When's It Appropriate -- If Ever -- To Have Your Property Resurveyed?

[BirdieBelle]

...unless some major development is heading your way and she wants to sell for profit.

Have you checked with the local planning commission?

[ansible90]

Is this neighbor a senior citizen? Could have applied for a reverse mortgage, which might require a new survey?

[cully]

All good reasons. (We had to do it to prove we were NOT in the flood plain when FEMA said we were...based on a flyover, of course.)

How about your neighbor? Have you seen her lately? Maybe she has passed on and an heir or bank is surveying.

Perhaps someone has asked her about an easement. Maybe someone is buying some land, say, behind her...whether several acres to farm or subdivide, that is landlocked and is asking for some of her land or for an easement.

Any easement...utilites, whatever. Is she at the end or start of a run of homes? Maybe a cable or utility company needs to update the survey to see just who owns what in the area they'll be digging.

You might ask if everything is okay because you saw someone walking between your properties the other day.

Curious, though. Let us know if you find out.

[Ted Bear]

Plenty of good reasons already listed. I redid a survey to ensure that the markers were accurate so I could add some flower gardens and make sure they were on my property.

Turns out I was pretty close.

But the guy next door thought, what the heck, while they are here, I will have them mark my corners. Turns out his yard extended ten feet into the space where his neighbor was mowing. This pattern continued for three lots, until the third guy didn't have a rectangular lot at all, but had a pie shaped piece of property which was a LOT smaller than what he was mowing, and using.

It all started innocently by us just wanting to make sure were we on our property....it ended with quite a series of "omg, I didn't know that is where my property line is".

Some times people are just "curious" and "uncertain" and a fresh survey gives them piece of mind.