Pulaski

Agreed. The only experience I have is with land that while semi-rural has clearly defined borders, visible pins, and a well close to the house that it is supplying.

Everyone takes their own risk-reward decisions and under the same circumstances I would take the same decision again. Others might take a different decision.

sir_eccles

Isn't that what title insurance is for?

Tarkak9

Lot and Block usually are easier to determine; but metes and bounds are a whole different ball game! Regardless, its always prudent to verify where the boundaries and improvements are and where they lie.

Not necessarily, depends on the policy and company. Its important to review the exceptions to the policy and exactly know what is and isn't covered/insured and under what circumstances. In essence, title insurance is first and foremost insuring the legal description (ie paper claim), but may/may not insure the physical aspect based upon the legal description. Boundary disputes aren't automatically a title insurance matter and claim .... it is however, a title objection because it isn't what the owner is truly representing and warranting by means of the deed (and what type was used too). That is why its important to do the diligence and resolve matters prior to closing before they potentially become your responsibility!

WEBlue

Hmmm, I wonder why all our surveyors' pins are wooden in this area? State or local variation, maybe. I have never seen a metal/rebar one... they all do have the pink plastic ribbon tied at the top, but they're uniformly wood stakes.

Pulaski

They use wooden ones here to mark the location of the iron ones in the ground.

This CT surveyor refers to iron pins and pipes among other possible survey markers. And this one refers only to iron pins among "other appropriate markers".

I have a sneaking suspicion if you go digging in the woods in your yard, you may find iron pins very close to any wooden survey markers.

WEBlue

I think you must be right, Pulaski. I just mentioned the issue to the husband, and he reminded me we've seen one rebar (not on our property) banged flush into the ground with only the pink plastic ribbon showing underfoot.

But we're puzzled because we were told one 'marker' of our property is an electricity pole--confirmed by a sketch we received in our move-in papers from our realtor & lawyer--and another is a hole etched in our boulder wall. As you say, perhaps the steel rods are located somewhere under both of these....

Pulaski

Utility poles here are routinely placed right at a property corner IME, perhaps even with a pin driven in touching the utility pole. I know of two poles marking corners of my property or a neighbours, another that is likely, and only one of the four that is several feet from an iron pin, perhaps because the pin is in a drainage easement.

It is also the case that older surveys used rocks or stone markers, so there may not be an iron pin if there is a substantial mark in your boulder wall. The Mason-Dixon line was marked with stones, and a few years ago the NC-SC state line was resurveyed. It had been marked with stone markers, and some were 50-100ft off. A gas station "in SC" near Charlotte was found to actually be in NC! ..... The owner was distraught and I am not sure the station survived as it existed primarily to sell cheap SC gas to people who came from NC.

rpjs

Yes, but we do get three garbage pickups a week, including recycling.

And our VFD fire trucks are very shiny indeed.

Pulaski

And you have about 30 municipal school districts in the county IIRC.

Tarkak9

... and perhaps Jimmy Hoffa too!!

WEBlue

I actually heard his body is supposed to be buried somewhere in NJ.... was it under the Pulaski Skyway?

Nutmegger

I always heard that he was eternally a part of the Meadowlands.

Pulaski

That's right, drag my name into it!

RICH

Just got my tax notice in the mail which includes this new gem.

surface water assessment

Pulaski

The local city to me assesses a stormwater tax, I believe based on the amount of impervious area on the property. I believe it is commonly assessed in NC municipalities.