I was setting the last two new corners on a small division yesterday afternoon when a guy several houses away starts driving down the road towards me. As soon as I saw his UTV pull out of the garage, I knew he was coming over to talk to me.
When he gets to me, the standard questions of what are surveying and what are they going to do with it with the standard answers of just surveying this tract of the Smith property and well I'm not sure what they plan to do all I know is they asked me to survey it out for them. I was hoping that would wrap it up.
Instead it was one of the other common surveying discussions with people who approach us in the field.
While your out here, how much would it cost to get you to survey this 10 acres I have. Its not in my deed because the surveyor I hired to survey my property cheated me out of it. It was supposed to be mine, but he didn't include it. My lawyer says all I need to do is get it surveyed and have the previous owners sign a quit claim deed to me.
His survey was from 20 years ago and the company he hired has been out of business for a while. At least he wasn't as annoying as some of the people who are looking for a surveyor by just peeking out their window and hoping that one day a surveyor will happen to be passing by. I explained I would be happy to look into and get back to him and he gave me his name/number, thanked me and said he would get out of the way so I could finish my work.
Watch out!
That sounds like one of those "Give us your credit card info and we'll help get 'Jimmy' out of the bind he is in with the County Sheriff that has him in jail" gambit. I hear it is happening all of the time.
JA, PLS, SoCal
👍 Definitely one to be extra cautious of before agreeing to take on the project.
This is one of those odd instances where the guy may very well be correct about being 'cheated' out of some acreage. His survey was by, and about the time, that a surveyor in the area was having some problems that got him into some pretty serious trouble. So the surveyor may not have been doing as quality of work as should be done. He could have potentially left 10 acres of a parent tract off even if the intent of the parties was to include it.
