Kris Morgan, post: 422187, member: 29 wrote: I generally call the company who prepared it and ask for a copy I can read and play it off on the courthouse about why it's illegible.
You never know, there might be an original framed and hanging on the wall of a local surveyor.
Andy Nold, post: 422203, member: 7 wrote: You never know, there might be an original framed and hanging on the wall of a local surveyor.
Sometimes there are. Sometimes folks only get camera phone pictures of them too. 🙂
Deeds frequently quote the dimensions.
The plat of "City of Portland", which land is now dozens of blocks of extremely pricey by-the-square-foot downtown, contains no dimensions. In fact, the original is lost, long lost, and all we have is a copy made some 20 years later.
Mark Mayer, post: 422210, member: 424 wrote: Deeds frequently quote the dimensions.
The plat of "City of Portland", which land is now dozens of blocks of extremely pricey by-the-square-foot downtown, contains no dimensions. In fact, the original is lost, long lost, and all we have is a copy made some 20 years later.
That's what's hanging on my wall [USER=7]@Andy Nold[/USER] was talking about. It is from 1895 and is the copy. 🙂
We have a guy here that drafts with a crayon. When he doesn't sharpen his crayons his drafting is impossible to read. Fortunately the legals are typed on sticky back and are much more legible. In some cases I've found the scanned images to be more readable than the originals. You can zoom in and make out the dimmer lettering that you can't quite see on the original.