Land has always been involved in what we now call, rural economic development. Those who owned no land in rural communities were almost always poor...
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.
The seller’s asking price is one step in the sell-buy process that either encourages or discourages buyers from submitting a...
(With apologies to Clement Moore, and my 11th-grade English teacher, Miss DeFrance, who said, correctly, that I was a lousy poet.)
Once a buyer has defined the acreage and boundaries of the seller’s property legally and on the ground and determined the nature of the seller’s...
I’m sure there are three people in America who figured the stock market just right this year and are swimming in money like Donald’s Uncle Scrooge.
We buy and sell property in an odd and awkward way. Among the puzzling steps in the process we use is the packaging of earnest money with our...
Both sellers and buyers need to understand what is being sold. When a seller lists property with a broker or advertises as a FSBO, he should...
You can’t go too far wrong with a good Thanksgiving. For starters, everything smells good all day, even me. Then, everybody’s nice as pie for as long...
Buying country property raises a number of issues for buyers that differ from those commonly faced when pursuing a house in or near a city.
Country property has always attracted a bit more than its fair share of philosophers, utopians, missionaries, dreamers, writers and nuts.