales tax. None. Everything you buy in Klamath Falls, from the lumber and the fixtures for your home to your groceries to a new set of golf clubs, you buy without a sales tax added on top. On a custom build, where you are buying a lot of materials, that adds up to real money kept in your pocket.
The Water, Upper Klamath Lake And A Hundred More
If you love the water, you are building in the right place. The Klamath Basin is lake country, and it is some of the best of it in the West.
Right at hand is Upper Klamath Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Oregon by surface area, a broad, shallow, marshy giant that sits up against the Cascades. It is right there for the boat, and it is a paradise for anglers and for anyone who likes to be on or near the water. The lake is known for trophy trout, big native redband rainbows that grow large in its rich, food-filled water, and people travel to fish it. There are marinas, launches, and quiet coves, and the light coming off it at dawn and dusk is the kind of thing you will never get tired of.
But Upper Klamath is just the start. Klamath County and the country around it hold well over a hundred lakes and streams. There are alpine lakes up in the Cascades and the forest, cold and clear, full of trout and ringed by pine. There are reservoirs for the bass angler and the boater. There are spring creeks and rivers, including some of the storied fly-fishing water of the West, where the Williamson and the Wood and the Sprague rivers run, names that fly anglers know. If your idea of a good life includes a fly rod or a boat and a hundred places to use them, the Klamath Basin will keep you busy for the rest of your life and never run out of new water.
The fishing here runs through the seasons. Spring and early summer bring the well-known redband trout fishing on Upper Klamath Lake as the water warms and the big fish move. The high mountain lakes and the spring creeks fish through the summer and on into the fall, when the cooler weather and the low gold light make a day on the water something close to perfect. There is ice fishing on some of the water in the cold months for those who want it. Whatever the season, there is somewhere worth wetting a line, and from the Running Y most of it is a short to moderate drive. For the boater and the paddler it is the same story, broad open water on Upper Klamath, quiet coves and back channels to poke around in, and dozens of smaller lakes where you can put in a kayak or a canoe at first light and have the whole morning to yourself.
And the water is for more than fishing. It is for the kayak and the canoe, the paddleboard, the morning row, the evening cruise, the swim on a hot day, and the simple, deep pleasure of sitting beside it. From the Running Y you are close to all of it.
The Refuges, The Eagles, And The Pacific Flyway
Here is something that makes Klamath County special even among beautiful places. It is one of the great bird crossroads of the continent.
The Klamath Basin sits on the Pacific Flyway, the great migratory highway that birds follow up and down the West Coast, and it is one of the most important stops on the entire route. The basin holds a string of national wildlife refuges, protected wetlands and marshes that draw birds by the hundreds of thousands. In spring and fall the migrations come through, and the sky and the water fill with waterfowl, with ducks and geese in numbers that are hard to describe until you have stood under them.
In winter the basin draws one of the largest gatherings of bald eagles in the lower forty-eight states. People come from all over to see them, and you would have it close to home, eagles riding the cold air over the marshes, a sight that never gets old. Beyond the eagles there are hawks and falcons, herons and egrets, pelicans, cranes, songbirds, and shorebirds by the species count that makes birders plan whole trips around this basin. For a buyer who likes a pair of binoculars and a quiet morning, there are few places in the country that can match it.
The refuges are also simply beautiful places to be, to walk, to drive the auto tour routes, to take a camera, and to feel how alive the land is here. Building at the Running Y, this is part of your neighborhood.
Crater Lake And The Wonders Nearby
Now the crown jewel. Crater Lake National Park sits just to the north of you, roughly an hour and a half from the Running Y, and it is one of the natural wonders of the United States.
Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the country, formed thousands of years ago when a great volcano, Mount Mazama, collapsed in on itself and the caldera filled with the purest water you will ever see. It is a blue that does not look real until you are standing on the rim looking down into it, a blue so deep and so clear it stops people cold. There is no place else like it. It is a national park, protected and kept, with a rim drive, trails, a historic lodge, and viewpoints that will stay in your head for the rest of your life. And it is close enough that you can take family there on a day's outing when they come to visit, or just go up on a clear afternoon because you can.
Crater Lake is the headline, and it is not the only wonder near you. Down toward the California line is the Lava Beds country, a striking landscape of lava tubes, caves, and volcanic history that you can explore. The Cascades run along your western horizon, peak after peak, with hiking and high country and snow. There are waterfalls, hot springs, old-growth forest, and high desert all within a reasonable drive. Building in the Klamath Basin puts you at the center of a circle of natural wonders that people cross the country to see, and you would get to see them whenever you liked, close enough to reach on a free afternoon.
The Forest And The High Desert
Wrapped around all of this is the land itself, and there is a great deal of it that belongs to all of us and is open to enjoy.
The Fremont-Winema National Forest covers about 2.4 million acres in this part of Oregon, and it borders much of the country around the Running Y. That is an enormous amount of public land, forest and mountain and high desert, open for hiking, camping, riding, hunting, fishing, and getting out into big country whenever the spirit moves you. A person could spend a lifetime exploring it and not see all of it. Having that much open country at your doorstep is a gift, miles of trails, quiet campsites, fishing lakes tucked back in the trees, and the kind of solitude and space that is hard to find anywhere near a city.
This is also serious hunting country, for the hunter in the family or the visiting friends. The region holds healthy populations of deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, and waterfowl, and it sits in Oregon's Game Management Unit 32, well known to hunters. The forest, the basin, and the high desert together make this one of the better mixes of hunting opportunity in the state. You do not have to be a hunter to build here, but if you are, or your kids and grandkids are, you will be glad you are this close to it.
The high desert itself has a beauty people do not expect until they have lived in it. It is open and clean, with sagebrush flats, juniper and pine, rolling hills, and long views to the mountains. The air is dry and clear. The light is something else, especially at the start and end of the day, when the whole landscape turns gold and rose. It is big, honest country, and once it gets into you, the crowded green places start to feel small.
The Oregon Advantages
Let me gather up the practical reasons this part of Oregon is a smart place to build, because the setting is the heart of it and the practical side matters too.
Three hundred days of sunshine. The high desert climate here means the sun is out for most of the year, which keeps the course playable, the trails dry, and the days bright far more of the time than people from the gray, wet parts of the Northwest are used to. If you are tired of long gray winters, this is a different Oregon than the one most people picture, drier, sunnier, and high.
No sales tax. Oregon does not charge a sales tax, so the dollar you spend goes further on everything, from building materials to daily life. On a custom build and across the years of a life here, that is real savings.
A setting that holds its value. The Running Y is a kept, planned resort with standards, paved roads, and underground utilities, the kind of place that protects what you build. You are putting your home in a setting that the whole community works to keep up.
Clean air, dark skies, and space. The basin is sparsely populated, far from the crowding and the noise and the glare of a big city. The air is clean. The nights are dark enough to see the whole sky. There is room to breathe. For a buyer leaving a loud, crowded place behind, that change alone is worth the move.
Four real seasons. Warm, dry summers with cool nights. Crisp, gold autumns. Snowy mountain winters that clear to sunshine. Green, bird-filled springs. You get the full turn of the year, with the sun out for most of it.
Put it together, and you have a place that is beautiful, healthy, affordable to live in day to day, close to first-rate care and travel, and built for a good life in the outdoors. That is a strong place to build a home, and this private, wooded lot puts you right in the middle of it.
Building In The Running Y
If you have never built a home from the ground up, here is how it tends to go in a place like this, in plain terms.
You start with the lot, which you would own free and clear the day we close on a cash purchase. From there the path runs through the homeowners association. Homes in the Running Y are site-built to the resort's standards, so before you break ground you bring your building plans to the association for approval. That step keeps every home in the neighborhood built to a standard, which protects the look of the place and the value of your home and everyone else's. You want the lot next to yours held to the same bar as your own, and here it is.
For the build itself, you would work with a builder, and there are contractors in the Klamath Falls area who know the resort, the high desert, and what it takes to build well here. I always tell buyers to walk the lot with their builder early, because a wooded lot like this one has its own considerations, the tree clearing for the home and the driveway, the lay of the ground, where the light falls, and where the home should sit to make the most of the privacy and the trees. A good builder will help you place the home so it feels settled into the pines rather than dropped onto a clearing.
The reward at the end is a home that is yours, built the way you wanted it, in a private, wooded setting inside a resort with a golf course and a lodge a few minutes away. You get to build it right, once, in a place worth building in. And because Oregon charges no sales tax, the materials that go into that home come without a sales tax piled on top, which on a custom build is real money saved.
A practical note, and an honest one. Building takes time and planning, and the timeline is yours to set once your plans are approved. Some owners build the first year, some take a couple of years to design and save and build it the way they want. I would confirm any association timelines and the current approval steps with the resort as part of your planning, so you go in knowing exactly what the process looks like today. The lot is yours to build on at your pace, and the one rule to keep in mind is that you live here once the home is up, not before.
Who This Lot Is Right For
I would rather you buy the right lot than just buy a lot, so let me be plain about who this one fits.
This lot is for the buyer who wants to build a real home, a custom home, in a private, wooded setting inside a resort that comes with a full life. If you have the means and you have a home in mind. If you want privacy and space and trees around you, not an open lot on a busy street. If you like the idea of golf and trails and a lodge a few minutes from a quiet home in the pines. If you want a clean deed and a straight seller. That is the buyer this lot was made for.
It is not the right lot for everyone, and I will say that too. If you want no homeowners dues at all, the Running Y is not your place, because resort living comes with dues. If you want to park an RV and live on the bare lot cheaply while you figure things out, this is not that, because you build a home here before you live here. If you want raw, remote, off-grid acreage with no rules, I carry that kind of land too in other parts of Klamath County, and this resort lot is the other end of the spectrum. There is a right buyer for every piece of ground, and I would rather point you to yours than sell you the wrong one.
How The Purchase Works, Step By Step
I keep the process simple and low-pressure, and here is exactly how it goes.
First, you reach out, by call, text, or email, and we talk it through. I answer every question you have about the lot, the resort, the numbers, the deed, and anything else on your mind. There is no pressure and no rush, and if it is not the right fit, I will tell you.
Second, if you want it, we start the paperwork. On a cash purchase, we set up the closing, and you are welcome to run it through a title company so a neutral third party holds the funds and the deed and exchanges them at the same time, which is a sound way to feel fully secure. On owner financing, I send a simple link to pay the down payment and the document fee, then write up the sale and purchase agreement and send it for electronic signature, walking you through every line.
Third, on a financed deal, once the agreement is signed, I draw up the promissory note and send it for signature, and we set your monthly payments to run automatically, so you never have to think about it. On a cash deal, we close and record, and you are done.
Fourth, the deed. On cash, the Warranty Deed transfers into your name at closing and the lot is yours free and clear right away. On terms, the note runs its course at zero interest, you can pay ahead or pay it off early at any time with no penalty, and when it is paid I file the Warranty Deed into your name. From that point the land is yours, and you take over the dues and taxes directly.
That is the whole thing. No bank, no credit check, no mountain of paperwork, and a real person walking with you the whole way.
More To Explore In Your New Backyard
Building in the Klamath Basin puts a remarkable amount of country within an easy drive, and here is more of what you would have around you.
Crater Lake National Park is about an hour and a half north, the deepest lake in the country and a sight that stays with you for good. The Lava Beds country down near the California line is a landscape of caves and lava tubes worth a day of exploring. The Cascade Range runs along your western sky, peak after peak, with high lakes, hiking, hot springs, and snow. The vast Fremont-Winema National Forest, about 2.4 million acres of it, borders the region with endless trails, campsites, and quiet water. The Klamath Basin national wildlife refuges draw birds by the hundreds of thousands and one of the largest gatherings of bald eagles in the lower forty-eight in winter. And a hundred and more lakes and streams, from broad Upper Klamath Lake to high alpine water and storied fly-fishing rivers, give the angler and the boater a lifetime of places to go.
Closer in, Klamath Falls gives you a real downtown, dining, a college, museums, festivals, and a community that lives for the outdoors. Drive a bit and you reach Mount Shasta to the south, the high Oregon Outback to the east, the Cascade lakes and resorts to the northwest, and more wild and beautiful country in every direction than you could see in the years you have left to enjoy it. Life here keeps handing you more places to go. You run out of years before you run out of country.
Questions Buyers Ask
Can I use the lot before I build?
When you pay cash and the deed is in your name, you are a titled owner, and you can walk your lot, plan your home, and use the resort amenities as a member. You break ground as soon as the homeowners association approves your building plans. What you cannot do is camp on the bare lot or live in an RV on it while you wait to build. You put the home up first, then you live here. On owner financing, full use and the build come at payoff, when the lot transfers into your name.
How big a home can I build here?
At 0.84 of an acre, this is one of the larger homesites in the resort, with room for a substantial custom home and the grounds to go with it. Homes in the Running Y are site-built to the resort's standards, and you bring your building plans to the homeowners association for approval before you build. That approval keeps the neighborhood looking the way it does and protects the value of what you put up. For a buyer who wants to build something with presence, this lot has the size and the privacy for it.
What about all the trees? Is that a problem for building?
The heavy tree cover is what gives this lot its privacy and its beauty, and it is a real asset for a home set back in the pines. The tradeoff is that you will clear the footprint for your home and driveway before you build, which is a cost you would not have on an open lot. Most buyers building a custom home in a wooded setting count that as worth it, and I always tell people to walk the lot and plan the build with their builder so they know exactly what clearing their plans call for.
Is this cash price a good one for the Running Y?
It is a strong price for a larger, private, wooded lot inside this resort, sitting under what homesites in the Running Y usually bring. I am not telling you the land will go up in value, because I do not make that promise about any land. I am telling you it is a fair price today for a strong piece of ground inside a resort most people only drive through.
Do you run a credit check or use a bank?
No bank and no credit check, ever, on either path. On cash you pay and take the deed. On owner financing, I finance the lot myself, so there is no lender, no mortgage, and nothing on your credit to clear. That is the heart of what I do.
What is a Warranty Deed, and why does it matter?
A Warranty Deed is the highest level of deed available in Oregon. It gives you full, clean ownership with the seller standing behind clear title. It is what separates a real land sale from a contract-for-deed arrangement, where a buyer can pay for years and still lose everything to a single misstep. Here, when the lot is paid, you get a Warranty Deed in your name, and the land is fully yours.
What does the 120-Day guarantee cover?
On every owner-financed purchase, if you are not satisfied for any reason within 120 days of your down payment, you get your principal back, or you can move it toward another parcel in my inventory. The document fee, taxes, dues, and setup fees are not refundable, but your principal is. It is the longest guarantee I know of in owner-financed land, and it is there so you can buy with confidence.
Will I need a well or a septic system?
No. The Running Y is a serviced resort community with water and sewer infrastructure, so you are not drilling a well or installing a septic system the way you would on raw, remote ground. As with any build, you will confirm the exact connections and any hookup fees for your lot with the resort before you start, but the heavy lift of getting water and waste handled is already done here.
What are the winters like here?
This is high desert, so the winters here run dry and bright more often than gray and wet. The heavy snow falls on the mountains around you, which is where you want it for the views and the skiing, while the basin gets lighter snow that comes and goes, and the sun returns again and again all winter long. The roads in the resort are paved and kept clear. Winter is the season of the wintering bald eagles in the basin, a fire in a well-built home, and bright, quiet days, and then spring greens it all back up.
How long does buying take?
Closing is usually quick, often a couple of weeks and sometimes just a few days. On owner financing the note then runs its term, and you can pay it off early at any time at zero interest with no penalty. There is no long, drawn-out bank process, because there is no bank.
Can I see the lot and the resort before I buy?
Yes, and I would want you to feel sure. You can visit the Running Y and walk the area, and I will give you the lot's location, the legal description, and the GPS coordinates so you can find the exact parcel and see the ground and the resort for yourself. This is a big decision, and I would rather you take the time to be certain than rush it.
Can I use my own builder?
Yes. You would work with a builder to put up your home, and you are free to choose your own. There are contractors around Klamath Falls who know the resort and the high desert, and I am glad to point you in a good direction, but the choice is yours. Whoever you build with brings your plans to the homeowners association for approval before breaking ground, the same as any owner.
Can you help with financing the home construction?
What I finance is the land, on the simple owner terms laid out above, with no bank and no credit check. The home build itself is separate, and you would handle that with your own funds or a construction lender. A lot of buyers on a lot like this pay cash for the land so they own it clean, then build on their own schedule. I am happy to talk through how the land and the build fit together so you can plan it out.
Are there other lots like this in the resort?
Homesites come and go in the Running Y, and a larger, heavily wooded lot like this one, priced where it is, does not come along every day. This is the one 0.84-Acre parcel on Dunlin Road, and when it sells it is gone. If it is the right fit for the home you want to build, it is worth moving on rather than waiting for another like it.
Do I pay the dues during the build?
Yes. As an owner you carry the resort dues from the time you own the lot, about 1,929 dollars a year, which on the terms path are already folded into your monthly. Those dues keep the roads, the amenities, and the standards up across the whole resort while you plan and build, and they are part of what makes the place worth building in.
How do I find the exact lot?
I will give you the legal description, the street, and the GPS coordinates, so you can put them into your phone and stand on the exact parcel. The lot is on Dunlin Road inside the Running Y, and I am glad to walk you through finding it and to answer anything that comes up while you are out there looking at the ground and the trees.
What if I want to talk it over with my spouse or family first?
That is the right thing to do, since a decision like this should be one you all feel good about. If you are worried about losing the lot while you talk, you can place a reservation to hold it in your name with a short window to decide, so there is no pressure to choose on the spot. Take the conversation home, and reach back out either way.
Who exactly am I dealing with?
You are dealing with me, Jay, at Dakota Skyhook. I have sold Klamath County land since 2016, you reach a real person every time, and I walk you through the whole thing myself. No call center, no script, no pressure.
Who I Am
When you call or write, you reach me, Jay, with Dakota Skyhook. Not a call center. Not a salesperson on commission reading from a script. Me.
I have been selling Klamath County land since 2016. I deal straight, I say the hard parts out loud, and I would rather lose a sale than push you into a piece of land that is wrong for you. The way I sell is the whole product, because the people who buy from me are careful with their money the way anybody should be, and the only way to earn that kind of trust is to hide nothing and rush no one.
So I will answer your questions, all of them, at your pace. I will walk you through the lot, the resort, the numbers, the deed, and the process, and I will tell you the truth about every piece of it. If you want a neutral party in the deal, you are welcome to run the closing through a title company so a third party holds the money and the deed and swaps them at the same time, and I will help you set that up. Whatever it takes for you to feel safe and certain, that is the way we will do it.
I sell land in Klamath County, Oregon, and the deed at the end of every deal is a Warranty Deed, the highest level of deed there is in this state. That is the promise, and I keep it.
What To Do Next
If this is the ground you want to build on, here is how it goes from here, and it is simple.
If you are ready, the cash path is the cleanest. We close, the Warranty Deed transfers into your name, and you are a titled owner of the Running Y from that day, free to plan your home and break ground as soon as the association approves your plans, with the course, the trails, the courts, the pool, the lodge, and the spa open to you. The home in the pines can start this year.
If you would rather spread it out, the terms are 699 dollars down, a one-time 250 dollar document fee, and 699 dollars a month for 60 months, all-in, with no bank, no credit check, and a 120-Day money-back guarantee, and a Warranty Deed in your name when it is paid.
If you want to hold the lot while you think it over, you can place a reservation and keep it in your name with a short window to decide, so it is not sold out from under you while you talk it through with your family. And if you would just rather talk it through with me first, do that. There is no pressure either way.
Remember, this is the one 0.84-Acre wooded lot on Dunlin Road, a private, larger homesite inside the Running Y, priced fair for what it is. When it is claimed, it is gone.
Call or text me, Jay, at , or email and let's get your home started in the pines at the Running Y.
Dakota Skyhook. Klamath County, Oregon land, owner financed or cash, no bank, no credit check, a Warranty Deed at payoff, and a real person on the other end of the line.
Land Maps & Attachments
Directions to Land
Head northwest on US-97 N (Main St) out of Klamath Falls
Turn left onto Washburn Way (OR-140 W)
Continue west on OR-140 W (also called Lake of the Woods Hwy)
Turn right onto Running Y Rd
Once inside the resort, follow to Dunlin Rd - Lot 936 is on the right
The coordinates for the lot are 42.284389, -121.870861
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