My family is selling some vacant property that we have in Southern California. None of us live around there anymore. In order to sell it, we need to have all the garbage and debris cleared off. Trying to figure out how best to go about hiring contractors who can clean up the debris to make the property saleable when we don't live nearby to check on the work or anything.
I would suggest using your real estate agent, assuming you have one.
How big is it? Have any friends that are coaches of a high school sports team? Tell them you'll donate $500, or $1,000 to the program and buy $50-$200 worth of Domino's pizza for them to clear it off.
We're not going through an agent. We're selling directly to a Conservation Authority that plans to keep it as undeveloped land (long story short: got berkeleyed by county rezoning setting out to make it as close to impossible to develop on the land without actually saying so directly).
I want to say it's roughly 130 acres. Most of that doesn't need to be cleaned up. Just the major detritus along the dirt access trail. Neighbors obviously liked using it for 4-wheeling, shooting off shotguns, and drinking beers.
In reply to Datsun1500:
We are dealing with a government agency.
I'm going to try to get them to line up and check on a contractor.
Keep us updated, that sounds interesting. How much is the Conservation Authority buying it for relative to market/past prices? How long till they sell it to a developer so someone can put up condos?
Check with local property management companies. They usually have a guy, this happens to a lot of rental property and is a pretty common service.
Beer Baron wrote: We're not going through an agent. We're selling directly to a Conservation Authority that plans to keep it as undeveloped land (long story short: got berkeleyed by county rezoning setting out to make it as close to impossible to develop on the land without actually saying so directly). I want to say it's roughly 130 acres. Most of that doesn't need to be cleaned up. Just the major detritus along the dirt access trail. Neighbors obviously liked using it for 4-wheeling, shooting off shotguns, and drinking beers.
It sounds like you folks are about to get a good rogering.
In reply to spitfirebill:
We're getting screwed less than we were going to through a private broker. The whole situation with this parcel of land is just a PITA. The re-zoning really screwed the chances of a private party sale for any halfway decent price. Values have been steadily dropping over the past decade. It's just a loadstone.
We're getting less cash than the property was appraised at in the distribution of my grandparents' estate, but more than we'd be able to get anywhere else. Plus, we get to claim the difference as a tax deduction until the difference is used up, since it's a charitable organization.
We're just dealing with bureaucracy, and have tons of hoops to jump through.
Enyar wrote: Keep us updated, that sounds interesting. How much is the Conservation Authority buying it for relative to market/past prices? How long till they sell it to a developer so someone can put up condos?
Never. You can't put up condos on the land. It is zone "Rural residential - mountainous", which means something crazy like that it can't be subdivide into plots smaller than 10 acres. Plus the land is out of the way and fairly rugged.
That'll change once enough money exchanges hands between a developer and someone on the board.
Do any of the So-Cal members of the board have contacts in the construction or landscaping business? I am sure these folk have to get trash cleared.
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