One of the little curious things is that this property he bought and lived on (for 18 months) didn’t really have streets that were identified (no GPS coordinates, no signs, etc). I suspect that he showed up with a license that showed X-address, and once they ran the background check...the check came back to say such-and-such street didn’t exist, so they couldn’t advance the purchase (legally).
Your thought makes sense. At least where I am, you need a ‘current’ address on your license or some other bill showing residence address. Sounds like he had neither.
>>One of the little curious things is that this property he bought and lived on (for 18 months) didn’t really have streets that were identified<<
It’s probably what is referred to as an “illegal subdivision”. Not sure about other states but it’s a common problem in Texas. Someone buys a chunk of land, divides it up themselves and makes their own roads, then never registers it with the county.
“...property he bought...didn’t really have streets...I suspect that he showed up with a license that showed X-address, and once they ran the background check...the check came back to say such-and-such street didn’t exist, so they couldn’t advance the purchase (legally).” [pepsionice, post 14]
“...you need a ‘current’ address on your license or some other bill showing residence address. Sounds like he had neither.” [Magnum44, post 15]
“probably ...’illegal subdivision’...common problem in Texas. Someone buys a chunk of land, divides it up themselves and makes their own roads, then never registers it with the county.” [Tejas Rob, post 24]
“...you have to install your own pole and then the electric company comes and hooks you up...” [Tejas Rob, post 26]
I worked part time more than 13 years for a small family-owned gun dealership in western South Dakota.
When it comes to buying guns, the “no street address” problem is common in outlying rural areas: post office box or rural-route numbers were on drivers’ licenses (they may still be). Before 2006 or so the National Instant Check System administrators allowed a prospective gun buyer to use these residence designators on the ATF Form 4473.
Then the rules changed: if buyers did not have a street address, they had to write directions to their residence on the form (example: turn south from US Hwy 20 onto 248th Ave, go 5.0 miles, turn west onto County Road S, go 2.7 miles, turn north onto unmarked gravel road just past two-story brick building, go north 1.2 miles. Residence is white-painted one-story house on left with a red roof).
These days, dealers are not even permitted submit a prospective buyer’s name to NICS unless they give a street address or the information mentioned above, backed up by documentation.
Such remote spots can get electrical power in several ways:
Some pirate power from the grid, connecting directly to a transmission line, or they string their own cables to a neighbor who is connected. Neighbor gets paid under the table. Illegal, unsafe.
Some obtain or assemble their own local power systems: generators that run on gasoline, diesel, steam, wind. Many of these are supplemental or emergency-only and their owners are connected to the grid already.
More and more are buying solar-cell arrays; on sunny days, their storage batteries can satisfy their requirements longer than overnight. If they are connected to the grid, they are allowed to sell their surpluses back to the co-op.
Still others have their own small reservoirs equipped with hydro-electric plants.
And some do without - just like everybody on earth did before 1870 or so.