> Fine spokesman for the profession I am.
Honestly... I think there is more than a few like that. 😉
Carl
One of those "been meaning to" moments.... for me.
Bought 2acres, rural "Exclusive Farm Use" zoning (these days).
So... now the minimum area is 80 acres by zoning.
Place was split off in 1950 (ish) before land use laws.
"L" shaped 2 acres with a 1 acre "neighbor", so my back (mini)pasture
wraps around the back of his property.
Neighbor decided to build on to his crappy fence, with an even worse looking
one across the back of his place along my pasture.
So, with the possiblity of an encroachment, I guess I'd best have a buddy
do the survey and get a registered certified letter out to the guy to move all
his hard work.
§ 96.060¹
Removal of fence built on anothers land
(1) When any person has built or builds, by mistake and in good faith, a fence on the land of another, such person or the successor in interest of the person may, within one year from the time of discovering the mistake, go upon the land of the other person and remove the fence, doing no unnecessary damage thereby.
(2) The occupant or owner of land whereon a fence has been built by mistake shall not throw down or in any manner disturb such fence during the period which the person who built it is authorized by subsection (1) of this section to remove it.
I do... I love this stuff....
I was given a survey of my property when we bought it in 1990. It was for the owner before us that lost the property. That surveyor was one of the worse if not the worse surveyor ever. But the good is the parent property was surveyed years ago by a very good surveyor, and there are concrete monuments set at the 1/4 corners. My POB is a 1/4 corner. Then I'm bounded by a road, then metes to the 1/4 line back to the POB. Since then some other surveyors have surveyed in the area. I have since surveyed a parcel or 2 in the area. I really worry about some of those surveyors. For some reason they don't like concrete monuments? We were awarded the property next to us through litigation. The other side and the court appointed me to provide a survey. I marked all the corners. 3 concrete monuments, 1 3/4 inch iron rod, pk nails and rr spikes in the road. We now have a gas pipeline north of our North Line completely separating us from any parties to the North. All is recorded in a court file, and in the land records. I still worry about those other surveyors.
As a matter of fact, yes. I just closed on my house on Friday and I made certain a new survey was made.
Two weeks ago, I went out with a RPLS/LSLS buddy of mine and my SIT to do the fieldwork. Both my 12yr old twin daughters also accompanied us.
We were showing the SIT how to do a mortgage survey without using a data collector and how to calculate the boundary in the field. Yah, I know it sounds funny, but the company I work for does not do mortgage surveys and my SIT has only surveyed with the company so he does not have that kind of experience.
Using an old Sokkia, it was the first time in about 5 yrs that the SIT had turned an angle by hand. We have robotics at the office. We needed to re-explain how to use the bottom plate. It had been a while since we used the Sokkia and I had forgotten how heavy those things weighed. All in all, it was a fun time getting back to basics.
BTW: My buddy signed the survey.
Regards,
Miguel A. Escobar, LSLS, RPLS
I'm not going to link this but if you haven't seen it ,it's awful funny:
"Robin Williams on golf"
So: "F --- no, they put things in the way"
B well all around.
Bob
Yep, Township exterior started in 1859, interior started in 1861 and accepted in 1867. Posts, pits and mounds. Old fence lines and plow berms the best remaining evidence, but it was surveyed. Did have a surveyor come in and set a monument for a quarter corner years ago, Did not check the road records to determine that the East-West portion of a road all came out of the section to the South and the North-South portion straddled the N-S center of section line. The fences and berms were in place, but of the school that all road C/L's went down section lines. Advantage, a strip 33 feet wide and about 2600 feet long came out of the taxable area and no land lost.
jud
Surveyed it 30 years and two owners ago. All of the corners are still here.
I live on a 60'x130' lot in a 1940s subdivision. It's fenced on the sides and back, and I've never felt a need to survey it. When I replaced the south fence about 10 years ago, I just put the new one where the old one had been.
> I live on a 60'x130' lot in a 1940s subdivision. It's fenced on the sides and back, and I've never felt a need to survey it. When I replaced the south fence about 10 years ago, I just put the new one where the old one had been.
Same here (well 50' x 150' in a 1920's subdivision with no bearings or curve data on the play); my relationship with my neighbors is worth more than a couple of feet of land.
Our property is a 2.4 acre parcel of a Parcel Map surveyed in the early 70s. The seller walked me around and showed me some of the irons when we bought the place. I've since found some of the others and located them. They fit the map geometry quite well considering we're in brushy foothills well out of town and given the age of the survey.
The property is mostly fenced and at a couple of places where I have not found irons, the fence corners fit pretty well. Good neighbors all the way around and no potential adverse occupation issues, so I haven't been too concerned about replacing missing mons at the fences or finding/replacing the one in the one corner of my parcel that is outside of the fenced area. My neighbor on that side and I both know the general vicinity where it should be and if either of us decides to start doing something in the vicinity (head of a small gully, thick with brush), I'll locate or reset it.
not really.
I've measured around a bit off of the centerline control but nothing I would call a formal boundary survey.
The fences are close enough for me (within a foot or so).