Ludlow Engineering and Land Survey

I decided to write a quick blog about an application that I used recently which is a fantastic tool for any lawyer or law firm that closes real estate transactions. Its called The Conveyancer and its offered by a company called Do Process.

The Conveyancer is the ultimate deal closing database for real-estate lawyers. It offers functionality that saves time and improves your administrative efficiency.

Not only is it easy to use and enables you to produce your closing documents more efficiently, but it also:

1. Enables you to import and export data from Teraview greatly reducing manual data entry!

2. Populate your title insurance documents (the 4 major title insurers) also greatly reducing manual data entry!

3. Provides you with point and click access to 12 secondary databases that help you maintain contacts such as major financial institutions, municipalities, insurance brokers, mortgage brokers, surveyors, lawyers and law firms (that are The Conveyancer users) and more. Again reducing your data entry!

It also improves communication with the other side of the real-estate transaction when they to are a user of The Conveyancer. You can message the other side for missing information on your file and when they respond, the data automatically updates the matching record in your system! This software even does all the math for you – from your trust ledger, to land transfer tax and rebate calculations!

They offer a 30 day trial and unlike most other software applications you can start off by trying it out on a deal by deal basis before making the commitment to purchase, or to mass import your firms data into the software. If you take advantage of the trial, click on the secondary databases button and check out the Solicitors Database to see how many other lawyers also use The Conveyancer. You might be surprised.

I can say without a doubt that making this application part of your workflow will make your staff so efficient that the benefits far outweigh the negligible cost associated to purchasing the application. The only thing I am unsure of is if the 30 day trial is a promo or on all the time so if you are interested I recommend visiting www.doprocess.com or contact (416) 322-6111.

About the Author:
Assure Assess Corp. is the leading provider of services to law firms, accounting firms, trustees, financial institutions, government and some private enterprise.

Assure Assess has a presence both in Canada and the US and has three primary divisions: Communications, Financial Services and Technology Solutions.

ALTA Property Title Survey Directors

These are controllers and/or provider of American Land Title Association (ALTA) Surveys across the continental United States to be used in real estate transactions. They will efficiently manage single-site and multi-site transactions, and facilitate the actual co-ordination of surveyors, title, ordering, process, product and delivery.

The ALTA Survey is a in depth map of the property showing all present enhancements of the property, utilities, and substantial observations within the insured property. The survey details the surveyor’s findings in regards to the property limits and how it relates to title. Additionally, it delineates or makes note of all easements as well as exceptions reported inside the title commitment pertaining to insurance of the collateralized party. The survey may also display zoning and flood zone restrictions or areas indicating possible future use of the property. The ALTA survey is a combination of a boundary survey, title survey, and a location survey.

Title Insurers have specific needs related to title insurance matters, and when asked to provide an insurance policy without any exception relating to survey matters, a set of rules was developed between members of ALTA and surveyors. These regulations govern the content of all ALTA surveys and therefore are denoted in the “2005 minimum standard detail requirements for ALTA/ACSM land title surveys” as adopted by American Land Title Association and National Society of Professional Surveyors.

Many real estate transactions, that have a lender along with a buyer, are concerned in regards to the existing conditions and the future use of the properties to which the purchaser is obtaining. The lender and also purchaser require knowledge of any restriction, encumbrances, and benefits to which the property retains. The ALTA Survey provides a map of the existing improvements of the property and accounts the concerns noted above. Their services consist of examination of the initial draft of survey map to meet the standard and optional 2005 ALTA specifications of the project along with adherence to the actual format, and they’ll remit comments to the surveyor for revising. They may also perform inspection of revisions of survey map to meet Clients or other transaction parties as affirmed by Client, and remit comments to surveyor for revision as necessary.The inspection process ensures quality and conformity of survey with a significant reduction of confusion and queries later.

National ALTA Survey Co-ordination is really a required program as well as one that can be very demanding. Leave it up to the professionals to help you today.

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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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