Spent the last two and a half days on a one day job and in the process proved to myself that I mucked up the easement on another survey 1/2 mile across the swamp last year. It doesn't affect property lines or area and is nothing that a corrective plat can't fix, but I still dread calling the client out of the blue a year after the fact and telling him.
Nobody is perfect. You are proving that you have integrity. That dread you feel, is just part of the price of your integrity, but as you know, it is worth it.
Today I will be signing an affidavit stating that one bearing was incorrect in a description that was in a recently recorded deed. Instead of north xx degrees east it read north xx degrees west. Oops!
Try to let that bad feeling pass. In my experience if you are the one to bring your error to light with the client you come out looking like the good guy. I have even brought the fix to the client without mentioning it first. They seem happy that somebody in this day and age stands up and takes responsibilty.
They will remember that you came to them long after an inconsequential error is fixed.
If you make a HUGE error, better call Todd first, but you still want to be in the lead in fixing things...
LMAO JB. Love the sign.
Several years ago I had one I discovered about 6 months after the fact as I was filing paperwork. Rectangular lot but I transposed the dimension on one line on the plat. Instead of 106.19, I had 106.91 or something like that - less than a foot. So I checked my notes, then the data collector.
Sure enough El Stupido FUBAR'ed. I called the guy, explained to him what happened, and then helped him move about 50 ft of wooden fence to get it inside his line. He was all good with everything and even offered a beer as we chatted with the neighbor. (yes, I accepted it).
And then there was that catch basin I bought (ouch). And that typo in the legal the title company spotted. Oh, and putting the wrong street name on the plat.....
As stated by others, nobody's perfect and it's the ones you don't discover that will haunt us. Even more importantly for us soloists to try and keep that third eye peeled.
Today I saw an error on a plat from 1995. Lot 12 was labeled Lot 10. It was obvious that it should be 10 based on all the lot numbers in the block, however. Fortunately, this would have no impact on the critical part of the plat. Just something that some other surveyor will see someday, then, he'll label me a jackleg.
