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Articles tagged deeds. 6 articles.
What actually leaves your account to reserve a parcel, how low the down payment really goes, and what it does to the monthly.
The last payment clears and then what? The six steps from paid-in-full to a recorded deed in your name, how long your county will actually take, and what to check on the draft before anyone signs it.
Land without an address is not land without a record. How to identify any parcel from a map, a coordinate or a neighbor, what the county actually holds on it, and why the unclaimed property database everyone recommends will never find you land.
How your name sits on the deed decides whether the land reaches your family smoothly or through a court. On owner financing you get the whole note period to decide. Here's every option, and what the rules look like state by state.
Your title policy insures that you own the parcel your deed describes. It takes an explicit exception for where that parcel sits, how big it is and what is encroaching on it. Here is which survey answers those questions, when you genuinely need one, and the comma in your deed that is worth 280 acres.
There is no legal definition of unrestricted land in any state we sell in. The word usually means no zoning or no HOA, which are two different claims, and six or seven other layers of restriction survive either way. Here is how to find out what really binds a parcel.
While you are here
Pima County, AZOcotillo, cholla and prickly pear crowd a raised, flat pad across the middle of this acre, the natural spot for a home with a view of the Tucson Mountains. It sits in Diamond Bell Ranch about 33 miles west of Tucson, at 3,297 feet where summers run a little milder. Cell service is strong, and the zoning lets you build when you're ready.
Putnam County, FLArea photosHoot Owl Road is paved and power runs right past the lot, which is more than most of this old Satsuma subdivision can say. It's a quarter acre in St. Johns River country, twelve minutes from Palatka and a short run to Dunn's Creek and Crescent Lake. The lot is mapped wetland and most of it sits in a FEMA flood zone, so it's priced for what it is today.
Hudspeth County, TXArea photosGuadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, sits about a half hour east of this ground, and the salt flats that set off a war in 1877 are closer than that. It's open desert outside Salt Flat, Texas, with no zoning and no HOA, so you can pitch a tent this weekend and build off-grid whenever you get around to it.
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