Stories are told of many people who have lost money to fake brokers or conmen. You know how painful being conned of thousands or even millions of money can be. You can avoid being a con victim by carrying out due diligence on the ownership of the land before transacting any business on it. Its a good advice to involve other experts apart from relying heavily and solely on lawyers, who could also be preyed upon.

So if you want to buy land, request the seller to give you a copy of the title and then look for a valuer, am not marketing myself, look for any valuer that you know, and tell him or her to prepare for you a Site Search and Identification Report. This should be able to tell you everything that you will need to know about the land in question.

I don't know how to insert an attachment, I would surely love to show you a sample of the report for free. However, if you are interested, I could send it to you for free. Just hit my inbox on

mdswissholdings@gmail.com

hi send the sample to wazua@googlegroups.com

Would love to see

@propertyvaluer, plse drop the sample at oloo@msn.com

Another Mwalimu. Marty is/was a good educator.

1. I want to know, what happens when a SACCO official takes off with cash, that was meant for land purchase. What recourse do the SACCO/Investment group members have?

2. Do you have sample agreements for leasing out land? Do they have to be registered etc etc?

I don't know what supernatural powers the office of a private valuer possesses in order to determine the status of a property.
Apart from a lawyer the only other private office to visit is a land surveyor office. That office is very important in order to get the complete history of the property.
Property transactions in Kenya are based on a willing seller willing buyer basis. Only the government, banks and insurance people conduct valuation processes mainly because it adds un necessary costs to a transaction .