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!

Break Free from the Grid—Without Breaking the Bank Tired of sky-high property prices and endless mortgage applications? No Credit, No Problem is your ultimate guide to unlocking the American dream of land ownership—even if you’ve been told "no" before. Whether you're a homesteader, retiree, or investor, this hands-on book shows you exactly how to find, evaluate, and purchase rural land without traditional financing. Learn how to tap into seller financing, lease-to-own deals, and hidden gems that don’t require a credit check. Discover the secrets of scouting land with fertile soil, ...

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.

The Practical Guide to Turning Your Land into Reliable Income Tired of watching your hobby farm cost more than it earns? You’re not alone. Most small farmers start with passion but struggle to make it pay. The Hobby Farm Income Blueprint shows you how to change that; step by step, with systems that work in the real world. Author and small-farm business mentor Cal Mason walks you through proven ways to earn steady income from your land without sacrificing your time, your sanity, or your love of farming. Whether you own five acres or a backyard plot, this book gives you a clear, realistic ...

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

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.

Deals are sometimes loaded with land mines that can blow up and cause you serious problems, time delays and a loss of money. Learn how to avoid a few of them without having to experience the same problems or make the same mistakes Pat discusses.

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.

Turn Dirt Into Dollars—Discover the Secrets of Rural Real Estate Fortune Building! You’re holding the blueprint for wealth that lies just beyond the city limits… Raw acreage. Open fields. Forgotten tracts. Hidden parcels. Every square foot holds the potential to transform your future, build your wealth, and multiply your success—if you know how to spot it, finance it, and sell it at the right time. This is your definitive guide to rural land riches—a time-tested, real-world handbook that shows you how to identify undervalued country land, acquire it using leverage, and profit from...

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the...

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.

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...

Being a land broker and investor for almost 20 years has taught me a few things about rural real estate. I am passing some of this experience along in the form of short, proven tips that will help you in your land deals. Subjects such as closing, contracts, surveys, negotiating, and how to find deals are just a few of the subjects we help with here.

Caleb Pryce has carried the handprint on his arm since the dreams began. A dead woman's grip, mapped in bruise-dark skin that stays cold no matter the weather. When the mark starts spreading, he follows it south—to a holler in the North Carolina mountains where his ancestor killed a healer named Delphia Skaggs two hundred years ago. Delphia is not resting. She is not a ghost. She is something older—a woman whose suffering was never witnessed, whose death was never mourned, whose body was buried in ground that remembers everything. She has been waiting for the last Pryce to come home. ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

When system processes fail, will you be ready? Off the Grid: Essential Strategies for Self Sufficient Living & Survival is a practical, no-nonsense guide for anyone ready to take control of their resources, reduce dependence on fragile systems, and build a resilient off-grid lifestyle one step at a time. Whether you’re preparing for emergencies, planning a gradual transition off the grid, or simply seeking greater self-reliance, this book breaks down off-grid living into clear, achievable systems. You’ll learn the four pillars of self-sufficiency, how to assess your current situation, ...

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.