But if there is a chance that the previous person could have done something and it just became dislodged and blocked it, no. 

Of course, your specific block may be higher or lower.

So we would buy the aceage and since the legal descriptions still called out lot and block we would just start to deed out the lots to get them on the tax rolls and the Assessor would change the maps. 

The ones I’ve come across are in areas with boarded-up houses throughout the blocks, which I’m not quite ready to invest in as a new investor.

Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: Bruce there is also that famous case in San Fran  in the Seacliff area of 5 to 30 mil homes and someone bought their right of way on a small private street and were trying to block them off and then of course sell it back to these folks.

I bought the cheap lowes light blocking blinds. 

But I kinda love that sort of thing...I drove block-by-block around a dozen neighborhoods of interest and mapped out where I want to be lol.

That is the thing that will eventually get you over the hump, not talking to realtors who, for the most part, don't know anything about working with investors and have heard the "once I get this first property, I am going to keep going" dialogue a million times.If you want to market yourself, the best thing to do is to walk a five-block radius that you really want to buy in.

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Its the "blocking and tackling" and going with the basics that keep you out of 90% of the problems that we see people have.