question on property and surveys


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Wondering if anyone here can answer a question for me on cutting a tract of land. Is there any way to deed out a piece of a property without getting it surveyed?

If not, how much on average are surveys running nowadays? Say for two lines, one unobstructed about 75 yards, and one through a woods partially about 250 yards.

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Wondering if anyone here can answer a question for me on cutting a tract of land. Is there any way to deed out a piece of a property without getting it surveyed?

If not, how much on average are surveys running nowadays? Say for two lines, one unobstructed about 75 yards, and one through a woods partially about 250 yards.

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You can get a surveyor to draw up a legal description for the piece of property you want cut out. ( Without having to actually do any field work)

If you can't find a surveyor willing to do this for a nominal fee, then you would have to have the entire piece of property surveyed in order to cut out that smaller portion. This is required by most mortage companies/banks/title companies. The reason for having to get the entire piece surveyed is because you have to know where all the boundary lines are in order to remove a piece of it. And then you have to show what is left.

( My father is a land surveyor, I'm the office manager)

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Thanks Andrea. So if I am understanding you correctly here, I could have it mapped with a surveyor without them physically coming out and plotting it and have an attorney deed it out right? The transaction will either be cash or owner financed by my retired neighbor if we do it, so banks or mortgage companies would not be involved.

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Yes, that's right. We've done it before. However, if he plans to put up a fence then you'd need to know where the boundaries are on the ground.

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Yep. You could have the parcel physically mapped/documented by heading and dimension by sitting at a desk with a calculator and protractor (not even needed, really). A surveyor could, then, later demarcate the boundaries of the new parcel and the remainder of the original one. But, like Andrea sez.........you have any plans to do anything on the newly divided parcel..........better have pins driven. wink.gif

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you have any plans to do anything on the newly divided parcel..........better have pins driven

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Fence is already there. This is a good neighbor, would not ever foresee any problems. Primary reason for the property being cut is so it can change hands and we can acquire it from him. It would not be done anything with aside from being hunted so long as we continue to own the property.

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you have any plans to do anything on the newly divided parcel..........better have pins driven

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Fence is already there. This is a good neighbor, would not ever foresee any problems. Primary reason for the property being cut is so it can change hands and we can acquire it from him. It would not be done anything with aside from being hunted so long as we continue to own the property.

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You may want to check with your county's property appraiser and inquire about any local laws/requirements also.

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One thing you might want to check is to see if you have any property pins left on the original piece you want to cut up. If you don't then you will have to have a survey done to restore the original boundary so that the surveyor knows exactly what he's cutting the new tract from. There's sometimes quite the difference between actual measured courses and the ones described. Also like Andrea said check with the local county/city and make sure that the original tract can even be divided into another tract. I know around here if you don't have "X" amount of acres the local governments aren't permitting further splits. Just some ideas to toss around.

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This is a 35 acre tract total, what will be cut out will be what I would guess would be around 25 acres or so of woods, and a short piece in the front giving us a little more road frontage. The goal would be to go from one exisiting boundary line where my property joins to the other existing line on the other side of the neighbors property.

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