MP not sure if this post is for me, SD Realtor, or for sdrealtor, as he also posts here. As I have been responding to the thread I will respond but he is very helpful and hopefully he will to.
“Is it still possible to find an unclaimed piece of property and buy claim it old west style?”
Do not know. I am pretty much a regular guy. Engineer by day and realtor by night. This question is beyond my knowledge base. If you are referencing obtaining a property by essentially squatting and then performing a quiet title action after a few years then that is always possible. I don’t think that is what you are talking about. If the land is really not claimed then delete this post immediately and get down to the city and do everything you can to find out about it. I doubt that is the case but ya never know.
The post with sdrealtor from farbet is not to me. sdrealtor has a heavy focus on the north county coastal submarket, thus that is why farbet queried him. Also if there was any coastal unclaimed land in Encinitas he would know about it.