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Moore County, North Carolina 5.77 ac (6.33 by deed)

Sold · closed June 2025

Carthage, NC an old loan nobody had cancelled, and a soil report that changed the answer

5.77 acres by county GIS, 6.33 by deed · about 970 ft on two paved state roads · RA zoning

📍 Kelly Plantation Rd at Coles Mill Rd, Carthage, NC 28327 · open in Google Maps

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5.77 ac (6.33 by deed) · Carthage, NC · Sold June 2025
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How it sold

The record looked cleaner than it was.

A recently timbered corner lot on two paved state roads. Two title problems stood between us and closing.

A 2016 seller-financed loan had never been cancelled on the record. The seller said it was paid. We wrote to the lender, sent certified mail, called the law firm that had closed it, and finally reached him by phone in Florida. He signed and notarized the satisfaction our attorney drafted.

A pair of 2024 deeds had also put the seller's late father on title. We pulled his death certificate so the attorney could clear it.

Then the land itself. The soil map called it marginal to unsuitable for septic. We paid a licensed soil scientist anyway, and his nine borings found two areas suitable for a three-bedroom system. That report is below. It sold in June 2025.

What we learned

A soil map is a guess; borings are an answer.

Diligence

What we checked, and where each answer came from.

The diligence file as it stood at closing, including anything still open.

Verified Confirmed in a document or by the county, city or utility
Said on a call Told to us on a recorded call, not in writing
Acreage
Verified

Tract 3 of the J.W. Taylor Estate Division: 6.33 acres by deed, whose lines run to the centre of both state roads. County GIS measures 5.775 acres, which is what was listed and sold.

The uncancelled loan
Verified

A $22,000 purchase-money deed of trust from 2016 had no recorded satisfaction. After letters, certified mail and calls, the lender signed a satisfaction drafted by our closing attorney, and it was cleared before we bought.

The father on title
Verified

Two 2024 deeds had made the seller's late father a joint owner with right of survivorship. Cleared with his death certificate before closing.

Soil and site evaluation
Verified

Soil & Septic Solutions, PLLC, field work February 22, 2025, report March 2, 2025, for a three-bedroom conventional system. Nine borings; depth to saprolite and wetness are the limits. Two suitable areas, about 8,000 and 35,000 sq ft, with a shallow-placed system under a 6 in soil cap. The small piece south of Coles Mill Rd was not evaluated.

The soil map said otherwise
Verified

USDA mapping shows Mooshaunee-Hallison soils with shallow bedrock flagged, read as marginal to unsuitable. The field borings overturned that.

Zoning
Said on a call

Moore County Planning: RA. Homes, modular and mobile homes and farming allowed; 1-acre minimum lots, 100 ft wide with 100 ft of frontage.

Roads and ground
Verified

About 494 ft on Kelly Plantation Rd and 477 ft on Coles Mill Rd, both paved. Timbered a couple of years before, now in dense regrowth. No mapped wetlands or flood zone.

The documents

The paper behind it.

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