Ok, things happen, they do.
I'm looking at a Warranty Deed from 10 years ago. I don't know who wrote the description, maybe its copied from an older deed, I'll have to dig into it later.
There is the grantor/grantee portion, without any calls to the location of the property. Then the description starts and the preamble reads thusly:
THE EAST 31.50 FEET OF THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 1, THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 2, THE WST 125 FEET OF THE SOUTH 9.5 FEET OF LOT 3, AND THAT PORTION OF LOT 54, being more particularly described as follows:?ÿ
No reference to the subdivision or block. I know where it is from the owners and the configuration, but dang!!!!
If it hadn't been for Lot 54 thrown in.........
That is incredibly bad.?ÿ Obviously, no one who matters actually reads what is right there in black and white.
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Was reviewing a survey plat earlier today that was fairly long.?ÿ Everything was rolling along perfectly until I hit the last two lines of the description.?ÿ The bearing of the closing boundary line was wrong.?ÿ Not even close to correct and not listed as being identical with some other line anywhere on the plat.?ÿ Just wrong.?ÿ In the last line, the area for the tract was wrong, being a case of dyslexia.?ÿ 11.17 vs 11.71
We all need to find someone to catch are missteakes, because we all maik them.
I??m pretty well convinced the only people who actually read the description to see if it makes sense is the surveyor tasked with surveying it. While back took a job surveying an aliquot part with an exclusion and the title company sent me the wrong description, not once, but three times in a row. Not until I had a rather awkward conversation with them did I get the correct one.
Face palm indeed. Haha
Working on a job totaling 1840 acres of contiguous lands with no internal roads, located in five sections.?ÿ There are three ownerships but all are the same couple.?ÿ The title commitment that I have been provided does not add up to all the land that we are surveying.?ÿ Oops.?ÿ This will become extremely important in the very near future.?ÿ Sent word earlier today notifying the client of this issue.
