Book Review: How To Find Your Ideal Country Home

In How To Find Your Ideal Country Home, Gene GeRue takes you step-by-step through the process of identifying your ideal location. As a one-time real estate agent, he focuses on "Location, location, location!" as the three most important aspects of your place in the country.

In the discussion of terrain, climate, water rights, mineral rights, culture and culture shock, access, taxes, pollution, and more, Gene shows how to narrow your search to the specific regions most likely to meet your goals. Then he piles on the advice:

• Don't fall in love until AFTER the sale;
  
• The real estate agent isn't working for YOU;
• Practice the 10/1 Rule: Visit ten properties, rank them by your preference, then buy the first one you find that is BETTER than your highest rank;
• Know who has the mineral, water and timber rights;
• Buying next to Federal land guarantees NOTHING.

This book, carefully read and religiously applied, will help you zero in on your ideal country home. All you have to do is be HONEST with yourself: what are you looking for? What do you want?

The copy I read came via interlibrary loan; used copies are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Shopping, and probably every used book store on the web.