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RE: Stamped PDFs

Adobe PDFs have three security-related things you can do to documents, and one or two ways to perform each thing. (Apologies to Dr. Seuss.) Thing 1: E...

5 years ago
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RE: U.S. Survey Foot Scheduled to Die of Natural Causes in 2022

In general, natural persons in the US can do whatever they want, unless the government can pass a law or binding regulation that restricts something, ...

5 years ago
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RE: Looks like the state of Idaho has moved the ball forward on the pin cushion question...

The rule should be 10 times longer, and cover how hard the new surveyor has to work to find all these adjoinders and previous surveyors.

5 years ago
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RE: U.S. Survey Foot Scheduled to Die of Natural Causes in 2022

By the time survey feet can be ignored, all the executives of all the manufacturers will be dead, and so will their children. I don't think they care ...

5 years ago
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RE: U.S. Survey Foot Scheduled to Die of Natural Causes in 2022

My understanding is that during the late 1800s and 1st half of the 20th century various English-speaking countries that retained the yard, foot, and i...

5 years ago
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RE: Blatant encroachment discovered before closing

A legal question of more general interest arises. I think it's settled that if a property owner A gives permission for an adjoinder B to make some use...

6 years ago
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RE: 911 GPS

An online retailer offers this advice: From experience with the Civil Air Patrol, personal locator beacons send your GPS position to satellites and i...

6 years ago
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RE: Blockchain and Homebuying

Two points. If you look at the Franklin County website mentioned by the story the OP summarized, and search for "blockchain", all you find is a link t...

6 years ago
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RE: Why boundary survey?

As a justice of the peace, I've heard some appeals of property valuation for real estate tax purposes. It looked like the tax records overstated the a...

6 years ago
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RE: Something older surveyors who have had a long career sometimes deal with...

I have a few comments about the property valuation for real estate tax purposes, which is influenced by frontage and area. I'm a justice of the peace ...

6 years ago
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RE: Electronic signature

I read it a bit differently. The allowance for a digitized image of a handwritten signature is something extra that may be included as part of a digit...

6 years ago
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RE: Perpetuate Dig Safe markings

I was thinking of something smallish and flush with the ground, so not only will mowers not hit it, but a person with thin-soled shoes can walk on it ...

6 years ago
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RE: Sometimes you are simply better than the other guy....

Hypothetical scenario: Measurements and end of old suggests corner should be at A.?ÿ Deteriorating iron pipe is found a foot away at B. After looking ...

6 years ago
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RE: Best iPhone lat and long app

I found a partial answer. In my phone there is an "Extras" icon, which contains a "Compass" app. It came with the phone. The latitude and longitude is...

7 years ago
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RE: Questions to ask about property tax assessments

The meeting was information-packed, and I didn't get a chance to ask this question. It was brought up that treating similar properties the same way wa...

7 years ago
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RE: Questions to ask about property tax assessments

A current survey might state what the area is with and without the ROW. But then the state needs a policy about what to do with that information. I em...

7 years ago
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