Well, spent a good part of Saturday afternoon hunting for lot or block corners to tie to our co-op survey.
Came around one block and a couple of the local property owners asked me what I was surveying for. I told them the co-op and that I was checking the neighborhood for monuments.
They told me that I probably wouldn't find any in their block, but that in an adjoining block there was a survey pin by a church and that a couple blocks the other way they'd been using the corner of the post office building for a "main" block corner. How did they know this? Because a few of the neighbors surveyed their own properties a while back to build fences and such. They told me how they hand taped down the block and figured out their own lots. They didn't need anything "certified" by a surveyor because they just wanted to know where to build the fences and there was no disagreements between any of them. Of course, they didn't set any monuments except for their fence posts.
BTW, I did find the rod with a surveyor's cap on it by the church. And, I'd be willing to bet the post office building is probably on the line (zero setback). So they probably did get it pretty close.
yet another Boundary Line Agreement documented on the ground... Fun!
PS: it happens all the time here in the land of Squatter's Rights, Color of Title and you are good to go.
"DIY Surveying". Isn't that a book you can buy at the Home Depot checkout?
Is that anything like "Surveying for Dummies"?