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03.27.09 / An Outdoorsman Finds His Life’s Calling – Mark Lewis of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Owner of Mississippi Land Company
Editor’s Note: Mississippi Land Company (MLC) represents buyers and sellers of property in Mississippi. The company also advises buyers before, during and after the sale and offers information and assistance on any issue or problem relating to land. MLC coordinates timber sales, plants trees, oversees lake construction, sets up wildlife management plans and implements those plans. Too, MLC can conduct wildlife surveys and timber appraisals and make recommendations about where to plant gree...
03.27.09 / Why Are Rural Lands Good Purchases?
Editor’s Note: Tom Brickman, a real estate agent, forestry consultant & certified appraiser, heads-up Land Smart Resources in Hoover, Alabama. Their mission is helping people make smart decisions about rural land (timberland, farm land, recreation land). The company offers two things: land for sale & services for people who want to buy land, sell land, or care for rural land they already own. Question: What type of people do you employ? Brickman: Cyprus Partners ...
03.26.09 / We walk and talk: A Bub in the woods
By Curtis Seltzer Three big helicopters flew in low and fast over Devil’s Backbone, the 4,000-foot-high Appalachian ridge that is the eastern rim of my end of Virginia’s Blue Grass Valley. They landed soft about 8:30 on Saturday morning in the front pasture. Sophie and Lucy, our two yellow Labs, barked once between them, then ducked under the porch, paws over their eyes. Four black vans suddenly rumbled across my bridge. Forty linebackers in black shoes, black suits and shades jump...
03.19.09 / Why do we buy property?
By Curtis Seltzer Americans say they buy country property for many reasons—investment, recreation, business, relaxation, second home and retirement. Is there more to it than that? Are we also driven by a deeper motive—a need from our evolutionary past? Some anthropologists believe that property -- house, stuff, retirement accounts, things we create -- is an extension of our primal instinct to possess territory. Many animals, particularly those with social organization, claim territor...
03.12.09 / Outbuildings are always good for something
By Curtis Seltzer Outbuildings are to country property as legs are to a centipede. Each functions better when all are in working order and you have some to spare. Urban buyers usually focus on a property’s house, because that is what they know. Nothing wrong with that. Equal attention, however, should be paid to the supporting cast of improvements, without which the show may go on but not very well. Working farms, in particular, rely on a few star structures and many role players. If...