I'm sure it's been discussed here before but when you do a search of survey your own property you get 277 pages to look through.
So who has done it, who hired somebody else, and who would do it if they needed a survey of property they owned or was buying?
I will be surveying my one acre lot in the next week or so. I am going to build a fence, and will be putting stakes down to keep the fence posts straight.
I live in a subdivision, and the corners are all visible, so it is pretty cut and dry, and my neighbors and I are on good terms, so there won't be any issues.
I have, but only because I believe in qualifications based selection.
"So who has done it, who hired somebody else, and who would do it if they needed a survey of property they owned or was buying?"
Me, me and me.
Was hired once to survey an entire block in a very old addition to a small town. Pretty much had to figure out the entire addition to do anything. Arrived at the best fit and laid out the block. Then I went back and discovered where three of my properties turned out to be based on that solution but not terribly close to the client's property. Similar scenario played out in another small town where I now have four small tracts that have been surveyed based on the complicated one that a client paid me to do a year or two before my first purchase.
Another time I knew the adjoiner would not believe the boundary location if I did the survey. Hired it done. Son of a gun, the old witch had half of her air conditioning unit setting on MY property. It did get moved.
Once upon a time I purchased roughly 30 acres of a 14-sided tract that resulted in a 12-sided tract. Both buyer and seller were licensed surveyors. We brought in a licensed former co-worker of both of us to survey it using us (buyer & seller) to do all the grunt work together.
Sliced a 320-acre farm into tracts of roughly 35,50 and 235 acres. The client had different buyers for the 35 and 235-acre tracts. Thought they would keep the 50-acre tract in the family. A few months later I bumped into the client and learned that they had decided to sell that last 50 acres. He asked me if I might be interested. About two weeks later I filed the deed with my name on it.
In a different situation I needed a quarter corner that would mark a corner of a farm I had purchased. I approached the County Engineer/Surveyor and asked him to find/re-establish it. Once that was done I began construction of a fence that was dependent on that monument.
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Surveyed my family's farm while in college and have surveyed every property I ever bought and sold.
Who else?
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Done and done. 0.06 acres but ended up nearly surveying the whole block. What a pain.
I have located my corners.
However, one time when I sold a property I was asked if I wanted to do the survey. I declined. I would not survey property I owned for the purpose of a sale.
Aren't we forgetting something?
> I'm sure it's been discussed here before but when you do a search of survey your own property you get 277 pages to look through.
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> So who has done it, who hired somebody else, and who would do it if they needed a survey of property they owned or was buying?
While most here know that John and others who posted are surveyors, and most certainly licensed to practice where they own property, it might be a good idea to point out (for those that don't know), that in most states, you need to be a licensed surveyor to survey (your own property or anyone else's).
Just sayin'.:-)
Never done it - not because I think there is an ethical problem with it, just never had a reason to.
I live on a small lot (50x160) in town in an area that was developed from 1920-1940, and everything is either fenced or, over the years the limits of possession have been established by landscaping. There are very few original corners, or resurveyed corners for that matter, in the area. Everyone is content with what they occupy, a survey could only cause trouble 😉
Good neighbors make good boundaries, getting along with my neighbors is worth a hell of a lot more than a couple of feet of ground.
I surveyed a 135 acre tract in the NC mountains about 24 years ago. Last December I cut out a 1.38 acre and 4.5 acre lot. The 1.38 acre lot is where I hope to build soon.
i surveyed my own lot and did the Elev Cert.
on the EC, there was not an established BFE so i asked the County Engineer (my boss), who is also the county floodplain administrator, to establish/conjur one for my lot. he based his elevation on GIS floodplain overlay and topology data, the BFE elevation went through the back of my house. i bought flood insurance on my own for a year ($550) while i pondered on it, then i remembered that a drainage study that established 100-year flood elevations was prepared for the subdivision. the drainage study BFE on the low side of my lot was six feet below that given by the County Engineer and was three feet below on the high side. i prepared the EC noting the drainage study as the BFE source, gave a copy to the County Engineer, and filed a copy in the deed/property records. the latest generation of FIRM's evidently took my EC or the drainage study into account and showed the new location of the BFE line no where close to my house.
I purchased my current home in 2009. No survey required but I hired a former co worker to survey it to remove the survey exception from the title policy. When I sold my mother's house in 2011 to settle the estate, the buyer asked me to provide them a survey. I hired the guy that does 20 surveys a day. I paid $300 for a 100 X 200 metes and bounds lot with one corner that was easy to find. The other 3 were in but not easy to find. I think he set 3 stakes near those corners. I was selling and paying so price and not messing up my deal was my main concern.
If I am buying I use qualifications to select the surveyor. If I am selling price and getting the job done are the deciding factor.
I'm almost ashamed to say I've lived in my current house for almost 7 years, and I'm not even sure I know exactly where all of the property corners are. The lot is about 1/2 acre in a subdivision where just about every lot is fenced, so I've never really felt the need to find the corners.
> So who has done it, who hired somebody else, and who would do it if they needed a survey of property they owned or was buying?
I have personally surveyed 4 properties that I owned. I even did my own land division on one 20 acre parcel to split into two 10's. All approved and recorded. I currently am thinking of making sure my new neighbor knows where he is, or at least that I know where he is as he is doing some minor grading.
The regulations state what we need to follow, so just abide and I see no problem whatsoever in a surveyor knowing what he owns. I don't see a conflict of interest unless some other dumb arse comes along and says contrary??
Then again, it is my name and seal, and my caps. If a qualified party chief steps over the line..... well that is different. Since it's Easter time, have a "come to Jesus meeting" with the individual - before you fire them.
$0.02
I don't survey my own property. I didn't survey my mothers or sisters property.
They hired a surveyor that I recommended.
I've done it, a couple of times.
I was leery, because the acreage is 30% more than what the deed says. I had to re-write the description.
It was an all inclusive survey, gold plated. Cadillac.
Funny thing is, they used the old description on closing day.
We had a surveyor we knew in an adjoining county survey my tract in Troup. When I moved home, I did the field work on my new home, and my dad proofed it and signed it. Then when I bought 67 acres, we got slow and we surveyed it and marked the lines. I'd already surveyed half of it (one tract) years before for another guy, who I bought it from.
They aren't different from any other survey. I treat them the same. As long as you do that, then I have no issues.
:good: Looking forward to seeing that 🙂
