I’ve been watching several local tracts for a while, because they puzzle me. Each tract is broadly similar—mostly woods, some open.
Curtis Seltzer
Curtis Seltzer is a land consultant, columnist and author of How To Be a DIRT-SMART Buyer of Country Property and Land Matters: The “Country Real Estate” Columns, 2007-2009.
I have a rule against giving my time away for free, which I am trying to enforce more diligently than when I was 30 when I had more time to give away.
At the recent LANDTHINK Summit, a broker asked me what seemed like a simple question at first hearing: “Should the seller/seller’s broker show a...
I live in an old place. Our farm sits on karst limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms that...
I represented the buyer’s perspective at the LANDTHINK Summit at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga., last week.
Timber that has commercial value as determined by local standards and local buyers is referred to as merchantable timber (“merch”).
The LANDTHINK Summit 2010 -- September 30 at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Georgia -- will address the good, the bad and the ugly in today’s land...
One of the most discouraging events on a farm is the untimely death of an animal. Whether it’s a humble chicken or a favorite horse, the landowner...
I felt the first breath of the coming fall in the early morning. It always heralds weekend farm visitors.