Awareness of protected species is an essential component in the acquisition and ownership of real property. Sometimes even with proper advance knowledge and solid planning the unexpected can occur. That’s what happened to me when a pair of bald eagles decided to move into my unfinished project.

I believe that no single step in the pre-closing inspection and feasibility study of real property is more important than environmental inspections.

It is possible to close on real property and waive an inspection. I have never done it and I think it is reckless to do so under almost every condition. A waived inspection can create unnecessary risk and potential problems at three broad levels.

Sometimes there is opportunity in land development to go beyond subdividing and take advantage of other related opportunities to generate revenue. In this case a private Water System.

Land development as a very risky proposition in my opinion. There are a hundred reasons why, but I would narrow it down a bit by pointing out that the costs are pretty much all front-loaded and there is no guarantee of a return. However, there are positive ways to work with these stark Land Development Realities

The terms real estate and real property are used interchangeably all the time, but they are not the same thing. So now is a good time to take a look at what real property means and especially the importance of the legal rights and restrictions associated with it. Smart investors need to be mindful.

Everyone knows that the transfer of real property to estate heirs can be accomplished in a will. What is frequently overlooked is that it may be possible to subdivide land through a will and then distribute it to heirs as incremental parcels created from the original ownership.

This successful subdivision of a single 20 acre parcel into four 5 acre parcels occurred in a rural county that allowed a method of land segregation for a qualifying property and individual, lawfully avoiding the short or long plat process.

Within this blog, I will go into details about each of the following ways that I have used to get the maximum dollar out of a piece of land without doing a traditional short or long plat subdivision.