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Buying Rural Property - A Buyers Checklist to CYA
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3577632" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>If you’re planning on building, you primarily want to pay attention to water, access, and easements. The easements will be filed at the county courthouse, and I’m pretty sure they have to include any easements on the property, including any pipelines that cross it (gas, oil, or telecom—someone I know has an old oil pipeline running across his property that Chickasaw Telecom bought to run fiber through).</p><p></p><p>I was told that it’s not legal to sell landlocked parcels in Oklahoma, but I recently saw a parcel for sale for pennies on the dollar compared to surrounding land. In the details it said it had no access easements, so I guess that’s one more thing to add to the checklist.</p><p></p><p>For water, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regulates water wells and septic systems, and they have a pretty robust online GIS system showing the locations of registered wells and so forth via their Web site. You can also look for rural water districts to see where they have water pipelines; I know Pott, McClain, and Creek counties have RWDs, but I’m not sure how you’d find info on them aside from going into one of the district offices.</p><p></p><p>It doesn’t hurt to ask about mineral rights, but those were severed from most properties’ surface rights in Oklahoma long ago, so I wouldn’t be overly concerned about them at this stage of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3577632, member: 26737"] If you’re planning on building, you primarily want to pay attention to water, access, and easements. The easements will be filed at the county courthouse, and I’m pretty sure they have to include any easements on the property, including any pipelines that cross it (gas, oil, or telecom—someone I know has an old oil pipeline running across his property that Chickasaw Telecom bought to run fiber through). I was told that it’s not legal to sell landlocked parcels in Oklahoma, but I recently saw a parcel for sale for pennies on the dollar compared to surrounding land. In the details it said it had no access easements, so I guess that’s one more thing to add to the checklist. For water, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regulates water wells and septic systems, and they have a pretty robust online GIS system showing the locations of registered wells and so forth via their Web site. You can also look for rural water districts to see where they have water pipelines; I know Pott, McClain, and Creek counties have RWDs, but I’m not sure how you’d find info on them aside from going into one of the district offices. It doesn’t hurt to ask about mineral rights, but those were severed from most properties’ surface rights in Oklahoma long ago, so I wouldn’t be overly concerned about them at this stage of the game. [/QUOTE]
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