Offline1.To find a property's legal description, first determine the exact location of the property especially the name of the county. Then look up the county website online before going to the county courthouse. Pay a visit to the courthouse to get the legal description of the property. Finally, contact the attorney from the last time the property was bought and sold.
2. Find your county government website for land records by typing the name of your county and state, plus "land records" or "clerk's office" into your search engine.
3. Go to the county's official government website and find the property tax records, which may be stored digitally. You will find them in the office of the tax assessor, property.Ehow
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County records is the best place to get the legal description. The property ID card will have the legal attached - but it may not be complete. The most accurate legal will be to look up the most recent deed recorded on the property. This will have the full legal description.
The next question is: Do you know how to read it?
In most cases when a real estate purchase contact asked for the legal description along with the address you can simply use the APN (assessor’s parcel number) to identify the property. You can find the APN by going online and googling your county tax assessor’s office and under tax lien information, put in the address and you will pull up the APN and the owner's name and mailing address too. Good luck!
It is all well and good to be able to know how to find this info but the legal description is not required on a Purchase Agreement (PA). Just be sure to have the correct address.
If you have an area on the contract for the legal description, it is better to just put TBD (To Be Determined) than to put the incorrect description. This is all I ever put on the contracts and have done them in several states with several different closing entities with no problem.
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Not sure how many people I have talked to that you bring up the Legal Description and they turn to run the other way.....
It can be interpreted and understood, you just need to know what method the county is using to create the legal description.
One of my favorites had "old man smiths burned oak stump" in the description.