Due Diligence Survey Before Buying a Vacant School Property
A closed school is not a simple empty lot. The site can hold an old main building, wide grounds, play areas, and more than one parcel. Some sites even carry more than one street address. That makes buying a former school a very different job than buying a plain vacant lot. In Chicago, this comes […]
Why an ALTA Land Survey Matters Before Buying a Mixed-Use Building
Buying a mixed-use building isn’t like buying a house. You’re not just checking one roof and one lot line. You’re checking a building that might have a coffee shop on the ground floor, apartments above it, and maybe an office tucked in the back. Each of those spaces comes with its own rules, its own […]
Why You SHOULD Have a Land Survey Completed Before Purchasing Land?
Buying land, whether commercial or residential, is always an expensive endeavor, even if prices have eased somewhat lately. This is why finding a piece of land that you like and making an offer for it without conducting a land survey on the area is possibly the biggest mistake that you can make. Here’s why it’s […]