This video presents a brief narrated tour of Brittany American Cemetery’s landscaped grounds, architecture, and works of art. The Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 28 acres of rolling farm country near the eastern edge of Brittany and contains the remains of 4410 of our war dead, most of whom lost their lives in the Normandy and Brittany campaigns of 1944. Along the retaining wall of the memorial terrace are inscribed the names of 498 of the missing. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The gray granite memorial, containing the chapel as well as two large operations maps with narratives and flags of our military services, overlooks the burial area. Stained glass and sculpture embellish the structure. The lookout platform of the tower, reached by 98 steps, affords a view of the stately pattern of the headstones, as well as of the peaceful surrounding countryside stretching northward to the sea and Mont St. Michel. The cemetery is located on the site of the temporary American St. James Cemetery, established on August 4, 1944 by the US Third Army. It marks the point where the American forces made their breakthrough from the hedgerow country of Normandy into the plains of Brittany during the offensive around Avranches. The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9 am to 5 pm except December 25 and January 1. It is open on host country holidays. When the cemetery is open to the public, a staff member is on duty in the …
How To Sell Land
To sell land, as with any real estate, you sometimes have to choose between getting the highest price versus selling faster. The following tips can help you get a higher price AND a fast sale, but keep in mind that if speed is of the essence, lowering the price is the surest way to sell land more quickly. Fortunately a lower price doesn’t always mean less money in the end. This is because you avoid the costs of continuing advertising and the costs of holding onto your land.
3 Things To Do When You Sell Land
1. Have The Land Ready To Sell
You know you should clean a house when selling it, but many think that land doesn’t need preparation. Not true. Imagine a pile of brush, a rusty barbed wire fence, and a few puddles of mud. Now, it is true that some people can imagine what the property will look like cleaned up, but do you want to limit your market to buyers with good imaginations?
A better plan is to help buyers see the potential in a property by cleaning it up. Burn or remove piles of brush and leaves. Fill puddles with dirt and level them. Remove old fences that aren’t useful. If there isn’t a driveway, outline one, or at least designate an area for cars to park and rake it out. One days labor can easily help you sell your land faster and for more money. If you don’t want to do it yourself, pay someone.
Most people want to know what they are getting. Unfortunately, they can’t read a legal description and from that visualize the boundaries of the land. Mark the boundaries. Pay for a survey, or at least put a white post at each corner of the parcel. Spray paint costs two dollars, and you can use wood from your land for the posts. Just be sure you can clearly show buyers where those property lines are.
2. Offer Financing To Sell Land Faster
My first piece of real estate was a couple acres of land. Two weeks after I bought it, I sold it for 35% more than I paid for it. I was able to do this because I bought for cash, and offered easy terms when I sold it ($250 down, $100 per month). The buyer thought the price was too high, and I agreed, explaining that this was why it had easy financing. She didn’t have the cash in any case.
Offering easy terms is the simplest way to add value and raise the price when you sell land. A house sold this way can be easily damaged and worth less if you have to foreclose, but it is much safer to sell land this way. Also, in the above example, I received 11% interest, another nice benefit of selling this way.
3. Prepare For Buyer’s Questions
Nobody likes uncertainty. The less there is, the more likely a buyer is to make a decision when looking at your land. Be prepared with answers. What is the zoning? How deep are they drilling wells in the area? Where is the nearest town, and store? Make a map to these. Have the phone numbers of companies that can drill a well, prepare a building site, cut trees, or whatever else may be needed. You can collect all this information by telephone.
Bring a friend out to look at your land before you try to sell it. Tell him to ask you every question he can think of about it. Prepare for those questions and others you think of. You can always sell land more easily if all the buyer’s questions have ready answers.
Copyright Steve Gillman. For a Free Real Estate Investing Course, visit: http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com
Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France
Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France : In “Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siecle France”, Robyn Roslak examines for the first time the close relationship between neo-impressionist landscapes and cityscapes and the anarchist sympathies of the movement’s artists. She focuses in particular on paintings produced between 1886 and 1905 by Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce, the neo-impressionists whose fidelity to anarchism, to the art of landscape and to a belief in the social potential of art was strongest. Although the neo-impressionists are best known for their rational and scientific technique, they also heeded the era’s call for art surpassing the mundane realities of everyday life. By tempering their modern subjects with a decorative style, they hoped to lead their viewers toward moral and social improvement. Roslak’s ground-breaking analysis shows how the anarchist theories of Elisee Reclus, Pierre Kropotkin and Jean Grave both inspired and coincided with these ideals. Anarchism attracted the neo-impressionists because its standards for social justice were grounded, like neo-impressionism itself, in scientific exactitude and aesthetic idealism. Anarchists claimed humanity would reach its highest level of social and moral development only in the presence of a decorative variety of nature, and called upon progressive thinkers to help create and maintain such environments. The neo-impressionists, who primarily painted decorative landscapes, therefore discovered in anarchism a political theory consistent with their belief that decorative harmony should be the basis for socially responsible art.
Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France