In this short tutorial, realtor Sander Scott demonstrates how to use the Leelanau County online Tax Parcel Viewer to discover who owns a property. He walks through accessing the viewer via a Google search, entering a parcel number, owner’s last name, or address, and selecting the correct result from a list of matches. He shows how to zoom into the parcel, view neighboring parcels, and open a detailed window that provides tax information, sale history, and the full legal description of the property. Scott notes that the site still lists an outdated mailing address for him, illustrating that the data may need occasional updates. He emphasizes that all this information is publicly available online, eliminating the need to visit township offices. The video serves as a practical guide for anyone wanting to research property ownership, tax details, or neighboring owners using the county’s public GIS tool.
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Hey there, Sander Scott, your full-service realtor here. I want to show you a tool that I use as a realtor quite often and that you can use too that can be very, very useful to find out information about a property. So let's take a look. So I have this page bookmarked, but if you just Google tax parcel viewer for your county, something like this ought to pop up. I'm going to look in Leelanau County. Here. You can see up here, Tax Parcel Viewer. We can put in the parcel number if you happen to know that, or a last name or an address. So let's just start with Scott, okay? And a lot of properties pop up because there are lots of Scotts in Leon County. So if I scroll down, there you go, there's, there's Shannon in my property, and there's my son Samuel, and then my folks are up here D. Martin, Scott Trust. So let's look at my property. Boom. It'll zoom right in, as you can see. And here's, uh, the property. So I can see, I can click, who then click on different neighboring properties here. If I click on this one, this pops up, gives you a quick window. I can then click here for tax and sale information. And so let's do that. And then a new window pops up. And it has all this information on here, including the lengthy legal description. This is something that I go to when I'm listing a property. I want to make sure I have the right legal description, so I'll go here for that. So yeah, here you go. This actually has an old mailing address for me. It looks like I need to get that updated on this, on the site, because we are back living at this property here on Christensen Road. So anyway, this is good information. If we go back to the map, If I want to know who my neighbors are, I can go find my own and then click on neighboring properties, which gives me similar information. It'll tell me who, who owns it, and I can click and look at their information. I mean, all this is publicly available information. So with the advent of the internet, you used to have to go visit the township offices to get this information, but now it's publicly available. So there's a quick tutorial, I guess, tax parcel viewer. This is something that's just available to you, available to anyone that knows how to use it on the internet. So there you go. Sander Scott, your full-service realtor, signing off. Thanks so much for tuning in. Really appreciate it.
