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How to Buy Land Like a Pro - A Checklist to Buy Land to Build a House

How To Buy Land Like a Pro

When researching to purchase land, you’ll want to get all the information you can upfront and during the escrow process. For one, it will help eliminate properties that won’t work for you, and two, it will help reduce unexpected costs or unexpected failed plans.

Simple enough, right? Once you start, you soon realize there is a LOT more to buying land than you might think. This guide should give you a good head start on what to learn before you go the land route. 

If you have questions or get overwhelmed by the process and need a REALTOR to help guide you through the process, The Serviss Group is here to help.

We have a 13 page document to share with you that outlines in detail all the steps you need to take to make sure a piece of land is right for you.

Here’s teaser…

  • What’s is GIS?

  • How to find parcel owner names and addresses

  • How to discover land conditions like mortgages, liens, title issues, unpaid taxes, tax rates, roll-back taxes, foreclosures, deed restrictions, easements, and access.

  • Have any mineral or air rights been sold or leased?

  • How to learn more about the topography, impervious services, flood zones + FEMA

  • Understanding the types of deeds

  • Why surveys are important and all the different types

  • The importance of soil testing

  • Understanding land zoning and density zoning

  • Minerals, oils, and gas

  • Water and sewer or is will it be septic and well?

  • How to understand CC&Rs and where to find them

  • And I’m not joking… so much more!


Fill out the form below and you get a link to the document. You can download the file by going to file>download. I will also email you a copy.

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