What are things I need to know about buying rural property?
Here’s some of the advice from Les and Carol Scher authors of the award-winning book, Finding and Buying Your Place in the Country, • Remember, the seller’s real estate agent works for the seller and does not get paid without making a sale. • The price and terms are always negotiable. • Never buy land without a proven source of adequate water, which includes recorded water rights if it is from somebody else’s land. Test the water for potability. • Never buy land without first securing the necessary permits for installing your own sewage disposal system, or insuring that you can hook up to a public sewage system if one is available. • Be certain of where your boundary lines are located by conducting a survey of the property. • Don’t buy land that does not have deed easement rights from the public road to the property. • Be sure the zoning will permit you to use your property as you intended to use it. • Determine the legal status of any uses being made of the property by other person. I
