Timberland buyers need to protect themselves from seller-supplied information of this type. How does a timberland buyer go about doing this?
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.
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