Buying land in Bertie County.

A land loan is not a small mortgage. Tracts sit in a different corner of the lending world than houses do — different down payment expectations, different terms, and often a different kind of lender entirely. That gap matters most here, where a large share of land buyers are hunters, timber investors, or recreational buyers coming from outside the local market.

These five chapters work through what changes: how the financing actually behaves, what hunting and timber acreage is worth and why, how access and deeded rights get to the back of a tract, and what to verify before you write an offer.

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