That is specifically what the client said he wanted to cut out of one corner of his current property. Intends to sell the remainder of his property. Will build what he calls a bungalow on the tract being cut out to downsize his living style.
We set the corners on Friday. He called yesterday to report that he probably will want to change the plan. Maybe convert it to be wider and not so deep. Wife has been out of town for two weeks and will be home today. Apparently, she wears the pants in the family. It will be best to have her blessing on how to finish up.
My thinking is that no matter how we modify the two acres shape, they won't be able to fit their bungalow on it properly. Their current house is the most highly appraised house in that entire county.
I would suggest 295.16 square. They may not realize you can have a square 2 acres.
I had a request to cut out a small one acre tract once. They didn't want a big one acre. Of course, it was the seller I was talking to.
James
One acre wide by two acres deep
How many acres long should it be?
How many kilowatts of time did it have to be done in?
How many liters of money would you get paid?
If its on a slope would the acres be bigger? or smaller?
I've found that the few times I've been asked for that configuration, the person didn't know what the hell they were asking for, and when it was 208.71 x 417.42, they had no idea that was what it would look like. Ultimately, like James, we did it at 295.16 x 295.16.
My supposition about people like this, under the age of 80, is that they tend to remember their grandfathers using verbiage like this when describing land plowed and have this romantic notion of land measurements from their youth.
Yep. Been there before. Customer tells you exactly how they want it (they think). Then immediately change it.
In most of the counties I work in, there are ordinances that require residential lots to maintain a width of 250'. An older fellow I was working for not long ago insisted the lot to be cut should be two chains wide. (The last time he hired a surveyor was 1950's and his current description was in chains.) In was a long conversation to explain to the hard-headed old guy why it wasn't going to happen.
I have have met the owner on site with monuments and we walked the boundary of what they had in mind setting monuments as we went. Later tied them in, never needed to make adjustments to comply with statute because that was just one reason I was there with the owner while going around the desired bounds and setting the monuments as we went. Works well when there is some question of what they really want, the owners seem to like doing it that way. Takes time and patience but worth it for those few times it is the appropriate thing to do.
jud