Survey

We are getting ready to finalize our floorplan so the next step is going to be getting an engineered storm water drainage plan (i.e. just another way to pay money), engineered septic design, and an abbreviated site plan.  In order to begin that process, we need to know our exact property boundries.

We only have a neighbor, Steve, to our west and an easement on the east.  I talked with Steve and see where an old marker was but Steve said the property line was at a completely different bearing than what I was seeing on the county parcel map.  So, I had to call a surveyor (more $$) to come out and officially mark our property.  Well it turns out that Steve was probably using a bearing that was lined up from a corner stake and a surveyor marker (just a reference point, nothing more) which is definitely not on the right bearing.

Setting up equipment

Bushwhacking to set official line markers

The surveyor, Jeff, was a super nice guy and was out there for a couple hours getting everything marked out so we now have official property boundries and corner markers to take measurements for the site plan.

Once the weather clears, John and I will mark out our rear property line where we are adjacent.  The great thing is that we don't have to worry about our rear neighbors encroaching and building a fence since we will be sharing access to the 10 acres.

East property line staked

West property line staked

Now that we have the official line, good news and bad news!!

Good news is that we got back about 30' width that we weren't absolutely sure if we owned or not. 

Bad news is that we got alot more area to clear underbrush in the front part of the property.  :-)