Seeking Homes on the Range
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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The Internet is reviving a grand old American tradition: land scams. Thousands of lots in phantom subdivisions that were sold decades ago to people who hoped to build retirement homes in warm states are reappearing on online sites such as the Internet giant eBay.
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The Steeds Grant subdivision in Fort Washington projects an air of comfortable affluence. Stately, spacious Colonials nestle on winding streets, their Palladian windows and backyard decks offering a vista of rolling lawns and wooded glens. Well-heeled professionals come and go; the manicured yards...
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS\\ Staff Writer  CANYON COUNTRY -- Deborah Rodriguez thought she would settle down in Canyon Breeze Village when she bought a mobile home in the park years ago.
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Sir, Circa 1907, my grandparents John and Sarah Jane Blechynden purchased 4000 acres (1600ha) from John Kerr Estate, from Tophouse to Tee Total Gully, the peninsula and /*historic Red Whare musterer's cottage on the lake shore. The Roundell Run homestead was established at the top of Black Valley.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Feb. 19--Possible neighbors of the proposed hog farm in eastern Yuma  County aren't quite ready to accept an animal feeding operation in their  backyard even though the company intends to break ground this week.
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Residents who live near writer Ernest Hemingway's former home in the resort town of Ketchum want to buy the house and move it to settle a dispute with its owner, The Nature Conservancy.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--The Red Creek Land Co. is nearing completion of plans for a cluster development of 90 home sites in the Turtle Buttes area east of Beulah.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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By Richard Mize, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--Land-office business is in the offing just west of Deer Creek High School.   Developers are jockeying to draw up what state officials envision as possibly -- but not necessarily -- an equestrian-oriented housing addition.
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Most boomers say they don't want to   retire and move to Florida or Arizona or even Belize. They want   to stay where they are, near family and friends and in the home   that they already know and love.
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Anxious about buying a house? Here's the best places to ride out a rough market.
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Tycho:  Gabriel and Kara are thinking about moving, but only one of them is approaching things with the correct amount of dread.  It is almost impossible to find a home these days which is not some unholy conduit - a winking anus of evil that acts as a revolving door for hell's starveling dead.  But a hollowed-out ghoul in shredded wedding gown doesn't need to be a dealbreaker.  Don't let a sundered soul turn your dream home into a nightmare charnel house!
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Looking to unload your property? It pays to live in these areas, where conditions are ripe for a quick sell.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing  scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You  put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old  house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 7--GILROY -- A group of Hecker Pass landowners are dangling $2  million before city leaders in hopes of fast-tracking construction of hundreds  of homes on farmland and hillsides in west Gilroy.
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Help is hard to find on Essex County farms. Not enough people know how to operate heavy farm equipment either. Packers and sales help at the farm stand are tough to find, too.