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I went to the tax office and found the persons name to the house abandoned house that I wanted to MD at.  Once I got his name I googled it to see if I could find him.  I found him- he died last December, he was an only child and now I am trying to find the next of kin.  I found out that 5 generations had farmed on that property.  Not sure how old it would be.

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	Dang, that is a good idea. That will get you a step ahead of just trying to knock on a door and ask permission. Knocking on doors in a lot of places is a loosing proposition. This will be as good as an introduction. But, tha Right of Way strip width varies. For intance; Say the street is 24 feet wide. The Right of way is 50 feet. One half of 24 is 12. One half of 50 is 25. 25 feet of R/W, minus 12 feet of street equals 13 feet from Back of curb to edge of R/W. Now 24 feet is narrow, but common. 27 feet wide streets are more common. 27 foot wide street in a 50 foot R/W leaves 11.5 feet from back curb to tha edge of R/W. These are very common where I live. Right of Way and street easements vary, and so do the width of tha street. So you can see, there a lot of possibilities as to how wide that strip is. You can usually tell by owner occupation of the area. By that, I mean fences and plants and such. Oh, by the way. I am a retired professional land surveyor. Happy Huntin, Tabdog

Hello tabdog . The patch of Grass between the public sidewalk and city street that is usually 4 feet wide that goes for miles and miles and miles in almost every city across our country and should be " Open Season"    . But like I said , stand out there and just sweep your machine while looking at the property owners front window , wave and smile then proceed to the front door . Watch out for pit bulls and then make your sales pitch .........This is a very good subject , because look at all the houses in our country that are old and many have never been checked by any metal detector. You are correct tabdog there is a legal formula to calculate the exact easement size [width] in front of every home owners yard . The funny thing is when the home owner cuts and maintains that patch of lawn he think's it is his , but it belongs to the city or county . One more very important thing to remember is hopefully power , phone and cable tv is buried more than 18 inches [ if the utilities are not aerial of course] !!!! Also , if there is a fence or gate in the front look for a mailbox to attach a note . And last "hopefully all the kids are at school" , if not they always ask a million questions and never want to leave  !!
Excellent topic Everyone .
HH.........Regards........Eugene

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Hey everyone, thanks for your ideas. Things have picked up at my store so haven't had a chance to do anything. But business is better......sweet!!! Just heard on the news this a.m. that Ana is supposed to make landfall on the east coast of Fl sometime later next week.
Oh how I would love to go over there then! Lets just hope that there is just rain everyone needs and no damage. Ana is also being followed by a bigger system which will be Bill. Could be good searches coming up.
    Happy Saturday everyone!!!!

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Hope you get the permission and make many nice finds at the location.

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I've found that having a friend in city government can be very valuable when you want to search an old yard or property, in the city, for which an owner cannot be located.  In our town, the City often takes houses and property that the taxes have not been paid on in years.  Recently, I found an abandoned lot in our town that sure looked promising to me and so I inquired to my friend at City Hall.  After making a phone call to another department, he told me that the City had taken possession of it and that it would soon go up for auction in order to recover most or all of the taxes due.  As a result, I was free to detect the yard to my heart's content without anyone bothering me until the lot was eventually sold.   
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