Request for Map of 15-yr-old Survey

Kent McMillan · 2012-10-02T23:08:22Z

I'm pretty sure that this one sets a record for me. A gal from a mortgage company calls this afternoon. She needs a copy of a map of a survey that I made for our "mutual client", by which she meant her mortgage customer. "Tell me a bit about the property," I said. Well, she didn't have a legal description, so I asked who her client was. Yes, that name rang a bell from the distant past and I rattled off the name of the subdivision in which it was located.It was a survey of a residential property, of which I've done relatively few. This was one from fifteen years ago, a newly constructed house on a lot in a subdivision that I'd laid out just a year or so earlier. What in particular highlighted that one in recollection was that it was one of only a handful of projects in 25 years of practice that I didn't get paid for. The client had a good excuse, though. He called to tell me that he'd been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease just about the same time the closing was supposed to take place. He may have asked if I minded waiting to get paid, since he had applied for disability retirement and there would be a time lag in getting that going. Since my understanding of that disease at the time was that few people lived more than a few years after being diagnosed with it and since the invoice was probably for less than $500.00, I didn't have any problem telling him to pay me when he could.He filed for bankruptcy after closing and I got the usual letters to creditors to throw away.Fast forward 15 years and this gal from the mortgage company is calling on his behalf. Her description of the problem is that the map she has (of a 4-acre lot with a house and driveway on it) is just "too big" (it's probably 18" x 24") and she'd like to get a legal-size copy. It was simply too easy to tell her "I'm sorry, but my files are closed on that one."

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> Funny as it is, I'm sure there are some on the board who genuinely believe that Kent actually missed a marketing opportunity.
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> Yep, and a whole 'nother bunch of 'em that thinks he is hiding his plat to limit his future liability...

Comedy gold strikes twice in the same thread!

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