Great hobby. It is more fun when there is no budget!

@aliquot In the end, that is all that matters...what a surveyor thinks.?ÿIf a surveyor can lay it out on the ground, it is a valid legal description,...

@bill93 "Being the same premises conveyed to xxxxxxx" My first instinct is to find that conveyance.?ÿ ?ÿ On a less technical note, my understandin...

@shawn-billings ?ÿ I get what you are saying. Since you are referencing that point, you are not doing what the OP complained about, essentially you ...

@norman-oklahoma I like Wattles.

@shawn-billings ?ÿ I see zero ambiguity in paden's description, BTW. If someone were to throw in needless measurements (which are by definition less...

@aliquot The East 50 feet of Lot 60 is the west line offset 50 feet. That is standard practice in my area. Not saying that there isn't a possibility ...

For the record, I have stopped with the extra, "distance" words.?ÿ I do use them in cases like the following: North, along the East line of Lot 153,...

@norman-oklahoma When you use automated legal writing software...it doesn't ask, "Do I really need to put 'a distance of' here?" I am guessing that ...

@shawn-billings When you say "to a point" I assume that those are monumented. Do you call out the monuments in your legal description?

@aliquot South "3 acres" is a completely different kettle of fish than "South 300 feet". The first one is ambiguous, the second is not. Saying that ...

Call 811 before you dig...really.

I trained some guys (or at least I had a hand in training them, was team effort) that did better field work than I did. I can admit that. In that case...

And I still cannot put posts in the right place.

N=North E=East ?ÿ The origin point is unknown to anyone here.?ÿ

@reggie416I am not a surveyor in Canada...if you meant the Toronto, ON, Canada.?ÿ But, if it was me, and I wanted to pile wood in an area unused as a...

@mightymoe In a modern plat (say since 1960) I actually agree with you. And, in practice, there are all sorts of surveyors that will do the survey wi...

@daniel-ralph What, you didn't want a multifamily put in next door? ?ÿ 😉 ?ÿ