A funny thing happened after I submitted my credit card payment for membership. Our card issuing bank called my wife with a fraud alert within about 3...

Update: I discovered that Carlson Survey has the capability to transform coordinates between NAD83 and NAD27. Huzzah! Then I discovered that while t...

What's the problem with "Tract 7-A on Plan _____" for a description? It's working for their current deeds.

I have found in Carlson Survey that the Crandall Polyline Adjustment compensates for a small misclosure when running in record plans in a useful way. ...

Wonko the Sane approves of this message. The BBC series was way better than those movies.  

I don't think Wendell has access to that database. The original RPLS.com was acquired by the big media company that owned POB magazine. Wendell acquir...

That is astounding. It makes me wonder how they could have blown the flood modelling so badly. I know the models are not perfect, but I would expect t...

Perhaps they did not ignore the new data. They might have determined that these floods resulted from a longer-period storm than the 100-year storm tha...

For the record, I'm not a FEMA guru. With that written, I have had some limited experience in this area: FEMA will not accept the "platted" flood pl...

The Elevation Certificate only serves to prove the building elements are at particular heights relative to the flood elevation. It is used to determin...

Title insurance usually contains a survey exception: excluding claims based on facts that would have been revealed by an accurate survey. The NSPS/ALT...

The lack of wording to the effect of "...being the same premises as described in the deed dated _ recorded at _..." suggests an intent to create new b...

Did the executor/trustee intend to convey the same three parcels that the wife and husband originally owned, or did he intend to create three new parc...

When I was a young guy working summers on the field crew in seacoast NH, I was very tempted to say, but managed to keep my mouth shut, while swinging ...

That has been my SOP all my time in the field. Our field crews are instructed to direct all questions to the office. Smile, say "I'm not sure what thi...