Communities Forming To Share Land

As we head into the weekend, it seems an appropriate time to take a step back and think about land BEYOND the consumer/investor/individual ownership model we tend to cop to in this wild & crazy “free market” country. It is amazing the preponderance of information that is readily available regarding these “traditional” ownership opportunities. [...]

Flying Away (to/with) White Bird, ID.

This morning’s adventure is courtesy of Whitehead Commercial & Industrial Realtors, a listing service out of Illinois which posted this listing for 80 acres for $200K near White Bird, Idaho.
What makes this listing different from anything we’ve seen is the tour-guide way in which it presents the property. The first photo is of the Salmon [...]

A Pitch With A Little Extra Spin

LandCrazed (the blogger) truly DOES get a kick out of these land sale and auction sites that make it seem as if buying land was no different from buying a pair of shoes. We’ve all gotten spammed with UNBELIEVABLE (NOT) offers from Overstock.com, right? Well, what’s the difference?
Case & Point? Look at landsalesco.com and their [...]

Offering A Piece of The Hoosier State

We don’t get many good looks at certain regions of the U.S., particularly the mid-West. The demographics say the center of our country is trickling people out to the perimeter — for warmer weather and coastal access. This makes for big media play for areas like Florida, Arizona, Las Vegas, the Pacific Northwest.
OK, we [...]

N.Y. Landowners Do It For Themselves

You can spend your life scrolling through land listings on the wildly proliferating number of real estate listing sites.
OR, you can go directly to the source: The Land Owner. And boy, doesn’t that seem like the perfect way to do business on something as quirky personal as purchasing rural land?
LandCrazed (the blogger) has a personal [...]

Cool Tool For/From The ‘Farmer’

The web has turned into a virtual funhouse of data-driven searches, games and gimmicks. We now have media sites dedicated to rural land and farming that take advantage of web technology and tools to land us, well, on exactly the kind of rural land we’re looking for.
The Progressive Farmer is offering this “COOL TOOL.“
About The [...]

Census Provides Data on Population Shifts

Thanks to an amazing graphic in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times (see the article) we were treated to a very startling look at population shifts all across the United States. Maricopa County in Arizona; northern Virginia; Houston; southern California, the Florida coast and Orlando area … one can draw any number of [...]

Iggyshouse.com Gets Into The Game

Zillow, Meet Iggy. Iggy, Meet Zillow.
Love these catchy little Web 2.0 names.
This is not a rural land site, but it is a worthwhile entry into the amazingly warp-speed morphing/evolving/competitive world of online real estate search/list/buy/sell sites. Everyone wants a piece of this MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR industry!!
Today’s offering really is TODAY’s offering. Iggyshouse.com launched its beta release, [...]

Clickin’ Good Fun in Tennessee

We’re always looking for rural land sellers who raise the bar on search and site usability. Well, today, we head to Marion County, Tennessee, to a place called Timberlake at Sewanee. These folks make you want to spend all day playing around on their land-sale site. These are some very cool interactive tools!
Sales Pitch:
“With retreat [...]

I Heart N.Y./The Show & The State

Let’s not make any excuses. The other night, LandCrazed (the blogger) watched back-to-back-to-back episodes of “I Love New York,” one of the most delightfully/terrible reality freak shows to ever hit the airwaves. Thank you, VH1. Don’t know how this could happen, but it’s even more delightfully/terrible than “The Flavor of Love,” which was pretty, well [...]