Had a fellow call one evening many years ago because he had been told he had to have an Elevation Certificate for a new loan to be approved for his little piece of Paradise he had purchased several years previously. He read off the description of his 5-acre aliquot part that fronted on 220th Road in my county. He explained that this made no sense to him because he lived on top of a hill. I looked up the location of his tract in a County Soils Book I had laying on my desk and told him his tract falls in the valley between two small hills. He assured me it most definitely did not.
Long story short, someone screwed up the deed back when he bought the place several years earlier. The deed started off with,"the east half of the south half of......................" In fact, it was supposed to read,"the west half of the south half of............................"
My help started a whirlwind of activity leaving severl parties with having to admit their errors. And, I didn't make a dime because the EC request went away.
You have to love title companies and their deeds. I just finished up on a property line adjustment. I had sent the title company review copies of the descriptions, stamped with a larger than life 'REVIEW COPY', for them to okay the title naming conventions. They okayed the titles, and I sent over the final copies. After recording I get a copy of the new deeds only to find that they had used the review copies instead for the finals. Nothing was changed other than the review copy stamp removal so they opted not to re-record.
It gets real messy when the township or range is incorrect.
Reviewed one last week that had the range off by 36 miles, putting it in the wrong county.