SELL YOUR TIMBER OR LAND ON THE INTERNET
NEW FREE SERVICE AT www.se-timbersales.com
The list of timber buyers to whom we regularly send invitations to bid contains 3,848 names. The number of landowners who receive our Green Sheet exceeds 115,000. To help these and other buyers and sellers of timber and timberland get together, we’ve set up a new site on the Internet: www.se-timbersales.com. Its use is open to everyone (individual landowners, consulting foresters, industries, sales agents, investors, etc.) with timber or land to sell. For the time being, its use is absolutely FREE. We invite you to visit it.
Description of Site
On the Home Page is a map of the area we cover. It lies east of the Great Plains and south of the northern borders of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia. At the bottom of the page are several links; click on them for help to find the data you seek.
Browse by State: Click on the state name to bring up an alphabetical list of counties with active sales. Click on the county name to bring up all the sales in it.
Click on an individual sale to bring up a one-page summary, an example of which appears below. We post on the site everything that sellers send us, and we urge them to furnish as much data as possible so as to interest buyers. Nevertheless, what you see is all we got. If the seller is a JMV&CO client, extra sheets, often five or six, attached to his summary will contain all our usual data. Landowners using other foresters or systems may present different data, but the sources of all such data are conspicuously labeled.
About Us: Click here to bring up a description of who we are and what we hope to accomplish with this site. You will find that use of it is FREE only during its introduction. If it proves to offer a valuable service, we plan to charge for it, and that’s our only objective.
Contact Us: Click here for an easy way to ask us for information that we forgot to give you.
Submit New Listing: Click here to bring up a form that we have explained in detail below and that we require everyone to use. We established the categories of information in it by writing all 3,848 buyers on our computer list in February 1999. If you don’t fill in all blanks, you will decrease interest in your sale. The more data you submit, the better your chance for a successful sale.
The site can be viewed by everyone with 3.0 or better versions of network browsers.
We urge sellers to give buyers plenty of time to examine the tract and prepare their bids, but they make the choice. Twenty-four hours after its bid time and date, <www.se-timbersales.com> will delete the sale register and the county highlighting that it caused.
This site was conceived of as a means to help sellers because we’ve been on their sides of the trades for nearly 50 years. But it won’t really help them unless they use it to provide detailed, accurate information for buyers. Buyers are highly-skilled professionals with high-pressure jobs; if they don’t buy, their mills must shut down at great expense. Consequently, they have no time to waste.
We shall do our best to make www.se-timbersales.com a valuable resource for them. Our main tool will be to require sellers to furnish a full description of the property for sale. A name and a phone number and a "Make me an offer" won’t be enough. In addition, each registration must contain only a single tract. We may register many tracts for a single agent, but a mere list of them won’t do.
In italics below, we have inserted hypothetical suggestions for the one-page summary:
Summary Sheet of Tract for Sale
Tract Name: Jones Family
Landowner: John P. Jones
Address: 1234 Jones St., Jonesville, MS 12345
Phone: 601+123-4567 Fax: 601+123-7654 e-mail: jpj@aol.com
Other signatures required on deed: Sarah Z. Jones (wife)
Date and time of sale: 1 June 1999 at 1000
Where to send bids: by mail or fax or e-mail to the addresses above
Method of payment: lump-sum in advance, pay-as-cut, 25% down and balance next year, etc.
Mortgage on tract: None (if there is one, give details)
Time allowed to remove timber: 24 months if possible
Logging restrictions: slash to be removed from adjacent fields, roads to be restored, penalty for cutting unmarked trees, etc.
Legal description of tract: S ½ of NW ¼, Section 28, T2N, R3W, Any County, Any State; metes and bounds survey, GPS map, survey plat, etc.
Brief description of type of timber offered for sale: Clearcut or thinning; sawtimber or pulpwood; pine, hardwood, mixture.
Access to public road guaranteed? Yes (if no, tell what else is needed)
Is underlying land included in the sale? Yes or No
Additional information: (If a forester, surveyor, or other agency provided any of these data, be sure that each sheet of them is plainly marked with his name and address.)
How to Register Your Sale
Send the Summary Sheet by mail to PO Box 22766, Jackson, MS 39225, by fax to 601+354-3138, or by e-mail to jlp@se-timbersales.com. If you want to discuss it with our staff, call Janet Parish or Billie Samples at 800+455-4568. They post all data on the server and have been doing this for years. They are especially good at handling maps and text in digital form. They will be pleased to answer your questions and tell you how to proceed with the least chance for error.
As we said in the beginning, use of this site is free to everyone until further notice. On the other hand, we need a way to determine whether it serves a useful purpose. Consequently, we require all visitors who click on either "Browse" or "Submit" to complete the registration form below. Choose your own password; it will be required on each visit. Each time you register, our server will put a "cookie" (an ID card in the electronic world) on your computer. If you always visit us from the same computer, the cookie will admit you to the data you seek without further action on your part.
Registration Form
Name:
Address:
Phone: Fax: e-mail:
Password: (10-character maximum)
Timber buyer: __ Landowner: __ Investor: __ Sales agent: __ Forestry advisor: __
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