Sub-division legal help

[Jonathan Rempel]

Hello! I’m looking for some support in the Everett, WA area, specifically a real estate attorney recommendation, that can walk me through the process of sub-dividing my property. 

I still have a mortgage and I haven’t contacted my lender yet, but I should have the equity with appreciation that I hope that they will be willing to release this portion of my property.

Additionally, this portion of my property I want to sub-divide is just as large (if not larger) than my neighbor’s property. That property was a gift from the previous owner of my property and they roughly quartered out a section of the larger property for them. So I know the city supported this in the past although that was a number of years ago.

How would I go about understanding the process to subdivide, what the city will need permit wise, will have I have to pay to bring in utilities, etc. So my best option, from my brief read on the forums, is to find  a RE attorney to help me out. Any guidance/contacts would be great!

[Jay Hinrichs]

U dont need an attorney for this.

what you want to do is simply go the planning department of the city or county that has jurisdiction and talk to a planner at the counter. 

this will give you the basic's.. then you would want to hire a local surveryor or engineer that does this kind of work . its pretty straight forward really.