We’re finally out of the 21st Century’s Aughts, during which we ought to have behaved better. We’re close to entering the Century’s adolescence. Its...
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.
Two feet of snow in 24 hours this past weekend called forth Shakespearean emotions--wonder, anger, despair, altruism, selfishness…and lower-back pain.
If you ask around the country, the folks who understand money say something like this.
A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal reported that urban and suburban residents were buying and moving back to the country.
Remember Neel Kashkari? Here’s a hint: $700 billion. Here’s another: TARP. Kashkari was the bald guy who handed out $400 billion...
Life in America used to be simpler, because the basic systems and services that we used back then were simpler.
I saw a Virginia real-estate ad for several hundred acres of mixed timber and open land recently, priced at $875/acre. It caught my attention for...
When I returned late Friday night from a business trip, I had a message from a new client. He’d found 300 acres with a functional house on a mix of...
The guns of November always herald Thanksgiving. We are in the middle of rifle season for deer. Muzzle-loading season is behind; other seasons are...
It’s been almost impossible not to make money in timberland for the last 100 years. Whatever type you bought, the only trick you had to know was to...