So while your neighbor may know a pipeline runs beneath his or her property, you may not. However, a search of public records at the county auditor's office or city and county maps would probably show the location of pipelines, Sitkin said. But the disclosure only focuses on that property. The question becomes one of interpretation as to whether that prospective buyer should be told about the pipeline on her neighbor's property. What we have today is certainly better than nothing by a long shot.
Some people look at five pages and say it's overkill.
I don't think it is. Grant said he will discuss this disclosure issue at the association's meeting on Wednesday. Pipelines don't run through Richard S. Shockley's property at 1052 Kenoyer Drive, but he knows where they are located. When I go out and buy a house, I check a neighborhood out. They show where the pipe goes.