How the Process Works

Step 1 — Send Us the Parcel

The parcel number (APN / tax ID) plus the county and state is ideal. If you don't have it, your name as it appears on the deed plus the county is usually enough for us to find the parcel in the assessor's records. A phone call works as well as the form.

What we don't do here: quote a number sight-unseen. Anyone who gives you a firm price on a parcel before researching access, zoning and title is either guessing or planning to revise it later.

Step 2 — We Research It

This is where the actual work is, and it's entirely at our cost:

• Assessor and tax records — ownership, assessed value, and whether taxes are current
• Plat map and legal description — confirming what and where the parcel actually is
• Legal access — road frontage, recorded easements, rights-of-way
• Zoning and permitted uses
• Topography, flood zone, and wetland mapping
• Utility proximity
• Liens, HOA arrears, and anything else clouding title
• Comparable land sales in that county — not house sales, which are irrelevant to raw land

Step 3 — You Get a Written Offer

In writing, with what's owed accounted for so you can see a real net figure. No expiration countdown — take it to your family, your attorney, or a local agent for a second opinion. We'd genuinely rather you check it than accept it quickly.

If our research turns up something you didn't know — no legal access, a wetland designation, a lien — we tell you. That's true even when it makes our own offer look worse, because you'll find out eventually anyway and we'd rather it come from us.

Step 4 — Close Through Title

Closing goes through a title company or closing attorney in the state where the parcel sits. Title work is ordered, back taxes and liens are paid from proceeds, documents are signed electronically or with a mobile or remote notary, and funds are wired to you. You won't need to travel.