Estate vultures

[grsthegreat]

i just got a new offer for the 10 acres accross the street where i let the horses roam and grow some grass hay. they have offered $452.000

well thats a first. usually everyone low balls it....like a quarter of this offer.

im actually stunned. if i needed the money i might just take them up on the offer

 

[ultrarunner]

I remember those days about 25 years ago when dad was getting real offers from Brokers knocking on the door for some residential zoned land in Oakland…

Let’s just say there has been zero interest in the last 20 years…

It always seems to come back to location…

 

[drssg]

i just got a new offer for the 10 acres accross the street where i let the horses roam and grow some grass hay. they have offered $452.000

well thats a first. usually everyone low balls it....like a quarter of this offer.

im actually stunned. if i needed the money i might just take them up on the offer

I would still be suspicious that it's even a genuine offer. The letters I've seen have some caveat language that basically says they aren't legally committing to the offer. Instead of taking the low-ball approach, I could see them making a better offer to see whether they can get a response from you. If you showed interest in selling, then the details would come out as to why they think it's really worth less.

My place has an unoccupied parcel that has a creek running through it, and it regularly floods. I have occasionally received an offer for it that would be consistent for residential building, but I would be surprised if a house could be built there.

 

[RayIN]

I get the land offers a lot. Land ownership is public record. They just use the tax rolls. The offers are ridiculously low.

Last one I looked at was about 2/3 of what we paid for the land alone 3 years ago. That doesn't include the house and barn at all.

There is a phone app named Regrid that shows a map with land boundries and listing the owners name(s). It's not too hard to obtain the street address and phone# after that.

 

[paulsharvey]

There is a phone app named Regrid that shows a map with land boundries and listing the owners name(s). It's not too hard to obtain the street address and phone# after that.

Im in the process of checking that app out. I used to use Basemap, but their yearly sub is upto $49.99; and it kinda makes me mad, i used a personal hunting app, 90% at work, and 10% at home; and i work for a international mega corp.... When you see, "We won a $2.5b contact in Texas" it makes you thing, "im not paying $0.02 to support these folks"

 

[drssg]

I don't see the value of purchasing an app, unless you need that type of information a lot and for a variety of areas. The local county auditor website has the information for free.

 

[RayIN]

I don't see the value of purchasing an app, unless you need that type of information a lot and for a variety of areas. The local county auditor website has the information for free.

The free version of Regrid is quite useful.

 

[paulsharvey]

I don't see the value of purchasing an app, unless you need that type of information a lot and for a variety of areas. The local county auditor website has the information for free.

I do. For work, I am always dealing with right of ways; and our work is limited to not entering private property. Just telling what is verse isnt right of way, seems simple, but really isnt. Im frequently in 3 counties, and cover roughly, after arguing with ChatGPT several queries, about 200 miles of centerline road, and about another 120 miles occasionally,

 

[Eaglesfate]

I have had several older members of the family pass, my folks and their kin delt with the estates. I remember many times that once the news got out that they passed that the thieves would crawl out of the woodwork and things would start walking off from their houses. Some by strangers, and some from individuals that were better known.