For some it is a refresher course and reminder of purpose and duty.

When its severed ( harvested it becomes personal property.. )  kind of like buying a home were a freeway is going and moving it to a bare lot using a home moving company.Now here is the good part.. in those days MId 90s  Timber that was export quality ( J logs )  Japanese grade were in such high demand and Menasha out of Wisconsin at the time was a large West coast exporter of logs.. they would advance on the Timber deed.. terms..

Marquis,Hearing your story is refreshing!

I find it refreshing, just like some people enjoy journaling.

Its refreshing to see!

It's always refreshing to hear the non guru, realistic side of things.

Yes, get a refresher on the basics as things have changed.

We bought most of the houses subject to and then resold them subject to mostly to a group of Japanese investors.  

Even so, I have had to go back once or twice when I got the wrong size part.One thing that attracted me to the IKEA cabinets is that they are frameless and that I can refresh the entire kitchen by simply buying new doors for a few hundred dollars.  

There are some parallels to the Japanese bubble, but I'm not too versed enough about this.