Good morning. The neighboring lot sold and the new owner brought in a surveyor to find the property corners. His original findings were that My house was encroaching on the neighboring lot. The same surveyor came out again last week and put pins down and put stakes up by the pins. It is NOT in the same area as his initial findings. So, my question is, why would he be so off in his calculations? Where the stakes/pins are now indicates my house is within my property lines now. Do surveyors put pins in temporarily?
How do you know what his "original findings" were? The survey is not complete until the pins are set and the survey signed. I suspect your interpretation of information as original findings probably was not correct. What constituted original findings in this instance?
When using Total Station equipment it is common to set temporary markers to use as turning points that allow clear viewing of the final corners. These are intenionally not put near the true corners. Once the final solution is computed for each corner, the surveyor sets up the Total Station on those turning points to shoot in the true corners. This gets to be critical procedure when dealing with high privacy fences and minimal spacing between obsturctions (house, detached garage, etc.)