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Unless you are the original surveyor acting on behalf of a landowner making a new parcel, all you can do is render an opinion. You can’t monument the corner as that was supposed to have been done by the original surveyor. What if there was no original monument set (maybe government rules require a marker to be set). All you can do is render an opinion. Opinions vary.
You’re sort of in a tough spot. No original corner or call and a client that expects the corner to be set. So you render an opinion. If there is a disagreement then the owners can work it out or litigate. Many landowners just accept the surveyors work. After 20 years (in my state) the corner is established, not by the surveyor but by the landowners and the law.
Measurements are way down the list on what establishes the location of a boundary, yet they get the most attention. Sometimes I wonder if a lot of folks even know that measurements are not the most import aspect of boundaries. Maybe the measurements are mentioned in the deed and most of the other stuff is not. Most of the old deeds I deal with in rural Utah are void of any mention of monuments. Just a bearing and a distance. The most common bearings are north, south, east and west. None of it is very accurate.
Pincushion all you want. You are not solving any ones boundary problem. Welcome to your opinion, and mark it on the ground. Don’t expect much respect from landowners. They just think we are a bunch of nuts. Most only hire us because some government application, permit, etc. requires it.
I don’t think most of the public understands that our services are the rendering of an opinion. They think you are to mark the boundaries in fact. Surveyors have never been given that authority, would be unconstitutional. Not how our system was set up.
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