How much detail should a survey provide?>BARON
You must be one of those "arrogant Yankees." 😉
chances are the survey is older than the realtor....
How much detail should a survey provide?>BARON
As opposed to one of those californicators?
You betcha, but my mother is from deep southern GA, Americus actually, so I am half hospitable, too...
I just did a residential site being purchased for a car dealer and I clearly showed the huge beehive hanging from the eave of the house. I told the car dealer, the owner, and the architect, then put it on the survey drawing so nobody can say I didn't warn them. That many bees could be lethal.
One of my grandfathers kept bees. One day, a cousin and I went with him to a neighbors hive to retrieve some honey (or something, perhaps some sort of "maintenance", the memory has faded a bit).
My grandfather went right up to the hive and started working, absolutely no protection besides the cloths he was wearing. Not even one flinch, and he was being stung by numerous bees.
How much detail should a survey provide?>BARON
oh my gosh, you're half Southern?
You're asking all of the wrong questions...
> second... and there are a fair number of grouchy old farts too.
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> enjoy!
Now that is true...It seems some aspects of Surveying attracts them...or produces them?
When a bee stings, it leaves the stinger behind and goes off to die. Suspect he had bees all over him but was not being stung because over time, domestic bees were bred to tolerate handling. Africanized bees, wasps and hornets have different attitudes.
jud
Professional Actions
> It's interesting how some of the professionals on this site are more than willing to help someone with much less knowledge of their profession without name calling or second guessing another persons intentions.
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It is unprofessional to attack someone personally. It would also be extremely unprofessional for anyone on this site to damage the reputation of a surveyor we have never met, over a survey we have never seen, regarding facts that we do not know, when confronted by a someone that doesn't like a 34 year old survey that they didn't pay for, and didn't own the land at the time it was surveyed. Anyone that took that bait should examine the ethical standards of their state.
This is not a personal attack. Things like this happen all the time here. Most non-surveyors learn how to approach an issue in a way that we can address it, if they stick around. In fact, some of the best posts and most useful threads come from non-surveyors.
You're asking all of the wrong questions...
Attorneys are an unfortunate necessary evil...
People get too worried about a little dirt road. Does it impact the ability to develop the property? If yes then fix it, if no then figure out a way to resolve it.
In school I recall some example the teacher gave: A developer buys a property. The neighbors own an old wood lot with a dirt road access over the property in question. The developer offers a new means of access with a legitimate easement. The neighbors think they can stop the evil developer by claiming adverse possession over the road.
The neighbors could not prove exclusivity and therefore only won a prescriptive easement. The developer's attorney asked the right questions and found that these NIMBY folks only traveled to their property a handful of times a year to pick blueberries. The Judge restricted the prescriptive easement to only be used a handful of times a year and only for blueberry picking.
Way to not be able to develop your old woodlot.
well, thanks for posting again, I must have missed all the fun your posts have started!!
IMHO, coming to a surveyor message board and calling yourself "land Baron" while you seem to know very little about "land" business may have started people off on the wrong (US Surveyor) Foot. That being said, I commend you for searching for the answers to your problem.
As a business owner, if some random guy calls me in 30 years demanding to know why I didn't show this or that on a survey I did yesterday, I GUARANTEE I won't be returning that call. Why would I??
You seem a bit abrasive in your comments and your questions lead many of us to believe that you are of the ilk that surveying is "so simple a caveman can do it", and thus, you are getting some heat in the responses.
So to throw my .02 in... if you are seriously considering the expense of purchasing the parcels, then the cost of the survey is ridiculously cheap, no matter what.
Andy
You're asking all of the wrong questions...
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Look like honey bees to me. Sweet!
In polite defense of Shawn Billings
Keep in mind he may have perceived what some of the issues are between you and the surveyor that you called 3x and he has yet to call you back. Communication is important, and he may be actually telling you where it is broken down. Or maybe giving you some pointers. What if he is 1/2 right?
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