When my wife Peg looks at the conservation community, she sees a world that appears upside down, according to her paradigms. Peg’s career has been split between health care and social work. She fully supports the need for preventative care and wellness programs. However, she recognizes that health care providers and social workers need to spend an inordinate amount of time seeking out and helping those people that are unhealthy and struggling with day to day activities. What would we think if hospitals admitted only healthy people and …
Protecting a Million Dollar Investment
If you owned a beach home valued at $1 million, would you rent your property with no stipulations, no written lease, and no demands on how the renters would care for your investment? That probably wouldn’t make much sense, would it? Yet that’s exactly what’s being done with thousands of acres of farmland owned by absentee landowners. Consider this: if a landowner has 160 acres and that parcel of land is worth $7,500 per acre, the landowner has a property investment valued in excess of $1 million! Absentee landowners and decision making Yet, …