How Selling Your Landlocked Land Works

Selling landlocked land to us takes three steps. You send the parcel details through our form. We reach out with a cash offer the same business day. If you accept, you pick the closing date and a title company handles the paperwork and payment. No road access or easement is needed.

You are probably here to decide whether we are worth your time. This page lays out the whole process, what we ask from you, how we arrive at a number, and what happens to taxes or liens on the land. Where a detail depends on our company policy, it is marked so you can see it has been confirmed.

The 3 steps

1. Tell us about the landFill out the short form with the county, state and parcel number, plus anything you know about the access problem. It takes about two minutes and costs nothing.
2. Get your offer the same dayWe review the parcel using county records and maps, then reach out to you with a cash offer the same business day. The offer is free and you are under no obligation to accept it.
3. Choose your closing dateIf the offer works for you, you sign a short purchase agreement and tell us when you want to close. A title company handles the deed, the paperwork and your payment.

That is the whole process. You do not have to fix the access problem, talk to the neighbor, or clean up the land first.

What we need from you

We need enough to find the parcel and understand who owns it. Most of this is on your property tax bill or deed.

• The county and state where the land sits
• The parcel number (also called an APN or tax ID), or the nearest address or crossroads
• The names of everyone on the deed
• What you know about access: no road at all, a path you use without permission in writing, or a neighbor who has blocked the way
• Anything owed on the land, such as back taxes, a loan or a lien

If you inherited the land and are missing some of this, send what you have. We can look up the rest in public records. You do not need a survey, an appraisal or photos to get your same-day offer.

How we decide our offer

We will not quote a price on this page, because every parcel is different. We can tell you what we look at:

• Location and size. The county, the acreage, and what similar land nearby has sold for.
• The access problem. How far the parcel is from a public road, who owns the land in between, and how hard legal access would be to get.
• The land itself. Terrain, flood zones, wetlands, timber and zoning.
• What is owed. Back taxes, liens and any title problems that must be cleared at closing.

Our offer will be lower than what the same land would bring with a road to it. We are taking on the cost, time and risk of solving access, and the offer reflects that. If you want to check our reasoning before you decide, read how we value landlocked land. For shorter answers, see the selling FAQ.

Closing with a title company

A title company is a neutral third party. Cornell Law School's Wex dictionary describes a title company as a business that searches titles and insures them. It runs a title search to confirm who owns the land and what is owed against it, prepares the deed, holds our purchase money, and pays you once the documents are signed. Holding money this way is called escrow, which Wex defines as funds kept by a neutral party until the agreed conditions are met. You are never asked to hand over a deed on trust, and we never handle your payment ourselves.

You choose the closing date in the purchase agreement. If you need more time, for example to finish an estate matter, tell us and we can set a later date.

Who pays closing costs

We cover the closing costs: the title search, the title company's fee, deed preparation and recording. You pay no commission and no fee to us. If you choose to hire your own attorney, that cost is yours.

All of it is written into the purchase agreement before you sign. The title company also sends a settlement statement that lists every dollar in and out, so there are no surprise deductions on closing day. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau describes the standard HUD-1 Settlement Statement as a list of all charges and credits to the buyer and to the seller.

What if there are back taxes or liens

Owing money on the land does not stop a sale. A lien is a claim against the property for an unpaid debt, and unpaid property taxes work in a similar way. As one example, Florida Statutes section 197.122 makes property taxes a first lien on the land until they are paid. The title search finds these. In most sales they are paid off at closing out of the sale price, and you receive what is left.

If the amount owed is more than the land is worth, we will tell you plainly and explain what options are left.

About us

Sell My Landlocked Land buys parcels that have no legal road access. That is the kind of land we look for, so the access problem that turns other buyers away is the part we expect to deal with.

Common questions