Short, sourced notes on buying undeveloped land in Alabama, written for people who do not yet know what they do not know.
An Alabama land tax bill is appraised value times a class ratio times local millage. How to run it on a vacant tract before you buy, and what changes when you move in.
A recorded plat shows lot lines, easements, and approvals as they stood the day it was filed. How to read one in Alabama, and what it was never meant to answer.
Alabama current use taxes qualifying timber and farm land on what it grows. It is an application, it does not ride with the deed, and conversion brings back three years.
A back tract priced under everything around it may have no legal way in. What landlocked means in Alabama, and why only a recorded easement binds the next owner.
East for the sunrise, west for the afternoon heat. Then the driveway, the setback lines, and the septic drain field pick the spot before taste ever gets a vote.
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