So our family recently moved to a new area in our district and so there are a lot of places i'm thinking about metal detecting that are nearby. One recent spot i noticed, while driving to the store about a little under a mile away from my house, I spotted some old looking stone steps that went up to nothing. I looked it up on historic aerials and found maps of the area showing a house was there around the 1920s. Then i used an app called Zillow used for buying houses and i found some documentation about the house being built in 1920. This app also shows the property line but i can't find an owner. I don't know how to figure out who owns the land and who to ask for permissions. In addition to this, I'm only 17 so I haven't had the best of luck asking for permission because people seem to not trust me because i'm so young. They just think i'm there to destroy their yard. Anyways, i was wondering if someone would share some tips and tricks on how to figure out who owns a piece of land and how to get more people to say yes for permissions instead of no.