Land for Love and Money ― True Stories, Expert Advice

Instructional, humorous, and intriguing anecdotes on land and real estate purchase, sale, conservation and management. Chilling warnings of International, Federal, State and local grabs for your real estate and property rights; Agenda 21, Smart-Growth, Regionalism, the EPA and FDIC--not the friends of land and real estate owners. This is an absolutely unique, highly controversial digest of secrets shared by an expert with a forty-two year, 1.5 billion dollar plus career in land. You will laugh, you will frown and you will shake your head in disbelief.

These real-life stories, about successes and failures, are packed with essential truths and valuable instruction. Spiritual and financial lessons gleaned from all facets of land, and land-based real estate transactions, regardless of size, use, or location-from one-third of an acre to thousands. Today's uncertain climate and unstable economic times make these professional secrets invaluable--purchase, sale, value, tax benefit, banking systems, and even the darker facets of federal and state attempts at control--everything is covered here--affording you the opportunity to use the tempest to your advantage.

Are you an owner of land or real estate of any size, type or location? A wanna-be owner searching for an inflation safeguard? A haven? Lifestyle change? Security? Nostalgic for the rural roots of your youth? Tax Advantage? Spiritual connection? Family legacy? Forced to sell? These volumes will instruct, entertain, and open your eyes to the joys, and the dangers. The book studies many previously taboo, or ignored subjects you need to know--all critical to your enjoyment of, and profit from, your land and real estate:

• Agenda 21--The global grab for all private property rights
• Mammoth guaranteed real estate profits to banks--all from YOUR pocket and your real estate values
• Why your banker says no--what's really happening behind the vault doors
• This ain't your mama's appraisal--the rules have changed
• When it's time for the seller to sign the dotted line--forget price--let's talk net
• Looking under the rocks--due diligence and the "PPPPP Rule" can save a wreck
• The government is not here to help you--and it might be on purpose
• Buying and selling smart--the silver lining in an age of upheaval
• Conservation Easements--get paid to do the right thing--but be careful!

Based on the experience and insider knowledge of a fourth-generation land and cattleman, realtor and #1 bestselling, multiple award winning author, Reid Lance Rosenthal's career spans multiple states, three countries and two continents. Reid's first non-fiction work is drawn from over five thousand transactions and laced with true anecdotes of the good, bad and ugly with no-holds-barred, real time, hard-hitting facts--and must know warnings--critical to your heart, your wallet and the future of your property rights.

Land for Love and Money tells all--the good, bad and ugly--of land and land related residential and other improvements and operations. Balm for your heart, enhancement of your wallet, protection of your future, land and real estate--the foundations of freedom--for soul, for security, for you.

Reid Lance Rosenthal purchased his first piece of land--a ranch property--at the age of eighteen. Three generations of a family steeped in land and cattle preceded him, and from these past generations he acquired a deep and abiding love of the land and its energy. This respect, and the reality of the skills necessary to properly select, plan, improve, enhance, and preserve land, and real estate of any size or type have grown and been honed by successes and failures over more than forty-two years in real estate, ranching, land use, conservation and management.

Reid is a rancher, a realtor, and leading authority on ranch, farm, recreation, residential, and large and small properties--rural, ranch, suburban or urban--from acquisition, to disposition, management, operations, improvements, and protection from disturbing trends in government. He and his firms have been involved as a principal, partner, or consultant in more than five thousand land and real estate transactions with a market value of over $1.5 billion in multiple states, three countries and two continents. Hundreds of properties, totaling tens of thousands of surface acres, have been fully or significantly restored, enhanced and preserved by Reid or his firms through deed restrictions, conservation easements, planning devices, and other land use controls. These are the first and only comprehensive books of their type anywhere in the United States or Canada.

The same primal, magnetic pull of the land that fuels Reid's career in land management, now powers another of his lifetime dreams: to write. His works include the #1 Best Selling Threads West, An American Saga series, a multi-generational tale of the adventure and romance of America, her people and her spirit. The series has been honored with thirteen national awards!