West NY - Looking for Other Aspiring Homesteaders to Buy Land Together

Everything's easier together. Please let me know if you are in or around the finger lakes region and also interested in buying land.

I can advise that such a plan may blow up in your face.
Have you studied examples of how to create such a community.
You need tight regs on how to come in and how to get out that are fair.
It is a potential minefield and needs more than a handshake, particularly when partners move in.

John C Daley wrote:
… You need tight regs on how to come in and how to get out that are fair.
It is a potential minefield and needs more than a handshake, particularly when partners move in.

Yeah honestly I wouldn’t let people come on my land unless they sign an agreement not to sue me if they injure themselves and paid rent to live there. Or I was paying them as employees. Even volunteers who mean well can be a headache with their accidents.

Best option yet: find a Life Partner to help you split the workload who shares this dream. Better yet if one of you can work remotely to pay the mortgage.

This Finger Lakes property is out of my price range, but if a group of permies gets together to buy and divide it, I'd be a part of it.  I've been looking in that area.  
There are ways to do things that don't involve creating an intentional community, but instead dividing a large parcel between people who want to be around like minded neighbors creating community more spontaneously.  
https://www.trulia.com/home/678-mcduffy-hollow-rd-van-etten-ny-14889-29978870

I like to adopt dogs other people discard, and this seems to make me unsuitable for most intentional communities.