Does anyone use legal aid for your descriptions? If so, how do you like it?
EVERY product that I have gotten from AGT has been WELL worth the money!!
WAY back when, I used Legal Aid and Info Retriever and was VERY impressed with them.
Today I use the Deed Writer in my Carlson Survey package and Word to create my descriptions and Deed Plotter Plus by Greenbriar Graphics to check my results.
I think the Legal Aid software is a little more "budget Friendly" and will do what you need.
Yes - it's excellent, especially in terms of being able to customize phrases for every different type of course you can imagine. Well worth the money!
I'm not impressed with AGT. I have Info Retriever and all my data is stored. The upgrades are far and few between and the yearly cost to keep the subscription doesn't really pay for the lack of upgrades. Never tried legal aid. But if you have Carlson, just make a polyline of the boundary and your legal description writer. I haven't fully used all of it, but it helps eliminate the mistakes.
> ...if you have Carlson, just make a polyline of the boundary and your legal description writer.
I agree that if you have Carlson you have all the software you want for this kind of job.
We don't use Carlson. Currently AutoCAD 2007. Thanks for the replies. I think we will give it a shot.
> We don't use Carlson. Currently AutoCAD 2007.
If it is just one job you could get a 30 day trial of Carlson.
We've used Legalaid for a long time and other than having to buy a license every year it works great.
As others suggested, get a 30 day trial of Carlson. Their deed write routine works good for me, and it's just a tiny bit of what you can do with it. You can get the one that runs on top of your Autocad, which also comes with Intellicad. The older versions of Intellicad didn't work very well, but I've read the new version works pretty good, but you don't really need it if you have Autocad. I expect version 2015 will be out sometime this month.