Had a situation where we pulled out the steel tape and asked the complaining neighbor just "which" 90 feet he wanted to be his. He was claiming well over 100 feet. I was told there was something wrong with my tape. He had professed, correctly, that he owned 90 feet.
LO: Well, it's not right. I'm going to sue you and him both. I don't want you down here.
Please do! Then file the counter claim suit with Dewey Screwim, and Howe, put a lien their house and then send in Moose and Rocko to help them find their check book.
Additionally, maybe buy a good body armor in case you're working anywhere in vision of the moron.
That's unfortunate but funny to let them solve their own stupid and then wallow in it.
@holy-cow Exactly what happened to me. Pulled out my disto, shot back of fence to back of fence, it read 120 feet. Told him all Lot are 100', where do you want your hundred feet? He said my disto was wrong.
Passed on a survey once by simply telling the potential client (I had done several previously for him or his mother) to have a little chat with his neighbor while holding a 50-foot tape. The neighbor was trying to claim the driveway between the two houses was only his. His lot was 43 feet wide and his house was already 45 feet wide. If he wanted to own the driveway, he would only have about half of his house on his 43 foot lot. Never heard back.
Had a situation where we pulled out the steel tape and asked the complaining neighbor just "which" 90 feet he wanted to be his. He was claiming well over 100 feet. I was told there was something wrong with my tape. He had professed, correctly, that he owned 90 feet.
I'll bet you were using that tape with only 10 "inches" per foot. I did have an adjoiner claim that when looking at the cloth tape one time.
In 1997 or so Miss Hattie Mae Harper hired us to go behind another local surveyor that had surveyed the adjoining property. She claimed he was 10 ft on her side. We went down there and checked the guy's work. As we initially expected, his survey work was good. Miss Hattie Mae would not believe it. A few days later she called complaining to my boss so we were sent back down there and met with her. She was going to show us how to measure. Her line was supposed to be exactly 210 ft long so she went to the hardware store and bought exactly 210 ft of rope. She said you know they won't give me 1 inch more of that rope than I paid for. When she demonstrated she stretched that cord at least 10 or 12 ft to get it to go where she wanted it to. She concluded that all surveyors were in cahoots and I don't think my boss ever collected the money on that one.
