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. They also acknowledged that both individuals and groups could err in understanding their optimal economic interest.

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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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David Sokol has three investment rules

David Sokol has three investment rules

People write books for different reasons—money, prestige, money, self-validation, score-settling, money, ego and money. And sometimes it’s not about money.

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Financial factors impact real estate positively and negatively

Financial factors impact real estate positively and negatively

Spring is coiling, but not yet sprung. Spring brings buyers into the countryside. That’s how it usually works, anyway.

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Landowners- “Trails Help Make the Sell”

Landowners- “Trails Help Make the Sell”

If I could impart two pieces of simple wisdom to landowners about increasing your odds of selling your property they would be: (first) price your property correctly and…

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BCAP may help landowners; as always, it just depends

BCAP may help landowners; as always, it just depends

You may have heard something about BCAP (pronounced, bee-cap). BCAP stands for Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

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USDA farm forecasts are mixed

USDA farm forecasts are mixed

USDA released its 2010 farm income forecasts last week. While net farm income is expected to be $63 billion in 2010, up almost 12 percent ($6.7 billion) from 2009…

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