Timberland buyers need to figure out what a tract’s timber is worth before they submit a purchase offer.
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 looked at an older farmhouse on 40 acres last week that has…issues. It was built around 1890 in the boxy three-over-three style common in its area.
President-elect Obama showed up unannounced in Blue Grass late Wednesday afternoon as I was pulling in with a load of split firewood.
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