Three steps before you put money on land.
Most people come to me after a deal has already gone sideways. This page is the order I wish they had followed: read the checklist, screen the parcel, then have the records pulled properly. The first two are free. The third is a flat fee, quoted before I start.
The 47-point checklist
Every item I work through on a parcel — recorded access, title exceptions, zoning and permitted use, utilities, wastewater, flood and fire, and the costs that do not show up in the listing. Free, no strings.
See what is on itRun the parcel screener
Answer eight questions about the land you are looking at and get a preliminary conditions sheet back: what looks satisfied, what is still open, and what would stop me from going further. You can add the address and see the parcel from above.
Screen a parcelAsk for a quote on the real parcel
Send me the parcel and the use you have in mind. You get the fee in writing before any work starts — no commission, no hourly creep, and a refund policy stated up front.
Request a quoteStep one — send me the 47-point checklist
Enter your email and the PDF comes straight over. Then run the screener on the parcel you are actually looking at, and I will tell you what still needs a records pull.
One email with the file. No newsletter, no spam.
Buying in California?
There is a separate six-page checklist for California vacant land — zoning and General Plan, well and septic, wildfire and flood, access and recorded easements, and the county offices to call.
Get the California checklistWant me to look first?
Send one parcel and I will spend ten minutes on it at no cost — a first pass on access, flood and obvious restrictions, so you know whether a full report is worth paying for.
Free 10-minute parcel check