Question about land survey

[Skyco]

It came to mind about surveyors being on someone's land without permission-
the county where I have my land in NC sent out a property assessor last year. We captured pics of him on our automated game cameras. Bothered me until I figured out he wasn't just an ordinary trespasser, but still don't like the idea of someone on my posted land without notice. For one thing we sometimes take outdoor showers at our camp there in nice weather since we don't have inside plumbin', sure don't expect someone to maybe walk up on us:shocked:

Do ya'll think the county should notify a property owner when they will be sending someone out to "inspect" things?

As a humerous aside- the county sent us a notice they had found a "violation" when the assessor visited- we had an outbuilding not on the property tax rolls. I said- you mean the building you charged me $200 for a permit for and had the county building inspector look it over when finished? That building? The building you now claim you knew nothing about, does your left hand communicate with your right hand?:confused2:

 

[tallyho8]

I built a building on a piece of property where the code calls for an 8' setback. An advance survey was required to show the inspectors where the building would be located.

The surveyor set 4 stakes where the 4 corners of the building would be and we built the forms for the slab right up to those stakes.

Upon completion of the building, another survey is required to show that the building was built in the proper place. The same survey company sent a different surveyor out whose survey showed that the building was only 7' from the property line.

When I phoned the survey company with this dilemma, they said they made a mistake and would correct it. They promptly sent me a new survey showing the building was 8' from the property line and I used this survey to get my completion certificate.

To this day I do not know whether the first surveyor or the second surveyor had the right measurements.

 

[dmccarty]

Unfortunately, the drawings can be correct and the actual building still sited incorrectly.

True but the inspector should be comparing the site drawing with the foundation and property line location. They sure did with us. AND the bank required a survey to verify the proper location of the house. Which kinda irked me. Not that we had to have the survey but that I found out after wards. Otherwise we would have had the survey company lay out they house in the first place.

The builder sited in the foundation lines and was off by about 5 degrees from the true East/West line I wanted! Can you believe it! 5 whole degrees.

Our builder suddenly passed away last week. Good Guy and a Good Friend. Not many people can call their builder a friend. Especially after the house is built. I liked to kid him about the house being off by 5 degrees. :laughing:

One of our neighbors tried to build a large fence on our land. If he had just talked to me before hand it would have saved him some trouble. He go lucky in that I was home with the flu and saw what was happening and walked over with a compass and survey in hand. I told him his fence was going on my land and offered him the survey and compass to check for himself. It was like I tried to hand him some alien technology.

Thankfully I had had the line survey a few year prior to keep a septic filed from being built on my land. When the survey was done I had the put in an extra pin between the corners. That pin convinced the neighbor to move the fence posts. If I had not been home he would have had to move the fence and posts.

Later,
Dan

 

[Redbug]

The painting on the trees should not have been done... especially without permission, in my opinion. Those guys should have used survey tape on the trees instead. I think it shows bad judgment of the survey crew.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

People get touchy about land issues, check out this article from yesterday.

washingtonpost.com

3 dead, 4 wounded in shootout in central Virginia - wtop.com

This guy shoots his son and nephew in a family fight over land.

 

[two_bit_score]

All that? So I'm supposed to look at dayglo stripes (as far as I'm concerned- it is graffiti) for years- that don't belong there in the middle of my property on my trees? Not that I need to explain myself about my land but this is a piece of beautiful mountain property and the internal line is next to my pond where we do lots of wildlife photography. The neighborhood watering hole, so to speak, for- deer, turkey, raccoons, and bear. Still trying to catch a pic of the coyote I know are in the area.

I suppose if someone painted graffiti on your land or house, or maybe dumped trash on your land, you'd be ok with that and just leave it? :confused3:

It's a long way from survey markings to graffitti. But maybe they went too far. Could you post the pics you have of that graffitti - survey marking?

 

[dave1949]

The painting on the trees should not have been done... especially without permission, in my opinion. Those guys should have used survey tape on the trees instead. I think it shows bad judgment of the survey crew.

I agree. It's not unusual for surveyors to have lots of orange, red or blue ribbons marking a first cut at a boundary around here. But dayglo paint seems a bit too much on adjoining lands. The vinyl plastic ribbons are easy to remove and will rot off or get stretched to the breaking point by tree growth eventually.
Dave.

 

[dave1949]

People get touchy about land issues, check out this article from yesterday.

washingtonpost.com

3 dead, 4 wounded in shootout in central Virginia - wtop.com

This guy shoots his son and nephew in a family fight over land.

Yikes, 1.5 acres with an older trailer home - deeded to five heirs? 23 previous calls to sheriff's dept.? Seven people shot with three dead? Pitbull sicced on deputy? These aren't 'touchy' people, they are mental cases.
Dave.

 

[forgeblast]

With the gas drilling going on in our area there are a lot of flags and posts around.
For us
the orange/white are where they are going to drill and blast to get the ground picture.
the pink/white are where they are going to put the sonophones.
the blue/white i think is where the "block" is...i think its 200 acre square.

so if you see these popping up its for drilling.

 

[dmccarty]

I have 10 acres in the NC mountains. It was originally a 9 acre piece and a 1 acre piece. A couple of years ago we went up there and someone had surveyed the boundary line between my two pieces, nothing else. Really ticked me off cause they spray painted dayglo orange stripes on my trees. I went and bought some gray and brown paint and painted over all their marks on my trees.

Can't believe they painted the trees. Every survey crew I have seen around my area uses flagging. It is cheaper, faster and lasts longer. I bought a case of flagging 10 years ago and still have plenty left.

Some of the flagging put up well over 10 years ago can still be found. And if I look carefully on the ground I can often find the flagging after it has fallen off the trees.

I paint my boundry trees with orange paint to make it easier to see the line AND to make it real obvious to others were the line is located. That paint fades out quickly though and I have to repaint every year. Trespassers can pull down a sign but they cannot pull down the paint. It takes longer to paint a tree than put up flagging.

I have heard of potential buyers paying for a survey of land before the owner has even been approached about a sale. And the surveyors have left a bunch of pins and flags on the INSIDE of the property. In the story I heard it sounded like a developer was subdividing the land before he owned it.

Later,
Dan