I once came across a deed which called for horse bones at the corners. Didn't actually find any, though.
our firm used to have a 4WD Jeep Cherokee, and there were only two times it ever failed to go where I wanted it to go. The first time I was trying to...
We had exactly the same problem with our 430 a couple years ago. There is a small laser reader attached to the print head which scans the size of the...
Not a surveying book per se, but a indispensable reference otherwise is "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape", which is a reference of geo...
typically if I run across anything too terribly unusual the client gets a call to discuss the matter before the final survey is issued
I once had an attorney get upset with me for showing several unclosed streets on an ALTA survey. It was a housing redevelopment project, where an old...
We had a crew witness a stabbing at a dice game. Working on a topo in a housing project where there was a heated dice game going on. One of the guys...
in fact, they state that if they are not accurate, their liability is limited to the original fee. That sure instills some confidence in the quality ...
Their disclaimers aside, it sure sounds as if they are practicing land surveying as defined by the state of North Carolina in preparing site as-builts...
Five or six years ago I had to track a 10 foot strip back to the 1930s. In the 20s one neighbor had conveyed a 10 foot strip to the adjoiner. The st...
I once prepared an ALTA survey with the note "gravel drive fords creek". The revised title policy came back with a title exception for "rights of oth...
I certainly hope there are no surveyors out there who are foolish enough to testify as to what anyone owns. Title is the province of attorneys; surve...
An invaluable resource for any surveyor working with old records is a book which came out a few years ago called "Home Ground". It is a dictionary of...
If you don't want to turn in the other surveyor, perhaps the aggrieved land-owner would. It's something you could certainly suggest to them.
Acreage and Title InsuranceMost title policies I've read in the last 10 years or so explicitly state that they do not insure exact acreage. However, ...
"But the realtor told me the survey would only be 2 or 3 hundred dollars"
Our firm works primarily for commercial and industrial clients and we've found that 19 times out of 20, when we offer private utility location as an a...
