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Retracement Survey consensus among professionals
The situation on my property is several (6) surveyors all come up with different boundaries for my property. We are talking about discrepancies of 3-20?? in a small subdivision with half acre lots. We have three original monuments that separate multiple parcels and a newer boundary agreement monument set 22 years ago. I have two parcels that used to be two different neighborhoods with two plats but is now annexed. The subdivision was created in 1950.
Surveyor number 1 shows up and does a retracement survey and restored one lost monument per the descriptions in all deeds.
surveyor number 2 shows up within hours representing the adjoining tract and disputes his mark before doing field work himself. He supplants Number 1 and gets him to dig up his iron and not complete work for us, no charge. Survey number 2 is related to the adjoining owner, then conducts his field work and sets an iron 9?? away from number one even though he said number one was off by 3??. He also sets a stake over 3?? away from the original monument that is described the boundary between four parcels.
surveyor number 3 conducts field work, holds the original monument but agrees with the newly set iron 9?? feet away. We show him the evidence and he then refunds us our money.
surveyor number four does field work, says the new one is wrong, talks to his friend/colleague number 2 and decides not to complete work for us no charge.
surveyor number 5 does field work and tries to explain how the original monument that is documented is not our corner and that number 2 is right. After showing him the evidence, he says he would need to do more field work, then backs out no charge.
Surveyor number 6 does field work and holds one monument in another lot with the control points. It shows the the original documented boundary being around 7?? away from were it ??should? be and doesn??t agree with the deeds that describe it as the corner of four parcels.
so we have a situation where surveyors will not retrace our boundary monuments which coincides with all adjoining deeds and restore the lost monument.
we built a fence set back three feet from what the deed says and are being sued by the adjoiner for land that their family/surveyor put in.
my question would be, what are the land principles about holding monuments that have been in place and observed for over 70 years?
at what point can you change the parallel bearings for each lot?
is it proper to prorate distance and disregard parallel lots and original monuments?
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