Have a handyman Jack in the truck for the first 5 times you try to drive through a questionable bog and spend all day getting unstuck when you could h...
It's good to try to do a better job than your predecessors, it's not good to think that you are smarter than they were. You're not.?ÿ Do not be afraid...
Also in another case I was involved in, but not appealed thus not reported, my survey and two set monuments were the root of three lawsuits. In the fi...
Over the past 20 years I've done retracementss of "lots" in a block of meets and bounds tracts. These are usually a nightmare but this particular "blo...
Congratulations. Read CAMB Morales. Don't set pincushions. When encountering the very few very large companies who set pincushions all day long and ex...
The funny thing is that surveyors don't really get old and retire, they just keep on using that brain which keeps their mind young and when the legs a...
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i don't know why they would record them as oppose to deposit them in the county surveyor index, but if a monument is "already of record" then it does ...
an ILC is a "plot" using "apparent deed lines" (record dimensions) relative to at least two actual corners. Some refuse to do them, some make a living...
I went solo 2003. Not one employee has announced "if you want me to do better, pay me more" since. No regrets. Just need to learn to take time off. Wh...
If today you set a monument in a subdivision that was recorded 19 years 11 months ago, then you are not required to deposit a land survey plat. If the...
When the plat deposit law was enacted in 1987, surveyors submitted ink drawn Mylars. The objective was for subsequent surveyors to have an accessible ...
The term "from true corner" is a misinterpretation of an undefined concept, and some apply this phrase to direct the reader to a position calculated, ...
I surveyed my great grandmothers Citizen Band Potawatomi ALLOTMENT about 12 miles east of Norman OK last year. The allotment was deeded by President B...
My pin and plat was the subject of three lawsuits from 2005 to 2009. In one, Hawley v mowatt the jury found and the court ruled that where I had place...
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What I know is that at least three surveyors have come along obviously using their skills as surveyors and set a series of lots and managed to get all...
@sub-d-vider Sub, two points, the boat spike is from a well know local surveyor who set thousands of boat spikes in his time, and he was positively n...
@dmyhill In Washington, if a row of five homes looking to be 20 to 30 years old each with fences built to monuments and homes within the setbacks def...