> WRONG! What if title is transferred based on this document? Big problems and headaches down the road for someone.
Can title in your state be transferred by a map alone? The picture above is nothing but a map of the survey performed on the ground.
The Grantor will sell Lot 32 and the Grantee will purchase Lot 32, (through a Deed, not a map) nothing more nothing less. The Recorded plat will show that.
Do the laws in your state say that you have to report known issues (such as closure accuracy) pertaining to code? Around here they do. Simply call the surveyor or notify him in writing, whichever is required per your state, about his error and move on.
Around here we call that a sketch, doesn't look anything like a plat in this neck of the woods.
ID mons and pins?? We haven't done that in CT for 300 years.
> Surveyors can't simply record plats in VA. At least not in my county. They tend to handle plat recording on a county by county/city basis here. This would either take a Deed of Correction or a Certificate of Owners to record an amended plat. Basically something with the owners signatures notarized.
That's strange. You're saying you basically need someone's permission before you record a boundary survey?
What is the ellipse looking figure drawn around the cleanout in the back yard?
Stephen
> > Surveyors can't simply record plats in VA. At least not in my county. They tend to handle plat recording on a county by county/city basis here. This would either take a Deed of Correction or a Certificate of Owners to record an amended plat. Basically something with the owners signatures notarized.
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> That's strange. You're saying you basically need someone's permission before you record a boundary survey?
Yep, we're a non-recording state. In a neighboring county, you need (or needed) to have approval from the Board of Supervisors to record ANY plat. There has to be a statement on it that the plat is not creating any new lots of any sort. I haven't done one over there in a few years, so I'm not sure if that's still not valid or not, but it was at one time.
> What is the ellipse looking figure drawn around the cleanout in the back yard?
I'm not sure either. Not typical for around here.
Attention grabber for the small circle symbol. At least that's how I see it.
jud
Ahh, copy/paste. I sent out a pdf of a boundary survey that was "lots 21-28 in block blah-blah-blah"; basically the NW quadrant of a city block. Problem was the plat said it was 6X lot 21. Things like that can happen at 1AM. Could've been a late night; could've been the client was looking over his shoulder at the time waiting for the print (happened to me once - only once). Let him know what happened so he can fix it. There could be more to the back story than meets the eye. We should be looking out for each other in our endeavors to protect the public. I'd rather get a call from another surveyor telling me I screwed up so I could fix it then a summons.
If it's a habit with this particular surveyor, or he's one of those highly edumacated structural engineers that supervise us, then that's another story.
> Attention grabber for the small circle symbol. At least that's how I see it.
> jud
Actually, it looks hand-drawn.
Stephen
Since this is a survey of an existing lot in a recorded subdivision, I would think the calls on the courses from the recorded plat would hold. That is, of course, unless this plat merely duplicates the same mis-closure from the original plat.
I have a few in the courthouse that have errors I have caught later. Only one that I know of that bears my signature.