Most -- but not all -- timberland investments require little routine maintenance. But one upkeep job that I recommend is for the landowner to...
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!
Land buyers should think about the first impression they make on sellers. It can determine whether a deal is reached and at what price. Here are two...
Brooks C. Mendell, Ph.D., is president and founder of Forisk Consulting, a Georgia-based firm that specializes in forest-industry, timber-REIT...
Buyers need to do due diligence on rural property for environmental issues. A recent story about a New York buyer who purchased a 22-acre parcel...
The number of people who are contemplating relocating to rural areas so they can live “off-grid” is increasing.
A typical pattern of land division in rural areas is for property to be divided among children following the death of their parents.
In order to get the best deal when investing in rural land, you need to be able to act quickly when an opportunity presents itself.
Two real-estate-investing strategies -- buy and hold, and buy low; sell high -- have worked well for many different types of investors in different...
Barry Gittleman, Vice President for Strategy and Land at John Wieland Homes, works for a major residential developer who has built more than 30,000...
On Thursday, May 6th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 1,000 points, a little more than nine percent, in 16 minutes, and no one knows why.