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That first step might be a doozy
Well, my first job as a “professional” (using that term loosely) was boundary work on a regular sized suburban lot in a middle class neighborhood. A young Jewish Rabbi, with a couple of fun little boys and nice wife, runs synagogue on a covered slab in his back yard and wants a little more space back there.
I did topo for him a year+ ago and now he wanted to clearly delineate his boundary so that a contractor can start making a mess for a Hawaiian style rock retaining wall that will face two neighbors properties from 2′ to 8+’ high.
I got a hint before going but found out more in my day in the brush there that at least one of the neighbors is starting to take issue with the idea. At first it was that he thinks some of the trees the Rabbi wants to take down are on his property – something fairly easy to determine. But after a couple hours out there the neighbor came out and we talked. I’m pretty good at playing dumb (lots of experience) so it was a nice conversation, but found that besides the trees, his real concern is that an 8′ high rock wall running most of the length of the long side of his property will turn his back yard into “an oven”.
Not much I can determine on that, but it’s possible the neighbor tries to find something to stall or stop it and he does actually believe that probably 8 trees, on the rabbi’s side of a nice, coated chain link fence (and are IMO clearly on the rabbi’s property), are his… so he may use that to begin the stall.
I told the Rabbi that it sounded like the neighbor may be inclined to get his own “real experienced” surveyor to test his theory. But the whole thing certainly made me be careful and do what I consider a rigorous survey, wondering if I might have to defend it at some point.
“uh, yeah judge, I mean yer onner, I’ve never actually marked real boundaries before.” <I have, many times, but I can’t tell that to anyone>
Fun way to start (sarcasm slathered on there).
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