When you buy land, you need to establish your "basis" for tax purposes. Starting basis is basically your purchase price, plus, perhaps, certain...
Owning Land
Do you own land? Learn the benefits and challenges of owning land including tax benefits, conservation, leasing, easements, income opportunities and maintenance. Get land smart!
A boom is happening in places with oil and gas reserves. Deep "plays" are now economically feasible where they weren't two years ago when oil was a...
Everyone likes a swimming pond. A couple of willows weep majestically. Spring Peepers put on their heavy-metal show at night, keeping the old folks...
Readers might take a look at the two presidential campaign websites to see which candidate appears to understand land issues best (or if at all). Tax...
My heart -- that mean-spirited little pump I keep around for “Casablanca” and odd emotional assignments -- hurts for the Midwest folks who have been...
No buffalo roamed on Hawthorne Street in Pittsburgh where I grew up.
Saturday morning before things start is a good time to begin most anything. Like a first draft of this column. I was in front of the screen by 6...
Spring brings out the remuddler in us. Warmth encourages knocking down, throwing out, fiddling with and adding to. The line between remodeling and...
Well, February’s finally gone. Those of us who live where glaciers once roamed and have a selfish interest in a little global warming are in better...
About 10.6 million privately owned acres -- an area about twice the size of Connecticut -- now carry conservation easements. This land base is...