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But I Have 5 More Feet…
No, you don’t have 5 more feet. You have a lot that’s nominally 100 feet wide, and I measured it to be 100.03 feet wide. The fence is within a few inches of the lot line. The neighbor is not encroaching onto your land. I understand that your father left you with the impression that the fence is on your side of the line, but it’s not. Phoning me every 2 months for the last year and half to tell me that there’s something wrong with the survey and that you have 5 more feet isn’t going to make that 5 feet magically appear. I’ve met you on site 3 times to try and explain this to you, and have long since exhausted the budget for this project.
You no longer need a surveyor, you need a therapist, or at least a hobby (other than phoning me, or showing up at my front door).
Has anyone seen my can of Client-Be-Gone?
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If you find it, I will buy it from you.
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McMath (yes that is really his name) surveyed a bunch of government lots, a complicated situation. The adjoiner didn’t like his survey (that didn’t affect us). Litigation ensued and the adjoiner lost, McMath’s survey was ruled correct by the Court.
Nonetheless, the adjoiner was not satisfied. We have some powerlines and maybe a road which crosses his land if McMath’s survey is wrong. Our Predecessor Surveyor (long retired) a long time ago broke down the entirely lotted Section and it appeared McMath didn’t do it correctly. Unfortunately he told the adjoiner this in a meeting. Our Surveyor then met with BLM for advice on how to correctly calculate the section (a complicated situation) and it turns out that McMath did it correctly after all. Nonetheless the adjoiner couldn’t be convinced.
Another thing that happened was a lot of noise over a quarter section corner location but it only controlled the section to the south. But the adjoiner just refused to understand that, he was sure that location moved the line to where he wanted it.
For years my employer paid him rent for the facilities supposedly on his land. Then I looked into it, did some recon out there, and concluded that we had nothing on his land. I told my employer, stop paying that guy. Haven’t heard about it since.
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For years my employer paid him rent for the facilities supposedly on his land. Then I looked into it, did some recon out there, and concluded that we had nothing on his land. I told my employer, stop paying that guy. Haven’t heard about it since.
Is that what you call “HUSH MONEY!”?
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For years my employer paid him rent for the facilities supposedly on his land. Then I looked into it, did some recon out there, and concluded that we had nothing on his land. I told my employer, stop paying that guy. Haven’t heard about it since.
Is that what you call “HUSH MONEY!”?
There’s some pretty funny correspondence from that guy in the files.
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Reminds me of one I had a couple years ago, 4 corners of lot are intact, easily found. 30 or more feet of said lot are within highway row. Guy build a garage wholly within row but in his lot and for years we have tried to get him to remove it. So I ask PZ for his building permits, find the garage permit hand sketched and inspected and signed off by PZ…..in its correct position they show our row line. Labeled “alleged right of way line”. I had to laugh as much as it hurt.
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An Oklahoma case where someone just got a bug up their a$$ for no apparent reason about a fence line being wrong. Interesting to me because of the extended discussion of occupation by mutual mistake, and the Oregon connection. Note that there is no evidence of a survey of the line.
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I hear that a lot, but it’s usually the owner or abutter pointing out some random steel rod, old fence post, big rock, or some other hunk of junk, as being the corner. I ask, and 9 out 10 times I’m told that it’s where the realtor said it was when they bought the land.
It amazes me that people take the word of their realtor as gold, someone who has no authority whatsoever to be pointing out boundary locations, but then question where a land surveyor sets the marks. It’s definitely irresponsible behavior, and borders on being unethical, especially where they have a vested interest in selling the property.
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