Many years ago a fellow surveyor with a few decades of business experience made the comment that one should never keep their fees low for a particular client because that would turn out to be the very job/client that will drag you into court or try to get your license taken through no fault of your own. "Ungrateful b******s" was mentioned somewhere in the commentary. Basically, if it's cheap, they assume you cut corners somewhere so they'll come after you to get an even better pay off.
I thought he was terribly pessimistic. Turns out he was a rather astute businessman after all.
It's a tough call, what to rely on or how far to go back. But as others have said, you own and are liable for what you show on your plat.
I know of a situation where an un-constructed power line easement was shown incorrectly on a subdivision plat. Then years later another surveyor reconfigured the lot lines, showing the same easement. A house was built on the lot, and later it was discovered that it was in the easement. The second surveyor was sued for the cost of moving the house.
Jim Frame, post: 334108, member: 10 wrote: This is the one I most heavily rely upon.
Same here Jim. There are surveyors whose boundaries I will accept on the spot and others whose aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
With that said I insist on doing our own title work. We are in Massachusetts which is obviously a m & b state. It's been my experience that when my boundary differs from another surveyor it is usually because the lack of proper research.
Hack