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A couple of observations RB feel free to discard them as useless dribble:

First and foremost (IMHO) would be to find out what is involved in building a pond in your area. I'm thinking not only of cost but of any and all agency regulations. For example in California you have to jump through many hoops in order to "divert surface water" for personal use. What regulations are involved in diverting surface water in your area, what regulations are involved in building a dam, are there regulations governing wet lands, etc, etc.

I would recommend that you determine a rough estimate of building a pond in your area but from a practical standpoint I am not sure how you would go about this. The cost of building a pond will change exponentially depending upon terrain, soil type, access to property, requirement to move (or remove from the property) the dug out soil, the size of the dam. One of the soil experts here can give you a much better idea of the factors that will have an effect on the building cost than I.

The one advantage of looking at a property that has an existing pond is that you do not have to go to the expense of building a pond. The primarily disadvantage IMHO of buying a property with an existing pond is that if the pond is not designed correctly you could be facing either living with a mess or spending lots of funds to fix the pond.

Most weeds can be controlled through chemical methods. My 3 acre pond became choked with Elodea in the second year of our pond ownership but we whipped it into shape ourselves by treating it with chemicals. With an 8+ acre lake however this could get into some money.

I put your coordinates into Google earth and looked at the property. Is that an airport that is adjacent to the property? If it is then I would try to determine how much noise this will generate for your property. It would be real annoying to hear aircraft all day long.

Sheesh, I posted a long, drawn out post about looking at Brettski's links, buy Bob Lusks books, blah, blah, blah, only to determine that I had said the same thing to you in a previous thread. This is like deja vu all over again.