You may be planning to sell your land for any reason, say you need some cash or its time now that you want to sell off your investment land. So why not sell that land without any agent so that money can be saved both by you and the buyer as well. But prior to listing your land for “sale by owner”, you need to take care of a number of things, so that selling your asset becomes a hassle free job for you. In addition to this, taking care of the things listed below will help you in making good profit too.

First and foremost, reshape your land a little, by doing some cleaning job. It can be removing the leaves, logs, rusted items (fencing), garbage etc from the land. This will give a very nice impression at first place.

Next is the analysis of the market where your land is. This implies that you must get information about the other properties in your area/neighborhood. This will help in knowing the value of your property. You can ask the owners of such property about their property’s value. Most of the times, they willingly give you the information. If no, then you can take this information at some public information office. Or instead you can get this task done by some estate agents. Ask at least 2-3 agents before finalizing the price. Remember that when asking agents, they will surely ask you to enlist your land, but you can tell them that you are not interested as yet.

If you are not convinced with the value, then you can take services of a professional appraiser. His figures will be much accurate than agents as former is not competing for getting your land listed. You can even ask to find out the qualities of your land that will add into the value while selling.

While the process of selling and finding the right buyer continues, you must get a draft of the contract. It is simply because you may not have the knowledge of the procedure to do that, so for that you will need professional help, most probably a solicitor who will be able to give you proper detailing about what is to be contained in the contract.

If you are advertising the land in any way, try to provide every important feature and information. This includes location, rate, dimensions and any additional information that you would want to include while of course your contact information should be there. The advertisement can be a signboard outside your land, telling about this to your relatives, using mediums like newspapers, television, radio broadcasts, pamphlets or Internet. Avoid giving price details while you are putting up an advertisement. It is because if you do so, them the buyer will make up the mind

Last but not the least is negotiation. Rarely does it happen that one will be able to get the exact amount for the property that is quoted. Do make up your mind for a last figure in case of negotiations beyond which you will not sell your land. As everyone would look forward to lower the price, at that time you must be ready with your settling terms.

Rammed earth homes are edifices with the walls that are built from a mixture of sand and clay. A mixture of sand and clay is poured into “forms” (molds) to build the walls. A building made with rammed earth is typically constructed on-site, using locally available sand, earth, water, clay, and a little cement. The walls allow for a range of versatility in design of the homes, require only minimum amounts of energy to sustain warmth in the cold season or to keep a home cool in the summer.

Often, rammed earth homes are built to utilize solar energy. Prospective owners seeking a comfortable home that can save on energy demands and expenditure in the long run, and offering an environmentally sustainable solution to home ownership, will likely find the concept of rammed earth homes to be very attractive and viable.

The Process of Building House With Rammed Earth

Rammed earth walls are are a minimum of 12 inches thick and formed with a process of packing a mixture oaround 15% clay, 50% sand, and 35% silt into the forms with the use of pneumatic tampers. Components in the mix for the walls may be included in the mix for improved water repelency and load bearing properties.

The walls of a newly built rammed earth home requires some time to fully dry out. This method of construction utilizes local resources and is a very strong model of environmentally friendly sustainability since it primarily if not completely utilizes a local resources.

The resulting house is highly efficient, requires almost no maintenance, and very comfortable.

The Design of Rammed Homes

The appearance of edifices constructed out of rammed earth is quite beautiful, along with true sturdiness. Rammed earth homes offer unparalled insulation from the elements, in both cold weather and on hot day, since rammed earth walls have rammed earth have a high thermal mass.

Landfills and sewage plants presently just add pollution to the environment, despite brave attempts to contain the damage they render. They are also an almost completely untapped source of “Biogas ” that could help society meet it’s energy needs.

What Is Biogas?

Biogas is primarily contains methane and carbon dioxide. With the use of anaerobic bacteria, , biogas with produce through the fermentation of organic matter in an air-tight environment.

What is Biogas Good For?

Biogas could certainly be utilized for producing electricity, heating homes, heating water, and a myriad of other uses. It is produced from organic waste such as human sewage, animal dung, discarded vegetables, and other organic waste products. The images that come to mind definitely aren’t pretty. Often, such waste is just hidden away in landfills. Out of sight, out of mind, right?

Shit, Sewage, and Garbage: A Beautiful Thing?

It may be hard to imagine that this is a precious resource. After all, it isn’t gold or diamonds. But, it could be a valuable source of energy, and it is not being utilized. But, it is a renewable energy source and a viable alternative to natural gas, propane or other fossil fuels.

Poop Power — Is it Possible?

A wastewater treatment plant can produce enough biogas to create 1 megawatt of electricity for each 30 million gallons of wastewater input.

South Plant in Renton, Washington, USA), a regional size sewage treatment plant receives 100 million gallons per day of influent sewage. In a pioneering effort to use sewage to produce energy, set up a system to produce biogas used with stationary fuel cells, enough to supports 1 megawatt of electricity, enough for 400 residential homes.

The Potential for Application of Fuel Cells For Stationary Power Plants Within Cities

A scale-up of the utilization of sewage plants certain poses many challenges, but of a constructive and positive nature vs the challenges of ever growing landfills and sewage.

The largest commercially available fuel cell power plant on the market today is the 1 megawatt South Plant unit tested in Renton, Washington. Multiple fuel cell plants could be linked together, though there have not been applications at a scale larger than several megawatts.

Where Can Enough Biogas be Found To Help Meet The Power Needs of Cities?

Finding a supply of biogas large enough to produce electricity on the scale required in cities is a problem. Where can they be found? Answer: Landfills

Some landfills contain enough gas to produce 20 or more megawatts of electricity. The total power demand of an urban area are immense. Commercial and industrial land uses require large amounts of electricity.

Fuel Cell Power Plants

Fuel cell power plants, operating on biogas or natural gas, are being looked upon as a way to supplement other forms of power generation.

Localized Energy Supplies

This is absolutely a concept that should be implemented for future land development projects, as well as applied that already-developed areas.

The practice of distributed power generation suggests that power production should be located close to the power consumer. This is one reason hotels are beginning to embrace fuel cell power plants for their individual buildings. They can use not only the electricity produced but also the heat for space heating, laundry, etc.

Power plants can be scaled up to provide the electricity needed in smaller communities; even isolating the community from the grid with energy needs perhaps primarily supplied by natural gas and supplemented with biogas, solar power, wind power, and other energy sources.