We have been busy with some more acquisitions and are planning to acquire more property as the market improves.
A recent land investor of mine has a back hoe and large machinery
for blading roads. If you want a road bladed let me know and I
will provide you his contact information. Depending on the location and
topography the road should be reasonably priced and will obviously increase the value of your property and the subdivision as a whole. Of course, you have to blade in the road from the 30′ easement area of the subdivision so everyone has legal access. He also has an engineering friend that provides solar power panels as well. Very nice guy and also named Mark!
I found an interesting land article about which is the better
investment: Land or Stocks. Click this link to read it:
http://www.landthink.com/opinions/stocks-vs-land-which-is-the-better-investment/
I’m sure even if you don’t read the article you know instinctively
that rural land outperforms the stock market. However, I thought
the article was well done and informative.
I have recently made some quick less than a minute
YouTube videos of the land in Pershing and Humboldt
County’s. Check them out here:
Let me know what you think. I need some more investors! Let me
know if you have friends or family that also want to invest in rural land.
Of course, if they are like me, they are watching every penny, but now is an excellent time to invest before the market heats up again and it’s all gone.
Useful sites:
So I emailed a friend of a friend the other day a potentially
awkward question about his business and he never responded. As a result, I’m left in the dark. Was he offended by my email? Did he even open the email? Did it go to his “junk” mail, etc. However, if used this site –www.whoreadme.com I would have had my answer. This site tracks your email and alerts you when the recipient has read it. Maybe I will re-send it to him and track it….
Another great site I found was www.myfax.com/free which allows you
to send faxes for free in the U.S. and 40 other countries. I pay a
monthly service for an efax account and I may be dropping it soon.
For people who drive their cars regularly, change in the price of
gas can be very costly for their budget. Considering the volatility of gas prices, imagine if you could hedge against future gas price increases. This site Petrofix.com lets you do just that. It lets you lock in a fixed price for a
gas, so when the price goes up in the future, you won’t incur any additional costs. This service works well, if you are certain that gas prices will increase in the future. If prices go down, you will benefit from lower prices but will still have to pay the fee for each booked gallon over the period of your plan ( around $0.28 – 0.40 per gallon depending on the lock-in period)). This hedging strategy worked great for years for Southwest Airlines until the recent drop in oil
prices dropped their stock price like a hammer!
