Focusing on Beaufort – blufftontoday.com

and proceeds from the sales go to land preservation. This year’s photographic odysseys took photographers to public boat landings and six selected undeveloped parcels of land. “There is little that is more precious to our citizens than the …

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Bush budget would sell land to raise $1 billion – msnbc.com

BLM spokeswoman Celia Boddington said much of the land would be near urban areas with high market value. In recent years, the government has sold parcels for tens of millions of dollars in Nevada, for example, she said. “Lands formerly remote …

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Huge yellow diamond goes for $2.8M – United Press International

Bid4Assets.com said 16 bids were submitted between Tuesday morning when the auction opened and the closing at 3 p.m. Thursday. The minimum was $ 900,000. The “Golden Eye Diamond,” a rectangle just over an inch long, is the largest precious stone …

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Homesteading Quantified: How Much Land You Need To Go Off The Grid – Huffingtonpost.com

… of land in South-Central Alaska is available from the State for as little as $ 2400, payable by MasterCard or Visa. (NOTE: HuffPost Food refuses blame for anyone who tries to live off the produce they can grow in the Alaskan climate.) Here’s the chart.

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Marshals to auction huge diamond – Cincinnati.com

After the starting bid of $ 900,000, bids must increase in increments of $ 110,000, according to the www.Bid4Assets.com/Diamond43 website, which had more than 9,000 page views for the gem through Friday afternoon A refundable deposit of $ 180,000 is required …

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43.51 carat diamond to be auctioned – msnbc.com

Bidders (or those of us who are just curious to see what it looks like) can preview the massive gem on the Bid4Assets.com website. Online bidding starts at $ 900,000. The diamond was forfeited to the national government on May 13, 2009. U.S. Marshals had …

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Lewis board tightens rules for keeping choice land – WatertownDailyTimes.com

While the county does recoup some income by way of timber sales on its reforestation lands, taking a lot more parcels off the tax rolls will call for … There were 47 bidders, 35 on site and nine by way of the Internet. One particular parcel was pulled on the morning of the auction …

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Lewis tax sale to feature only 15 parcels – WatertownDailyTimes.com

The five percent fee netted the county $ 67,900 on the 36 repurchased parcels, according to Mrs. O’Brien. The county’s 2011 budget anticipated $ 45,000 in tax sale-associated revenues … it as county reforestation land. Of the 15 parcels to be auctioned, only …

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Carnival to leave Mobile; officials shocked, saddled with cruise terminal debt – al.com (blog)


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Carnival to leave Mobile; officials shocked, saddled with cruise terminal debt
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In September it paid $ 970000 for a pie-shaped parcel of land, about the size of a football field, at the corner of Government and Water Street. Mobile Mayor Sam Jones said at the time that overflow parking from the cruise terminal would pay for the

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Carnival to leave Mobile; officials shocked, saddled with cruise terminal debt – al.com (blog)

10,000 Followers on Twitter

My twitter account wealthbyland recently reached the 10,000 mark for followers. I think that makes me a “whale” on twitter.

This follower count does put me pretty high on Twitterholic:

Joined Twitter on 2009-04-14 02:05:30

wealthbyland.com is ranked 5,103th on twitterholic! (by followers)
wealthbyland.com is ranked 4th in their location on twitterholic! (by followers in ‘Reno, NV’)

While these statistics are not all that rare, my achievement is unique in that I got there with no tweets. I also did not use any automated software or paid services.

I am going to make this my first tweet – let’s see what happens with the traffic. Twitter does amazing things for your ranking and placement on the search engines.

I did do a lot of clicking and developed a methodology for obtaining a high follower count in a short amount of time.

If you are interested in learning my tips, please feel free to email me at info@wealthbyland.com. I won’t charge for this advice.