No road touches this parcel but the seller keeps saying there's a dirt track
I've got a 5 acre parcel I'm talking to an out of state owner about. She inherited it, has never seen it, wants $9k and I think a builder around there would look at $25k-ish for similar acreage. So the spread looks fine.
Problem: I pulled it up on the county GIS and no road line touches the boundary anywhere. Nearest county road is maybe 400 feet away through what looks like someone's pasture. When I asked, she said her brother used to drive in on a dirt track and "everybody used it, nobody ever said anything."
I read a post somewhere about prescriptive easements, that if people have used a route long enough it becomes a legal right of way, so a landlocked parcel isn't really landlocked. Then I read a different thread saying no legal access means the land is worth basically nothing and no builder will touch it. Those two can't both be how it works.
Do I just put it under contract and let title figure it out? I don't want to waste the 30 days if the answer is that this one is dead.