It's a rainy, miserable Saturday afternoon. I've just spent several hours looking through some 1,200 timberland listings on www.landflip.com. I've...
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!
The demand for land will continue to be strong in the next few years especially compared to other forms of real estate. In fact, the major media is...
A good deal is often defined as buying something for less than the seller’s asking price. Sometimes that’s true. Sometimes, it isn’t.
Buying real estate is an increasingly complicated process.
A few individuals love negotiating over property. Others prefer it to back pain but not by much. Most consider it another one of the endless...
“I’m thinking,” I said to my wife a month ago, “U. P.” “You first,” Melissa said. When you were voted second funniest in your high school class 45...
My knowledge of wine is limited to the fact that there are reds and whites. In a wild year, I might drink three, maybe, four glasses; mainly for...
My wife, Melissa, is one of two lawyers in our county. She does a lot of dirt law--rural real estate. She's also the part-time Commonwealth Attorney...
I’m often asked -- usually by my wife of 25 years -- “Just what is it that you do all day?” She’s a lawyer. She has an office building, a sign, a...
Since I write a weekly column on country real estate, I decided to visit the websites of Senators Barack Obama (www.barackobama.com) and John McCain...