Had a project involving the east half of the southeast quarter as well as the east half of the northeast quarter of a specific section. The 80 year-old client is ready to move off the farm and into a small house in the county seat town a few miles distant. My job, back in July, was to sever a tract around his house leaving the remainder of the east half of the southeast quarter to be sold off as farm land. Also, we were to sever a tract in the northeast corner of the east half of the northeast quarter for his son as he already had a home there. Again, the remainder of the east half of the northeast quarter was to be sold off as farm land.
Now, things have a twist. It turns out there are two buyers for the farm land and they are buddies. They want to split the farm land chunk in the northeast quarter in an odd way and somehow got the old client to agree to pay the survey bill to do so. Part of their excuse is that one guy is to get the north 20 acres, less the son's tract, and the other guy is to get the remainder. The guy buying the short 20 is also buying all of the remainder in the southeast quarter. Part of their excuse is that the want to be sure on the acres. They are paying by the acre, which up until now was being approximated by taking the county tax numbers and subtracting the two tracts cut out back in July.
Guess who is going to get to pay for an extra three acres of land while the old seller is only footing the survey fee????!!!!
HC,
They want to split the farm land chunk in the northeast quarter in an odd way....
You seem to get more than your fair share of interesting surveys. Care to elaborate on the odd subdivision?
Great to hear from you Gene!
The instructions were to figure out where the north 20 acres of the east half of the northeast quarter would be. Then mark the south line thereof. He doesn't get 20 acres because the son's five-acre tract and a very old 1.234-acre tract come out of that 20. The other guy is buying whatever is left in the east half of the northeast quarter, but he is going to rent it all to the other buyer. He is getting 62 instead of the 60 he was planning to pay for. Meanwhile, the other buyer (20 less tracts) is also buying all of the east half of the southeast quarter less the house tract there. He will be paying for about one acre more than he had anticipated because we now know the true acreage.
Three extra acres all because they needed to mark the one line. It is weird that the buyer of the south piece is also the buyer of the north piece yet willingly lets his buddy buy the middle piece and rent it to him.
For those who firmly believe that a half mile is 2640 feet, I hereby offer up one that 2691.38 feet in length.
There is another half mile familiar to me, about 2 miles from my house that is around 200 feet long.
HC,
[sarcasm]So, you enriched the Realtor's commission, too? [/sarcasm]
BTW...Will the Assessor/Appraiser increase the acreage for yearly doses of karma?
You bet. They know their cartoons are better than nothing but far from being definitive.
