Vacant land

01How it is defined in LeadCounty

Land use is a vacant-land code or mentions 'vacant'.

02How many are on the list today

03Why it matters

Vacant land earns nothing and still gets a tax bill; out-of-state owners of lots are classic motivated sellers.

04Where it shows up in public records

The land-use code on the assessor's roll.

05How to find vacant land in 3 steps

• Step 1, find the record: the land-use code on the assessor's roll.
• Step 2, match it to the property: join the record to the parcel by its parcel number and the owner's name and address, so you know which house it belongs to.
• Step 3, add a second reason: stack vacant land with another list to see which owners have more than one reason to sell. LeadCounty does steps 1 and 2 for every property each week.

06How we count it

LeadCounty counts vacant land from each county's own records and shows the number for every county in the table above, refreshed weekly. A county that does not publish the record shows no count rather than a guess.

07How to use it

• Stack with out-of-state owner and tax delinquent for land deals.

08Best stacks with vacant land

One list gives you a reason; two or three lists together give you owners with several reasons at once. The stacks that work best with vacant land:

• Vacant land + out-of-state owner: the owner lives in another state and manages from a distance.
• Vacant land + tax delinquent: tax is past due, a dated and money-based sign of pressure.