How do you determine who owns real estate when you don’t know the address?
trater04 asked:
I would like to find out who owns real estate that is in a remote location and has no address. How do I tell the court house where the property is if I don’t have an address? I have never searched at the courthouse. Is it easy to find out who owns the property? Are there maps that can be viewed?
Brigantine Listings
I would like to find out who owns real estate that is in a remote location and has no address. How do I tell the court house where the property is if I don’t have an address? I have never searched at the courthouse. Is it easy to find out who owns the property? Are there maps that can be viewed?
Brigantine Listings
Posted in Renting & Real Estate | 4 Comments
August 1st, 2010 at 9:05 am
Chula Vista Homes
There are plat maps you can look at, but probably not at the tax assessor’s office. Ask where you can take a look at plat maps, probably at the planning office.
On my local tax assessor’s website, if you know a neighboring address, you can click “next” or “previous” and it takes you to the next address. Not exactly fool proof, but it could help.
You could ask a Realtor to help you out, find one that is very familiar with that area, they may be able to help.
August 4th, 2010 at 5:53 am
brigantine real estate
Yes, finding out who owns a particular piece of property is very easy. Go to your local Town Hall and give them the nearest cross streets, and/or the closest address of a building nearest the property your interested in. They’ll have a map (tax assessor’s map) of the area. By looking at the map and pointing out the property in question the Town Hall people can look up the owner.
August 7th, 2010 at 4:45 am
thermage stomach
If the property is that remotely located, your best bet is to find the closest cross streets, then roughly draw a map of the properties on both sides of the street, which the property you’re interested in is situated on and closest to..
You might have to drive from the cross street to the border where that property your interested in is adjacent to another. Make the note of the distance from the cross street to that border.
Drive the length of the frontage itself. Do the same for the properties on the other side of the other border.
You might have to walk from that cross street to the border where that property your interested in is adjacent to another.
I suggest you do this by doing the following:
Before going to that property, you’re going to need to know how many inches your normal step or stride is. This is easy enough to do:
1] With the back of one of your heels against a wall or curb, count ten of your normal paces to the toe-end of the 10th step.
2] At the toe of the 10th pace, put a stone or stick on the ground where the end of your shoe is.
3] With a tape measure, measure the total distance.
4] Convert ALL the feet into inches and divide by ten. This is the length of your average single pace.
EXAMPLE: Put your right heel against the wall. Take 10 normal paces/steps. Put down the rock at the toe-end of the 10th step.
The overall measurement is 17′ 9″
17X12 = 204″ +9″ = 213″ divided by 10 = about 21″, doesn’t it? OH, its a little more? You can round up or down.
Write down that measurement at the top of a sheet of paper.
After “walking-off” ALL the paces and measuring, look at the properties on both sides of the street.
Make notes or rough sketches of attached and detached houses, barns, buildings, fences, driveways, sale/rent signs, with phone numbers, names on mailboxes, etc. which are stationary and do not move.
You have JUST ABOUT ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED in front of you.
You have a mental picture of what the properties on the street look like AND a rough idea of how the other properties are situated, addresses, names etc., don’t you? Yep!
Next step: Go to the county court house [the tax assessment/assessor's office and or The Recorder of Deeds Office or it may have anoter designation such as the County Clerk's office]. OR you may want to start at the municipality’s township building or office.
When you have just about all the necessary informnation, generally, those folks are usually glad to help. Why? Because you ARE prepared! Ask for help!
You’ll notice there are measurements on those tax parcel maps. There may not be names, but make a note of those parcel numbers or designations.
Ask where to get those names. Believe it or not, somewhere on that list in that other place should be the name AND address of the party who owns that piece of property you’re interested in.
The address will be there because that is where the tax bills are mailed to. This is the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow!
Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed taking the time to answer it!
VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name.
August 8th, 2010 at 12:08 am
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In my own opinion it won’t be a very big problem looking for who is the real estate broker or owner. Look for a real estate and ask the assistance of a good agent. For me a good agent is very resourceful in finding properties for sale,lease or foreclosure. So that’s all if you will believe my idea as I am a freelance agent in the real estate. E-mail me