This entry covers productive land whose value derives from what grows on it: timberland (commercial forest harvested for wood products), vineyards (grapes for wine), and orchards (tree and vine crops like almonds, citrus, and apples).
Log in to followThe whole point of this purchase was income that doesn't call me at 9pm, so I bought the crop and gave away the farming. 60 acres of mature pecans, trees mostly 25 to 35 years old…
Closed six weeks ago and I want to write down how it actually went while I still remember the annoying parts. The tract: 210 acres of loblolly pine, average age around 18, one blo…
This one's done and funded so I can write it up. Tract was 240 acres of pine in a mixed-age condition, listed at 1.02M, sat for seven months. The listing mentioned "active timber…
Posting this because the failure was procedural, and procedural failures are the cheapest kind to learn from someone else. The asset: 88 acres in a cool-climate wine region, 71 pl…
This worked out, and it worked out slower than it should have. Cutover means the timber's already been harvested, so you're buying close to bare land. The previous owner clearcut…