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03.20.09 / Why Are Rural Lands Good Purchases?
Editor’s Note: Tom Brickman, a real estate agent, forestry consultant & certified appraiser, heads-up Land Smart Resources in Hoover, Alabama. Their mission is helping people make smart decisions about rural land (timberland, farm land, recreation land). The company offers two things: land for sale & services for people who want to buy land, sell land, or care for rural land they already own. Question: What type of people do you employ? Brickman: Cyprus Partners ...
03.19.09 / Why do we buy property?
By Curtis Seltzer Americans say they buy country property for many reasons—investment, recreation, business, relaxation, second home and retirement. Is there more to it than that? Are we also driven by a deeper motive—a need from our evolutionary past? Some anthropologists believe that property -- house, stuff, retirement accounts, things we create -- is an extension of our primal instinct to possess territory. Many animals, particularly those with social organization, claim territor...
03.12.09 / Outbuildings are always good for something
By Curtis Seltzer Outbuildings are to country property as legs are to a centipede. Each functions better when all are in working order and you have some to spare. Urban buyers usually focus on a property’s house, because that is what they know. Nothing wrong with that. Equal attention, however, should be paid to the supporting cast of improvements, without which the show may go on but not very well. Working farms, in particular, rely on a few star structures and many role players. If...
03.05.09 / Is rural America cursed with isolation?
I had a bit part 46 years ago in my high school’s senior class musical, “Brigadoon.” Since I can’t sing, dance or act, I was cast as a dry goods merchant. I opened the play with a few lines of Scottish brogue that sounded like dinosaur gargle while trying to keep my kilt from falling into the orchestra pit. I was then expected to disappear--just like this weird little medieval Highlands village, which had cut a funky deal with the Lord that allowed it to come back t...
02.26.09 / Trees and loggers: Television’s stab at reality
By Curtis Seltzer Something’s up in television land. Have you noticed all the shows on loggers? The History Channel brings us “AXMEN” about crews in Northwest Oregon, and this season we’re promised “they’re bigger,badder and tougher than ever.” The series has nothing to do with history or axes. ...
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