<br >PREFACE<br > You re interested in acquiring country property， so we ll<br >want to give you a relaxed and realistic way to search for<br >that place in the sun--be it for sanity， serenity， security，<br >investment or self. The reasons are your business. Ours is<br >seeing that you have the education and expertise with<br >which to make this step. We both care. We care a lot， if<br >you ll pardon the expression.<br > We ll leave the arguments， pro and con， why cities are<br >dying， suburbia a myth， to the experts. We are not sociol-<br >ogists or economists. We only know there is a tremendous<br >"return to the land" syndrome apparent all over the coun-<br >try.<br > Whether you re in the market for a manicured estate， or<br >just a cottage small by a waterfall， the name of the game is<br >"know what you re doing." Otherwise， you could end up<br >"it" in a baffling game of blind man s bluff.<br > We know what we re doing: trying to remove the cloak<br >of secrecy surrounding the buying of country real estate.<br >So let s take it off!<br >IRVING PRICE<br ><br >