INVOLVE COMMUNITY LEADERS WHEN BUYING LAND IN A RURAL AREA

INVOLVE COMMUNITY LEADERS WHEN BUYING LAND IN A RURAL AREA

When buying land or building in a rural area, community chiefs, elders and leaders are in the best position to point you in the right direction.

Engage them secretly while doing the transaction and seek to know where the true ownership of the land lies.

They are in a position to show you the true boundaries too. Inform them of your desire to buy the land and seek their inputs.

Engage as many of them as you can, but be sure that their input is not tainted with malice or ill-will.

This will eliminate incidents of fraud and misrepresentation of facts as they will indicate to you which is community, family or individual land as well as the real owner.

In rural areas, everybody knows everybody. So it is quite easy to get factual information on you the land/building you want to buy.

When you ignore them, you may end up paying the wrong person, buying land under dispute or, worse still, finding out that the land is sacred or communal and cannot be sold at all.

Community leaders are the unofficial Land Registrars of the Community. They know the backstory behind every land, every boundary issue and every shady transaction that outsiders will never hear of.

So do not rely solely on documents. Rural land talks, but only to those who ask the right people the right questions.

If you want peace after purchase, consult the true custodians before commitment.
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