Land Notes
What Jay wishes every buyer knew.
Land is not a house. The things that decide what a parcel is worth, and what you can actually build on it, are mostly invisible from the road. These are the ones that come up again and again.
Buying Land in Maryland: Do's and Don'ts
A five-acre waterfront lot, an easy contract, and then the builder starts asking questions. Wetlands nobody delineated, a septic reserve area that can only be tested in winter, a hundred-foot buffer that cannot be cleared, and a dock limited to 240 square feet. The whole story, and the four terms that explain it.
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More notes coming.
Jay is writing one per county he sells in, starting with the questions buyers ask most: what a perc test really proves, how conservation easements change value, and what an agricultural transfer tax costs a buyer.