Almost weekly people call me telling me they are looking to make their first rural land purchase. This article is meant to be a short primer on a...
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!
A key lesson from watching the show “Shark Tank” is that winning entrepreneurs know their number. They know their revenues, costs, margins and market...
Phone calls and emails come in waves tied to worries about markets or exuberance related to investment opportunities. Recently, questions often focus...
Good hunting leases might be one of the most difficult assets to find in the Southeast. Almost daily I get a call or message from a local hunter who...
Listen as Pat Porter, land broker at RecLand Realty, addresses a question that land agents are asked quite often, especially from first time land...
With rising interest rates and stubborn timber prices, investors in timberlands and timber REITs are asking about the durability of current...
Taxes matter in forestry (and in many other areas). And taxes confuse. Even Albert Einstein, the smartest guy most of us never met, said, “The...
As the New Year starts to move along, it’s a good time to think about your goals for the year ahead. And if one of your goals is to buy your own...
On the way home from school last Friday, my son JD, asked me “What is wrong with buying a property that already has a conservation easement on it?”
Forecasts of business and market conditions support a range of investment decisions in the timber and forest products industries.