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Reasons to Get a New Land Survey

What is a land surveyor? A surveyor has the tools and experience to provide mapping and boundary services to property owners. They provide plans, maps, property boundaries for construction, remodeling, title insurance, and other real estate projects.

The surveyor researches titles and documents to obtain an accurate description of your land. They may also research neighboring property documents for any problems or conflicts. Next, they obtain physical measurements from the property. These measurements are compared to the records on file to check for any problems and verify any disputes.

A land surveyor will use various methods to determine boundaries, including electronic equipment, photo mapping, GPS positioning, measuring tape, and may even employ an old-fashioned compass to give accurate measurements.

Costs for a land survey can vary. It depends on how much work is involved to research records, the size and scale of the project and the land itself, the time of year, weather, and how many visits are required for complete and accurate comparisons. The more effort required, the more it can cost.

Reasons to Get a New Land Survey:

From the website Colorado Professional Land Surveyors: “In recent years, few and fewer property buyers are getting a professional land survey done. This is due, in large part, from advice from real estate professionals, mortgage companies, and title insurance companies.

Simply because a mortgage company or title insurance company does not require a survey for their underwriting requirements, that doesn’t mean they are looking out for the best interest of the buyer of the property or the seller for that matter. Buyers and sellers should be aware of matters that could adversely effect the title, marketability, or value of their property.

Many new home buyers are relying upon old outdated surveys to evaluate survey matters. This is unwise. An old survey is certified to the seller, not to the buyer. Therefore, the new buyer should not rely on the old survey for obvious reasons of assurance and liability. A new survey should be conducted and certified to the buyer. A new survey will address encroachments onto and off of the property, access to and from a public right-of-way. A current survey will identify and locate new structures, fences, walls and additions. A new land survey will also identify recent, missing, destroyed and erroneous property corners. Flood hazard areas will also be delineated, as they relate to the subject property and the improvements.

A recent development has property owners signing a survey affidavit as a substitute for a survey for the new buyer. This practice puts the homeowner (or seller) in an awkward position of certifying an old survey, and stating that there have not been any changes since the date of the old land survey. These homeowners have been persuaded into signing the so-called affidavit do not have any way to determine if the old survey is correct, much less a way to identify any changes or if there was an error. Nor do the sellers know what matters and to what standards a survey should be conducted for a survey to be correct. This practice might also put the seller in a position of covering up and not disclosing issues in order to save some money.

The request for the survey affidavit usually comes from a title insurance company for their motivation of shedding liability. The seller, by signing the affidavit, assumes the survey related responsibility. The buyer, in turn has no assurance or recourse if there are survey related matters that adversely affects the marketability and value of the property. The buyer cannot seek recourse from the title company, because they usually take exception to survey related matters and any matters that a ‘correct’ survey would disclose. The only course of action would be to seek damages from the past seller of the property.

All parties should also be aware is that a survey is an original creation and is protected under the federal copyright laws. Any unauthorized reproduction of an old survey can result in a lawsuit. The original survey is certified to the original homeowner and is not transferable. A third party cannot rely upon an old survey. A new survey should be conducted and specifically certified to the new buyer. Also the Tennessee Real Estate Commission recently noted, ‘if the surveys given to prospects are not accurate, a court could hold (real estate) licensees liable for providing a party with misinformation.’

In conclusion, buyers of real property should have a new survey conducted. Those buyers who do not have a new land survey will be purchasing property without reliable information as to encroachments, overlaps, boundary line disputes and other matters that might be disclosed by an accurate survey of the property by a registered professional land surveyor.”

Ludlow Engineering and Land Surveying provides a variety of surveys.  Here we believe in having our hands on the projects ourselves.  Nation wide service companies hire out or look for registered land surveyors that do the work for them in the specific location that the work is performed.  Here we have our hands, ears and eyes on every single project we do.

We provide Surveys ion the Following Areas:

• ALTA/ASCM Land Surveys
• Boundary and Property Line Surveys
• As-built Commercial and Residential Surveys
• Cell Tower Surveys
• Topography Surveys
• Construction Staking and much, much, more.

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Utah Land Surveying

Types of Land Surveys

Land surveyors are involved in the task of measuring the boundaries of the land, making maps, creations of legal description about the land they even plan for the development of the land. This article deals with the different types of the land surveys present in the market that can help you determining the boundaries of your land.

Boundary survey

The survey which reveals the corners of the property and the property lines of a piece of a land is referred to as a boundary survey. They are usually undertaken to obtain the building permits, to settle the disputes related to the property and for the purpose of erecting the fences. This survey is considered to be the basic survey to be undertaken in the initial stages of the property.

Cadastral survey

Cadastral survey is the name referred for the original survey, resurvey of the lands belonging to the public under the Public land survey system for the purpose of the re-establishment of the property lines.

Construction Survey

The survey which is being undertaken at the time of the construction in order to have control over the elevation, the dimensions of the place are referred to as construction survey. In short this kind of survey is undertaken during the construction of the land.

Control Survey

Control survey facilitates information on the horizontal and the vertical points that determine the boundaries of the place. Further the output facilitated by this survey helps in the aerial view of the photographs.

Court Exhibit or Judicial Survey

This survey is useful in court room for the purpose of registration. This survey involves the analysis of the various legal descriptions and maps; it also involves the cross checking of the different fields located in the description and the actual, the monuments and the physical aspects of the place and all this information has to be presented in a visual exhibit so that it could be used in the court room with ease. This survey is referred with different names in different areas like in some areas it is referred as Torrens or judicial land marks (JLM’s) or Judicial Monument (JM’s) or Judicial Marker.

Elevation or Floodplain Survey

This survey is conducted to estimate the altitude of the various sections of the building or the land. The results derived from this survey are often used in building plans and it also helps in determining whether the property is in flood zone or not.

Geodetic Survey

This survey takes in consideration the curvature of the earth and other astronomic observations for the determination of the boundaries.

Hydrographic and Underwater Surveys

These surveys collect data on the water bodies, they provide details regarding depth of water, the contours, the direction and the velocity of the current, the place where the immovable objects are located in the under waters.

Lot split survey

These surveys are needed when a piece of land has to be divided in two or three pieces.

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Land Surveyors Payson, Utah

If you are from Payson, Utah and are looking to have your property surveyed – Then turn to Ludlow Engineering.  Ludlow Engineering has been land surveyors in the Utah County area for over 30 years.

Understanding the details is critical when you perform land surveys in a particular location.

Why to go in for land surveys?

In this article,  we are going to deal with what are some of the reasons for which a land survey  has to be conducted. A land surveyor may be an individual/firm/company who has  the specialized tools and experience in providing the mapping, boundary  services to the property owners. They are well known for providing plans, maps,  and property boundaries for construction, remodeling, title insurance and some  of the other real estate projects. Land surveying is the first and foremost  requirement for the purchase of any property. The surveyor is the one who  researches the different title and the documents so as to obtain an accurate  description for your land. They also need to research the property of the  neighbor so as to arrive on an analysis of their client’s property. This  enables them to take away any scope of conflicts or problems. They are also  known to obtain the physical measurements of the property, these measurements  are inturn analyzed to compare the records on the file so as to check for any  discrepancies and avoid any kind of conflicts.

There are  different specialized equipments that a land surveyor is known to use like for  the determination of the boundary surveys, it is important to note that he  makes use of electronic equipment, photo mapping, GPS positioning, measuring  tape and they can even use a historical compass to yield accurate measurements.  The cost of land survey varies on the type of survey you undertake. This  however depends on the kind of work that is been undertaken for research, the  size and scale of the project and the property in itself, the period in which  the survey is taking place, the weather conditions, what is the number of  visits that are required to fulfill the desired results and the accurate  comparisons of the present data and the future results. It is very important to  note the basic fact that the cost of the survey depends on the kind of work  that is required to be undertaken.

There are a number of reasons why many people resort  to get a new land survey. Researches have shown that there are few property  buyers who are getting the professional buyers. This is just because of the  simple reason that the mortgage companies or the title insurance companies do  not require the survey results for their underwriting issues, but it is our  duty to understand the basic fact that this could have an adverse impact on our  title, marketability and the even the value of our property. There are many  homeowners who are relying on the outdated practices to evaluate the survey  matters, however this is unwise. The results of an old survey should be  definitely certified for a seller but they are not acceptable by a new buyer.  Hence it is important that the new buyer should not rely on old surveys for  many obvious reasons. A new survey has to be conducted and certified to the  buyer. A new survey has the capability to identify recent, missing, destroyed  and erroneous property corners. It is important to remember that the survey  affidavit should not be signed, this puts him in an awkward position that they  need to sign and approve the results of the old survey. All the parties need to  be aware that the survey is an original creation and it is protected by the  federal copyright laws. Hence it is important that a new survey has to be  conducted; otherwise the purchase of the property is without much of evidence.