There are many online resources that can give you an approximate location of your property, but the only way to know where your property is located is to hire a professional licensed land surveyor. Surveyors are licensed by individual states to perform surveys. The...
If you’re buying or selling a particular property. You need to know what you’re getting. What are the boundary lines of the property? How much are you buying? How much do you price the amount you are selling? You often read lot sizes or property...
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...
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...
