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Real-estate investing: Don’t buy a stinker

September 4, 2008 2 Comments

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.

Real estate is all about negotiation: here’s help

August 14, 2008 0 Comments

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, necessary miseries of adulthood.

Buyers: Don't be too nice

July 23, 2008 0 Comments

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, who has been perfecting her prosecutorial technique on me for years.

Property auctions are going, going…going stronger than ever

June 19, 2008 1 Comment

While large American newspapers are losing readers, cutting staff and scraping by on fewer advertising dollars, they’re expanding in one area–notices of property sales.

Appraising a property with no comps

June 8, 2008 10 Comments

My wife and I live in a county with 2,500 full-time residents. We have a lot of cattle, sheep and trees. The county seat is a town of about 200. Melissa is one of two lawyers in the county. This is one of our county’s major cools.