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Absolutely NEVER Buy This Type Of Land - YouTube
Channel: Kristina Smallhorn
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as real estate has gotten more expensive
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people are looking for more affordable
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options like buying their own piece of
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land
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and living off the grid not all
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off-the-grid property is created equal
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and today we're going to be going over
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the dangers of buying certain types of
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off-the-grid properties
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and which ones you should absolutely
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avoid whenever you're going to any
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property
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make sure you walk the entire property
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line to see if there's any kind of junk
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or things that need to be removed from
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the property now you may think that
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you've won the lottery if you come up on
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a structure on a piece of land that's
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supposedly
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vacant and you're looking to get off the
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grid but it already has like utilities
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attached to it so if you were thinking
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kind of only going
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like half off the grid and having you
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know county water and sewer
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problem is this to remove one of these
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structures
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is going to cost you as a buyer a lot of
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money
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so always walk the property line the
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whole entire property line
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all the way around back and forth to see
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if there's anything on that property
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that you don't want there so that way
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you can negotiate to have that removed
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by the seller
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at the expense of the seller not to you
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as the buyer and not walk it just the
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one time i want you to go there
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once it's raining i want you to go to it
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when it's snowing i want you to go to
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it when it's sunny because you're going
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to want to know where the low parts and
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the high parts are
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on that piece of property wonderful your
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piece of property that you found is
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really close to water
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but do you actually have water access to
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this are you allowed to use the water
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from
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this canal if you find a piece of
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property and it butts up to a river
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that doesn't mean you get to use the
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river water on your property itself
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you might have it all the way up to that
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line and then right at the shoreline
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the river belongs to somebody else so
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make sure that you have rights to that
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specific water i've seen it where even
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utility companies have access to the
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water but you don't so you can't even
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put your
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your dock out there because it doesn't
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belong to you one of the best pieces of
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advice i heard from a person that lives
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off the grid
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was you do not want a piece of property
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too close to society
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and you don't want one that's too far
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away and what he meant by that was
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he he didn't want one that was too close
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to the city where he could hear the
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hustle and bustle of everything
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but he didn't want one that was too far
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away where he couldn't get to a local
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hospital or he couldn't get to the local
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home depot within
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a 30-minute drive here's something that
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most people don't think about when
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they're living off the grid
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how close is the closest fire hydrant to
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your homestead
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you don't want anything to happen to
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your home and it catch on fire and it's
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so far away from a fire hydrant that
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your house goes up in flames
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that's something you're going to want to
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consider if you're planning on living
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off the grid
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my camera is a little off angle but you
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know what i mean
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so i know that if you probably watch
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this video you've probably watched five
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other videos about living off the grid
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and i know a lot of those videos will
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tell you not to use a real estate agent
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granted i am a real estate agent and i'm
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advising you to use one
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if you're not going to use one this is
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what i will advise
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make sure the piece of property that
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you're buying is actually being sold
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by an illegitimate seller there are
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websites out there that have
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land for sale and it looks very official
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you even go through this whole process
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with a contract
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and you think that you've purchased this
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piece of land
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only to find out when tax season comes
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around you don't own it and you never
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did
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so i just want you to be very very alert
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and aware of the piece of property
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you're buying
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make sure the seller that's selling it
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actually owns it the best way to check
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to make sure that those people own it
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is to go into the local tax records
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their public record
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it's very easy to find just type in the
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address or the lot number
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and look in that specific area and you
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can see who the owners are
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and who the owners were previous all the
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way down i know a lot of people are
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gonna be looking
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to do owner finance and when you do a
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loan or finance they ask for a large
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deposit
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and you make payments over time which
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means you wouldn't have the deed
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necessarily until the end of the period
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of the loan
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if the person you've been paying all
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these years didn't own that piece of
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land
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who are you exactly paying and whose
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property are you living on anyways
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so please check that out please i
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implore you as a real estate agent one
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of the biggest things that happens with
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a lot of
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properties when you're looking online
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you don't understand if it has
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access to it and if it does have access
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to it you have right to that access
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whenever you're researching a property
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find out what the access to the property
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is
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and who owns that access so that way you
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know if you have to maintain that road
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because it's going to belong to you
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after the sale of the property another
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thing you're going to want to know if it
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doesn't belong to you
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are you going to be able to be granted
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access by the person who actually
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owns that road itself these are the
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things you need to research ahead of
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time
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so that way you know if this is the
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right property for you and you're off
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the grid home
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so let's just say the piece of land that
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you got is like way out in the middle of
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nowhere bill
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think about one thing we're gonna get
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your mail can you
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get a mailbox on your property or you're
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going to have to go to the post
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office and pick it up at a p.o box is
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that something that even bothers you
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and especially if you're looking for an
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eco-friendly type of homestead
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having to travel and use that gas to go
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get your mail could be
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a real problem so that's something to
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consider when you're looking at some of
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these off the grid properties
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now for some people that are living off
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the grid trees are extremely important
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to them
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because they like the shade now for
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other people that are living off the
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grid
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it's extremely important for them not to
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have any trees because they're trying to
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collect as much solar power
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and wind power as possible you can
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always look at weather maps to see how
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much wind
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actually goes through this specific area
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to see how much
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wind energy you're going to be producing
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and you're going to be able to find out
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how much
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uh sunlight comes through as well man
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it's busy on the river today
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now there's tons of websites when it
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comes to finding pieces of property
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you can always look at zillow and
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realtor.com but there's ones that are
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specifically
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just for land like this one right here
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i've said it before in previous videos
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and i'll say it again
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one of the most important things you can
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look at when you're looking at a track
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of land
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is the zoning so you can have a huge
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track of land and part of it is
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considered mixed use
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some of it is considered agriculture
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some of it is considered wetlands
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so when you see the price of the land
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and you're thinking wow that's a great
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deal for 120 acres
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and you only find out that only like two
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of those acres are you know available
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for you to build and they happen to be
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in the middle of nowhereville
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there's a reason why that that piece of
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property was so expensive
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another trick you want to know about
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buying an off the grid property
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is remember when i told you before to go
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look at the tax record to see who
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actually owns the property
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they give you a tax evaluation of how
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much that piece of land costs as well
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so even though the taxes are always kind
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of a little off
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on the rolls it will be close enough and
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if they're way off
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let's just say the taxes only say that
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piece of property is worth 6 000
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and they're asking 25 000 that's some
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negotiating room do you know that even
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the tax assessor knows that it's not
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worth that amount of money
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so just know that ahead of time it's a
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little trick you should know
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so you can get a better deal everybody
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likes a deal i like a deal
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i want you to get a deal another thing
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you want to be careful of is the type of
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leases that might be already on the
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piece of property
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always make sure always make sure you
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have a clear title search
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and that's when you get into deeds so
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what kind of deed restrictions does this
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particular
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property have now let's talk about the
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type of deeds you can get with a piece
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of property
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when you're looking to purchase a piece
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of land there are five main types of
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deeds that you can use
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the first one is a warranty deed the
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second one
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is a special warranty deed then there's
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a quick claim deed
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usually to clear up any kind of title
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issues or pieces of property between
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family members
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then you have the bargain and sale deed
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and then you have a grant deed
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i won't be going into much detail of all
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of these deeds because that would take a
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whole entire another video
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just know the warranty deed is best but
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most likely you're going to be getting a
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special warranty deed
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one thing that stinks about buying any
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piece of land whether it's off the grid
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or not
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is hoas and restrictions even though you
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think that this piece of property is a
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real
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piece of property and nobody's gonna
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care what you're doing on it
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trust me you need to find out what the
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hoas and restrictions are
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especially if you're planning on putting
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something in like an alternative housing
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unit
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like a tiny home a container home and
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just a little word of warning
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if you have some neighbors that are in
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this hoa
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go to the hoa meeting before you buy the
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piece of property to talk to them about
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your plans
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of purchasing this piece of property and
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what you plan on doing with it
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so i suggest always check with your
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neighbors ahead of time
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so you're going to get along with them
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see if this is something
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they will allow you to have even though
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you might not have neighbors
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for miles you wouldn't believe how close
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that ends up being if they don't like
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you
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if you want to know some more about
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buying land go ahead and check out
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this video right here my name is
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christina smallhorn your real estate
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whisperer and i tell you all this
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because good real estate information
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matters
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