As recreational land buyers look at properties, they may run across references to how certain properties are certified to Sustainable Forestry...
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!
Every year more investors turn to real estate as a way to diversify their retirement portfolios. Everything from pre-construction, condominiums, and...
While the global implications of the British exit – “Brexit” – from the EU remain uncertain, it appears, at a minimum, to complicate trade between...
If you are looking to buy recreational property, you may not be sure if you want to have a cabin on the land someday.
Led by the Weyerhaeuser/Plum Creek merger and Potlatch’s Q2 2016 timberland divestiture in Idaho, public timberland-owning REITs purchased and...
One challenge of investing in a forest is determining when it reaches financial maturity. This is when the owner’s cost of keeping an asset exceeds...
It’s a familiar story if you sell recreational property: Potential buyers often call you with a specific idea of the tract they want, down to the...
Every fisherman has a heartbreaking story about “the one that got away“. That is not the type of story you want to have about a piece of land that...
In 2015, the U.S. consumed about 50 billion board feet of lumber. Softwood lumber used to build homes and made from species such as pine, fir and...
Buying your first piece of rural land can be very exciting. First time land buyers often tell me, “I want to buy a piece of land, but I don’t really...