Recent content by jflournoy

My experience is that forage/daikon radish tops start getting worked over in September and the whole plants (bulbs included) are pretty much decimated by the deer by sometime in December. Great early to middle late season crop. Purple Top Turnips don't get a whole lot of activity until usually...

Speaking as someone who acts as a listing agent more often than a buyers agent, I just want to say this is definitely not always the case. A good realtor (whether listing agent or buyer agent) knows that if they're going to have long-term success in this industry, you better treat people right...

I will admit it, I'd rather make more money than less money. Fight me. :) No seriously, everyone has their own needs, you feel comfortable going direct to listing agent, some people absolutely feel more comfortable using a buyers agent, especially if buyer is from out of area and isn't as...

This kind of thing certainly happens, but in that sort of situation the listing agent violated their responsibility to the seller to present all offers. What would have been better was for him to tell you he thought it was unlikely the seller would consider that offered number, but that if you...

This never ceases to amaze me. Every seller can certainly make their own decision, but some sellers are so biased against the idea of using a realtor that they really do shoot themselves in the foot - and don't even realize it - by going For Sale by Owner just to save on paying a realtor...

Only speaking for myself here, but the time prior to the listing going live when realtors are actually allowed to reach out to buyers directly is the time you're trying to find a buyer directly that will come through the listing agent, not through another buyers agent. Other buyers agents see...

Personally, I'm not sure there's really going to be all that much change, but it's early days and there's a lot of confusion about the details right now. Anyone who says they're sure "this" is going to happen or "that" is going to happen is someone you probably shouldn't listen to. May be a few...

Definitely. Loaded with deer and turkey.:)

Pretty low quality ag ground at 38 csr2 for one of the parcels and a little better 47 csr2 for the other one (the 2 parcels that made up the 232.84 acres). And they were being farmed organic so probably not the "cleanest" looking and didn't show as well. I don't know the market in that area of...

The 40's (and the 80's) are more valuable per acre because they're simply affordable to a larger pool of buyers. I don't disagree with you that all the breaking up of large acreages eventually means the quality of hunting goes down, but for a lot of guys there's a big difference between hunting...

Definitely true in the vast majority of cases. Though occasionally if it's a super special farm or is an unusually large contiguous landholding for the area, sometimes that will cause it to actually sell for a premium. But best to figure in most cases that a smaller pool of legit buyers = buyer...

Yep, no different than Californian's moving to the Rockies states and Texas and buying houses and land that seem "cheap" for their income and what they were used to in California.

If you want to say that the increased demand for land had some connection with the economic forces that started the money supply on a strong inflationary upswing (money printing as a result of COVID), then I'd agree with you there. But I think the primary driver of the rise in land prices is...

I'm no economist, but I think you're only half right. Dollars *are* becoming less valuable, but land *is* also getting more expensive. Inflated dollars don't increase the *demand* for land, but *demand* for land could definitely contribute to inflation over time. When demand outstrips supply...