The team
Straight talk from a father-son team that answers the phone.
Bruce and his son Dan wholesale dirt-cheap parcels across the Catskills, Mohawk Valley, and Southern Tier of New York. No bank approvals. No agent commissions. No middlemen. Just land, owner financing, and a handshake.
Bruce & Dan
Owners · CheapUsLand.com
The Story
A father-son team. One phone. One backyard.
CheapUSLand.com started for one reason: the bank kept getting in the way. Bruce had been picking up undervalued parcels across Upstate NY for years – building lots in the Catskills, hunting tracts in Otsego, commercial parcels in Madison County – but every time a buyer came along, the deal would die in a loan officer’s inbox.
So Bruce did the obvious thing: started financing the deals himself. No credit checks. No appraisals. No 60-day waiting periods. Just a fair price, a reasonable down payment, and a monthly note. Most of the time the down payment was $15,000 and the monthly came out to under $500. That was it.
That’s still the entire model. Bruce and Dan run the operation together – Dan on acquisition, Bruce on disposition. They pick up wholesale parcels, list them for less than retail, and finance them in-house. The website is the catalog. The phone number connects you to the team. The “office” is wherever the truck is parked.
The companion site, BuyAlotForAlittle.com, says it in plain English: buy a lot of land, for a little bit of money. That’s the whole pitch. Everything we do – every listing, every cash discount, every owner-finance schedule – flows from that one idea.
Dan Blaustein
Co-owner · Acquisitions
Meet Dan
Acquisition. Boots on the ground.
Daniel (Dan) Blaustein is Bruce’s youngest son. His background is in education – he got his start as an elementary school teacher during COVID. While teaching, he worked part-time in the business for several years before joining full-time in 2024.
Dan handles acquisition while Bruce handles disposition. He’s detail-oriented and a boots-on-the-ground type of guy.
Our Mission
My job is simple – find undervalued land, price it fairly, and make it easy for real people, not banks, to own it.
- Bruce, Owner
How We Operate
Three things make us different.
A lot of land sites are middlemen with affiliate links. We’re none of that – we own every parcel we sell.
Personal Service
You call the number – Bruce or Dan answers. No call center, no sales reps, no chatbots. If you leave a voicemail, you get a callback the same day – usually within an hour.
Direct Financing
We hold the note ourselves. No banks involved, no credit reports pulled. Standard terms are 60 months at a fixed rate, but we can structure deals around what works for you.
Wholesale Pricing
We own every parcel we list – no agent middlemen, no listing fees baked in. Our prices are what they are because we bought low and pass the savings forward.
Track Record
A few milestones.
2001
First Parcels in Greene County
Bruce picks up his first wholesale Catskill building lots – start of what would eventually become CheapUSLand.com.
2005
Direct owner-financing launched
After watching too many deals die in bank underwriting, Bruce starts holding the notes himself. Becomes the model for every sale since.
2010
CheapUSLand.com goes live
The site launches as a wholesale catalog with video walk-throughs and GPS coordinates on every parcel – a rarity in rural land sales at the time.
2015
Expanded into Sullivan & Madison Counties
Coverage area grows from the Catskills outward – picking up parcels in the Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier, and along the Sullivan/Pennsylvania border.
2024
Dan joins full-time
After years of part-time work while teaching elementary school through COVID, Dan comes on full-time to lead acquisition – boots on the ground while Bruce handles disposition.
2026
Still answering the phone
No call center. No sales team. Same number. Bruce and Dan – same handshake on every deal, all across Upstate New York.