by Shelly C | Mar 7, 2020 | Flood Zones
An Elevation Certificate, otherwise known as an EC doesn’t have an expiration date, but there are some factors that do play a role in determining if an Elevation Certificate is still “good”. Has the FIRM been updated? The Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) are updated...
by Shelly C | Feb 21, 2020 | Surveying Related
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...
by Shelly C | Jan 23, 2020 | Surveying Related
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...
by Shelly C | Dec 12, 2019 | Surveying Related
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,...
by Shelly C | Nov 21, 2019 | Surveying Related
Most properties have a plain and simple point of entry and exit. But some properties have no plain and simple point of entry or exit. This can be of concern to the Title and Mortgage Company. Here are 2 examples that demonstrate the concept of ingress/egress, or the...
