To many of us, the Life Estate appears to be something that we’ll never see. I remember first learning about life estates when I took my first real estate course in 1977. It seemed like a neat trick. A life estate can be granted to an individual by the owner of a property. First there [...]
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Life Estates – They Serve a Purpose
Posted in Land Ownership, selling land, real estate, tagged Life Estates, selling land on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Partition – Ending Co-tenancy
Posted in Farm Management, Land Ownership, Partnerships, selling land, real estate, co-ownership, ending co-ownership, purchasing real estate, tagged partitian, ending co-ownership, undivided interest on May 4, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The situation Ten parcels of ranch property owned by one partnership with about 25 members, one LLC with three members, a family trust with 20 heirs and four individuals including one who was deceased and still on title. That was the status of our ranch in year 2003. We owned an undivided interest equivalent [...]
Time to Buy a Ranch or Duck Club?
Posted in Land Ownership, selling land, outdoors, real estate, purchasing real estate on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is this the time to buy a ranch? Duck club? Maybe not, but it is definitely the time to make serious progress towards buying hunting property. Here are some ideas to get you started. If you want a hunting ranch, you must have the means to buy it and you probably won’t get enough money [...]
Landowner view of Condemnation
Posted in Land Ownership, Partnerships, selling land, real estate, condemnation on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During 2003, thinking it was a good time to buy a property to suit my own investment needs, I scoured the multiple listing service for an attractive buying opportunity. On one occasion, I found a property that seemed to be listed below market value. The property listed was advertised to be a 32-acre site [...]
How Much Is Enough?
Posted in Uncategorized, Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Duck hunting, Deer hunting, Ranch Management, Farm Management, Wildlife habitat, Land Ownership, Partnerships, Hunting, wildlife management, selling land, wildlife conservation, outdoors, real estate on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Caption: The size of the pond and the catch vary with ”the beholder.”) The small sycamore tree stood atop a 20 foot high mound where it had been spared by quarry equipment. It remained an island in an otherwise barren gravel pit. From our vantage point, my brother, Rob, and I could see a valley quail [...]
The Undivided Interest
Posted in Ranch Management, Farm Management, Land Ownership, Hunting, wildlife management, selling land, outdoors, real estate on January 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the summer of 1992, I published a real estate newsletter. One of the areas of discussion was related to the benefits of partnerships. In that summer’s issue, I wrote the following: There are several ways that one can hold title to real estate. One of the common methods of taking title, when there is [...]
All a Goose Hunter Could Ask For
Posted in Ranch Management, Farm Management, Wildlife habitat, Land Ownership, Hunting, wildlife management, selling land, Ecology, wildlife conservation, outdoors, tagged Hunting conservation, Land Ownership on December 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hunting partner, Tom Billingsley, and I arrived at the Web Tract ferry about 8:45 on Saturday morning Dec 1. One truck was in line ahead of us and the driver hopped out of his truck as we pulled up. “I’ve been here since 8 O’clock,” he bellowed. “There was no 8 O’clock ferry and if [...]
