Quote Originally Posted by Accompong View Post
I have had several friends who when trying to purchase land in the Treasure Beach Area (for example) found that the original title was in a great, great, grandfather's name or sometimes even back to the Land Grant days and was never transferred to the next owner in line. Lots of time people think they own land but they are not the "registered legal" owners. It took a good friend almost 11 months to get a clean title owning to the line of failures to register death certificates. It happens a lot more than you even probably think.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah I'm sure that happens. BTW I discovered there is a government website ELand Jamaica https://elandjamaica.nla.gov.jm/elan...activemap.aspx which is pretty useful for checking into these things when considering buying.