@eapls2708 Many state's courts would disagree. Unrecorded deeds are legal, but in many states they are not enforceable against third parties until re...

@bill93 The problem is with no way to identify the corner, and no record, it is not possible to know if it was set "correctly" . It's just math compa...

@holy-cow   Do you work in a nonrecording state? In recording states it is standard practice to replace damaged or insubstantial monuments with...

Don't forget that the least squares analysis shouldn't be based on recovered monuments, but on the engineers mathematical idea of the location of the ...

Don't forget that the least squares analysis shouldn't be based in recovered monuments, but on the engineers mathematical idea of the location of the ...

@holy-cow The livestock should be fenced out of the water, except at designated drinking points anyway. NRCS usually has funding to help with that.&n...

A good reason for well connected metal caps with plenty of info.... or better yet, something more substantial than rebar.?ÿ For only $2.50 per corner ...

The centerline presumption,?ÿ which has been adopted by federal law, and every state that I am aware of, is rebuttable. In Glover it is rebutted by bo...

Yes, you are right. Writing metes and bounds descriptions for surveyed lots is regressive.?ÿ ?ÿ

Are you talking about starting your own business or just continuing to work for your current employer? If the former, great. If thet latter why would ...

The PW includes the value of benefits, so there are probably more than you think. The reason PW is so high, is not because if any intentional inflatio...

@steven-metelsky Hard to judge the value of an easement if you have no idea of its size or the value of the land.

Whatever you do, don't leave the status of the pond in doubt. I suggest using your red lines as property lines and using your blue line as the boundar...

Take note of problems like this for your own work. The original surveyor probably assumed the meaning was obvious and couldn't forsee this being a pro...

@dave-karoly Fair enough

@linebender Guys, enough with the blanket statements based on your own experience.   In a place like Iowa, where almost every acre has bee...

I ask the same thing everytime I see a call for a corner like, "the NW corner of NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of the SW1/4". Its infuriatingly common in states ...

@just-a-surveyor Ahh, I thought you were saying retracement surveys required approval. The situation you describe is common, although there are a few...

@just-a-surveyor What approval signatures are required for recording a boundary survey in Georgia? 

The answer to your question will vary wildly between jurisdictions from 0% to close to 100%, but in my opinion a survey for establishing boundaries be...