I have a client that intended to buy 3.5 acres back in 2002 that was only identified by deed. She had a new survey done, by another, and her attorney wrote a new legal based upon the survey.
The survey was OK, I guess, not wrong, but I really did not care for the way it presented itself and found it confusing.
Well I guess the attorney did as well, because he blew the legal, missing a call of about 1500' and commenced it from the wrong section corner.
A few months back she bought the adjoining 3.5 acres and hired me to revise the boundaries between the two, so that her original tract added 2.5 acres and he was left with a 1 acre tract that she could sell.
Now she has to hire an attorney to clear up the bogus title on her original tract.
It is a shame when people hire professionals to take care of something and their work ends up causing more trouble then it was worth.
so she couldn't just go back to the author of the 2002 deed and have them revise a corrective at their own cost, considering they blew it at first?
Normally I would say yes, but considering the attorney she used, I would say no. They will probably charge her to correct their mistake.
I sent her to another attorney that I like to work with.