I recently did a survey for a fellow who is still out of town for work. When he gets back, I'll go over everything I found with him so he understands why the boundary line is NOT where he thought it was.
It was pretty straight forward. A relative-in-law of his owned a larger tract of land on the south side of the state highway. She sold off a major chunk of it for a subdivision development. Then she sold off a 2 acre tract. The remainder is what client now has a deed for (original description with exceptions).
Found original monuments for the subdivision sale and the two acre sale except for two corners at the highway. One of these was a re-set by a surveyor and matches original calls very well. The other was missing, but neighbor (original purchaser of 2 acres) points me to within a few feet of where it should be - which happens to be where I have calc'ed it based on everything else.
Client has been mowing about 25 feet further east of his line. The eastern neighbor has pointed this out and knew the corner markers were in place. My client based his mow line on the idea that a large king post that is on the north side of the road has to mean something. It does - for the properties that were divided off of the tract on the north side of the highway.
It amazes me how people assume something and then get it set in their mind that they are correct. Hopefully he will grasp why the post means nothing to his property. I've got old tax maps, new tax maps, old highway plans, subdivision plat, and a survey plat I prepared to show him the history of the line. It is pretty apparent on the tax maps and the highway plans that the line has not deviated from the original found monuments until he recently started mowing beyond them.
What do ya mean the power pole isn't my lot corner ?
but the realtor told me
One of my favorites is when two fences that don't line up at all definitely should line up. In PLSSia, this leads to all-knowing property owners attributing the difference to being on a "correction line". That tells you they have learned that you can't put a square on a sphere. That's great. But, it has nothing to do with their property in Section 15. Especially along the east side of Section 15.
For those of you not familiar with PLSSia, in my area the correction lines, better known as standard parallels run east-west 30 miles apart north-south and are on township lines. Thus only the south lines of Sections 31 to 36 and the north lines of Sections 1-6 fall on correction ines.
not a client but the adjoining property owner, a really nice lady once I go to know her, told me the blazed tree next to the road is 15' onto her property.
Turns out she was absolutely correct.
I reblazed a quarter mile of line; I don't know what the heck happened to whoever (persons unknown) blazed that 1/16th line. My guess is they followed a traverse (makes sense if you've seen it) before the line points were set. Or maybe it was just a drunk Forester with a compass.
Fortunately they did a pretty sparse blaze job so there aren't very many bad blazes. How do you fix that? Dry mud or maybe stucco patch? I painted them black. Employee suggested hacking them up somehow but they are her trees and I don't want to be responsible for further damage. She was OK with black paint.
