Been doing this for a while now and I’ve gotten comfortable enough to move fast on most parcels. But access is the one thing that still slows me down. County GIS shows a road frontage, but half the time that “road” is a paper road that was never built, or it’s a two-track that technically crosses someone else’s land.
For the lower-priced stuff (sub-$10k), I’ve started just eyeballing the GIS and aerials and pulling the trigger without ordering anything. Saves time and the margins still work even if I’m wrong occasionally. But I had one recently where the access was way messier than it looked, and now I’m second-guessing how much I’m leaving to chance.
For those of you doing decent volume, where’s your line? Do you treat access differently based on deal size, or do you have a quick checklist that catches the landlocked ones before you ever make an offer?