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 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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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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