Sample for Practice 9H: SPNHF Purchase Sales Agreement

Acquisitions of land and easements for conservation purposes can involve issues different from other real estate transactions. This guide looks at purchase and sale agreements in general and then potential customizations that may be made to these agreements to address conservation matters.

This is a sample letter from the accredited Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.

This sample Grant of Purchase Option from WeConservePA is an agreement that creates the right but not the obligation to purchase land or easements.

A template for a conservation easement option agreement.

Agreements related to the transfer of real property must meet the basic requirements of a contract to be enforceable. This document lays out the basic requirements for the most common types of real estate contracts land trusts encounter.

Part two of this two-part article identifies the fundamental elements of law and the process of law to topple the Internal Revenue Service’s card construct, and awaken and return everyone to the world above ground.

This is a landowner engagement letter from the accredited West Wisconsin Land Trust.

Part one of this two-part article examines how the Internal Revenue Service lures the land conservation community and the Tax Court into Wonderland distortions, and the precarious tower of cards upon which its legal theories rest.