Don't go bananas on the PLSS stuff. Know the basics, I took it the first closed book version and there was very little on it. Being from a colonial st...

Yes, the name of the lake, river, etc.

> On the bright side, it's my understanding that, in the event it's ultimately determined that the structure is above BFE, any premiums paid out as...

What I hate to seeI take your point, but are you not simply reporting the area of the closed figure you are representing as the boundary? I understand...

Yes, the surveyor bent the line, ignored called for monuments in doing so, and also ignored an unequivocal call for a straight line in both the deed h...

This is part of a larger issue. I have been to ZBA meetings in, for around here, large cities/towns, where the chair states during the meeting that th...

We have a three hour minimum as well.

By statute NH is a notice state, but race-notice by case law. I appreciate all the comments, I am still working on the job and will likely uncover mor...

It does have that particular smell about it, however there are conveyances out of the parent ranging from 1941-1959.

Agreed, but of course the abutters deed calls out my clients predecessor in title as abutters in similar fashion.

I agree that the monument holds, issue is that 1) there are no stake and stones out there, just pipes set by who knows, and 2) there are monuments mis...

That is unfortunate. Good luck in the new field, people always need septic systems. Are you a permitted designer? If not I recommend it, that test is ...

Wattles says, regarding A Distance Of:"Used to separate different kinds of numbers and to prevent errors in distances, such as:'to the corner of said ...

I believe they want the lowest elevation of the portion to be removed. Poorly worded, but that is FEMA.

Fair enough Bruce. I've never worked out your way. I have never received a title report for any of the many, many boundary surveys I have worked on.

I too have been sold this bill of goods. Natural ground surrounding the LAG higher than the BFE, told by FEMA when I called that I could send a topogr...

Unless I am mistaken, I believe his issue is not how to determine the BFE from the FIS profile, but where on the profile he should be taking it based ...