Boundary & Existing Conditions Survey

The Boundary Portion:

• We'll determine your boundary lines of record. Record means your deed, or your lot in a subdivision, on paper. Where it's "supposed" to be.
• We then find actual physical boundary evidence in the field. This will be not just on YOUR lot, but on all the properties that touch your lot. It’s not just YOUR lot line; you share that invisible boundary with your neighbor. The idea is to be sure everything 'fits' together properly, with no encroachments from one property onto another.
• We reconcile the found boundary evidence with the written legal boundaries of your lot We protect YOUR land rights, while not throwing the neighborhood into disarray. Are the “found lot corners’ where they’re supposed to be? Not always!
• While you are our client, we must honor the Boundary, even if it is not in your favor.

Click HERE if you want a deep dive White Paper on what we do for our Boundary Surveys.

The Existing Conditions Portion. We will:

• Locate your existing house, driveway, landscaping & other man-made improvements on your lot.
• Locate the roadway at your lot frontage & visible utilities.
• Locate the existing finish floor (FF) and roof ridge elevations of your house.
• Locate your neighbors’ driveways. There are County & City requirements for this & we know them in detail.
• Locate parts of your neighbors’ houses if they are within certain distance limits. This makes sure they are not encroaching onto your lot or into a shared utility, drainage, or other important easements.
• We recommend surveying the details of the entire lot or parcel. It’s good to have all or alternate options if your plans change. If we survey the entire lot, it saves time & money to go back for more information later. Going back for more information later is expensive.

What does “Locate” mean? It means we use our survey instruments to accurately measure where a certain item is on the ground, then depict it on your survey map.

Click HERE for an example map.