No problem with your note at all, but in cases similar to yours, I think there's always a way to show the situation graphically on the map, even if it has to include insets or notations. But, I haven't seen your map.
I just had a call from the closing attorney with a question about the zoning of the tract. I was waiting to hear a question about the note and graphic depiction of the discrepancy. He didn't mention anything about it, so I asked him if it was clear and sufficient for his purposes. He answered "No problems on my end". I asked him if there would have been a way I could have shown the information that he would have preferred instead of the supplemental note. He said none that he could think of. He was just glad I had the issue noted and shown. He said you'd be surprised at the number of surveyors in our area that wouldn't have shown it or attempted to address it in any way. As long as he was happy with it and understood what was going on, I guess my job is done. After all the opinions expressed yesterday, I would have gladly done things differently if he had questioned any of it.
I know one thing, it sure is difficult to try and describe something like that on an internet forum so that everyone gets the same understanding of the problem.
Stacy, we all practice with a different rulebook and those rulebooks direct our way of surveying and drafting. Like many using the term Plat, here a Plat is a Recorded Document, while a Record of Survey is filed in the County Survey Records, not with the Clerk. Seems that Plat means different things in different areas. That is just one of countless differences that took me a while to be comfortable with.
jud
6th--absolutely correcto-mundo----tdd
This thread is very important as to why it's very important to what you do, what you say and how you say, before you put your name & seal to it.
somebody gotta teach them....tdd
I learn a lot even though I just lurk mostly. What's most interesting is as you say, learning about surveys and surveying all over the country and world. I remember on Mark Deal's original board, a poster from another country sent me an email and asked "What is a plat?" It never occurred to me that terminology would be so different. Surveyors from PLSS states and those from colonial states are a world apart too. Just the term "description" means totally different things in different areas. Lots of fun trying to interpret what someone is saying sometimes.
Stacy,
Thanks for providing the material for a very enjoyable read.
Coming in late to this discussion, Stacy.
I support your decision and your note. But I agree with Deral, there is something hard to define in the wording of the note that conveys uncertainty. Might be helped to just add the words .... occupation "and monuments" were held....
Possibly just be a little more direct. Could be that all you need to say is "monuments and long-time occupation held here" and leader it in.
No clue what TDD is talking about. (what a shock!) Seems to me you are taking a good hard stand on your survey.
Stephen
Note on plat-stephen
you no hablo englis ???? tdd
