Surveyor Rant

[kthompson]

dodgeman and coralhead; by your effort to explain from your point of view is appreciated I am sure by all and to me tells you are the professionals who do care. thank you
The worst issue I have had with a survey was when a licensed surveyor was willing to sign off for a person who could not read a map. He put private easement down as country road and decided not to keep the offset in a property line it was easier to just draw it straight. A professional got it taken care of by firming telling the licensed surveyor he was going to face action by what ever board supervises surveyors in our state. He really impressed me. He tracked down proper person in our county to write letter confirming it was easement only and so forth. kt

 

[two_bit_score]

Man, I hope for the sake of a few of y'all that you never have any hot mineral plays hit the area where your property is. You'd go nuts with all the activity of surveyors, thumper trucks, land men knocking on your door, etc.

I'd hate for some of y'all to have to deal with a pipeline company who decides they need to come through a corner of your place. Or worse your neighbor gets a wind lease and turbines are put up which you have to 'put up' with.

Worse I guess, for you would be if you refused to cooperate and the neighbor took the lease and the operator decided to put their battery on the neighbors property or their drilling rig set up 500' from your house.

It would make those two nails seem pretty insignificant in perspective. Not to minimize your serious problem or anything like that, though.


TBS

 

[joefromga]

There has to be a better way but it seems, like many industries, that they are protecting themselves with antiquated practices.

It would be similar to putting up a fence and the fence company telling the neighbors they have to also put a fence along the same line because they aren't allowed to use that existing fence. Which I'm sure happens a lot.

 

[comancheflight]

Had surveyors come across my back property around 20 years ago. They said my corner mark was the last 'good' mark that they could find for some property over 1/4 mIle away.. I have steep spoil banks they were crossing and using machetes they were cutting 10 -15' saplings down..really ticked me off for about a week and then forgot about it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What TBS said...
And if someone else owns the mineral rights and you only own the surface land, they will not only survey your land every which way, they can put well pads on your land and there ain't much you can do about it.