The process of performing a professional land survey can vary from property to property, but the basic steps are fairly consistent. This is a summary of the process to perform a boundary survey: Authorization: The property owner or purchaser must officially hire the...
Surveyors are licensed and governed by individual states and their statutes. On top of that, areas have their own trends and nuances that make them unique. There are not federally mandated requirements so a dotted line on a survey in Missouri may mean something...
Property lines are typically determined by knowing where your property corners are located.
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When a boundary survey is prepared, we are typically just concerned with what is happening with the property on a horizontal plane. We don’t take into account the “highs and lows” or elevation change on the property. If you want to know more information about your...
Imagine you just bought a new house. You look at your fenced in backyard, ready to mow and manicure your new land for years to come. But here’s the problem, you may not own all the land inside the fence or worse, you may own land that is located outside of the fence!...
A while ago we shared a story about a REALTOR® who ran into a situation where she was being advised that “the surveying company is just wrong” this was stated by an employee who works in the Assessor’s office. The REALTOR® was also told that the boundary survey they...
Repurposed from April 2017 If you park your car in my driveway, does that make it my car? If you had a Jaguar, BMW, or Mercedes I’d be only too happy to take them off your hands (assuming they are paid for). But you know as well as I do, that just because it’s on my...
If we can’t see it, it clearly doesn’t exist – right? That’s not the case when it comes to easements. Now that it’s standard practice for electric, phone and cable lines to be buried, rarely do we “see” the full picture of where the utility companies are allowed to...
Obviously if I’m using something then it belongs to me – right? That’s not quite how it works when it comes to owning property. Regardless of use, you own what your deed says you own. This is an example where a skeet club was clearly using land that they didn’t own,...