If it wasn't for such a good client, I would not go to Atlanta to survey.?ÿ
I am following a survey from the 80's and an adjoining survey a few years later.?ÿ The adjoining plat has a description something like IPF?ÿ .80 northwest of corner on both ends of the common line. I confirmed the line was the same after tying a few more pins of the adjoining plat.
I also have an ALTA legal description for the property done in 2007.?ÿ This is the one that makes me cuss.?ÿ After calculating all of his points, the pins he calls for match the pins on the ground but the common line now shifts .7 feet away from our property.
I'd almost rather have the pin cushion on the ground rather than just on paper.
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Yep. We have found many similar situations in Atlanta and vicinity. Run the deed up set it on two found pins and the rest are off some "calculated" amount?
Never made any sense to me. I'm not that good.
Anybody who does that and doesn't explain why the held pins are better is not just not thinking wrong, they aren't thinking at all.
Shouldn't the deed list the name of the surveyor and date of the survey upon which the legal description is based?
Unfortunately not a requirement in Georgia when the attorney/title company writes the legal description.
Shouldn't the deed list the name of the surveyor and date of the survey upon which the legal description is based?
It did. I blanked it out in the scan
THRAC ALERT
What's so tough about surveying in Atlanta??ÿ See below.
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Atlanta?ÿis a city in?ÿCowley County,?ÿKansas, United States. As of the?ÿ2010 census, the city population was 195.
@michael-geiger I asked a local attorney in the courthouse why he goes with these crazy old deeds. Heck some of them I couldn't even tell they were in Dade County. His response "Well they have lasted this long who am I to change them."
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Atlanta,+KS+67008/ @37.4357416,-96.7763362,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87ba6a9bdf8009bd:0xbdd7321471370906!8m2!3d37.4364104!4d-96.7647517
These lines IN Atlanta appear to be straight once you determine which way is North.
this is where you research the adjoining property to determine if they call for the monuments.?ÿ If they do, then hold them for your Client but reference the adjoiner deed/legal.?ÿ The above issues create gaps in properties and to clear up, you need to go to the 'original' owner to quit claim if they are still alive, or to their offspring.?ÿ Generally not a problem for a few tents?ÿ but can be a real problem with a 10' gap.
The call for the adjoiner or bounds is a powerful tool when writing legal descriptions as is call for the monument.