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 barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
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< on 5/26/2011 9:46 PM >
|  | | | I have a location I visited recently that I can't get out of my head. I want to call up the county office and see if I can find out who owned it when it was abandoned, to see if I can learn any more information. Do they give out names on deeds to just anyone who calls? I've never done this before, usually I am happy to just let my imagination fill in the blanks, but this time I really want to find out more.
Also, while the location is not exactly sealed off, it does have a sign posted and is being used by someone to store some things in. Would trying to look up information basically give me away as a trespasser? Could I get in trouble if anyone tried to connect the dots?
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ue20
   
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 1 on 5/26/2011 10:16 PM >
| | | | Go to your local land records office if you have one they will probly be more than happy to help you. I know my parents were doing Historical Recearch and they had no problem going over to the office to look through files.
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Uzi-
  
Location: Central Nebraska
Gender: Male
| | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 2 on 5/26/2011 11:00 PM >
| | | | If you know what the address is try finding it on your county's property assessor website. Even just the road/street that its on will usually be enough. You can get the addresses of places on each side of it. Use this to make a pretty good guess what the numbers will be for a property that can't be seen from the road or isn't listed in the phone book. Also some counties have the option to search for previous years taxes if the place has been empty for a long time.
My guess is if it's used for storage someone is paying the taxes on it. The county tax websites are usually full of good information like the owner's name and current address and what the property is worth. I do this all the time and find the owners name and put it into Google to find out more. You'd be surprised what you can find just searching the web with someone's name and address.
And its all legal even calling the county assessor isn't going to label you as a trespasser for all they know you are interested in purchasing/renting the property even if you aren't its a good excuse.
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Tom133t
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<Reply # 3 on 5/26/2011 11:11 PM >
|  | | | Search for "[Your county name] property appraiser". If your county is anything like mine, you'll find a property map which allows you to view the details of individual lots. My county's site lists tax information, property owner's name, year of purchase, estimated value, safety violations (the names of which can be used to find city records with specific information), and building features. You can often use common sense to determine if a place is abandoned - for example, an abandoned RV park near me was bought by some German guy in 1974. Abandoned as hell, and the owner is probably dead. City/county records are very useful, so look at paperwork whenever you can.
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 4 on 5/26/2011 11:15 PM >
| | | | I've Googled the place to death. It has no known address, although properties near it are for sale. It is sort of tucked away behind a paint factory, the official road doesn't actually lead up to it or go anywhere near it. Thanks for the tips so far...this should get me further. 
[last edit 5/26/2011 11:16 PM by barefootpoetry - edited 1 times]
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Tom133t
| | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 5 on 5/26/2011 11:25 PM >
| | | | Also, if you're really lucky at a property appraiser website, you might even find photographs of the location. This happened to me a while back - I was looking at a location, and it had photos which were timestamped as only two days old! The photos showed that it was, in fact, abandoned, and even showed a POE. That's excellent pre-visit intel.
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 6 on 5/26/2011 11:29 PM >
| | | | Well, I looked at the property appraiser website, but got nothing. It showed the paint factory and some very, very minimal information about it...that and another industrial building on the same street were the only ones with any photos or more than the most rudimentary information (like "1 family home, urban"). No names or phone numbers or anything. Sigh. I guess I'll have to make some phone calls.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 7 on 5/27/2011 2:17 AM >
| | | | Just go to the courthouse (or county office building). Things like the plat and deed card are public information. You can't get in trouble, just say you're curious about the property. I do it all the time.
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20SeVeN
Location: The Island called Rhode...
Gender: Male
| | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 8 on 5/27/2011 2:31 AM >
| | | | I've had instances where I've been researching places without a known address, and what I do is look up old street maps. A lot of times (around me anyways) street names will change when there's alterations and such. Also in my experience negative history can cause street name changes. Not sure if that's the norm, or just cause my town is sketchy as hell...
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Relocate
Location: nunyabiz
Gender: Male
| | Re: Looking up deeds
<Reply # 9 on 5/27/2011 10:29 PM >
| | | | If I'm on google maps and I don't know the exact location, I'll find the nearest street/address number and start punching in all available numbers and go through each one searching for info...I've come across some good info that way. It gets a little tedious tho...
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