Sold - Broadway, NC - fourteen acres at the end of a private lane

The county said on day one that it was probably landlocked.

Fourteen wooded acres at the far end of Family Lane, a private dirt road, with McLellan's Creek as the west line.

The county told us on the first day that Family Lane is not a county road and that its map shows no easement to the tract. As far as the record goes, it is landlocked.

We wrote the contract with a legal-access condition, then spent August trying to create access: two rounds of letters to all five neighbours, an offer to pay one of them for an easement, calls about the adjoining 48 acres, and an attorney referral. Nobody granted one.

So the contract was re-signed without the condition, and we told every caller plainly that the tract had no legal access. It took months; a buyer came through an agent at Christmas and it closed in January 2025.

If the record shows no access, say so to every buyer.

Ask the county about the road on day one. Harnett County told us Family Lane is private and its map shows no easement to the tract. That one call shaped the contract and the whole sale.

Make legal access a condition until you know. We started with a legal-access condition so we could try to fix it before we were committed. When nobody would grant an easement, the contract was re-signed without it.

Creating access costs more than letters. Two rounds of letters to five neighbours and an offer to pay for an easement got nowhere. The attorney route meant paying to identify everyone whose permission was needed along the lane, and we decided not to spend that.

Tell every caller the truth about access. Buyers who wanted to build were told they would need an easement first. It took months, but the buyers who closed knew exactly what they were buying.

What we checked, and where each answer came from.

The diligence file as it stood at closing, including anything still open.

Verified Confirmed in a document or by the county, city or utility

Said on a call Told to us on a recorded call, not in writing

Buyer verifies Left for the buyer to confirm

Access

Said on a call

Harnett County zoning, August 1, 2024: Family Ln is private and not county maintained; the county believes the parcel is landlocked, and its easement map shows none.

Trying to create it

Verified

Letters to five adjoining owners on August 12 and August 23, 2024, including an offer to pay for an easement. Calls to the owner of the adjoining 48.8 acres. No easement was granted.

Acreage and deed

Verified

14.8 acres by the seller's survey; the 1977 deed and tax record say 16 acres more or less, described in chains along McLellan's Creek and the old neighbouring lines.

Title

Verified

No mortgage on the land. Conveyed subject to easements, restrictions and rights of way of record.

Septic, water and zoning

Buyer verifies

Not tested or confirmed. A buyer would need legal access before a permit.

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If you own something like this, we would like to hear about it.

Odd lots, divided parcels, land with a question hanging over it: that is most of what we buy. We do the survey, the soil work and the calls to the city and county ourselves, and we put what we find in writing.

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