@dave-o He doesn't get a distance check.?ÿ He sights the nail and sets angle.?ÿ Another way of doing it is to shoot your foresight, then reverse the ...

@mightymoe The Statute of Frauds requires land transaction to be in writing but there is no law that the deed has to be recorded.?ÿ?ÿ I haven't surv...

@mike-marks Humans will always be in conflict over there boundaries.?ÿ Within a year of the Mayflower's arrival there was a documented boundary confl...

@dmyhill:?ÿ"I will go further: If you surveyed a parcel and found their occupation encroached on the area described in a neighbor's deed, and you purp...

@dmyhill I agree that personal feelings or emotions should not influence our opinions.?ÿ I'm not sure what the real difference is between intuition b...

If I spent a good part of each day searching for reasons to be aggrieved, this would still be far down my list.?ÿ They'll probably go after et ux next...

I've mentioned it before but the Maine Rule regarding AP requires that the party gaining land through AP must know that the land they are gaining is n...

So you define all surveys that don't produce a recorded plat as "secretive"??ÿ This is a poorly thought out idea.?ÿ Mandatory recording is a new conce...

@bstrand That's one way to look at it.?ÿ Here is another: The right of privacy does not need to be explained or defended (yet) in the USA.?ÿ My clie...

@dmyhill:?ÿ"I tell my clients that they pay me, but I work for the cadaster. I make decisions without regard to feelings and without regard to whom is...

@bstrand Better yet, if you live in a non recording state, be aware that mandatory recording is not a panacea.?ÿ If your state tries to adopt mandato...

@aliquot That is one possibility.?ÿ Others could be the exact location of access easements, springheads, acreage, or my favorite, just because they w...

A secondary reason that I object to mandated recording concerns the rights of my clients to privacy.?ÿ It doesn't happen often, but occasionally I wil...

@rover83 Municipalities generate a list of requirements that must be met prior to receiving a signature from the review officer.?ÿ The items on this ...

Tenants have no rights to the land, they simply represent open and notorious, continuous, and hostile use.?ÿ Landowner has a case for AP.?ÿ If I were ...

@protracted That's a great point about the well-intentioned causing harm too.?ÿ If I tattle, it likely be because of the this.

I have no problems with GIS techs or GISPs until they start locating utility assets.?ÿ I can't stomach turning someone in for anything less than ill i...

@aliquot I agree that a recorded plat provides more and better information.?ÿ I just don't believe the value of a recorded plat is greater than that ...