This is what a former client said yesterday when she contacted me after not hearing from her for a year. I staked her lot last year, and her neighbor disputed the location, which put his chimney a few tenths over the lot line. After fighting and hiring lawyers, she actually hired another surveyor to check/prove my work to the neighbor.
The other surveyor told her that his location was, ÛÏnot so much as a å?Û of differenceÛ.
Apparently she liked me better than the other guy, (go figure), so she wants me to do the lot line change. Not sure how I feel about that, whether I care that she went and hired another guy to check my work, and didnÛªt even tell me about it. Even now, we were four emails in before she brought it up.
Might have been nice to have been told, but I would have no problem with her hiring someone to check my work. If a lawsuit is involved, I would want to be sure I had an air tight case.
So the chimney is over the line.
What reason for the lot line change?
There are other solutions, including doing nothing.
Paul in PA
Paul in PA, post: 336891, member: 236 wrote: So the chimney is over the line.
What reason for the lot line change?
There are other solutions, including doing nothing.
Paul in PA
The neighbor wants to sell, and this may prevent the sale. I don't know. Sounds like the neighbor should be more motivated to get this done. I suppose he could sell it as is if the buyer doesn't care. But this is a high-priced neighborhood, and I'd think they'd want it all cleared up before laying down a half million on property with an on-going dispute.
I wouldn't do it. I get annoyed with people who won't give you the whole story. Why be secretive?
I just had a lady who kept calling from a blocked number (I wouldn't pick up and eventually she'd call with it unblocked). We had already discussed the job a few times and she was still being really tight-lipped with details about what she needed (there was some type of ongoing lawsuit). I just said I am not dealing with this....get someone else.
JPH, post: 336895, member: 6636 wrote: The neighbor wants to sell, and this may prevent the sale.
It will if there is a Title Policy involved. The encroachment may be able to be eliminated with an exclusion clause.
Personally I wouldn't touch it if another surveyor was involved "checking" your work. You are liable to be dragged into a situation that could be a royal pain in the butt with little compensation.
Have a great weekend! B-)
Getting a second opinion from another professional, I would think, would be a good idea, especially if the neighbor is calling BS on your work. Also, it might be human nature to not want to bring it up to the first professional. I might be embarrassed to tell my doctor that I went to another doctor to get a second opinion. It's good that the two surveys/surveyors agree. What's that saying? Get 10 surveyors in a room and you'll have 11 different opinions.
I am certainly not perfect, but I do every survey as though it will be reviewed. It makes stamping and signing (and sleeping) a lot easier.
This person was wise not to listen to just one person. Marketable Title on a half million dollar house is worth the fee...
Wow get over it. Who cares if she used another Surveyor, its a Lot Survey I view those as one and done if they use me again great, but it may be 5 years or more before they buy or sell again. Now if it was a regular client I would be upset if they used another Surveyor. If I was her lawyer the first thing I would have told her was to get another to Survey as well. One its the main reason the sell would be held up, also its the cheapest way to go, if the Survey is wrong problem solved, if its right well we have two Surveyors saying it is over the property line.
I would take her job on moving the lot line, we are all Professionals we have the right to not take jobs on how we feel, but in this case I dont think her using someone else is a reason not to get paid for a replat, which you have already done the field work on.
yesterday was in the process of setting monuments on a town lot. Last survey was from a time before either highways were planned and before an alley became a street, probably pre 1940s
I ask the client what type of monument he would want if other than a typical 1/2 inch rebar, one was in pavement and the other was in packed gravel.
When client found out locations he immediately said he was getting a second opinion. I quoted that I had no problem with his decision because everything checked very well with what record information was available.
His wife later said that if that is where it was gonna fall she would have never had a survey in the first place.
All that because they wanted it to fall at least 5 feet farther into the neighboring lot so they could build a very secure pipe security fence down the line.
The boundary misses the front of their building 0.35ft and the back of their building 2.7ft
A Harris, post: 336911, member: 81 wrote: ...His wife later said that if that is where it was gonna fall she would have never had a survey in the first place.
I've done a couple of jobs for those folks...things don't fall where they want so they're pissed. I mean HELL, they're paying for it!😉
Paul in PA, post: 336891, member: 236 wrote: doing nothing
One of my very favorite options.