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I'm a sucker, will do survey for slowpaying client
Where to start? Probably five years ago I did a simple survey for a lady who needed to cut about five acres out of the 50 or so she owned so she could mortgage just the new house on that tract. Great client. Two years ago she called again. Wants a description for an odd little strip we intentionally left with the parent tract to greatly reduce the cost of the original job. She was selling the house and small tract we had surveyed and the buyer thought he needed that odd strip as well. Long story short, that never happened, even after we helped her for a minimal fee. Then last summer she calls. She is going to sell another oddly shaped tract, including that stupid little strip to a co-worker. Meanwhile, we discover that half of the sanitary lagoon she had built before selling the house a year earlier is on what she retained and now wants to sell to the co-worker. BTW, the coworker is an absolute idiot. He built one stretch of fence three times. First he built it where he thought it was supposed to go. Then we told him it was in the wrong place and to wait until we got it surveyed correctly. So the idiot tore it out and built it in a different place—BEFORE we got it surveyed. We finished the survey and made sure he then knew where to build it the third time. It turns out the agreement between buyer and seller last summer was that she would pay us and then he would pay her back during closing. It took about four months to get paid.
Ring Ring today. Guess what? The entire deal with the idiot co-worker fell through completely. She still owns the entire tract except for the house tract sold off two years ago. About 80 percent of what we did last summer is of no value now. She has a new buyer (Amish fellow) who is hot to buy the entire tract less a three-acre tract she wants to keep. Can I rush down and mark off the three-acre tract, like yesterday? Uh, no! Maybe in a week or two.
Now, the real reason she wants to keep the three-acre tract. First, that is the county minimum size for a tract to be allowed to install common sanitary facilities for a house. Second, because when her father died a few months ago, she had him buried on her land instead of in a cemetery. She figures she should keep Ol’ Dad on a piece of ground that she owns.
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omg, drove by the place today
Took a quick peek to find Ol’ Dad so I could kind of guess about where the tract would go. Talked with the buyer of the remainder who told me, “Go to the little pond. Then go west maybe 100 yards. Look for an area of gravelly dirt with nothing growing on it. Look for the old tire still sort of marking where a tombstone will go someday.”
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You know, Cow
Your life would be so much easier if you lived in California because neither you or your client could do any of that stuff.
Splitting off little pieces here and there without review, burying Papa wherever you want, etc.
Also, this is where happy cows live, you’ve seen the ads, I’m sure.Don
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You know, Cow
Are those the ones who have eaten too many fermented California Raisins? As I recall, they could do some fancy song and dance numbers in their commercials.
Or is it the “tomatoes” growing out behind the barn?
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