OT-How to find property lines

you didn't mention how far apart the corners are or if the line was clear would you have clear line of site (no hills or hollers)..

If they are close enough... and you have access to a transit, or good binoculars or a rifle scope.... anything that you can get a magnified view with... hopefully there is one place you can see through... even if it's only 1' square... have someone hold something bright colored on one corner and search for it from the other... you can also get in the middle of the line (or where you think it is) and try to find one end then the other... a little brush cutting might do the trick.. You might have to have something tall (a 20' piece of 2x2 nailed together...with a flag to wave on one corner to see from the other... when you locate it by site... sharpen your bush axe or machete and start clearing... I'd hold off cutting large trees till I could get a good line of site :-)

Surveyors USED to cut true line, trees and all, but now a days they use coordinates and don't even need line to set the corners...

I surveyed for 20 years with my dad, a RLS.. sometimes you have to use compass readings and just correct when you find the other end...

john

Inlaws have a property with the meets and bounds from tree to tree, creek to creek, vague radius descriptions and such. In their case, there is no precise and clear way to define the line.

Led

My son is just now going thru something simular. He had a house built 3yrs ago and the contractor built his 8ft high block fence 18" on another property.

Here in AZ, the survey doesn't mean anything until you record the survey with the county. If the survey is not contested with-in 1yr? (gees I can't remember) after recorded then the survey stands as recorded even if the survey if off the true property line.

There was a cavet to recording the survey tho. I'll have to ask...lol

As it is the son has to move 150ft of block fence plus the new survey (surveyor wasn't a registered contractor nor the fence builder) about $5k total.

T_Bone

A quick story, since 1810 my family has owned a piece of property in the western part of the state. OVer 200 people in 2 families have died and another 3 dozen have gone to prison over which side of a rock the boundary is on. Reason being is that land was granted from North Carolina Colony and Virgina Colony in the Kentucky 'wilderness' before any were states. These rocks are the basis for deeds today and they conflict.

Even state law doesnt always help. Here, where I live I am trying to get an access road open to the back of the farm. It was a county road however property is commonly deeded here to the center of the road. One state law says if a road isnt maintained by the county for 5 years it goes out of the county road system, another says that if it is access for a landowner it must be maintained by the county. All I want is to get it up to county specs and am willing to pay the entire cost. One guy pulled a gun on the dozer operator. Mimimum cost to open the road will be $50,000 in legal fees.

In bright sunlight we could use the laser for about 250�, and at dusk it was easy to see for almost 1000�. We made up a double ended one to go 500 in the sunlight�. The green lasers are easer to see over a large distance in sunlight. Our land is flat. It gently slopes down about 15� in a half mile.

When we reached the corner marker we were off just a couple of feet, so went back along the route and opened up the brush a little more and stretched a string. One more time through whacking at anything touching the string and we had the line marked for the rough clearing.

After the line was cleared (16� on our side) we had the surveyor come out to place points on line for fencing at their hourly charge. With the line cleared they could drive down it, and walk along without having to whack brush all of the way. The cost was MUCH less, If you figure in the cost of the clearing the total is just a bit more than the surveyor would have charged to just mark the line in the heavy brush we had.

It was very nice being able to tell one of the neighbors that thought their property went 30� � 50� further than it really did to have their surveyor contact our surveyor. Since he thought we were clearing on his land he was VERY upset, but remained civil in our conversation. Found out their surveyor had just measured from the ditch on the road, while their property line went down the center of the private road. Their surveyor was not much of a surveyor in my opinion.

The neighbor is a good one as he apologized. I truly believe in the old saying good fences make good neighbors. After our experiences with our 21 neighbors, I would not own a piece of land that was not cleared along the property line and fenced. It solves so many problems.

• Here is what we did.

let me know what yall think