Legal description writing in CAD

I have used several AGT software products over the years and have found ALL of them to be of high quality and capability. The LEGAL AID package is quite good and the tech support they provide is simply awesome.
All of their products are top notch and they a good group of guys to work with.

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I have used it for years. The first legal I created with it was over ten pages and it paid for itself then and there. It is very easy to customize. I would recommend it to everyone.

All the description writing from CAD that has crossed my desk did a good job of spelling out the direction, distance and to what monument of each call and get the math and closure correct.

That is only 1/4 to 1/2 of the information needed to be a complete legal metes and bounds description.

None I have seen include what the boundary is (painted, hacked, blazed, fenced, etc), who adjoins the boundary and what monuments or witness that may fall along the boundary.

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Then you need to check out the settings available in the Carlson Survey Deed Writer. Not 100 percent, sure, but I can get 95 percent minimum. Especially if my coordinate file has proper descriptors and I set the package to use those descriptors.
The AGT package has a lot of variables and settings, but if you go into site specific descriptions on every job, then no package can handle that. BUT put what you can speedily into Word and then spend a little time getting specific and you will get that description in half the time. PLUS if you use the auto-write stuff you don't have to worry about bad bearing labels or juxtaposed numbers.
Every minute you save slides over into the profit header.

> All the description writing from CAD that has crossed my desk did a good job of spelling out the direction, distance and to what monument of each call and get the math and closure correct.
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> That is only 1/4 to 1/2 of the information needed to be a complete legal metes and bounds description.
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> None I have seen include what the boundary is (painted, hacked, blazed, fenced, etc), who adjoins the boundary and what monuments or witness that may fall along the boundary.
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Agreed. No software can create a truly professional finished product at the click of a button. But, having 1/4 to 1/2 of the data 100% correct and ready for me to fill in the appropriate details is a great start.

Once had a guy try to argue that he could write a description from scratch better and faster than I could using C&G (or now Carlson). That was a joke. My descriptions were much more complete and accurate than his and his method took 4 times the time to write.

Things do not have to be perfect to be useful.

Larry P

> Every minute you save slides over into the profit header.

Only if you don't charge by the hour. 😉

One of many reasons I don't charge for my time.

Larry P

I use the Carlson one and it generates the wording, as I have chosen. It's quick and flawless. I can import it into WORD, use Deed Plotter in word to check immediately (cause we all make mistakes) and then I fill in the blanks with calls for adjoiners and descriptions of markers set or found. An absolute productivity enhancer and an accurate way of getting the data in the document with as little errors as possible.

[sarcasm]HUH?? You forgot to use the sarcasm switch!![/sarcasm]

I use it all the time. I think I started using it in the 80's. I can't see doing legals without it or something like it. It is simple to use and saves huge amounts of time.