Find the right parcel and gather the papers you have. Check any tax or loan balance, show buyers how to reach the land and compare prices. Then choose whether to use an agent, find a buyer yourself or ask for a direct offer.
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Start with what you know. These steps will help you get ready and choose the way to sell that fits you.
Find a deed, tax bill, purchase papers or old survey. Write down the acres if known and the land description. The description tells one piece from another. It may use a lot and block, subdivision name or a longer written description.
Keep the parcel number with your notes. A parcel is one piece of land with a local record number. You may see it called an APN—Assessor Parcel Number. Empty land may not have a street address, so don’t guess one.
List each piece and item included, such as a shed or cabin. Say if you plan to keep part or remove something shown in a photo. Think about your goal: price, less work or a sale around a certain date.
The Graham County Parcel Info Search page gives useful search tips. Enter a parcel number without dashes. For an owner-name search, put the last name first. If an address finds nothing, try less of it, such as just the street name or number.
Match the parcel number and land description with your deed or tax bill. A matching name alone may not be enough. The county page says to call 928-428-2828 if a record seems wrong or out of date.
The page also explains how to open a map: under General Information, choose Link to Parcel on GIS. GIS is an online map system. Use it to help locate the land, then check the details with your papers. A parcel map does not mark exact boundaries on the ground or prove a right to cross another piece.
The search has land details and sales information for more than one year. Keep the year with any note you save. A tax value is different from the price a buyer will pay.
The Graham Recorder’s questions page explains how to get a deed copy: in person, by mail using its copy-request form or through Document Search. Online images carry an unofficial-copy mark. Ask the people helping with your sale which kind of copy they need before paying for one.
Have owner names and any document number ready. For finding an owner by parcel number, the Recorder points sellers to the Assessor search instead. The Recorder lists 928-428-3560 for help with recording fees.
The Graham Property Information page lets you search by parcel or Tax ID, name, mailing address or site address. Its online-payment note covers current-year taxes only. For earlier years, partial payments or a tax lien, it directs you to the Treasurer at 928-428-3440. A tax lien is a claim tied to unpaid taxes. Ask for a current balance and what should be paid at closing.
Gather a deed copy, any survey—a measured drawing of boundaries—and your purchase papers. Keep loan details, leases, lot rules and written road agreements together. A lease is an agreement to use land. A deed copy alone is not a full check of ownership or other claims.
If you’re handling inherited land or helping settle a loved one’s estate, start with what you have. Ask a title company or real estate attorney who needs to sign and which papers are missing. Our land seller document checklist can help. Keep private family and loan papers out of a public ad.
Take dated photos of the entrance, open ground, slopes, rough spots and any buildings included. Give directions from a road you know and explain where a visitor can park. Say who can give permission to enter.
Describe the full route you have used, including dirt sections and gates. Say when you last visited. A dirt track on a map does not prove a buyer has a right to cross another piece.
If there is a well, shared water or an irrigation arrangement, gather the records you have. Explain what works now and what still needs checking. A nearby canal or water line is not proof that this piece can use it. Give the same clear details about power.
Before advertising a future home, farming use or sale of only part of the land, ask the office that handles the exact location what needs checking. Tell buyers which plans are only ideas.
Ask a land agent or appraiser familiar with your part of Graham County for recent completed sales buyers would compare with yours. Ask how the prices were checked and what that help costs.
Match the area, acres, road, working water and power, slope, allowed uses and included items. Land with a working water setup is different from land that still needs one. Do not compare a house-and-land sale with empty land as though they offer the same things.
Write down each sale’s price, date, acres and included pieces. If several parcels sold in one deal, check the whole deal before giving one a price. Count a sale once even when several websites show it.
An ad shows an asking price, not what was paid. County values are used for taxes. If good matches are scarce, ask for a range and the reasons behind it. Our land value guide explains more price factors.
Use an agent: A land agent can help with pricing, ads, showings and offers. Ask about the fee, listing length and recent work with land like yours.
Sell yourself: You handle the ad, questions, visits and offers. You may still need help with the agreement and closing.
Compare a direct offer: A direct buyer may give you another choice without listing the land. Check the price and terms against your goals. You can say no.
Before arranging a visit, explain how to reach the land and who can give permission to enter. Keep private records out of the listing. Share needed papers with the people helping with the sale.
Get the offer and terms in writing. Check the right pieces of land are included. Ask who pays closing costs, any agent fee and other charges. Ask how a loan or unpaid taxes will be paid.
A higher price may leave you with less money if you pay more costs. For example, $30,000 less $2,000 in costs leaves $28,000 before a loan or tax balance. That is made-up math, not a price for your land.
Read the target date and what lets the buyer cancel or ask for a lower price. Ask who holds the deposit and what happens to it. Use our land offer worksheet to compare offers side by side.
If you’d like a direct offer to compare, tell Reelvest about your land. You decide whether an offer fits.
Ask who will handle closing—the final papers and payment. Have that person explain the land description, owners who must sign, costs and money you would receive.
Ask how any lease, road agreement or rules that came with the lot affect the sale papers. If a name or boundary is unclear, get help before signing. A target date does not mean all the checks are finished.
Confirm payment instructions with the closing office using a phone number you already trust. Keep copies of the signed agreement and final papers. Our Arizona land seller guide gives more general steps.
No. Start with the location and papers you have. Ask for help with missing information while comparing selling choices.
The county Parcel Info Search page says to leave out dashes. For a name search, enter the last name first. Match the parcel and land description to your papers.
The Recorder questions page lists in-person, mail and online options. Online images are marked unofficial copies. Ask the people handling the sale which kind they need.
The Property Information page directs earlier-year, partial-payment and tax-lien questions to the Treasurer at 928-428-3440. Ask for a current balance.
It helps locate the parcel. It does not replace measured boundaries or prove a right to cross another piece.
Gather what you have. Ask a title company or real estate attorney who needs to sign and which papers are missing.
No. Use these steps with an agent, your own buyer or a direct offer. You can ask Reelvest for an offer to compare if you want.
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