Free land is available abundantly everywhere. We just need to look around and find the same. This article teaches you all that you need to know for claiming free land.
The practice of staking claim on free land or property is not a new one. Our history books stand testimony to this fact and if you open the pages you will get innumerable such examples.
Going back to history for a good example, one can talk about the new settlers who had come to America and claimed the free land as their own and went ahead by building homes and farmlands on it.
Even today, there are millions of vacant and unused tracts of land that are lying abandoned and unused simply waiting for someone to stake a claim on them.
The main first step for you would be to identify the plot of land on which you would stake your claim. You need to be selective in this and undergo a bit of detective work in the process of your property identification.
A property which is abandoned and unclaimed can be identified with some sure signs that they all possess. Some of these signs are – overgrown gardens and gate, broken or bordered up windows, unused garages, derelicts, fields, shrub lands, unused commercial premises and industrial buildings and the like.
Since such signs are never much obvious, you will surely miss them if you drive about instead of walking around your own neighborhood.
Remember, that these signs are not that obvious and you would not identify them unless you go for a regular walk around your local neighborhood. Drive around and you may miss these sure signs of unclaimed property.
If the plot is already registered there might be many reasons behind it. The owner could have died without leaving any relatives behind. Or it may be that the relative do not want the land or may be the owner has moved abroad abandoning this property.
In the second case, that is, in case it is unregistered, it refers to the absence of an owner. And it means it has never been registered before. But it must be noted that such instances though is the ripest for free claim, usually brings with it a tough job of owner tracing.
If the status is ‘Pending first Application’ you might as well be sure that someone else has beaten you to claiming the land. The best suggestion in this case would be just let go and search for another plot instead.
The third step for one who has already undergone registration check of a plot of property is owner tracing. While claiming a plot of land, you need to provide proof that you have attempted to contact the owner.
A good idea would be to ask the neighbors first. They would be in the best position to know about the original owner. If it doesn’t work then you might check up with the local parties such as the landlords, post office, newsagents, milkman, or even the probate registry office (incase he has expired)
Remember, it is not compulsory to submit any form to the land registry but it’s a good practice to keep an evidence of your claim start date. For this, you can simply draw up a document and get two of your friends or colleagues to sign as witnesses.
You might do things like putting up a fence or a ‘No Trespassing’ sign which would effectively work towards quickly bringing back any owner the land might have had at all.
You can make money while the long claiming period gets over. This period can even go upto 10 or 12 years and what you can do in between is either rent out the land or hold events like boot sales and the like.
The people who come to help the most in such cases are undoubtedly the immediate neighbors to the plot of land since hardly anybody wants to stay beside an old derelict having overgrown gardens with garbage strewn ponds.
CDs, websites, etc are openly available in the market through which you can know about the different legislation rules and the corresponding laws pertaining to adverse possession. Infact, there exists numerous websites who would undertake the detective for you in finding out the whereabouts of the original owner.
You can put all this to good use in order to find yourself a good plot of property to claim as your own.
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