What would cause a property to not be on tax records?
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[{"id": "ec41e7t", "text": "As in there is no record of the land, or there is a record but all the buildings are just on one big parcel?", "replies": [{"id": "ec42zvs", "text": "Property Managers are never successful in this approach with us. Good Luck. ", "replies": [{"id": "ec44i91", "text": "It stated it was an office park.\n", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "ec488vz", "text": "I wonder how I\u2019ve gotten 2 other PM contracts through cold calls then?", "replies": [{"id": "ec4a817", "text": "Our group of investors, myself included, hate these calls.  Just a guess, probably those who accepted are either financially distressed (can\u2019t get reputable Property Management companies), own dilapidated properties (care little for the property), and/or novices (Inheritance). \n\nI don\u2019t want to know which one and you probably wouldn\u2019t know yourself just yet. \n\nGood luck, not the ideal position to start a name with any of those. ", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec42svm", "text": "Probably not the case in this situation, but homes of police officers, judges and some attorneys are kept off the tax rolls. (But likely not the case here). ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec43epc", "text": "I've found it notoriously difficult to find assessor records if a property was just re-platted to either subdivide or combine parcels.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec441g2", "text": "Call the county assessor.  The records exist. They keep them.  In some states, counties, and situations you might need to go to their office in person.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec468qt", "text": "Non-profit properties are not taxed, but that would be unusual for a 4 building office park.", "replies": [{"id": "ec4c0d4", "text": "This is true, but records of the property still exist.  They just put value exemptions on them...but still track the value.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec4ak97", "text": "It is possible in some locations for the owners to opt out of having their tax records made public. That doesn't mean there is no information - there would still be a deed on record that you'd have to hunt for, but the tax assessor/GIS information is redacted from public view.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec4c9k8", "text": "Can you be more specific?  You can't find the record for this property OR you can find the record but it is lacking info?\n\nIf it's lacking info, what kind?\n\nSometimes properties will be broken up in a system so that you *think* you found it, but you found a piece of it and there are other pieces.  This is common in like Condos where there is shared ownership or some piece.\n\nIt's also possible that they created a new record in the system, with all the info, and for some reason did not delete the old one so you're seeing old out of date info.\n\nSource: Wrote and supported tax assessor software for 9 years.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ec4nw6v", "text": "One possibility not mentioned here - in some jurisdictions, certain properties are \"state assessed\" or \"centrally assessed\" or some other term.  Typically owned by public utilities companies, or some other entity that spans multiple counties.  For example, property owned by the electric company, mostly lines and easements, maybe switching stations, transformer yards, etc., is all assessed at the state level, for simplicity of record-keeping as well as consistent valuation.  But, even their \"normal\" real property, just land and building combos, will be included in the state-assessed property and kept off the rolls, even if they lease the buildings out to non-utilities as tenants.  ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]