Mr Oblivious,
If that were my lot......
I'd head down to the hardware store, and buy me a 100' tape, and some flagging, and something to hold the end of the tape. (wife, or stake) and, I'd start at some back corner, and carefully measure to the front, where it fronts on the road. Remember, the dimensions shown on the plat should be horizontal distances. So, if it's not a level lot, you may need to measure 25' at a time, and add up your distances. This will help you interpret the plat. Not all pins on the street side of lots, are at the EDGE of the street. Look carefully at the plat. Is an offset dimension given? If nothing else, this exercise will give you more of an idea of what your land looks like.
And, drink community coffee!
🙂
Nate
Oblivious this may be just you misunderstanding and the surveyor not being a real people pleaser.
Please take a snapshot of your survey and post it. Give us something to work with.
Made snapshot isn't letting me upload. Said file to large
Oblivious, post: 343512, member: 10766 wrote: Made snapshot isn't letting me upload. Said file to large
Mr. Oblivious, can you give us the latitude and longitude of your property. That way we can locate it on Google Earth. Gives us something to look at. In some locations Google shows property lines and parcel information. Not that the Google property lines are correct. At least, not a land survey. But we'll have more to look at. Sorry you can't post the phone pictures. I have the same problem here with the image file being too large. Hopefully someone will let you email it to them and resize the photo. You just might want to become a land surveyor after this exercise.
Latitude +30.2982676
Longitude -95.6721335
I can't figure out how to see property lines
Oblivious, post: 343523, member: 10766 wrote: Latitude +30.2982676
Longitude -95.6721335I can't figure out how to see property lines
Are you South of Montgomery, Texas? On Mitchell Road?
No, corner of Harris and hickory hills Dr. I don't have papers with me, I searched my address and that's the last and long that showed up. Yes Montgomery
Try 9395 hickory hills dr
1. Often "A" will purchase a piece of property that is described as having a certain width of right of way adjoining it, and a deed describing said property is recorded. At some point during his ownership A is compelled to dedicate an extra strip to the right of way. Later, when A sells to B, the extra dedication is forgotten and the description from the deed under which A took title is re-used. But that extra strip is still dedicated and is not A's to sell anymore. And sometimes A sells to B and B sells to C and ..the discrepancy comes to light when M finally actually reads the deed with a critical eye. That may be what has happened here.
2. You have found monuments at various offsets to the road, but not all irons rods and pipes are monuments, not all monuments are set directly on the corners they reference, and not all roads are centered in the right of way (especially true in unplatted areas).
3. Surveyors sometime produce documents that are called, variously, "Mortgage Certificates" or "Location Certificates" or "Improvement Location Certificate". They are usually done at the behest of a mortgage company at the time of closing and are priced at between $60 and $300. They look like a survey to the public and, not surprisingly, when a person pays any money to a surveyor for a document that looks like a survey to them they figure they have had a survey done. But they are not surveys. They are prepared with minimal care, research, and field work. At best, they assure the mortgage company that the improvements are located with the property boundaries and nothing more. At worst, they are a cartoon. It's a problem within our profession and many surveyors refuse to do them or even to consider what they show as evidence. If you paid anything less than $1000 for your "survey" you probably have one of these. If so, you need a real survey done to answer your questions.
Please take Nate up on his invitation and send him a copy of your survey so he can post it. Seeing the document would enable us to offer you better advise.
Try
30å¡19'12.41"N
95å¡40'22.49"W
See if that's correct.
Property lines are not shown in you area.
send copy of plat to my email. I'll resize it, and post if you like.
N
Can't find your email
Me think Mr Oblivious is just funning you all.
Hack, post: 343547, member: 708 wrote: Me think Mr Oblivious is just funning you all.
^^ true that ^^
he figures out how to make and upload an avatar but can't post a simple image? this one is probably a regular here.
just one more reason to prohibit the use of Troll accounts. (Troll: no real name, no verifiable contact info)
Peter Ehlert, post: 343548, member: 60 wrote: ^^ true that ^^
he figures out how to make and upload an avatar but can't post a simple image? this one is probably a regular here.
just one more reason to prohibit the use of Troll accounts. (Troll: no real name, no verifiable contact info)
I don't know. I looked up the address in MCAD and found a name and a lien for the property. I'm not sure a troll here would throw someone under the bus like that. The subdivision is unrecorded. The streets are unrecorded (at least by my research). The parcel data is shown on google earth, but since it is an unrecorded subdivision in a small county, the tax appraiser's map typically wouldn't show the sub parcels. There is a map of the subdivision, but I could not find it. I agree we need to see the survey, but I'm not sure we're going to. Not with the accusations of OP being fake.
The only thing I got to say about the above advice, at least advice coming from a PLSS surveyor, in Texas we do things a bit differently here. But you all knew that already.
Does this help any? Where is Mr. Oblivious, when you need him? Tell us a bit about it. Is this it? What are some of the dimensions on said plat?
Thanks!
One of our posters sent me this.
Nate
Post a picture of the survey, it will help. If you are concerned about privacy, or hurting the surveyor that made it, then hide those portions.
Most of us here will have an opinion, but only those with experience in Texas and a license from that state will be experts about surveying in Texas.
That being said, a relative of my one day handed me a piece of paper purported (by my relative) to be a survey. It was not. It was signed and stamped and all, but it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Fortunately, the company had actually recorded a survey, and I was able to find it on line. Unless you post the "survey" most everyone here will (and should) assume that the surveyor didn't mess up.
But, with the correct information, you will likely be pleasantly surprised at the amount of free and useful advice you will receive.
Using that photo of the tax map, and the Google Earth ruler, calibrated on a football field ;-), and pulling from fence at 29-C? to the right of 29-B to the approximate R/W line on the map of 29-B, I measure right around 60'. However, just pulling fence to fence it's closer to 45. This would be a fun one to work on and hunt down, just not for the client Mr. Oblivious.
Well, any progress?
(My surveyor side wants to know!)