ALTA Title Survey for Distillery Campus Acquisitions
Kentucky’s distillery properties rarely fit the mold of a single commercial building on a single lot. A working distillery campus can include a rickhouse row, a bottling plant, a visitor center, employee parking, and access roads that grew over decades as the business expanded. Buying one of these properties means buying a group of connected […]
When an ALTA Survey Changes the Scope of a Commercial Purchase Agreement
Nobody signs a purchase agreement expecting to rewrite it. But once an ALTA survey lands on the table, that’s often exactly what happens. A purchase agreement gets written before anyone has walked the property with instruments. It relies on the deed description, the seller’s word, maybe an old plat pulled from a file drawer. The […]
When an ALTA Survey Reveals Access Rights Nobody Mentioned During Negotiations
An ALTA survey does more than confirm lot lines. In Bowling Green, Kentucky, developers have discovered, after committing to a deal, that neighboring property owners hold legal rights to cross their land. Those rights were never brought up during negotiations. They were simply there, recorded in documents no one reviewed closely enough. This happens more […]