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Investing in real estate is a thrill like no other. For most of us purchasing property represents the pinnacle of a lifetime of hard work. It is most likely the biggest investment you will ever make. For this reason it is important to do your homework and make sure you’re investing wisely. There are a myriad of ecological factors and legalities that can have you second guessing your decision after the fact. LandsofAmerica.com and Michael Morrow with Ranch Logistics have teamed up to bring you this informative article.

Once you’ve decided you are going to purchase property the first step is to Keep reading →

The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA), the premier organization for rural consulting services announced today a partnership with LandsOfAmerica.com, LLC (LOA), the nation’s leading rural land listing service. Together the two leaders in the industry will provide comprehensive services to members.

The ASFMRA and LOA partnership will provide a central comparable sales program for rural properties to ASFMRA members as well as listing opportunities. The program will benefit not only members and rural real estate professionals but also the buying public by providing and promoting the vast database of rural land properties for sale on the LandsOfAmerica.com website.

Jake Massengale, CEO of LOA says, “It is a big undertaking and a long term program, but with the reach that both of our groups have within Keep reading →

This 120 acre farm was purchased in the Spring of 2008 for $120,000.  Hunting Country is using this land as a project farm to show how easy and affordable it is to improve the quality of wildlife on the average land.  Within 10 to 12 weeks following the acquisition the results were already noticeable.  While the appearance may look like an “Extreme Makeover”, this project was pretty simple and affordable.  When purchased, the land was nothing special, and mostly covered in native grasses, weeds, and cactus, with small areas of trees along the outer boundaries of the land.  For the most part this was an average Northwest Oklahoma farm.  The Whitetail numbers were “average at best” on this tract.   The Salt Fork River to the south manages to breach the property in a couple places.  After disking under nearly 60 acres half was planted to Keep reading →

Created in 1941, the Forest Landowners Association is a proactive, progressive and hard hitting grassroots organization of timberland owners - large and small - who own and operate more than 37 million acres of timberland in 47 states. The partnership with LandsofAmerica.com, LLC allows all our clients rural land listings to be displayed on
www.ForestLandOwners.com.

>>Click here to search properties on ForestLandOwners.com

LandsofAmerica.com could not be happier with it’s new partnership with The Houston Chronicle, www.Chron.com. LandsofAmerica.com
now powers the Houston Chronicle’s Farms and Ranches section. Because Houston is the headquarters for 1,000s of Oil and Gas
companies, every rural agent that we have spoken to lately is looking to find a way to highlight their recreational real estate
listings to the Houston area buyers.

Chron.com is the leading Keep reading →

BLUE GRASS, Va.—While large American newspapers are losing readers, cutting staff and scraping by on fewer advertising dollars, they’re expanding in one area–notices of property sales.

These fruits of foreclosures hang heavy in the back pages.

Distressed properties — the growth sector of a troubled economy — are often sold at auction.

Almost $60 billion of property was auctioned last year, and the National

Association of Realtors predicts about 30 percent of all real estate will be auctioned in 2010. Keep reading →

By Guest Blogger: Curtis Seltzer

BLUE GRASS, Va.—“Due diligence” is the process of careful investigation that buyers use to identify the values, issues and problems embedded in whatever they’re buying.

Since all property purchases are different and no Consumer Reports exists to simplify making choices, each buyer must dig out the story of a seller’s dirt.

This research is the responsibility of the buyer—not the buyer’s lawyer, not the agents involved, not the buyer’s lender or appraiser and not the buyer’s third cousin by marriage who was Keep reading →

As the U.S. dollar continues to lose value, the amount of foreign visitors on U.S. real estate websites like LandsofAmerica.com increase. We not only see this from our internal stats for our entire network of rural land websites, but also from the stats of many of our competitors in the rural real estate niche. So it is very apparent to us that foreign investors are looking at land in the US, my big question is: are they buying?

Every spring the LandsofAmerica.com staff travels to Keep reading →

Contributed by Northern Acres:
Existing second home and vacation land sales continue to be in demand in the big three vacation home states in the Northeast - Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. A unique aspect of these three states is that in Maine, followed by the others, have more vacation and second home properties than anywhere else in the country. Vacation properties and land markets have stayed relatively strong in these markets and are likely to continue to see moderate gains. Southern New England states like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut are more concentrated in residential property than that of thier northern neighbors so the market is a little more flat. However, because these states did not see the tremendous gains
other parts of the country realized, their markets are Keep reading →

While most cities and inner suburban neighborhoods have public sewer and water systems that feed residential houses, these services are seldom available in rural areas. It becomes cost prohibitive to provide that type of infrastructure over such a large area. As a result, the burden falls upon the property owner to provide their own well and septic if they plan to Keep reading →