Buy It To Keep It: How to Inspect Rural Land Before You Own It — Access, Water, Septic, Zoning, and Owner Financing for Homesteaders, Hunters, and Retirees
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Buy It To Keep It: How to Inspect Rural Land Before You Own It — Access, Water, Septic, Zoning, and Owner Financing for Homesteaders, Hunters, and Retirees
- Author
- Hollis, Wade
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798192395912
That is the actual problem, and it is not a knowledge problem. There are eleven listing sites and a Facebook group in every county. The hard part is the space between finding a parcel and owning it, where three things are true that nobody says out loud: you are not buying dirt but a bundle of rights that may already be missing the minerals, the water and the right to build; nobody in the transaction has been assigned to protect you; and most of the defects that would ruin this are discoverable free, from a laptop, in one evening, before you spend a Saturday or a dollar.
Buy It To Keep It is the buyer’s-side mirror of every land flipping book on the shelf. It is written for the person who intends to still own the parcel in thirty years — the homesteader, the hunter, the family planning to build slowly, the couple two years from retirement — and not for the investor who is out in ninety days. That difference changes everything, because a flipper never installs a septic system, never drills a well, and never has to get a concrete truck up the driveway in March.
Inside, you get the work in order, with the words to say.
- The ninety-minute desktop screen. Nine free browser tabs, run in sequence, that will kill most of the parcels on your list tonight — including the USDA soil survey page that tells you whether the ground will support a septic system, and the state well log database that tells you what depth your future neighbors hit water at.
- Total cost to usable, the only price that matters to a keeper. A fourteen-line worksheet covering the well, the septic, the power extension, the driveway and the permits, because on cheap parcels those routinely cost two to three times the sticker.
- Legal access versus physical access, treated as the two separate problems they are — including the counterintuitive reason a generous neighbor’s forty years of permission makes your position weaker, not stronger.
- Water: riparian and prior appropriation rights, well logs, reading a driller’s quote, and the honest four-option decision tree when the news is bad.
- Buildability: perc tests and soil evaluations, the seasonal testing window that money cannot fix, the reserve area nobody mentions, zoning permitted-use tables, and the recorded covenants that quietly ban the small cabin you were going to build slowly.
- How land is sold to you. The acquisition playbook of the professional land seller, explained straight, with eight tells you can check in fifteen minutes for free, so you can recognize a fair deal from a manufactured one.
- Financing without getting owned. Why banks decline raw land and why it is not about your credit, where the money actually is including Farm Credit, and the difference between a secured note and a contract for deed that can cost you the land and every dollar you paid into it.
- The offer, the contingencies, and a day-by-day forty-two day due diligence calendar with model contingency language and a closing-table checklist.
- The first year, sequenced so money spent early does not have to be spent twice, and keeping it — agricultural tax valuation, rollback taxes, a maintenance plan designed for the body you will have at seventy-five, and getting the land to your children without a courthouse.
- Fifteen scripted conversations, word for word, for the county sanitarian, the well driller, the adjoining landowner, the electric cooperative, the seller’s agent, and the person in your kitchen who agreed to all this on faith.
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