The single most common reason a parcel is unsellable — and one of the most common reasons owners don't know it.
This distinction catches out a great many landowners. You may have driven to your parcel for twenty years down a dirt road, across a field, or along a logging track, and reasonably concluded it has access. Whether you have a legal right to do that is a separate question entirely, answered by what's recorded in the county's land records — a deeded easement, a right-of-way, or frontage on a public road.
If none of those exist, the parcel is landlocked. It may still be reachable in practice, by the goodwill of a neighbour or simply because nobody has objected. But that goodwill isn't transferable, it can end when the neighbouring land changes hands, and it's not something a title company can insure or a lender will accept.
The result: a parcel that may genuinely be worth something sits unsold for years because the ordinary sale process has no route through the problem.
We buy landlocked parcels knowingly, and we price them for what they are. We're a cash buyer, so there's no lender to satisfy, and we're not depending on building anything in the near term. We do our own access research — recorded easements, plat maps, adjoining ownership, and whether the county's own records show a right-of-way that the current owner never knew about, which does happen.
Sometimes the access problem is genuinely solvable, by negotiating an easement with an adjoining owner or through a statutory remedy. That work is slow, uncertain, and expensive, which is exactly why most owners don't want to take it on themselves.
Do not spend money on this before talking to us. You don't need a survey, a title search, or an attorney's opinion to get an offer — access research is our cost, not yours. And if you are considering pursuing an easement or a court remedy yourself, get a realistic estimate of the legal cost from a real-estate attorney in that state first; on a low-value parcel it frequently exceeds the land's worth. That's a decision for you and your attorney, not for us.
Most owners aren't. Send the parcel number and county and we'll check the recorded access as part of our research.
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