LandThink

When one begins to think about investing in an asset they usually have a couple of goals in mind. First, they are usually hoping that their investment will increase in value. Second they are trying to protect their future ability to utilize the asset.

Land is everything beneath us. Land is a basis of wealth and is handed down through generations as a possession of great value.

Land seems to be the new buzz word floating around currently. I was emailing Gloria Bowen our Executive Director of the Realtors® Land Institute in Chicago. RLI was organization was established in 1944 and is charged with educating Realtors® about Land and Land issues.

I was lying in bed at 3:30 a.m. a couple of weeks ago recounting dumb things I’ve done and making a to-do list when a new thought slipped into line. It was this: I was warm and dry, fed and watered. I did not fear a knock at my door and a one-way trip to jail.

Fifty years ago, I stood on a stage at Morningside School, dressed as a British officer from 1758. My eighth-grade class was celebrating Pittsburgh’s Bicentennial. I was Colonel Henry Bouquet, second in command under General John Forbes who, though ill and litter-bound, had led 7,000 British soldiers and colonials across Pennsylvania to the Forks of the Ohio River.