To: Nemer who wrote (8473 ) 9/6/2001 11:29:27 AM From: James F. Hopkins Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 19219 Hi Neamer ; OT >> real estate. RE >> seven years for the owner to reclaim the property from the purchaser ...... the method is too complex for this post, but it is there .. Taht's either out of date or County specific.. Down here they now only have 6 months unless it's listed as a homestead, if it's a homestead they have 2 yrs. However they must also pay you a 25% premium over the sale price and for any work you do on the place ( if you can certify that it was done for Safety or Health ) ie needed repairs to wiring or plumbing and such. Even the cost of tearing a place down , but in that case you have to have papers condemning the place. ---------------- The cryptic thing is no big deal for me, but like right now they just put up about 30 more , that's about 60 places all over the county & I have to ride out and find them even after I get an address, which is often a Box and P.O. Route number so it often takes a trip to the local post office too . :-) IE like RR RT 4 covers more than 100 roads, but the PO can give you instructions when you give them the Box number, but here you have to be sure they don't have it mixed up so to be sure a check of where you wind up against the County Maps to see if it matches is also called for. -------------------------------- I found one long strip of land 100 ft wide 30 years ago "THAT NOBODY" owned , the original surveys out in Shady Acres started at two different points but never really came together. A friend of mine was right up against it, so I told him to fence it with "old" fencing then claim the part that joined his property. He did and got a free 100 ft extension to his property. :-) The rest is still sitting there with no one claiming it. ----------------- After a lot of digging I found out It was the result of the County running a road years ago before the place had developed but in the wrong place , ( which had stole 100ft from some other people , ( then after the road was there so long it became legal ,) but it left 100 ft of no mans land some 300 ft from the road; & they still don't like to talk about it. Any one who lives against it can fence and claim it, if they know the legal in/outs ( first to do it on either side gets it ) The county don't care as it gets it on the Tax rolls, as it is now it's not Taxed..because as far as they are concerned it still don't exist. :-) Ask them about it and all you'll get is a no-comment Jim