Buying real estate is an increasingly complicated process.
Curtis Seltzer
People who live in the country are either “been-heres” or “come-heres.” Both choose to live here—and often it’s a hard choice.
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...
“I’m thinking,” I said to my wife a month ago, “U. P.” “You first,” Melissa said. When you were voted second funniest in your high school class 45...
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...
My knowledge of wine is limited to the fact that there are reds and whites. In a wild year, I might drink three, maybe, four glasses; mainly for...
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...
The phone call came in cold, three weeks ago. A major gas company was offering $10,000 to buy a 50-foot-wide, pipeline right-of-way easement over...
When you buy land, you need to establish your "basis" for tax purposes. Starting basis is basically your purchase price, plus, perhaps, certain...
A boom is happening in places with oil and gas reserves. Deep "plays" are now economically feasible where they weren't two years ago when oil was a...