kindasortafunny but not really

Local county has been giving the entrepreneurial medical merrywanna farmers a lesson in hammers.

Seems there has been a few folks who have bought a number of rural parcels to set up farms. County waits 'til the crop is glistening, then swoops in and performs a little dance. They do it with all their friends in tow. Fish and Game, Building officials, the boys from the forestry department, the water cops.

In the end, even if the gardner can prove there were enough "patients" to get any illegal growing charges thrown out, the crop has been destroyed just prior to its peak value (ouch). And the feller who was footing the bills and who owns the underlying land, ends up with citations from several agencies, such as timberharvest violations, water quality violations, fish and wildlife violations, etc etc. And to boot, he is further burdened with a list of land zoning and building non-compliance violations recorded against the land title.

I've recently been contacted by a certain feller who seems to have an inordinate quantity of such encumbered lands. Seems he has been having troubles off-loading lands which have non-compliance violations liened against them. He's asked me to clear the title to these lands. For the most part it takes an ex post facto grading plan for the land clearing that was done. An even bigger task in most of these parcels is to prove to the local agency the relationship between the grading limits and the property lines. Most of these parcels were subdivided by deed alone with no recorded surveys. Generally a pain in the rear survey situation which usually entails considerable effort and head scratching, adjoining deeds not matching, occupation discrepancies, yada yada yada.

But, the fellow does not question invoices and the cash is green (even if it does have a somewhat funny smell to it). I guess in the end these nightmare survey areas will get some recorded and monumented boundary control, so that's a good thing.