Realtor calls to inform me that a survey I did 6 weeks ago was wrong.
Based upon information a builder tells her.
Builder tells realtor that a 'new pin' was located and that my survey needs to be corrected to not show the iron fence encroaching 5 feet.
Sure enough, I get to the site and my #5 pin/yellow cap is gone.
5.2 feet away is a #4 pin with a mutilated red cap that has been driven threw the rebar. - This pin was not existing at the time of my survey.
I tie into several other monuments to verify that the #4 pin is incorrect.
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Backup two weeks
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Realtor calls to tell me that the encroachment of an Iron Fence that I show has caused the builder to move it, at a cost to the builder of $1,200
Realtor wants to know how much to revise the survey after the fence is moved.
I quote her a fee.
She responds that she will have to pay for the update and wants me to cut her a break on the update fee, as she sends me all her work.
I inform for that I can not.
BTW - The update fee was to be $275
She then tells me that the seller has taken a beating on this property and any additional costs will have to be paid by her. As the original listing price for this property was $1,950,000 and the final sale price is $1,600,000 -and- that I should understand her situation and cut her break.
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Cut her break!
Give me a break!
EF'n realtors
Is this in Colorado?
> Realtor calls to inform me that a survey I did 6 weeks ago was wrong.
This is in Colorado, right?
Is this in Colorado?
I have done several things in a case like this....
1.) set rebar with a score line, made with a hacksaw, so that if anybody tries to remove it, it will break off.
2.) drive 2 rebar, one on top of the other, so that there is a hidden rebar about a foot down.
3.) take pics, in perspective to several items.
4.) get witness trees, or objects
All, or some of the above.
May the marker movers get indegestion!
🙂
N
> She then tells me that the seller has taken a beating on this property and any additional costs will have to be paid by her. As the original listing price for this property was $1,950,000 and the final sale price is $1,600,000 -and- that I should understand her situation and cut her break.
Man I just cannot stand cheap greedy people. At a 1% comission the cut for the realtor is 16K..amazing that she is moaning about $ 275!
So what happened about the bogus monument and the builder?
Is this in Colorado? Nate
Lightly punching a couple of 1/8" high letters/numbers into the top of the rebar after you set it will help. The imprints will get deformed if the rebar gets pulled and redriven into another place. Well, if the monument thief drives it down using the same rebar end.
> > She then tells me that the seller has taken a beating on this property and any additional costs will have to be paid by her. As the original listing price for this property was $1,950,000 and the final sale price is $1,600,000 -and- that I should understand her situation and cut her break.
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> Man I just cannot stand cheap greedy people. At a 1% comission the cut for the realtor is 16K..amazing that she is moaning about $ 275!
Actually Paul,
I'm told her commission was negotiated down from 2.8% to 2.2%
She tells me she feels bad for the seller, ergo her picking up additional costs associated with the r/e transaction
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> So what happened about the bogus monument and the builder?
This is still transpiring.
I suppose it wouldn't work here but ...
there's nothing like 3 witness blazes on a couple trees facing the monument.
Other suggestions, always make the cap is turned in a certain direction, i.e... I make sure it is turned so you must be facing north to read it. Also I have taken and painted it with marking paint and the ground.
Nate... As an aside to your double pins ...
Our government surveyors tried experiment in the 60s installing double PMs (permanent concrete block marks) on top of one another in a fruit growing irrigation area where no fencing and active machinery cultivation and grass cutting. Idea was when top PM KOd the re was always a deeper PM. Now days we place witness droppers with plaques stating position and $ fine for disturbing.
RADU