Property owner
Jan 27, 2010, 12:13 PM
We purchased 20 acres of unplatted land. We want to subdivide into two 10 acre parcels and sell 10 acres. The county requires we first must upgrade our private roads to county highway standards to the point where they touch the county road. This would be cost prohibitive, approx. $1 million. Upon researching the property I found that it has historically always been two 10 acres parcels since its purchase from the Dept. of Forestry and up until the deed prior to ours where the title company recorded it as a 20 acre parcel. The previous owners did not request this nor did they want this. I have a signed and notarized letter from them stating such. The problem is the county still refuses to acknowledge that it is indeed two 10 acre parcels even with historical deeds and no official recording of a merge of the two properties. They insist we must go through with a minor subdivision process to get it back to the correct description and upgrade the roads. The title company says they get their property descriptions from the county and the county says they record the descriptions from the title company. What can I do now?