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Margie Smith

Asheville Realtor

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Buying Raw Mountain Land: What the Listing Won’t Tell You

Found a mountain parcel that looks perfect? Don’t schedule that showing yet.

Last time, I showed you how to pull up a property’s GIS map for a closer look than any listing gives you. Now it’s time to read what that map is telling you, because the biggest red flags in mountain land aren’t always obvious.

The questions that matter: How do you get to it? How do you power it? How do you connect it to the outside world? Skip these, and a “great deal” turns into an expensive lesson.

Here’s exactly what to look for, using a real property I recently helped clients evaluate.

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