Buying land in SC question

Wes

Wes

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Ridgeway, SC
I’ve found two pieces of property I plan to buy. I’ve struck a deal with the owner . The land was purchased years ago at a tax auction by the father who passed and left it to his children. The option to buy it back for the original owner has long passed. The current owner said I needed to do a title search to make sure there are no claims against the property. This is my first time doing something like this. Im pretty much clueless. Im sure I could hire a lawyer but I’d like to save some coin. I guess my question is, where to start? Register of deeds? Hire a lawyer?
 
Look up "SC title insurance"and find someone to help. He should have done his due diligence when he bought it but it's always smart to have a title search done and purchase title insurance. I have an atty do it all here, @Ron ought to know how it goes there.
 
Around here my attorney also owns the title search and insurance company.
No way I'd close on the deal without an attorney. I think my guy charges $550 to do a land deal
 
You need a lawyer to do the title transfer, and they should handle the title search, and insurance if you want it.

I just purchased a piece of land from my grandparents' estate that my grandad had owned since the 1950s/60s, but it was made up of several smaller tracts he acquired. We decided to do title insurance and it wasn't much at all.
 
Pay for someone to do the search. Depending on the county you will have to go to that records department and search it there. I just went and looked up my Wife's property and spent a good 3 or 4 hours. There was a lady in there that helped me and if she was not there I doubt I would have found what I did find. Of the two counties I have messed with this in neither have records on line that go back very far so you have to go in person and search them.
 
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