Once again gents.. All great advice. Since I'm really at the infancy of this process I get to explore many options and roads to the dream house.. which is awesome.. we have our roof over our head and are still working to make it worth even more than it is now.. so that is great too!

As far as public records searching.. instead of digging around at the county there is also a GREAT website called "Beacon" that allows me to spot a property, pull it up and I can find out all the particulars of the property.. which is great. Size of the plat, acreage, taxes, any exemptions it has claimed etc.

One property I would love to own is owned by a woman who I know well. It has 20 acres, some tillable, some wooded. I know what the semi-tax is, how many outbuildings it has, and I was surprised that it has geothermal heat (which I didn't know) and it is evidenced by the fact that they are able to claim a geothermal tax credit.



So being a former county employee for a short stint in my life I got to know all sorts of good ideas of how to search and research properties.

Thanks all again for your insight. All of this is AWESOME information!