I agree. The only way this would be a conflict of interest is if you were being an advocate for your client, instead of being impartial. We're not lawyers, we want the truth, not the version of the truth that most benefits our client.
Ask your attorney and insurance agent about this. Walt Robillard enlightened me about it...
Wow - that must be nice! We're liable here forever, even after death...
Well I went to the site today and after a quick resection from the front pins, I was able to recover my old control points within.... 0.04'. Checked my location of the fence. It's within a few hundredths of the original survey. Heartrate begins to return to normal. Check into rear corner. Everthing is tight as a tick. Advised tertiary cleint to hire her own surveyor to mark the line for her fence relocation. No invoices going out on this one.
Cigar and cocktails on the deck. All is good in the 'hood.
Thanks guys!
You Surveyed One Lot, So What?
You still do not know where the adjoiner lot is.
You are now a Deed Staker but not a Surveyor.
Paul in PA
You Surveyed One Lot, So What?
Could you expound on your comment?
In Order To Prove Your Survey
sufficient evidence is required to prove adjacent parcels are adjacent and not overlapping. In some caes two apparently side by side lots each have their own set of corners, sometimes even supported by further evidence. In other words unless you have done a thorough and accurate survey of the adjacent lot you cannot testify in court that the fence is incorrect, because your opinion may be provably wrong.
Paul in PA
You Surveyed One Lot, So What?
> You still do not know where the adjoiner lot is.
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> You are now a Deed Staker but not a Surveyor.
How do you get that? This is a lot he surveyed previously, he only went back to see if the fence was in the same location as when he surveyed it originally.
JB, there would of been nothing wrong with you performing the staking for the fence relocation work. In fact you probably could of saved that client some money.
I made a survey which meets all State standards to include ties to adjoining property corners, and that’s all I did.
Where I went wrong:
1) I did not resurvey the entire 53 lot subdivision to see if there was a bust in that boundary that should have been prorated.
2} I failed to go back to the deeds for the original 72 acre tract before it was subdivided. I would compound my guilt by admitting that I didn’t do this for the adjoining subdivisions either.
3) I am perfectly aware of a boundary dispute regarding the County line a couple of miles away from this area arising from the circa 1700-something survey. I failed to resolve that and then relocate the tracts which call for the County line.
4) I did not trace title in any of these back to the Kings Grant.
5) Changes along our coastline and rivers have surely had an impact on riparian rights and may have affected boundary descriptions upon which all subsequent subdivisions were made. Missed that too.
Before I remit my license for a firm bending, I intend to embark on a survey of the great State of North Carolina to rectify this intolerable condition. Hopefully that will sway the Board’s opinion of me.
Then, by golly, I’ll get that line nailed down once and for all.
I’m gonna need a week or two, but I’ll be posting my results for use by our fine Surveyors in order that they might make adjustments to every division of land in their immediate area.
Offered in humor,
JB
there are 50 states arent there? better get to work!
JB ?
"I made a survey which meets all State standards to include ties to adjoining property corners, and that’s all I did."
All of the abve was not previously made clear. what I was getting at was were you d-certain the adjoiner parcel was whole. That may have including some adjoining lot corners not immediately adjacent to you parcel
Paul in PA
JB ?
Paul,
Please revisit my original post. The first line is:
So, I get a call from a woman who says she has a copy of a survey I did for her next door neighbor in 2003.
Survey being the operative word here.
From there you didn't question anything, you just determined me a "deed staker" and called me out as such in a public forum.
Preesh, bro.
