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Why?
Recently a title insurance company refused to insure property that was for a conveyance, claiming that the survey I performed for the seller did not match the description given in the deed.
Why this sudden consciousness alert. Have they been asleep all these years?
The seller??s attorney agrees.
A description that has been used, edited and transcribed by attorneys for numerous conveyances since before 1800 suddenly comes into question after a survey has been completed. Is this common?
The description of the property was originally three separate parcels that got combined into one without the benefit of a survey. In fact there is no record of a survey since the parcels were first described.
So, where were the questions from the attorneys when they continuously edited and transcribed the deed? Did they ever ask themselves that maybe a surveyor should be involved?
Shouldn??t they be asking this same question for nearly every conveyance? Maybe they are thinking that waiting a few hundred years is a proper amount of time to ask for a surveyor??s intervention.
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