Owning property can be a complex situation. What you can do with it depends, in part, on where the property line ends and where it is situated. We have broken it down to three very important things to think about when determining what you can do with your property and...
Your buyers walk out onto the back patio and instantly fall in LOVE with the HUGE back yard! There’s nothing but woods and lots of vacant, wide open space – which is going to be great for their young kids. Lots of space for a swing set, a swimming pool, a fire pit,...
We’re all human. We all have the ability to make errors, mistakes, and miscalculations. So what happens when we make mistakes? Who ends up paying? Is it ultimately the client, the surveyor…or hopefully someone else? Hopefully the land surveyor that you trust your...
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 property, it doesn’t make it...
The internet has made our lives so much easier. No more going to the courthouse to pull tax records – we can look that information up online!While it’s great to have that information, it can become information overload at our fingertips, which ultimately can be...
A legal description, also known as a property description, describes a tract of land. This description provides information that a surveyor can use to identify an area of land on the ground. It is the written word that conveys the location of a piece of property....
In current times, when a developer purchases a large tract of land to subdivide into smaller lots, they typically have to have approval by the county or municipality in which the property is located to divide the tract. Each of those jurisdictions have their own...
Lets define encroach , it is a legal term meaning to trespass upon the property, domain or real estate rights of another. Because it is a legal term, and surveyors are not attorneys, it is not a term that surveyors should use. Our “job” is to perform a physical...
When a survey is completed as a part of a real estate transaction, the surveyor references items shown in the title commitment for that particular purchase. There are several reasons why a title company many not allow you to use an existing survey drawing. Here are...
Have you ever done a puzzle? Where did you start – with the edge pieces or with the middle? If you’re like the majority of people, you always start with the edges. Surveying is similar in practice in that in order to know how the middle piece of the puzzle fits, you...