Practical guides for buying land in the Missouri Ozarks — what to look for, how to evaluate a tract, financing, and avoiding common pitfalls.
When a manufactured home becomes real estate in Missouri under RSMo 442.015 and 700.111: permanent affixation, the recorded affidavit of affixation, the 60-day Department of Revenue filing, lost titles, old liens, and titled owners who have died.
How a Missouri county road ends under RSMo 228.110 and 228.190, why an overgrown roadbed usually has not been abandoned, and who owns the dirt when it is. With Burris v. Mercer County, argued by the author.
Missouri runs two fence laws at once. In Franklin, Gasconade, Crawford, Phelps, and Dent Counties the general fence law governs: the obligation follows the livestock, the right-hand rule divides the work, and the fence is not the property line.
A buyer’s guide to Chapter 140, the Jones-Munger Act: what the certificate is, how redemption actually works, and the five ways purchasers lose their money.
Missouri regulates dams 35 feet and greater, but the authorization that catches most creek dams is federal. DNR dam safety, Corps 404, the farm pond exemption, spawning closures, and downstream liability, from a Missouri attorney and land specialist.
The CWD Management Zone is gone for 2026–27, but the feeding ban, mandatory sampling, and statewide carcass rules are not. A plain-English guide for Franklin, Gasconade, Crawford, Phelps, and Dent counties.
Missouri’s rules for recovering a wounded deer: leashed tracking dogs, thermal drones, firearms while tracking, artificial light after dark, and why you cannot cross the property line without a yes.
Electric service, utility easements, line-extension costs, and power-line rights on rural Missouri property.
If you own rural land in Missouri, odds are good that you reach it over a road you don’t entirely own. A shared gravel lane, a private drive crossing a neighbor’s ground, a low-water slab over a creek, an easement that three or four families all rely on to get home. It works fine right … Read more
Who owns the creek bed in Missouri, who may float and wade it, where the ordinary high-water mark falls, and what it all means when you buy or sell rural land.