Finding a real-estate lawyer in an unfamiliar community where you are looking to buy property can be scary. Most of us seek a personal connection...
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 spent Saturday rubbing my own nose in my own farm failures. Regular abrasion sessions of this sort have kept my nose small and orderly over the...
Most buyers talk to the real-estate lawyer representing them only after they have signed a contract to purchase property. I’ve always found that odd...
The just-released U.S. Census of Agriculture reported a decline in farmland acres from about 938.3 million in 2002 to about 922.1 million in 2007, a...
A client of mine and I looked at a 10-acre organic farm in New Jersey this week. The USDA reports some 20,000 organic farms are currently operating.
I had been dreading this past weekend for a month. The country mouse from Blue Grass, population about 50, was headed to the City of New York. For an...
A standard feature in real-estate contracts is a section called, Entire Agreement. Also referred to as the merger clause, it provides something like...
April 16th is a big day in my dining room. I clear the table, floor, piano bench, piano, hanging plants and chairs of dozens of paper piles.
Often found in the standard, pre-printed, real-estate purchase contract that brokers use is a section titled: Permission.
Of America’s 75 million single-family detached homes, the overwhelming majority were not built to be examples of environmental correctness.