Providing information to a homeowner who may not require a survey

One of the great parts of surveying routinely in a community of which you have been a part for most of your life is working regularly for friends, neighbors and other people you have known for years.  I am currently helping a 40-something year-old fellow who I have known since he was a baby.  I was in high school with three of his mother's siblings.

What is happening is that his son and wife are purchasing a house in town.  I conducted a survey for his second cousin about 1990 and for the city superintendent in 1991 in that same block.  My work was based on two prior surveys in that block in the 1960s by the County Engineer/Surveyor.  One of those surveys shares the same boundary that is in question at this time.  I am assisting this fellow with understanding the notes on that survey.  Due to now being paraplegic I will not be doing any field work for him.  He may end up having a survey done completely once the existence of the two monuments on the north side of his property is determined.  The neighbor, which is another of his second cousins, may contribute to the cost of a new survey.  If the monuments are still present, they will probably respect that location and erect a common fence.

The fellow I am helping was part of the ambulance crew that loaded me up out in my pasture after the bull was done with me.  The Sheriff was the first responder to get to my location.  He is a distant cousin to the fellow I'm helping.