Articles
What we find out, written down.
Each article answers one question a landowner actually asks, and names every source it drew on.
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Anne Arundel County Perc Test & Septic Steps
Wet-season perc testing in Anne Arundel County runs roughly February through April, and a failed test has real alternatives short of walking away from the parcel.
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Why a Cash Offer Can Beat an Appraisal
Under USPAP, an appraisal is a defensible opinion of value as of a specific date, not a guarantee of what land will actually sell for. A specific buyer's cash offer can legitimately land above or below that number.
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How to Claim Surplus Funds After a Tax Sale
When land sells at tax auction for more than what was owed, the leftover money belongs to the former owner, but claiming it means beating a state-specific deadline before it escheats.
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7 Factors That Set Hunting Land's Value
Hunting land isn't priced like a house or a hayfield. Wildlife-management and land-value research point to seven specific, measurable factors that explain why two similar-sized tracts can lease or sell for very different numbers.
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7 Red Flags in a Vacant Land Purchase Agreement
Before you sign a standard vacant land purchase agreement, check these seven clauses for acreage mismatches, missing contingencies, and default terms that protect only the seller.
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How Maine Taxes Unorganized Territory Land
Roughly half of Maine has no town government, so the state itself values the land, sets the rate, and bills the property tax in the Unorganized Territory.
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How Maricopa County Values Vacant Desert Land
Maricopa County's Assessor's Office puts raw desert land in its own tax class and values it almost entirely off comparable land sales, since the cost approach used for buildings doesn't work on empty ground.
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What a Rural Homesite Needs Before a Permit
On a raw rural lot, the building permit is usually the last permit issued, not the first one applied for: septic, well, and driveway approvals come first, and each one narrows what the county will let you build.
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Tax Lien vs. Tax Deed States
Whether your state runs a tax lien system or a tax deed system determines how much runway you actually have to sell before the county takes final action, and the two systems work almost opposite ways.
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Oregon vs. California vs. Washington Timber Tax
Post-harvest timber taxes work differently in each state: Oregon charges a per-thousand-board-foot harvest tax, California taxes a state-set harvest value at 2.9%, and Washington charges 5% of stumpage value. The state a timber tract sits in changes what a seller nets after logging it.
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How Owner Financing Works in the Missouri Ozarks
Owner financing has quietly powered land sales across the Missouri Ozarks for decades. Here's how the contracts work and where Missouri law leaves buyers exposed.
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How Florida's Tax Deed Auction Process Works
In Florida, an unpaid tax certificate can trigger a Clerk of Court tax deed auction after just two years, but the landowner can still redeem the property right up until the winning bid is paid in full.
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