When a Property Survey Reveals an Unrecorded Easement Before Construction Begins
You hired a surveyor. The survey comes back. And there, running across part of your lot, sits an easement nobody told you about. It isn’t in your building plans. It wasn’t in the file your architect worked from. For anyone planning a build, that finding is worth sorting out before the first shovel goes in […]
Find Property Lines Before Updating an Older Yard
Before you change an older yard, it pays to find property lines first. The side of the house is usually the tightest strip on the whole lot. Small updates there can turn into big problems if the layout is off. Why Narrow Side Yards Create More Questions Than Front or Back Yards Side yards raise […]
When a Surveyor for Fence Projects Encounters Encroachments From Decades Ago
An old fence can hide a real problem. In Atlanta, where many neighborhoods have lots platted decades ago, a fence line put in during the 1960s or 1970s often no longer matches the actual boundary on record. When a homeowner calls a surveyor for fence work, that old fence sometimes turns into the main issue […]