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Our recently (relatively) purchased home in Taylors, which is in an older subdivision, has a wood stake in the ground with a fluorescent ribbon attached. The stake is at the front where the property line would be. The neighbor says that it is the boundary marker that was place by the surveyor.
Is it common practice in SC to use wooden stakes (pine) to mark the corner of a property? Where I come from an iron pipe is common.
My guess is it would depend on the company doing the survey. My neighborhood has always used the wooden stakes and colored ribbon atop. The stakes usually rot out within 1-3 years it seems. Sometimes they'll also tie the ribbons to tree branches along the line (wooded area). I have seen them also put a metal rod in the ground driven down to flush with the ground and then the wooden stake beside that, supposedly to make finding the location easier next time.
The metal stub can be hard to find. I think they do the stakes as a visual. One of my metal stubs is (yikes) under my driveway which was put in when the house was built and I had nothing to do with. [lets talk about encroachments)
That's just a temporary marker. There should be a metal stub, AKA REBAR, in the ground.
The wooden stakes are usually placed right next to the metal pipe.
When we had our survey done, I made a copy and added measurements to locate the metal pipe from other landmarks as well so I can find them later. For example, the front right pipe is so many feet and inches from the road and so many feet and inches from my driveway. The front left pipe is so many inches left of the water meter. The back right pipe is so many inches behind the back fence and so many inches to the right of the side fence. Same thing for the back left pipe in relation to the fence. That map makes it a lot easier to find those pipes again if there is ever any question about the lot line.
The stub can legally be offset too. I have one that's 20 ft off from the actual corner. The corner is in a creek, and any stub or pipe would either get covered quickly or wash away.
That's just a temporary marker. There should be a metal stub, AKA REBAR, in the ground.
As you already know, he is right.
House across the street has those same wooden markers. The surveyors had a really hard time finding some of the stakes of that house.
My home, the metal markers, some are tied from the metal bar to a tree (in woods). The one in the front right corner of my house is under grass, 1" from my neighbors driveway.
When I purchased my home I had a survey done and made sure to take pictures of all the markers and their location. The ones that had a ribbon placed on them, 7 1/2 years later, I can still see the ribbon, and it still has color on it. They never put wood stakes.
The subdivision recorded plat will have a note on there that tells what the surveyor set for property corners. Some states require the licensed surveyor that signs and stamps the plat to put a cap on the rebar that has his license number on it.
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