Makes me wonder why they would bother, but we is paid to sweat every mm.
Just for fun someone sold one square inch parcels.
Hey, we all know by now that the shortest property line is that mysterious 0.04 feet that keeps coming up.
"All's well that end's well, however, especially for the bank and the Owen County treasurer. But for Mr Gutman one small problem remains. Nobody, it seems, knows just where exactly on the larger plot the square-inch is situated. He could pay the $500 for a land survey, but for now he prefers to keep his costs where they are. "We have to rely on the physical description in the deeds and make a best-case guess," conceded Peter Dorsey, the director of the county's mapping department."
It apparently wasn't just for fun. It seems that there are some rights attached.
But Gutman won't pay for a ($500?) survey to locate the property.
Typical.
Don
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I once discovered a 1990's plat by an engineering company that
was something like 0.03.
i could sell little piece of cape cod.... any takers? i am willing to part with 144 of those little lots...
That reminds me of The Maltese Falcon. Casper Gutman (played by Sydney Greenstreet in the 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart) is the lead bad guy.
"Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. [sits back] Now, sir. We'll talk, if you like. I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk." -Kasper Gutman
Great Klondike Big Inch land Caper
You'd need to pin the lots of this subdivision with welding rod just so there'd be some buildable land left over after it had all been monumented:
"In each box of Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat he would give away a square inch of land in the romantic Yukon right here in Dawson where Sergeant Preston and his trusty dog King had their adventures every week."
here (Tasmania) some councils won't allow a subdivision unless it has direct frontage to a 'ROAD' That's an official status enshrined in legislation, not a reference to a track/ road/ highways etc.
Many old roads were never surveyed and over time became what we call 'User Roads'. They are legal strips the owner of the land has title to but whilst it remains a public road in use they have no legal right to obstruct etc. it works well and in fact few people who have such roads passing through their land ever query it.
When a title fronts a piece of land that doesn't have the 'ROAD' status but has a 'User Road' we overcome the limitation by surveying a line which could be 1mm offset from the boundary fronting the road along the full length of that side.
The created lot 1mm wide we call ROAD which gets gazetted and thus we have a ROAD which we can subdivide up to. More often it's 10mm wide just to make it easier to annotate as we round to nearest cm on the title plans.
Yes sounds crazy but that's what we get when planners put pen to paper without fully understanding the status of land ownerships and road status.
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> Yes sounds crazy but that's what we get when planners put pen to paper without fully understanding the status of land ownerships and road status.
They put 'pen to paper', but we know where their heads are.