Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, I have a questionnaire. I am prepped and ready and realtors would prefer someone just love the view but not ask for details. Plus I asked her to e-mail me all information so that I would have things in writing.
if you are planning to build make sure the road in can handle the traffic.... and roads to your road can handle the weight...
I have a question. I found some land. The land borders BLM land. To put it nicely, the BLM may be a problem neighbor. So would you all buy land that is right next to BLM land?
easements n such usually apply... get all the info you can... and make absolutely sure of the boundaries... not sure I would even consider such a property... BLM can be a real pain... even being close to it...
If you buy next to BLM Land get a survey, and Mark & Post your Boundries, and then serve BLM with a No Trespass Notice via Registered Mail... and then if they cross your boundary, call your Sheriff, present the No Trespass Notice, and swear out a Warrant for Criminal Trespass, as soon as Possible after their Trespass Incident... TrailCams are really good for documenting Trespass....
This is beautiful land that is checking all the boxes and at a reasonable price. Walking the property was great, it really has all that I am looking for. It's like finding the house of your dreams then you look over at the neighbors and see an old couch on the lawn.
If there is a local watering hole of coffee shop where the locals hang out ,spend some quality time getting to know them and they getting to know you. A lot more to be learned getting to know their goings on .
I dare say that having dot gov for a neighbor is simply setting up for your land to be grabbed. I wouldn't.
ALL Land is bounded by .GOV Land, of some sort... Public Right of Ways, Public Easements, and land held in Reserve by some local, County, State, or Federal .GOV entity... The best you can do is survey, and POST, your land, and stick to the using the State TresPass Statutes to protect Access to your Land by other Folks and Entities...
Perhaps the expansion of nat'l parks and monuments will grow, or recede, but the one thing you can count on is that if your property is incorporated into one of those entities, what you can do with your land will be proscribed.
My place is bounded by Forest Service property on about 9/10 of the lines and it's a great situation as far as I'm concerned. No neighbors other than the occasional hunter. Once every 15-20 years, FS employees come down the line painted the trees with red paint to mark the line, and other than that, I never see one.
I'm having trouble with trespassers,Served them notice on the 21st to remove the deer stands since I just leased the land south of me.We will see how this plays out!
Yup, If they were left on your land, and that land was Posted, then they are yours... If anyone complains, they already admit Criminal Trespass, just by claiming them as theirs...
BLM is ok but be prepared for them to trade the land in another land swap so you end up with different neighbors.. The only government land that can't be sold or traded is US forest land. And BTPost is right about the notice of trespass electricity and water are on the property or too the property line?
Not so. Few years back, county over from us, Forest Service owns over half the county, making the tax base sorta hard on the rest of it. There was a section of land USFS owned that was highly developable for residential property, so they swapped it in a deal for other property that was more remote and privately owned. Now that former govt property is lots with homes on it. So while they don't sell, they will do trades.
@TnAndy interesting I would be interested to know if it was land within the NF Boundary set by law or if it was some of the land that NFS owns that is not with it a legal boundary set by law.
