Want to transition to off grid living

I own a 1500sq ft stick built house on 3/4 of an acre and have slowly been growing more and more food but am tired of the lack of peace that nature gives us. I don't want to hear lawnmowers, cars driving up and down the road and all the other distractions that keeps us disconnected from Mother Earth. I'm preparing my place to be looked at to find the market value, as it is the guesstimates without anyone seeing the inside or touring the outside are from $227,000 to $275,000. I've looked online at off grid properties but have never lived off grid as our ancestors did for thousands of years. I was thinking of buying property that has many acres and building a small cabin while still being connected to the powers that be that keep us dependent on them until I can confidently feel I can live off grid. Of course the property would have to have some kind of living space till I achieve my goal of letting go. The only problem so far is that all the properties in the price range I wrote down fa are burn em down and build em over.
Any advice out there? I live in Oregon and would like to stay in Oregon as it is a beautiful State.
Hasanyone out there sold their home without a broker..the commission they get could buy me at least one car if not two.

You can sell your home without an agent, put it in the local paper and put a sign up. Require that the buyer pays for the closing and hire a lawyer to handle the details.  

Off grid is different, for different people. I have lived with no electricity or running water, hauled my water from a spring that was 300 yards away. Bathed in the creek, and built several outhouses.. Right now I am semi off grid, I have landline power but I can flip two breakers and be on my solar. We have a well, so no county water.  I do plan on getting totally off the grid again, this time with enough solar to handle lights and refrigeration. I built my house to draw air, so I do not have an AC unit, rather I have ceiling fans and windows that open.

It all depends on what you need.

You appear to be thinking this through.   Judging  from my experience , and this may not work for you, I would try to get more specific on how many acres I wanted.  I would also try to identify my needs in terms of the newness of the house I was seeking and its condition. What do you want? What can you do without?  I made a point of buying a house with utilities.  It allowed me to move away from the grid in baby steps. I am still making those baby steps.  I have a love/ hate relationship with real estate agents.  But they may have a place at times.

Susan Boyce wrote:
Hasanyone out there sold their home without a broker..the commission they get could buy me at least one car if not two.

We sold our house last year, with an agent, but a flat fee no commission agent. He is a licensed realtor, been in the business over twenty years, knew the ins and outs, and we paid him $1000 (as opposed to a five figure number that could have bought a car like you mention), up front and non refundable, to sell our house. It was a great decision and we recommend this guy to friends that talk about selling a house in the Nashville area. There are real estate agents all over the country that will work for a flat rate fee. You mentioned you're in Oregon, I did a quick google search and here is one link out of many I found for flat-fee real estate agents: https://flatfeegroup.com/Oregon/

It's another option, and may or may not be right for you, but I thought I'd mention it in case you were unaware of them.

Thank you for the link to a Realtor that will help for a flat fee instead of the huge commission that I need for a generator etc. I stated many acres cause when I look they range from 5 acres to 160 acres so whatever is in my price range that has all I need will be fine and if I get one with 160acres perhaps I can sell off some acreage on the far side that won't encroach on my privacy. Yes I want a place with the utilities but without municipal or a community water system I would like my own well and septic. I have an irrigation well now and might just pull the pump and take it with me since its an expensive German made pump and my house is connected to municipal water and the new owners might not care about gardening like I do. I bought that pump just a few years back.  Of the 22 houses on my road I grow the most food and a few others are still connected to wells and septics.