Have anyone reading this ever written a Letter to a Town Commission that states the total acreage of a parcel following an A-2 survey. I am asked to write a letter stating the total acreage of the parcel I surveyed. Reason for doing so is the towns acreage in the assessors office differs by 10 acres from what my survey depicts, 86 acres verse 96 acres. Anyone have an example?
I call it a property description.
You could simply make the statement that there are "96 acres of land, more or less".
Some taxing entities have a hard time choosing between record and fact.
Are you sure your client wants to start paying the additional taxes? Or worse get hit with a big back taxes bill.
I've been on the other end of such issues; I'm a justice of the peace in my Vermont town. Among my duties is to sit on a board that hears appeals from taxpayers about the assessed value of their property (for the purpose of assessing property tax). One of the issues that has come up is whether the area should include public roads which the taxpayer owns and the town has a right of way. Another issue is surveys that show ownership of land under canals that are open to the boating public. I checked with the Secretary of State's office and state Department of Taxes; it turns out there are no standards about how to handle this and each town does its own thing.
