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I don't live there so I don't know, but just to be clear, you're factually disputing the demographic changes he wrote about? State demographics often change over time and that often changes how the state votes (in both directions), sometimes in as little time as from one presidential election to...

Interesting story this week exploring why calling everything between Philly and Pittsburgh "Alabama" is not really accurate anymore in modern times with demographic changes. https://www.city-journal.org/article/time-to-retire-pennsylvanias-alabama

Incredible buck. Congrats!

Absolutely right on that one!

Of all the counties that both Biden and Hillary won in Georgia, Biden outperformed Hillary's vote percentage in more than half of them, so it might be a stretch to say that the Fulton County vote alone was responsible for Trump losing GA in 2020.

It's actually very normal and it's not really *regions* within a state generally that are so different as much as it's population centers vs. rural voting areas with lots of land and few people. Minnesota is a little different than most Midwest states, but I'm not at all surprised you saw all...

I'm in Lucas County and I thought something in the high 4's to maybe 5 would be what this one went for per acre. I was very surprised to learn $7,100/acre. I was told it was purchased by someone wealthy who already had a massive hunting landholding very nearby, and was bidding against an Amish...

Those are some great and important questions and I'll be happy to give my input. I didn't know that even happened on a reserve auction. I always thought that was the cost of doing business for the realtor. On a traditional listing, yes. On an auction, not necessarily. It very much depends on...

One other thing to be possibly wary of with land auctions in general but particularly for rec/hunting land auctions, is that some auction houses do not work with buyer's agents in bringing a buyer to their land "auctions", only to their "traditional" land for sale listings (and sometimes it's...

Good comments and I see that a LOT, particularly with some of the big auction companies. A lot of times they'll have a grand total of maybe 5-10 photos on the auction listing for a 100+ acre property, and none of them very good. Almost certainly no trail camera photos. You certainly are not...

Very likely that is exactly the case.

Definitely sounds like someone got a steal. The world of land selling has changed a lot in the last 20 years, in the era of widespread internet use. Mom & pop small-town "old school" real estate brokerages used to dominate, but that has changed drastically, in southern Iowa anyway. Now a lot...

Yeah that was definitely a steal for anything pretty much other than WRP ground. Do you happen to remember what county that was in?

Thanks, happy to give my input when useful.:)

I've seen it both ways. The tax assessor sale record usually notes if it was a sale between family members. Sometimes I'm surprised at a lower sale price, but often the land sells for about what it's selling for on the public market.

Hard to believe that a *lot* of land in southern Iowa won't hit the public market for sale in the next 10-15 years. There are an awful lot of farmers who are ageing out and a lot of kids that aren't sticking around on the farm, they're moving north to better paying city jobs and in a lot of...

There are a lot of variables certainly that can affect real market value. But real market values aren't *that* grey. In Iowa every sale gets recorded and that information is available via the county tax assessor for anyone who wants to take the time to find it. One thing is for sure, though: the...

Just curious, what was your down payment to loan ratio? No problem if you don't want to answer, I'm just curious if that might have had something to do with it, an abnormally high down payment amount....5.6% does seem crazy low without some extenuating circumstances, at current interest rates...