LandThink

My heart — that mean-spirited little pump I keep around for “Casablanca” and odd emotional assignments — hurts for the Midwest folks who have been wiped out by flooding, once again.

“Due diligence” is the process of careful investigation that buyers use to identify the values, issues and problems embedded in whatever they’re buying.

Many city-bound Americans see themselves eventually owning an older house in the country. It may be a second home or a retirement spot. It has several large shade trees in the front yard—and a big front porch. The wood-frame farmhouses that we associate with Norman Rockwell’s America were built from the 1850s through the 1930s.