Land deals - flipping and speculation are nothing new
My head hurts. I spent about 5 hours at the County Courthouse researching our farm title today (and missed lunch - bad move).
Our farm property with its present boundaries has changed hands 11 times from 1969 to the present. Then the fun begins - multiple parcels being traded like baseball cards, with pieces added on from other deals and pieces being carved off - I need to become a surveyor to follow this. At least the deeds have provided sufficient info for me to trace the various parcels that include our farm back to 1896: another 6 headspinning deals involving multiple parcels in each transaction (tracing all the parcels in the deal to identify which 200+ acre parcel that includes our 18 acre farm is totally nuts!). The property boundaries shift with each transaction: "A" may sell exactly what s/he acquired from "B" to "C" (gods bless), or "A" may sell part of what was purchased from "B" and part of what was purchased from "D" to "C", or all of "B" and all of "D", and so on - I am glad I don't do this for a living.
So, I have a private spinning lesson here tomorrow morning; then it's back to the courthouse - I still can't believe how many times our property changed hands just to 1896 - I still haven't hit the land grabs and slick preservation deals during and immediately following the Civil War and the other Reconstruction deals. Once those are traced, we should get to a somewhat more sane environment. I think I will need a couple more days to trace this.
Our farm property with its present boundaries has changed hands 11 times from 1969 to the present. Then the fun begins - multiple parcels being traded like baseball cards, with pieces added on from other deals and pieces being carved off - I need to become a surveyor to follow this. At least the deeds have provided sufficient info for me to trace the various parcels that include our farm back to 1896: another 6 headspinning deals involving multiple parcels in each transaction (tracing all the parcels in the deal to identify which 200+ acre parcel that includes our 18 acre farm is totally nuts!). The property boundaries shift with each transaction: "A" may sell exactly what s/he acquired from "B" to "C" (gods bless), or "A" may sell part of what was purchased from "B" and part of what was purchased from "D" to "C", or all of "B" and all of "D", and so on - I am glad I don't do this for a living.
So, I have a private spinning lesson here tomorrow morning; then it's back to the courthouse - I still can't believe how many times our property changed hands just to 1896 - I still haven't hit the land grabs and slick preservation deals during and immediately following the Civil War and the other Reconstruction deals. Once those are traced, we should get to a somewhat more sane environment. I think I will need a couple more days to trace this.