Subdivision Boundary
Our office did a property boundary for a ranch 30+ years ago. It was sold with our boundary and developed as a Subdivision, lots, streets, multiple phases. Anyway, we were hired by an adjacent landowner to survey along the east line of the Subdivision and found some of the lots got staked across the common line. Then, while surveying the lots to see if there might be a fix to the issue we found the south line has issues. The odd thing was that the company that did the surveying work for the subdivision along those lines were surveying to their own monuments that we had accepted for the ranch boundary.
Stuff happens!!!!
There was a late 1980’s era aluminum cap for the SE corner of the phase on the south side of an old fence corner that we accepted for the ranch boundary, the surveyor for the Subdivision recorded accepting the same monument which makes sense since it was his monument. However, there was a newer cap north of it on the north side of the fence corner with the same LS#. Two caps still in the ground about 2 feet apart, one the old cap, one 10 years newer two feet north; same #.
It appears that lots got rotated somehow which shoved the east line of the subdivision lots across the common line. Of course it couldn’t have been the other way leaving a gap. The worst thing about it was that the corners went out into a field across the fence line which runs along the property line. The old fencer got the line straight.
The county and the developer are allowing us to file quit claims and the developer only wants one monument out there so we dragged everyone around and showed them. The lots are undeveloped which is a plus but they have been sold, which means there are other owners involved and they are on board.
One job leading to another.
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