Thursday, August 09, 2007
Just a Few "Earthy" Investment Thoughts
What if you just landed here on Earth and were
looking for opportunity in investment property?
What "kind" of land would attract you?
a) agricultural land
b) rural land
c) urban land
Let's say you could leave your footprint upon Terra Firma.
How would you plan to establish it and watch it turn into something special?
Maybe you would be like this little "green" guy who grew up on a farm on a faraway galaxy. You are interested in agricultural land. You head out with a vision to create a working farm, maybe your brother will develop co-housing facilities, and you will live in a sustainable eco-village. You love good food. So you decide to grow and supply organic crops and dairy products.
On the other hand, having come all this way in life in a crowded space craft, you now yearn for a private estate where you can set aside 1,900 of 2,000 acres of rural land. You want to hang out in nature, ride around on a horse,create a trail system for equestrian pursuits.- You will probably restrict use on 100 acres of such a parcel for a nature-education center so that other cosmic-environmentalists can get the Earthlings up-to-speed on how to take care of their planet.
- OR... Maybe too much nature kind of scares you. You don't really like all those noisy winds. You are an urban land kind of person. You want to design techonolgically-advanced systems in a LEED certified "green" office building.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
CONTINUATION OF THIS BLOG LINK
CONTINUE reading the about eco-wise real estate in the Asheville, N.C. area mountains here:
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Saturday, March 13, 2004
Green Real Estate & Investment Topics
(UPDATED regularly...please scroll down this page to read)
INTERVIEWING A REAL ESTATE PRO
How to Find THE "Right" ONE for You
From a Hilltop Overlooking the River!
A narrative on life in Western North Carolina
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT in the Asheville Area
Preserves and Land Conservancies
HOME ENERGY RATING
Good information for the home buyer
MARKETING EXCEPTIONAL PROPERTIES
Amazing tracts of land, land trusts, land preserves and spectacular properties require more time and marketing effort in order to attract just the “right” investor/buyer. When choosing a REALTOR to represent you in such transactions look for that person’s ability to:
CLUSTER HOUSING and large tracts of land
Interesting information on this form of development
LAND FOR INVESTMENT
Residential, horse farms and estates, vacant land, mountain getaways, 1031 Like-Kind Exchange
1031 LIKE-KIND EXCHANGES an Overview
INTERVIEWING A REAL ESTATE PRO
How to Find THE "Right" ONE for You
From a Hilltop Overlooking the River!
A narrative on life in Western North Carolina
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT in the Asheville Area
Preserves and Land Conservancies
HOME ENERGY RATING
Good information for the home buyer
MARKETING EXCEPTIONAL PROPERTIES
Amazing tracts of land, land trusts, land preserves and spectacular properties require more time and marketing effort in order to attract just the “right” investor/buyer. When choosing a REALTOR to represent you in such transactions look for that person’s ability to:
CLUSTER HOUSING and large tracts of land
Interesting information on this form of development
LAND FOR INVESTMENT
Residential, horse farms and estates, vacant land, mountain getaways, 1031 Like-Kind Exchange
1031 LIKE-KIND EXCHANGES an Overview
Labels: 1031, active rain BLOG, asheville green real estate, green investment, green real estate, green-o-lina
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
From a Hilltop Overlooking the River!
Ever felt as if you were zooming, full-tilt, down life’s highway while leaving behind your natural, “earthly” pace? Ever wish you had a place where you could just hang out and “set a spell’?
I know where you can find a slower pace, homemade peach cobbler, and the noble truth of just being! That place is Western North Carolina where small towns nestle comfortably in the Appalachians, some of the oldest mountains on Earth.
Take the small college town of Mars Hill, in Madison County North Carolina, for example.
Mars Hill is is just twenty minutes or so north of Asheville. There you will find the old-time white wood gazebo on Main Street. And "good old-fashioned" things are always happening in Mars Hill. Last Holiday Season, as I chatted with a couple from Michigan who are investing in a Land Trusts for their family, a parade with horse-drawn floats and a 20-piece marching band distracted us. I could see my clients’ eyes light up. “How often do you get to enjoy the homespun pleasure of simple elegance?” they asked.
Yes, you may come to know what Albert Camus meant when he said, “A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
Great and simple images. That’s what we have here! When you come to visit, you’ll find rotating exhibits paintings, photographs, sculpture, and other media from local and visiting artists in rotating displays at the College. And there is music in the air. Madison County has been home to some of the finest fiddlers of the Western North Carolina Appalachians. As the Madison County Chamber of Commerce says, “The mountains have nourished and sustained a musical heritage derived from the Celtic forbearers of present-day inhabitants.”
Traditional folk art is widely practiced here and in the many small towns of Madison County. Art. Music and let’s not forget Theater and Dance! The Folk Dance Company of Mars Hill College hosts the Southern Clogging Championships, and Mars Hill is well known throughout these parts for the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater (SART).
What a great environment for a REALTOR to call home. I love finding unique properties for my clients around here, the great hiking on the nearby Appalachian Trail ;whitewater rafting and canoeing; mountain biking; horseback riding; fishing and more... It is a sweet place to call HOME.
Labels: active rain BLOG, asheville real estate, green real estate, green-o-lina, stewardship, sustainable
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Welcome to Land Legacies - Real Estate Journal for the Asheville NC Area. We are currently under contruction of this web log. Please check back again for frequent updates.
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