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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How to Buy Land at a Tax Deed Auction Safely
Winning a county tax deed auction gets you a deed, not a guarantee. Here is what actually happens before, during, and after the sale.
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Georgia Tax Deed Redemption: What Owners Can Do
Georgia is neither a pure lien state nor a pure deed state. After a tax sale, the owner keeps a redeemable interest in the land that can be sold, transferred, or bought back until a formal notice process, called barment, cuts it off.
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What a Timber Cruise Tells You Before Selling
A timber cruise is a statistical sample, not a full inventory. Here's how fixed-radius and prism sampling work, how accurate the result is, and how volume becomes a dollar figure.
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Cash Land Buyer vs. Agent: The Real Price Gap
Cash offers and agent listings solve different pricing problems. This piece applies real offer-pricing and price-gap methodology to show what the difference between them is actually made of, and when it's worth paying for.
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Costilla County Land: A Cautionary Case Study
Decades ago the FTC found that thousands of Costilla County lots were sold as homesites they could never legally become. The same checks that would have caught it then still apply to any lot there today.
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7 Easements That Limit What You Can Build
You already closed on the parcel. Now a permit application or a fresh survey has turned up an easement you didn't know about, and it's sitting on top of your building plans. Here's what the seven common types actually restrict, and how to find the rest before you break ground.
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How to Get an Army Corps Wetlands Determination
Requesting a jurisdictional determination tells you whether part of your land is a federally regulated wetland. Here's how the request, review, and validity period actually work.
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Selling Land Before Wayne County's Tax Auction
Wayne County moves from tax delinquency to forfeiture to a final foreclosure judgment in roughly two years, and vacant land does not qualify for the hardship payment plans available to homeowners.
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Cash Rent vs. Crop-Share: Which Pays More?
A 22-year Purdue case study and university extension data show cash rent and crop-share leases produce similar average returns for landowners, but the winner flips depending on whether crop prices are rising or falling.
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How to Spot a Shady Land Buyer: 8 Red Flags
Eight concrete red flags that separate a legitimate land buyer from a scammer, plus what to check before you sign anything.
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7 Easements to Check Before You Close on Land
A title report doesn't treat all easements the same way. Some are a recorded line item you can read before closing; others never make it onto paper at all, and knowing which is which changes what you ask for before you sign.
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8 Red Flags That Mean Land Isn't Buildable
Vacant land can look perfect and still be legally unbuildable. These eight documented red flags, drawn from septic, flood, and wetlands records, show why.
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