Short, sourced notes on buying undeveloped land in Alabama, written for people who do not yet know what they do not know.
What a slope percent means, how to read it before you visit, and where Alabama's septic rules, the driveway, and the house pad start to push back on a hillside tract.
Road frontage doesn't mean the driveway can go anywhere. Who permits a turnout onto a county road or state highway in Alabama, and what they check first.
Bare land is financed differently from a house. Cash, land loans, construction loans, USDA programs, and owner financing, and what each one asks of an Alabama buyer.
No sign and no listing, but you like the tract. How to find the owner of record in Alabama, what the name tells you, and what a good first letter says.
In parts of Alabama, an earlier owner may have kept the coal, oil, and gas under a tract. How to spot a mineral reservation before you sign a contract.
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