1. Don’t make a deal on your first visit. Don’t buy impulsively. Don’t make an offer before scoping the property.
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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