by scsadmin | May 15, 2017 | Surveying Related
We’re all human. We all have the ability to make errors, mistakes, and miscalculations. So what happens when we make mistakes? Who ends up paying? Is it ultimately the client, the surveyor…or hopefully someone else? Hopefully the land surveyor that you trust your...
by scsadmin | Apr 17, 2017 | Surveying Related
If you park your car in my driveway, does that make it my car? If you had a Jaguar, BMW, or Mercedes I’d be only too happy to take them off your hands (assuming they are paid for). But you know as well as I do, that just because it’s on my property, it doesn’t make it...
by scsadmin | Mar 9, 2017 | Surveying Related
The internet has made our lives so much easier. No more going to the courthouse to pull tax records – we can look that information up online!While it’s great to have that information, it can become information overload at our fingertips, which ultimately can be...
by scsadmin | Feb 8, 2017 | Surveying Related
A legal description, also known as a property description, describes a tract of land. This description provides information that a surveyor can use to identify an area of land on the ground. It is the written word that conveys the location of a piece of property....
by scsadmin | Jan 12, 2017 | Surveying Related
In current times, when a developer purchases a large tract of land to subdivide into smaller lots, they typically have to have approval by the county or municipality in which the property is located to divide the tract. Each of those jurisdictions have their own...
by scsadmin | Dec 9, 2016 | Surveying Related
The term encroach is a legal term meaning to trespass upon the property, domain or rights of another. Because it is a legal term, and surveyors are not attorneys, it is not a term that surveyors should use. Our “job” is to advise you of the location of items, not to...
