It may have been one of the best days outside to be working all summer long but spent the day inside listening to a presentation by Wendy Lathrop. The topics were Ownership vs. Possession and Paper vs. Ground Truth. Another great program put on by the Southwest Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors. There were surveyors present from Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas besides a nice bunch of Missourians. Lunch was delicious, too.
Wendy did an excellent job of keeping everyone awake for the full eight hours. It is obvious that she has a wide range of experiences and an incredible knowledge base of all the legalese involved in matters related to the world of real estate and how it mates up with the world of land surveying.
She started off by apologizing to everyone for what happened last year. She had been scheduled to be the speaker for the program in August of 2014. A week or two prior to the date she suffered a terrible bicycle accident and broke her shoulder bone and one leg. John Stahl magically appeared last year to take her place, and did an excellent job by the way.
I've attended Lathrop's seminars twice (that I can remember) and enjoyed them. She is definitely a wealth of information and experience. While I believe a great deal of her experience seemed to be in urban settings, she always broadened the subject to examples of some "not-so-urban" situations in which her topic applied. Sorry I missed her.
I spent the day wandering about a development area with an attorney representing a buyer on some big right-by-the-inter$tate commercial area (that needs a butt load of electric primary). Although about my age, he seemed a little inexperienced when it came to development. Eventually the conversation got around to careers. He had spent his entire career as a corporate lawyer for an oil and gas interest, with only the last few years spent representing big-time commercial investors.
Oh well, work is where you find it.
Some speakers say lines like "that's how it is in [MyState] anyway".... Whereas Wendy looks up case law and statute in the state where she's giving her presentation (as they pertain to her topic). That's one thing I appreciate about her.