I would like to find out who owns real estate that is in a remote location and has no address. How do I tell the court house where the property is if I don’t have an address? I have never searched at the courthouse. Is it easy to find out who owns the property? Are there maps that can be viewed?
If the property is that remotely located, your best bet is to find the closest cross streets, then roughly draw a map of the properties on both sides of the street, which the property you’re interested in is situated on and closest to..
You might have to drive from the cross street to the border where that property your interested in is adjacent to another. Make the note of the distance from the cross street to that border.
Drive the length of the frontage itself. Do the same for the properties on the other side of the other border.
You might have to walk from that cross street to the border where that property your interested in is adjacent to another.
I suggest you do this by doing the following:
Before going to that property, you’re going to need to know how many inches your normal step or stride is. This is easy enough to do:
1] With the back of one of your heels against a wall or curb, count ten of your normal paces to the toe-end of the 10th step.
2] At the toe of the 10th pace, put a stone or stick on the ground where the end of your shoe is.
3] With a tape measure, measure the total distance.
4] Convert ALL the feet into inches and divide by ten. This is the length of your average single pace.
EXAMPLE: Put your right heel against the wall. Take 10 normal paces/steps. Put down the rock at the toe-end of the 10th step.
The overall measurement is 17′ 9"
17X12 = 204" +9" = 213" divided by 10 = about 21", doesn’t it? OH, its a little more? You can round up or down.
Write down that measurement at the top of a sheet of paper.
After "walking-off" ALL the paces and measuring, look at the properties on both sides of the street.
Make notes or rough sketches of attached and detached houses, barns, buildings, fences, driveways, sale/rent signs, with phone numbers, names on mailboxes, etc. which are stationary and do not move.
You have JUST ABOUT ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED in front of you.
You have a mental picture of what the properties on the street look like AND a rough idea of how the other properties are situated, addresses, names etc., don’t you? Yep!
Next step: Go to the county court house [the tax assessment/assessor's office and or The Recorder of Deeds Office or it may have anoter designation such as the County Clerk's office]. OR you may want to start at the municipality’s township building or office.
When you have just about all the necessary informnation, generally, those folks are usually glad to help. Why? Because you ARE prepared! Ask for help!
You’ll notice there are measurements on those tax parcel maps. There may not be names, but make a note of those parcel numbers or designations.
Ask where to get those names. Believe it or not, somewhere on that list in that other place should be the name AND address of the party who owns that piece of property you’re interested in.
The address will be there because that is where the tax bills are mailed to. This is the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow!
Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed taking the time to answer it!
VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name.
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