i am looking for the records to a house I want to purchase. mainly the records that show what permits were acquired for the land and tax information and what bank owns the property currently so I can determine the property's value. Where would I look to access this information and can I get it online? Also, is this free public records or would I pay for this information?
Anonymous
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Go to the court house........ @
lovingdaddyof2
The tax assessors office will have the ownership, tax, and mortgage company name. You will then probably have to go to the clerk of the court to look up the actual filed paperwork for the mortgage amount.
But, the truth of the matter is that you need to do a comparative analysis of recently sold similar properties to know what it is worth. What they paid for it doesn't mean squat. What the market will pay right now is what is important.
Look in the property appraisers office for sales of properties with similar characteristics and location in the last 6 months. Use those as a good guide to the real value of the property.
Also note the trend of the current valuations when you try to formulate your price.
bbq
start with your county clerk recorder and / or tax assessor. they will have the owner of the property and the tax amount or figure you can use to calculate property tax. its public information. i dont know if your county has it available online or not since you didnt tell us what county youre in so search for your county clerk recorder tax assessor and see if they have an online database. they generally wont charge you for the info unless you want copies of documents in which case they wouls probably require you to go their locatin and charge you a small administrative fee. as for permits, that would go thru the city you are in.
Jill S
Where I live, in New York, I needed the same info, so I went to the record bureau in my county, and after some research on microfilm I got the infor I needed. It was free to do the search, but if I wanted it printed out there was a nominal fee (I don't recall the exact amount), but it was worth it.
Anonymous
Here are some good free online public record directories, many include links to property tax assessor records --
http://www.skipease.com/free_public_record_searches.html
http://www.searchsystems.net
http://www.netronline.com
http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp?h=1