I went to do a survey yesterday of a 7.5 acre tract less 1.25 acres that was sold off. The total tract was surveyed by a very respected surveyor, now deceased. The outparcel was surveyed by a guy from 100+ miles away. His company name sounds like a fast food chain type name. When comparing the plats something didn't look just right. The out of town guy had a blown up detail of a corner where three lines come together. He called the found pin "off" by 0.08'! What we found was that he wasn't even using the correct IP. The actual corner was 10+ feet away. It was obvious by "eyeballing" the line. Where the iron came from that he called "off" I don't know. Goat stake maybe? We double and triple checked the corner that the reputable surveyor used and it was correct. If I could "eyeball" a potential problem before even getting the gun out, what happened to the out of towner?
I Hate To Say It But There Ar A Lot Of Surveyors That Just Don't SeEm To Care Anymore. ThereIsOneLocallyWhere I Live That Is Horrible. Unfortunately Because Of His PrIces He Ge A Bunch Of Work. He Did My Neighbors Lot And I Researched MyFarm Back To When It was the Original Farm That Was Split Into 2Tracts That Eventually Got Split.Into 3 Tracts. My Neighbors Line Stayed The Same Through All Ths Splits Until That Is The Poor Surveyor Surveyed It. YouMight have Just Ran Into The Same Thing. Sorry About The Text My Phone Must Not Like This site
What do you expect, perfection? This is what you get when far too many surveyors are putting more effort into financially cutting each others throat than providing a professional service. As you know, it is far more important and prestigious to prove they can measure better, faster, and cheaper than actually finding the boundaries.
"Hurry up, pound that rebar in!! We only bid %400 for this survey, we certainly can't waste any more time dilly-dallying around with the metal detector and shovel"!!
I see it far too often. :'(
[sarcasm]Do you want fries with that plat?
Would you like to super-size this survey?[/sarcasm]
That's funny. It was the same thing that went through my mind. The area has a large pipeline going across it and the metal detector was completely useless. I used my eyeballs and tape from the line across the road. Our line is an extension of that line. Not rocket science, just common sense.
I've used to scratch my head around that dilemma and came to the conclusion that when I was presented with conflicting data, use what is best proven by the record information and throw out what conflicts with it and pass that information on to the lawyers and title companies.
They are the ones that usually give me feedback about my rates as compared to others. This is one of the topics to where I steer the conversation and ask them "Is this what you are writing title to? It's just alot of conflicting info. How can you rely on this and feel good about selling that to your client?
Got one in yesterday that is just that. Two local surveyors have surveyed adjoining properties. The common boundaries show that both have set new monuments, yet they both used common witness trees. Problem is that neither agrees upon the same bearing and distance from the same trees. That makes the bearing and distance different for all boundaries on surveys that were done only a few years apart.
Some of these surveyors are taking the time to get the adjoining deeds for placement on their paperwork. They fail in not reading the information in those deeds and/or accepting anything of record and trying to follow it during their current survey.
I've also shown surveyors from near and afar that cannot agree with the work they did the first attempt and to do something entirely different on their second and/or third appearance on the same boundary.
[sarcasm]Now, where is that EASY BUTTON?[/sarcasm]
