About Check the Land
Why it exists
The facts that matter about a piece of land are mostly public: FEMA flood maps, USGS elevation, USDA soil surveys, wetland inventories, road and power-line maps, EPA site lists. They are spread across dozens of agency viewers, each with its own map, jargon and gaps. A listing rarely mentions any of them.
Check the Land pulls those sources together for one location and writes up what they say in plain English, with the source and date for each finding and a clear note wherever a dataset has nothing for that spot. It is meant for the first look, before you spend money on surveys, perc tests and attorneys, so you know which questions to ask them.
Who runs it
Check the Land is run by Luxitag LLC, a Texas limited liability company. The reports are produced by our own data engine, which queries the public datasets listed on the data sources page and renders the findings, maps and source notes into a PDF.
How we stay independent
- We aren't a broker, seller or listing site, and we have no stake in whether you buy a particular piece of land.
- The report costs a flat $29 per location. The price doesn't change with what the report finds.
- Findings are generated automatically from the named public datasets, the same way for every location.
- No government agency or data provider endorses this service. Naming a source means we used its data, nothing more.
What a report is, and isn't
A report is a preliminary screen of mapped public data at one point and stated search radii. It isn't a survey, title search, Phase I environmental assessment, appraisal or legal, engineering or insurance advice, and it doesn't settle zoning, legal access, septic suitability or whether utilities can serve the land. The how it works page sets out exactly what is checked, and the due diligence checklist shows who answers the rest.
Contact
Questions, corrections or a report that doesn't look right: email [email protected]. If a finding is wrong because a source is out of date, tell us which one and we'll look into it.