How to acquire land

[Brian Cooke]

I'd like to buy vacant land that is next to the house I am buying so I can add additional rooms to the house. The owner of the land is someone in India, who is way behind on taxes. I cannot contact them to offer to buy the land. What are my options to get the land? Do I have to just play the waiting game and wait for the county to repossess it and put it up for tax sale? Is there another way to get first dibs on the land if they every do decide to put a tax lien on it?

[Carolyn Morales]

LinkedIn ? other social media ?

International addresses are very different than domestic USA.

It may be more of a complete address than you think. You could google the name and address and maybe get a hit. You could send lnquiries to potential relatives, that may know how to make contact. Search every searchable county list, including case searches, probate, marriage,  divorce, civil traffic & what not for a match. You may glean more information to narrow things down. Last resort is to keep hounding the tax collector office.