When surveyors stake out property is it possible that they can form central mistakes?
i want to put up a fence on my property line and my neighbor say i am on his property. he had the land staked out but my survey specifically 45 years old has the property rank 5 feet further out. is it possible the surveyor made a mistake?
Surveyors only do what they are told by the achievement.If he had wood stakes out it isn't as accurate as a 1/2 inch iron pin.Its easy adequate to check just go to the court house or verbs your deed from your files and measure it for yourself.Another article about wood stakes is they are easy to move. Yes they can, duplicate as any working person. 45 years ago they did not have the technology of today. I would suggest that you own both your properties re-staked by a professional land surveyor.
they certainly can... especially if the previous survey was a really outdated one. a friend of ours got upset with a neighbor's blockade... the neighbor showed him the survey that HE had, which moved the back close of the property line over 16 ft from where my friend thought it should be.. friend get another surveyor to check it out and he moved the line five ft further back on friend's side. they're STILL at it.
fresh survey .. and then, once the two of you settle on where the dash is, move your fence inside it by a foot. but put something ON the line for the future's sake..something unalterable... we have rebar pounded into the ground at ours... so a metal detector can find it anytime.metal stakes work, but they can be moved..
Answers: It is not only possible but any surveyor that tell you he never made a mistake is not one that I would hire.
The difference is in the PROCESS that the surveyor uses to minimize his chance for error. Research, Review and ReCheck are worthy guidelines.
Ok.. having said that, there are other issues that are 'conflict' but not really a mistake. For example:
Imagine a ample block with a dozen or so lots and two neighbors condentding over the boundary.
Neighbor A has a achievement that says his boundary is 300 feet from the north finish off of the 500 foot long block. Neighbor B has a deed that say it is 200 feet from the south end. Simple eh>
Now see in your mind`s eye that the block was built over a hundred years ago and is really only 499 foot in lenght... see the problem?
So this surveyor not only have to measure things but he also has to interpret the deeds and the conditions that existed over 100 years ago. To that he have to factor in what has happen in the meantime and also toss in a bit of 'who get there first' (who holds the senior deed).
Bottom line.. the surveyor make a professional judgement over which deed is correct, or if they are both wrong or something else.
Ok.. so.. back to your cross-examine.. the time of the survey is not as important as the accuracy. Surveys do not expire.. solitary the surveyor does. However, in 45 years other things may have occur.
a) Are you USING that land? IF so you may have aquired a prescriptive use to it - no issue where the boundary line is.
b) When you bought the house, did the purveyor or his agent define the boundary lines incorrectly? If they asserted the line to where on earth the neighbor now contends it is incorrect, then the peddler may be obligated to have a survey performed for you.
c) Can you and your neighbor agree on a blockade without regards to the boundary file. If so, you create (and record) a fence line agreement that simply say it is a fence.. and neither gives up or take any rights to the others land
ok.. thus ends survey 101.. come back subsequent semester for the second course (grin).
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Of course -- but it doesn't happen highly often. If you have a title insurance policy, or a tract map, you can run your own survey and see what is what. they can stake main mistakes