Before you buy
Easements and rights-of-way
Lines crossing your land may not be able to serve it, and easements can limit where you build.
An easement across your parcel gives someone else the right to use part of it. Utility easements commonly carry lines serving other properties, and their presence does not entitle you to connect.
Easements also constrain your own site plan. You generally cannot build a structure, a septic field, or in some cases a driveway within one. On a small parcel, an easement running through the middle can eliminate the buildable area entirely.
Verify through the title commitment. Ask for the recorded documents themselves, and plot them against the survey before you assume where the home goes.
The rest of the checklist
Which utility can actually serve this parcel
Poles on the road do not mean service. Certificated territory decides who can connect you.
Whether water can reach it
A certificated water provider may still be unable or unwilling to add your tap.
Legal access
A road you can drive on is not the same as access you have a right to use.
Deed restrictions
Restrictions recorded decades ago can prohibit manufactured homes outright.
Floodplain status
Floodplain changes the pad, the height, the steps and the paperwork.
Soil and septic feasibility
The soil decides the system, and the system may not fit.
Driveway and culvert
Access has to be built before almost anything else can happen.
Lot size and setbacks
The buildable area is smaller than the lot, sometimes much smaller.
Have us look before you close
We evaluate parcels for buyers — access, utilities, soil and what the site work will actually take. Cheaper than finding out afterward.