Good discussion. I will add this: It’s all part of the deal. Buyer offers my full list price and wants me to pay his realtor commission, no problem. If the buyer wants to negotiate the price down, then I am going to give him less on closing costs and commission.

I’m here to sell the land and put that money to work on more investments. I am like…[Read more]

I’m not an expert in this area so lets see if some other folks will chime in.

That depends on the state. In some states the previous owner (that guy who didn’t pay his taxes) has rights to recovery for 2 to 4 years. He can come back to you and by law is allowed to purchase the property back during that time. So that means you can’t sell it until…[Read more]

I have been shut down twice by merchant account companies when doing only cash land sales. You will get no warning. When it happens you will get an email or a phone call form your merchant account company. They will tell you that they have some questions about a recent transaction. You will answer the questions and then, almost immediately, you…[Read more]

Stacey – I am with Joe on this one – they have $9K in back taxes. I would call the county first to make sure that this property is NOT on the auction list. Then I would tell the seller “I will give you $1000 for the property and I will take care of the back taxes.” This is the best offer he is going to get before it gets taken by the county. Even…[Read more]

Allan – I don’t know the answer to your question. The last time I did this I contacted an attorney and paid him to draft the documents for me, then I had them recorded after they were signed by the seller. The $300 he charged me was well worth not having screwed up the paperwork or creating a cloud on the title by doing it myself.

Sam – congratulations on your deal. I suggest that you do not use PayPal. PayPal work fine but they consider land purchase a prohibited transaction. You might get away with it or they will suddenly close your account with little warning. Find another way to pay. Cashier’s Check, Money Order, Credit Card, direct wire transfer.

Good Luck

Michael – Just as you say, you can go through and delete every one of them individually before you download. Some counties have a few and some have a lot of them. Some people also delete government owned records. I am too impatient. I download everything and clean it up afterwards. I can have a list ready to mail (except price) in 2 to 3 hours. I…[Read more]

Michael – my ‘go to’ is RQPro. That was used in the Land Academy training and I just stuck with it. I have begun to use TP247 more. I use TP when I want to get a list for neighbor letters. The map function is easier to use. Sometimes I can not get parcel data from Parcel Fact so I use TP247. Even though they should all be pulling the same county…[Read more]

Robert – it is not included in the training because it is a ‘next level’ type of thing. You are far better off when starting out to pick a county with MANY vacant lots that are all similar and set your offer price for that kind of lot.

One answer to your question is – you have to look up a lot of parcels until you can figure out which ones are…[Read more]

Daniel – just use private message to reach out to someone on the forum for help.

Daniel – Good for you! You are getting the mail out and getting some deals. I strongly suggest that you send out at least 1000 offers at a time.

You have an opportunity to buy some cheap land and want to know if you should. Can you buy it for about 25% of comps (or less). If yes, then you should buy it and sell it for much less than what is on…[Read more]

Hi Daniel – Welcome to the landinvestors Forum. You can do all of that stuff here. I hope you make lots of good contacts and get deals going soon. You will need to check out the Hootboard to see how people are looking for and offering all kinds of deals all the time.

Robert – most counties don’t have a zip code for rural vacant land so you can’t rely on that. You need to decipher the APN numbering system. Some counties are not going to work very well but others will be very logical and you will be able to identify certain areas by a range of APNs. You can do this if you can get something called an Index Map of…[Read more]

Kahlil – I suggest that you work with Erin to create a survey (ie survey monkey) to get the data that you need from the members.

I delete all First Mortgage from my list.

Katrina – I worked on infill lots for a couple of months and I can share a little bit of what I learned. You want to find areas where there are thousands of similar homes. I believe that this would be a locale where growth was astronomical for 20 or 30 years. Look for that kind of situation and then find the lots that were never built out but are…[Read more]

Abhinav – When PF is down use TitlePro247 or you can use Parlay 2.0 overlay in Google Earth. Sometimes you have to see if the county GIS is any good and use that. I just used PF and I had to logout and log back in to get it to work. Give that a try.