Around the Great Depression, when the land was worn out from reparative corn and cotton farming it was prime time to scoop up large tracts of land from people that were land rich, cash poor.I think these laws in SC goes back to the CCC days as during these same times companies like West Virginia Pulp and Paper (Westvaco), Weyerhaeuser and others came buying up worn out and abandoned farm land planting trees and did not want to be locked out of their timber land investment.

They will have another layer of value to add versus just a broker transacting only.For instance I am an investor myself, a principal broker, and when I started out I assembled tracts of land for a developer for big commercial projects.

A good wholesale group usually has the inside tract to be able to grab properties before you ever could or anyone else.  

Are you looking for lots, tracts of land, infill lots?

But I don't deal in Pine .Here is the opportunity  smaller parcels IE 80 acres and under with homes on them are not the targets of big timber companies .. big companies want larger tracts and NO improvements IE commercial timber land.So you had two opportunities one a 20 acre tract nice home...

It looks to me like most of what they bought here is the circa 2000s tract housing that was thrown up (literally) by the national and regional builders, many of whom are no longer on the scene.  

Your job now is to get educated and build the relationships necessary to fast tract your business. 

Yeah, you can find an amazing lot and go nuts building some super spec home that will sell for an outrageous price, but the average house in SoCal is a tract house and those have a ceiling on value both on retail sales price and rental income.

This is part of a 1-acre tract, that holds a total of 8 duplexes. 

It is a 16 tract with about 3.5 acres being part of a 25 acre lake.