How Will I Know if the Government Plans to Condemn my Property?

Hello, my name is Raymer Maguire, I’m a 30 year eminent domain practitioner, I limit my practice to representing property owners and business interests. The question at hand is, how will I know if the government plans to condemn my property? Almost always, you will know because the government sends out a statutorily required Notice of Intention to Condemn Property. And from there, you would tend to be contacted by the government’s appraiser. And then, you would tend to be contacted by the government’s right of way agent. So it is highly unlikely that the condemnation of your property is going to be undertaken without you receiving multiple notices of the fact that they intend to condemn it.