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OUT-OF-SIGHT

LAND

If you are planning to sell your present home and move to a retirement community, that’s fine. However, if you are basing this move on the purchase of a building lot out-of-state and intend to buy the land sight-unseen, that’s not so fine. Buying land through the mail can be very risky business. Do your homework first.

It’s happened before and will happen again. A land promoter buys a huge tract of undeveloped, remote, desert land and depicts a beautiful retirement community in a glossy, full-color brochure. Despite continued warnings from the government and Realtors alike, many senior citizens have been bilked by mail-order land schemes.

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