I just got word that an attorney does not understand why my measurement on one line differ from those recorded in 1980 by 0.07 feet.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Cringing.....
They attorney might well know why, but is using the "error" to get something. I've found them to sometimes hide what they really know.?ÿ
@mightymoe The measurement is between two found objects buried for forty years.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Tell him one is US Survey feet and the other is in International feet.
@not-my-real-name He's saying that the attorney may only be playing stupid as a negotiating tactic, rather than actually being stupid. Have fun figuring out which is the case.
@peter-lothian Thank you. I know he can't be that stupid. He is suggesting that my client not record his map as it may cause confusion. What really is happening is the discovery that the attorney's client (a neighbor) is occupying my client's land.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Just let him know that you took your measurements in the morning and the 1980 measurements were obviously taken in the evening.
... of course. 🙂 I should make that note on the map too.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
I constantly tell myself that I need to respect other professions, but many of interactions?ÿ with attorneys and real estate agent mirror yours.
I just lost what would have been a nice little boundary survey because a real estate agent convinced the buyer that they didn't need a survey. The guy is getting ready to squeeze $600,000 House into the middle of an hourglass shaped lot in a forty year old subdivision.?ÿ I despise tattletales, but I'm tempted to report the real estate agent who "showed" the guy where his corners were.
"tattling" is something I often struggle with. We all live in glass houses, and I have yet to throw a stone - but I would probably lodge a complaint against anyone I knew was a repeat offender. "Contract" field crews, RE agents, firms working across state lines w/o license, etc.
Don't let the attorney waste your time or his client's time.
Let him take it up with the examining title people.
Your drawing should explain everything and if he can't read a map or property description then he needs to go back to school and learn.
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I'm tempted to report the real estate agent
In some states; it's against the law, not to...
What the attorney wants is your reasoned explanation of why these measurements differ. Something better that "because they always do". To test if you know. He may be sizing up what kind of witness you would make.
I long ago had an attorney tell me that the tactic is to throw everything they can find against the wall to see what sticks.?ÿ
Tape too long, measure too short. Correction positive. Or is it tape too short....... 1980 was a long time ago. What was the barometric pressure that day??ÿ?ÿ
Tell the attorney it's because of the "rule against perpetuities".?ÿ If the attorney is really dumb they'll spend hours researching to figure out what you mean.?ÿ If just playing games, it lets them know you can play too.
That's funny!!
It reminds me of years ago a manager I worked with (civil service) oversaw a team of flood protection levee inspectors that often worked alone. The quality of their inspections and the resulting repairs were truly a matter of life and death, so trust was of utmost importance. When he held interviews for these positions, he would include a totally bogus question, such as "please discuss your knowledge of the Arronson's factor and how it applies to the properties of expansive clay soils when saturated." If the candidate launched into some BS filled answer on a non-existent term, they were immediately eliminated from consideration because he couldn't trust them. The correct answer was akin to "in all my years of experience and education, I have not heard that term and therefore cannot answer the question."
The HR people hated his "deception", but I thought it was an absolutely brilliant way to assess character in even a short job interview.
Had an interview question similar to that many years ago. The job involved much work on energy conservation in a manufacturing environment. The super simple question was: What is a BTU?
A surprising number of applicants could not come close to answering that.
An interviewer once asked me to derive the formula for converting Fahrenheit and Celsius. Not hard if you remember freezing and boiling points of water in each scale.?ÿ I saw no relationship to the job, but I suppose it was a test for logical thinking ability as opposed to memorization.