Rural Land

No two tracts of land are the same. Buying timberland is not the same as buying farm land. Buying a wooded recreational tract is not the same as buying a wooded development tract. This book will give you specific information as it relates to a number of different rural real estate types, scenarios and what-to-watch-fors. You will get good information that can save you money, make you money, save time or all three!

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.

Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winning journalist Brian Reisinger weaves forgotten eras of American history with his own family’s four-generation fight for survival in Midwestern farm country. Listeners learn the truth about America’s most detrimental and unexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depression to barely making ends meet in modern America.

For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall means trouble when your mother catches you spying on grown-ups. Adventurous and precocious, Jess is enormously protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute whom everyone calls Stump. Though their mother has warned them not to snoop, Stump can't help sneaking a look at something he's not supposed to - an act that will have catastrophic repercussions, shattering both his world and Jess's. It's a wrenching event that thrusts Jess into an adulthood for which he's not prepared.

In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself.

More Land Buying Tips is just that...more! The original Land Buying Tips book was popular, so we did it again with different contributors and topics. Rural real estate - land - is a unique niche. In our land-related books we speak directly to the specific issues that apply to all types of rural real estate like farms, ranches, timber tracts, recreational tracts, and wooded parcels that can be developed into home sites or camps and retreats. The contributors in this book - like the first book - are the real deal.

The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. Wastelands takes us into a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.

He’d made mistakes...more than a few and probably didn’t deserve the second chance he’d been given. But he was going to do everything he could to prove himself worthy of it. Ray didn’t have a single doubt that a number of individuals were wondering where he’d disappeared to. With luck it would stay that way...but if it didn’t he probably wouldn’t be around to worry about it. Not even a week ago he’d arrived on the island with a windfall of money to his name but no where to go. Being given another chance was the last thing he expected when he arrived...or that it came from ...

Das "Polackenkind" ist die fünfjährige Vera auf dem Hof im Alten Land, wohin sie 1945 aus Ostpreußen mit ihrer Mutter geflohen ist. Ihr Leben lang fühlt sie sich fremd in dem großen, kalten Bauernhaus und kann trotzdem nicht davon lassen. Bis sechzig Jahre später plötzlich ihre Nichte Anne vor der Tür steht. Sie ist mit ihrem kleinen Sohn aus Hamburg-Ottensen geflüchtet, wo ehrgeizige Vollwert-Eltern ihre Kinder wie Preispokale durch die Straßen tragen - und wo Annes Mann eine Andere liebt.

Maya Thorne is called to investigate when Dr. Amanda Parker is found dead. What begins as an apparent accident evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between drought-resistant crop research and powerful interests operating in the shadows of rural Australia. When evidence emerges that Parker's death was staged using the storm as cover, Maya must navigate both scientific sabotage and the deep-rooted tensions of a community divided by old grievances and new threats. As pressure mounts from university officials and corporate representatives, Maya uncovers links between ...

For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice - his girlfriend, Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants.

In Up Jumps the Devil, fast-moving progress is threatening to forever destroy the leisurely, heart-warming pace of Colleton County, North Carolina. District Court Judge Deborah Knott sees trouble brewing when plans for a new interstate highway start pushing up property values. Deborah finds herself calming the combatants with down-home wit, but when the squabbles escalate to murder, Deborah is forced to search for a killer uncomfortably close to home.

In the remote cattle country of Western Australia's Kimberley, where seasonal flooding transforms the landscape into a vast inland sea, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is summoned when rising waters uncover human remains near Warrigal Creek Station. What begins as the discovery of decades-old bones evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between historical water rights manipulation and powerful interests still operating today. When a station hand researching the same water dispute goes missing in suspiciously similar circumstances, Odie must navigate ...

What begins as a staged suicide quickly reveals itself as calculated murder, exposing the desperate measures Warragulla's founding families will take to maintain their authority. When Maya discovers Marshall was killed immediately after losing his council seat to newcomer James Wilson, she uncovers a conspiracy rooted in historical land fraud and manipulated boundaries dating back to the devastating 1950s drought. As Maya navigates the community's complex loyalties, she finds that Marshall had discovered ledgers documenting how Warragulla's cornerstone families consolidated their control ...

11 proven steps that can help you add value to your land are identified and clearly explained by a leading land broker. The steps offered in this concise book can help you sell your land faster by improving its overall desirability and by helping it stand out among other rural real estate tracts on the market. Not selling right now? This information will help you improve your property's value for a future sale, or just make it better for your kids and grandkids.

Get ready to embark on an exciting journey as the Living Off the Land eBook takes you through the unique art of homesteading in New York. This comprehensive guide on living off the land is perfect for anyone seeking to immerse themselves in the self-sufficient lifestyle! In Chapter 1, you will delve into the world of homesteading in New York; a unique experience unlike any other. Chapter 2 discusses the importance of finding your perfect homestead, one that aligns with your goals and dreams. We provide tips and techniques on finding the perfect homestead in New York that will help you start...

When widowed rancher Nathan’s golden retriever Rusty uncovers a hidden research box by an old barn, they stumble into a conspiracy that has shaped their small Oregon town for nearly a century. The box contains evidence of systematic land fraud and murder from the 1920s, research compiled by a brave indigenous woman who died trying to expose the truth. As Nathan teams up with local historian Sarah to investigate, they discover that many of Oakwood Valley’s most respected families built their prosperity on stolen land and buried secrets. But someone will kill to keep the past buried. With...

A good road into your property can be the difference between a landlocked parcel–useful only for recreation–and an extremely valuable real estate asset. But you don't have to wait and hope for a road to come your way. You can build it yourself. Not all roads are constructed by the government or large commercial interests. Private landowners all over the country build roads to and into their own property.