I get a call: which became very confusing, but the main point, once I sifted through it all, was that a rancher purchased all the land from another ranch lying west of a county road and he is sure that he was shorted by 300 acres.
It was 2500Acres total and he thinks that the deed is missing 300 acres of the land and wanted me to look at it.
I said sure, but it's really a title issue and he could get the title insurance people to review what happened. The would be on the hook to make it right (maybe).
Well, he had already gone to the lawyer (not the one for the title company) and it took a while but the lawyer says it is all correct, then he went to the county and they said it is all good.
So I ask; "why do you think there is a problem?"
He says: "my son-in-law got one of those things that tell you where your property is and he says there are 300 Acres missing."
Not sure what he means by one of those things but I assume a Garmin hand held or something like it.......
This should be interesting.......
They might have consulted propertymaps.com!;-)
That sounds like one of those jobs where you quote the guy $XXX.XX per hour to look into it, and 2 times $XXX.XX per hour if his son in law helps.
If the property is an aliquot description, he may very well have discrepancies with the acreage. Especially if the sections were never surveyed when the descriptions were written. Heck, he may even have picked up more acreage than he thinks.
I did a survey for the State of Tennessee one time that was supposed to be 6000 acres. It wound up being 5277 acres. They weren't happy.
I worked on a survey with my previous employer where after sifting through all the deeds, the owner had about 150 acres more than the deeds (numerous, both purchases and out-conveyances) added up to. Fortunately, the acreage we came up with was about what he had been paying (or not paying) the taxes on.
You can bet there were some pretty detailed notes on the plat explaining the apparent overage.
Gee Tommy, couldn't you have scaled that up about 13%? then they would have been happy....
Dtp
IS there a program in A sports grade GPS or an App for that matter that will give you an area for a figure you "navigate" around?
There is an app for that
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gpsmeter.gpsarea&hl=en
Get your money, or at least half of it, up front.
This smells like a bad deal about to get worse......
I don't know, I was just talking with an engineer who bought one, It displays quads and GIS property ownership with names on the screen and shows where you are. He got it so he can navigate pipelines and take pictures that are geo-referenced. A nice toy, but I wonder how much you can count on the ownership portion.
Anyway, he missed his appointment so maybe it will fade away.
They couldn't gripe too much, the land was given to the state.
So you are saying they were Grumpy?
