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How to find out about property behind us ?

We're in attorney review for a house on a dead end. The map we got from MLS shows there is a lot behind our lot that doesn't have any street frontage. Bordering that lot is the lot on the block over. We know that part of our lot backs deep into woods with a steep cliff. I'm assuming if we go to our local planning office we can look up the block and lot of the other property? We'd like to know who owns it -- maybe the township? But we also want to know what's on the property to make sure it's nothing to be concerned about. I assume the survey  will tell us more about our property but I dont think it will tell us about the other one.

Re: How to find out about property behind us ?

  • You can typically pull up a zoning map for your county or city online. You can look at a current one and also a 20-30 year planning map.

     

  • Thanks. It's not the zoning I'm worried about because it's in a well-developed residential area. It's not like it's empty land that can be developed. It's just a chunk of land (way bigger than a little easement) that's sandwiches between our back hard and the back yard of the neighbors a block over. Looks like it might be a half acre or so. I just don't know if there are any structures on it or maybe it has environmental issues...
  • Where we live you can go onto the county's tax appraiser's website and search the address of any property to see who owns it, how much they paid for it, what year they bought it, etc. If the block of land you are concerned about has a physical address and your city/county offers this, maybe it would be somewhere to start?
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    Thanks. It's not the zoning I'm worried about because it's in a well-developed residential area. It's not like it's empty land that can be developed. It's just a chunk of land (way bigger than a little easement) that's sandwiches between our back hard and the back yard of the neighbors a block over. Looks like it might be a half acre or so. I just don't know if there are any structures on it or maybe it has environmental issues...

     

    You can check out the EPAs site and search for environmental zones that have had issues and dumping. You can also check out old topographical mapes from decades aago to see what was there (pond? marsh?)

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