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Buying Land
Are you new to buying land or investing in land? Maybe you already own land as an investment. Learn about Self Directed IRAs, 1031 Exchanges, taxes, negotiating, making offers, contracts, financing, farmland, timberland investing and more. Get land smart!
There’s no getting around it. Buying rural land for sale takes a lot of money! At the same time, it is a good investment and a safe place to put...
The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” passed in late 2017 incorporated a program called “Opportunity Zones” into the tax law. As a result, the U.S. Department...
One reliable way to underperform as an investor is to buy assets or stocks at the top of the market. What gets priced up ultimately falls, adjusts or...
Let’s say you are looking at an 80 acre tract of land for sale that has not been surveyed. Should you purchase a survey before buying? The answer is...
Like stocks or other traditional assets, agricultural investments include many different sectors within the industry as a whole, making it hard to...
Early in my wood procurement career, my friend and timber buyer Fred Voyles taught me that, as a forester buying logs for a mill, to really learn and...
Unless you buy land directly from a land owner, you’ll deal with real estate agents when you shop for rural land for sale.
October 2018 brought with it tremendous volatility and uncertainty in the financial – and even timber – markets.
Two properties can seem identical, but have wildly different values. Land values are shaped and changed by hundreds of different factors.