Property survey question...

   / Property survey question... #11  
<font color="blue"> the lot size of the house the are buying is 50 x170 roughly </font>

I grew up in the largest subdivision ever platted in my county. The lot sizes? 35' x 135' /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
   / Property survey question... #12  
I've never heard of the difference between a "staked" and an "unstaked " survey. AFAIC, a survey must be staked. Otherwise, about all you have is a "courthouse survey" where the surveyor goes to the courthouse, looks up the plat, and copies it onto a drawing.

The surveyor should find or set a stake on every property corner. If a monument is found, it will not be reset unless the surveyor disagrees with it. In that case, he will set his own monumenty and describe both on the plat.

Each monument should be described on the plat and called out as "found" or "set." Usually, this is done with an abreviation. (e.g. FIP = Found Iron Pipe.) Is it possible that the surveyor found the monuments, which are something like pipes or rebars driven flush, and you can't find them again?

Around here, the surveyors usually set "Red Tops" next to each corner. A red top is a white painted wooden stake with a red painted top. They are not the corners, but are driven near the corners to make them easy to find. If you "own the street," they generally will not set monuments in the pavement.

As far as how far your property extends toward the street, that depends on the way the land was subdivided. In my current place, I own to the center of the street. Actually, to the centerline of the easement that allows the street. At my previous place, the Village owned the streets, which were on rights-of-way, not easements. I owned to one foot back of the sidewalk.

Talk with the surveyor. He should be able to explain his work.
 
   / Property survey question... #13  
<font color="blue"> Around here, the surveyors usually set "Red Tops" next to each corner. A red top is a white painted wooden stake with a red painted top.</font>

Around here it's traditionally a small piece of red plastic ribbon tied to the top of a wooden stake pounded nearly flush with the ground.

I do recall one survey where that tradition was broken, however. A surveyor friend got a call from a mutual friend to survey his property. Since the surveyor is a Purdue grad and our friend is a big Indiana booster, the survey stakes at every corner were standing a yard tall topped with streaming black and gold ribbons. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / Property survey question... #14  
Where I live the lots are all fairly large 1 - 4 acres. What I dont understand is the need of a staked survay if you are not putting up a fence or something right at the edge of your property. Why do banks etc. requre a survay or why might a owner order a survay in leu of just going by the information in the deed? It seems that the survay is just reproducing what the deed states.
 
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#15  
Hi everone,

Somehow I got messed up and ended up double editing my previous post...

Rob_S...I think the fence thing is the specific reason why it is good to know where the property line is. Both from the side of wanting to put up your own...or to know the otherguy is putting up his on his own property. These little lots are so small...inches mean a lot more than they do when you measure property in acres rather than in fractions...

Thanks again to everyone for their help.
 
   / Property survey question... #16  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The interesting thing is that the place they are buying IS in a a "plan of lots" and for some reason the it looks like the property boundaries do not extend out as far as the curb. Now there are sidewalks...at first look it seems strange that they would not own out to the curb...
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Hey Bill!

In our neck of the woods.....uh.....in our urbanized area, an individuals property only goes as far as the inside edge of the sidewalk, or in situations where there are no sidewalks, 17' in from the curb line. This is considered public right-of-way so that traffic control signs can be installed, water lines can dug, etc. The adjacent property owner must maintain it, but it is technically public property. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
   / Property survey question... #17  
Hey Henro,
I was just noticing but you have a heck of a lot of posts for a guy that registered a month ago. You must spend a lot of time on that PC! I guess you're retired, right?

Bob
 
   / Property survey question... #18  
<font color="blue"> "you have a heck of a lot of posts for a guy that registered a month ago. You must spend a lot of time on that PC! I guess you're retired, right?" </font>

Now THAT's funny! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I was waiting for someone to say something like this after the mini-crashes caused some long time members to re-register.
 
   / Property survey question... #19  
<font color="blue">( after the mini-crashes caused some long time members to re-register. ) </font>

If he thinks 1385 posts are alot in one month... he should have seen Bill's numbers prior to the "Great Crash of 2003"... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

...Wasn't Bill's total numbers surpassing Bird's of 10,000 ? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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<font color="blue"> ...Wasn't Bill's total numbers surpassing Bird's of 10,000 ? </font>

Only in my imagination! That Bird is a high, fast flyer... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif in my estimation...uncatchable... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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