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Due Diligence in Land Flipper Tycoon

Last updated: July 24, 2026. Applies to Land Flipper Tycoon at tycoon.acreford.com.

Ever wonder what a real land investor checks before buying a parcel? We modeled the game's due-diligence system on the actual public records a professional title searcher uses. Here's where each field comes from in the real world.

Where's the user manual / player guide?

The Player Guide (User Manual) covers every screen — Dashboard, Browse, Parcel, Negotiation, Closing — with screenshots, the 30-second core loop, the county-unlock map, the in-game economy, persona archetypes, and a getting-started checklist. Open it from any page footer ("Game Guide") or bookmark acreford.com/guide.

Is the data real?

The sources are real — they're the same public records, maps, and databases a real investor pulls. The values shown in-game are synthetic for now (G4 milestone). Sources fall into three buckets:

• Public records — county clerk filings, recorded deeds, FEMA flood maps.
• Public measurements — USGS elevation, USDA soil samples.
• Public estimates — FCC coverage polygons, USGS seismic hazard categories.

Parcel polygons: real county shapefile boundaries are live in select counties (currently Pitkin CO and Cochise AZ, with more being added). Other counties use procedurally generated parcel shapes; transaction values, prices, and outcomes are fictional everywhere. Each real-polygon parcel displays a "Parcel data: [County] GIS" attribution link to the source.

What you get for each tier

TIER 1 · BASIC (3 AC — minimum viable DD)

Is this parcel even closeable and buildable? Eight fields covering the deal-killers.

TIER 2 · ADVANCED (8 AC — 24+ fields, expanding to 34 when liens are present)

What a buyer who plans to develop or live on the land pays a title company $150–$500 to research.

Utilities & services (always shown)

Power line distance (utility service-territory maps), water source (USGS National Hydrography Dataset), well yield (state water-well database — Colorado DWR), cellular coverage (FCC Form 477), broadband (FCC Broadband Map).

Buildability & structures (always shown)

Building footprint count and nearest-building distance come from Overture Maps building footprints (GeoParquet on S3), used under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Attribution: "Building footprints: Overture Maps Society (Overture Maps data, https://overturemaps.org)."

Civilization (always shown)

Nearest town/grocery/gas (OpenStreetMap + Census), nearest school (NCES + GreatSchools), clinic/hospital (HRSA + CMS), bank (FDIC BankFind), hardware (OSM), fire station (USFA registry), law enforcement (state DPS + OSM), post office (USPS locator), airport (FAA 5010).

Title — common items (always shown)

Mineral rights (county clerk severance deeds), mortgage/deed of trust (county clerk recorded filings), HOA arrears, utility arrears, easements, special assessments.

Title — rare items (collapsed unless present)

Mechanic's liens, municipal liens, judgment liens, federal/state tax liens, code violations.

Note: These fields are synthetic in G4 — there are no published per-county statistics for these on vacant land. When absent, the game shows "none generated in simulation" to make the synthetic nature explicit. Each populated entry carries a SYNTHETIC badge.

Environmental & regulatory (always shown)

Radon zone (EPA Radon Map — real per-county), seismic hazard (USGS — real per-region), wetlands (USFWS National Wetlands Inventory), critical habitat (USFWS IPaC — real per-county), brownfields (EPA Superfund NPL — real per-county), wildfire risk (USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities + existing per-county disaster data), karst/sinkhole (USGS + state geologic survey).

Is all this free?

Most sources are free public records — county clerks, FEMA, USGS, USDA, FCC, EPA, USFWS, Census, USPS, FDIC, HRSA, NCES, USFA, FAA, Overture Maps (building footprints, ODbL), plus OpenStreetMap for POIs.

A few items cost real money to research in real life:

• HOA and utility estoppel letters (typically $150–$350 each).
• A professional title search ($150–$500).

In-game, these show as simulated values with a note about the real-world cost.

Well yield note

Real-world well yield is a per-parcel measurement that requires drilling. State databases (Colorado DWR, Texas GCD) publish yields from nearby drilled wells, which is an estimate — not a record — for an undrilled parcel.

Important: this is a game

Every source above is free and publicly searchable — we list them so players can see the real research that backs each field, not to suggest Acreford performs or replaces that research.

Who makes Land Flipper Tycoon?

Land Flipper Tycoon is built and operated by Acreford — a brand run by Victor, an individual based in Jerusalem. The game is inspired by the methods taught by real-world land-investing educators and the broader land-flipping community. It is an original work of fiction and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any real person, podcast, or brand. Parcels, prices, and outcomes are fictional; county records referenced for enrichment are public data from U.S. recorder offices. See the About page for the full story.

New here? The Game Guide / User Manual walks through every page (Dashboard, Browse, Parcel, Negotiation, Closing) with screenshots and a getting-started checklist.

Questions?

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