If you're driving and you see some vacant land, home or building, do you know how to find out who owns it? When I first started in real estate they did not have all the training like they do now and it took me weeks of asking a lot of dumb questions to figure out how to do this. Here is what you do.
In some areas of the country, the terminology will change but the basic ideas are about the same. In the United States we have states. Let's assume we're looking in the great state of Georgia. The State of Georgia is divided into counties. The counties are divided into districts and the districts are divided into land lots. The land lots are divided into individual tracts of land called parcels. A large farm could be one or more parcels. A single lot is normally one parcel. This is the basic information you will need to find who owns property.
You will need a map, which will give you this information. You could purchase one at the local courthouse or through the highway department. One problem with these maps is that they are normally very large and hard to open while in the car. The best maps are those used by your local real estate agents. If you don't want to spend the money for a new "map book," ask the agent if they have an old copy they will sell you. Agent's replace these map books almost yearly. Being in a book form makes it easy to use in the car.
Assume you are driving down a road and you notice some vacant land you're interested in. Open your map book, locate where you are and mark the general location of the property on this map.
If you don't know what county you're in, the map will tell you. You will also be able to see what land lot and district the property is in.
That's the basic information you need to find who owns that property.
In this example, you would go to the County Tax Assessor's Office. Tell them you would like to บ้านมือสอง กรุงเทพ see the tax map book for the District and Land Lot where you saw the property. They'll either hand you this book or tell you where it's located. You may be able to access this information via a computer terminal at the tax assessor's office. They'll show you how to do it.
When you look at the tax map, it will show the road, how the property is divided and the acreage and/or rough dimensions of each parcel of property. Each parcel will be marked with a number called a "parcel number." Either in this book or in a corresponding book will be a list of these parcel numbers. Beside each parcel number will be the owner's name or his agent's name (some owners will have someone else, maybe an attorney, handle the affairs of the property). Normally it's the owner's name. Below their name, you will see their mailing address. Everybody that owns property must have a tax notice mailed to him or her. This is public information.
You can now look them up in the phone book or if they have an unlisted number, you can send them a letter and say, "Mr. Jones, would you like to sell some of your land?"
One summer in the early 1970's a business partner and I earned a tremendous amount of money by doing this. We went to the Fulton County Courthouse (much of Metropolitan Atlanta is in Fulton County), pulled up a chair and spent over a week going through all the tax files. We recorded everybody's name and address that owned more than 50 acres in Fulton County that lived outside the state of Georgia. You see; everybody in the state of Georgia had already been hounded to death by real estate agents. So when we would call somebody in Georgia they'd hang up in our face! However, when we would call somebody in Mississippi and ask, "Do you own property in Atlanta?" they would say, "Yeah, I inherited it years ago. Is it worth anything?" We found a lot of diamonds in the rough that summer.
Note: While many real estate brokers have access to this information in their office, I cannot justify that expense so I'm always going to a courthouse to find out who owns property. Plus, I like dealing with owners that have not listed their property with a real estate broker.
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