How’s The Land Market?

How’s The Land Market?

As a real estate broker in Georgia, I’ve sold land all over the state. And everywhere I go these days, I always seem to get asked the same question, “How’s the land market?” That is the hardest question to answer for a broker who sells investment property. Do you say the market is not doing well and prices are declining, which will probably result in losing a sell?

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Funding Your Land Investment

Funding Your Land Investment

How will I fund a land investment? Those beginning the process of purchasing land usually have a general idea of how they plan to pay for the investment. However, I have seen many buyers change their method of funding because they became educated on an option that was previously unknown to them and offered them some distinct advantage.

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How green is my acre?

How green is my acre?

Owning country property often raises unsettling questions about personal environmental morality, an idea that did not start with Jimmy Carter’s cardigan sweater and now wants you to squeeze your carbon foot into Greenerella’s glass slipper. The specter of environmental catastrophe — ice caps melting, polar bears stalking dice-rollers in Atlantic City casinos…

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Rethinking stocks: Put land in a real-estate IRA for retirement

Rethinking stocks: Put land in a real-estate IRA for retirement

I’m sure there are three people in America who figured the stock market just right this year and are swimming in money like Donald’s Uncle Scrooge. I am not among them. And neither are millions of others who didn’t duck out.

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Do rural brains really drain?

Do rural brains really drain?

I often get requests to not write about certain individuals with whom I share mixed marital arts. Therefore, I will not name my wife, Melissa, as the only requester in this group of one.

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Are you a rational real-estate investor?

Are you a rational real-estate investor?

Economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx believed that human beings make rational economic decisions. Both believed that each individual pursued his self-interest, though they had different ideas about where these interests lay.

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Does the future hold one car per household?

Does the future hold one car per household?

I’m often both villain and victim when it comes to environmental issues. I don’t recycle enough. I don’t compost at all. I consume coal-fired electricity and eat feedlot-fattened meat.

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Is Bogle bailing on stocks?

Is Bogle bailing on stocks?

John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, has made a lot of money being a trustworthy business friend of individuals and institutions that invest in stocks and bonds.

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You Wouldn’t Like it Here

You Wouldn’t Like it Here

As the title of a popular book by Lon L. Emrick about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula states, You Wouldn’t Like it Here. Though I whole- heartedly disagree with that title, there are many truths to his point.

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