Family Handyman helps landowners find their corners

I often send subdivision homeowners to search for their own corners versus us sending a crew out to locate same.  Plus, if we go out and recover a corner (flag the corners), then the owner may be able to rely on what we found as being their boundaries.

I would rather the property owner locate their own corners than call us out to do same.  If we do it, we may need to perform a boundary survey and check for overlaps and tie to adjacent corners or at the least advise the owner if they need a boundary survey.  We get lots of calls to 'just locate one of our lines'. 

I'm sure the above level of care for surveyors is different in other states as is between different between  surveyors in the same state.

@hpalmer I agree. I often would provide landowners with tips on how to find their own corners. I just felt like this article was badly written.

Edit: I just re-read the article and I guess it's really not that bad. Perhaps I'm just cranky this morning from lack of sleep due to staying up to watch the Perseids last night. 😉

Edit: Decided to rename the topic; the article is actually pretty informative for the general public, and it even recommends you hire a surveyor!

@wendell 

Agreed, it's not that bad.  But I do often wonder where this world of cookie-cutter, small, perfectly square lots with nice, neat, irons at every corner, where you can see between, exists.  It ain't where I survey

I love it when they start digging around a CATV box and slice 4 or 5 neighbors cable and inet.  

There probably isn't an iron there, anyway, as the cable company dug it out to put their box on the corner.

Around here, the cable company doesn't bury their lines more than an inch or two. Doesn't seem right. I thought the homeowner still owned the top 18" of ground.

often send subdivision homeowners to search for their own corners versus us sending a crew out to locate same.

I agree. If a survey crew does it, the homeowner believes that they "had the property surveyed".

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often send subdivision homeowners to search for their own corners versus us sending a crew out to locate same.

 

 

I agree. If a survey crew does it, the homeowner believes that they "had the property surveyed".

Yeah, they dont get the, "These are just what we found, may or may not be actual corners," speach.

They just know that a surveyor found them.