How to Find Your Ideal Country Home: A Comprehensive Guide

Every year more and more of us dream ourselves away from the daily pressures of urban and suburban existence to a place where the air is sweet and life is more simple. This book, a brand-new edition of what is quickly becoming the "bible" for would-be rural homesteaders, is more than an armchair guide. Book jacket.

For those interested in moving to rural areas, this monumental book addresses thousands of potential concerns. The author anticipates virtually everything. Chapter topics include The Ideal Country Home; Buy Your Land as Soon as You Can; Wants, Needs and Fantasies; Developing a Criteria List; Lifestyle; Choose Your Climate; Land Characteristics: Topography, Soil and Vegetation; The Cost of Living; Making a Living; Farming and Market Gardening; Air; Water; Health 101; Demographics and Social Conditions; Services and Taxes; To Build or Not to Build; Prices; Regions, Bioregions, States; Real Country, Boondocks and Old Subsistence Farms; Places to Avoid; Real Estate Law and Real Estate Agents; and Making a Final Evaluation Before Purchase. This is one of those rare realty books that is well-researched, extremely well-written and interesting enough to be compelling. On my scale of one to 10, this fantastic new book rates an off-the-chart 12. -- ROBERT BRUSS, NATIONALLY SYNDICATED REAL ESTATE COLUMNIST