Fee Purchases...

The Lands Technician (Fee Purchases) is primarily responsible for the purchase of fee properties offered to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The acquisition Technician also works with Natural Resources Department staff to acquire trust properties for the Tribes that meet ARCO, BPA and KERR wildlife habitat criteria.

The minimum information required for purchasing property is:

• the sellers name, address and phone number
• the legal description of the property (Township, Range, Section, ¼ Section, etc.)
• a brief inventory of what is on the property
• the asking price
• whether or not the seller would be willing to remove a home(s) from the property, if one or more exist. (The Tribal Council is not interested in purchasing property with homes.)

The Lands Technician completes all steps needed to complete sales transactions including, but not limited to, deed searches, map preparation, drafting Council presentation materials, preparing buy/sell agreements, ordering title insurance and reviewing closing statements. The Technician also coordinates updates to the Tribal land ownership data base.