Re: Hiring a surveyor ?

Posted by Screaminghollow on March 06, 2002 at 01:02:52 from (63.222.194.96):

In Reply to: Hiring a surveyor ? posted by Rod MI on March 05, 2002 at 23:34:46:

Surveyors in most states have to be licensed. When you look up some surveyors in your area call the state licensing area and ask whether they have been subject of complaints or suspensions etc. Not every state agency will tell you. Check with the better business bureau. Check with some local contractors to see who they use.
How cooperative is your neighbor along that boundary. If the two of you can talk, you might be able to agree where the line is. Even if you still want it surveyed, you can save expenses by clearing the brush along the line yourself. The neighbor my be happy to let you clear along both sides of the line by a few feet, because you are paying to survey his line too. The surveyors will most likely need to triangulate from another corner of your property to make sure they have the proper beginning point, so make sure some other corners of your property are cleared of brush, etc. so there is a clear sight line. If the area is wooded, you may want the job down before leaves come out on the trees and shrubs, less time spent clearing the sight lines.
I would suggest that you ask the surveyor to put monuments or substantial iron pins at each end of the line as well as every 150 or 200 feet. I suggest 3/4 inch rebar, 4foot long driven down into the ground along the boundary. leave only about four inches above ground. I had a boundary dispute with one of my neighbors. The line had been surveyed three times in twenty years, but the markers kept "jumping around", always a hundred feet or so into my property. It is against the law to remove survey stakes in this state, but the neighbor figured he could gain a few acres at my expense, by moving the stakes. I had the rebar put in every 100 feet along a 1,400 foot straight property line. Even if he moves the corner stake, the line pins will still align with the corner. In the woods, the only way to find the stakes is with a metal detector. Since the border war has now calmed down, I've gone back and driven 6 foot t-posts into the ground in between each of the rebar pins. I pounded them so deep that only about two feet sticks out of the ground. The t-posts are just low enough that the commercial pullers are too high to get a grip on them. It was expensive to have the rebar put in every 100 feet, but unfortunately, necessary.

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