When To Hire A Surveying Company For Your Land Or Property

When you own a piece of land you plan to develop or build on, knowing where the property boundaries are is critical. Land surveying can help you determine the boundaries and any details that are important to the land use, and land surveying can also help create official records that you may need later or alter the deed if necessary.

Determining Boundaries

One of the most common reasons to hire a land surveying service is to determine the boundaries or property lines of a plot of land. Often this happens when there is a question about where the property line is or if you feel an adjacent land owner is using land over the boundary. 

Some land titles and surveys are so old and have been uncontested for so long that it is hard to tell where the lines are. If the owner before you allowed the neighbor to use the land over the property lines, the situation needs remedying, or the land could be subject to a change in ownership because they have used it for a specific time period. 

The land surveying company can quickly determine the property lines and put in markers that clearly define where your property starts and ends. The process can take some work, but if there is any question or concern about the boundaries, the land survey will clear things up.

Land Sales

Buying or selling land requires you to clearly understand where the property starts and ends and what features are on the property that may affect development or construction. If the land has a lake, river, or pond in the middle, it could be challenging to use for your intended project. 

Often larger plots of land take more time for the land surveying service to mark out, but they are also the plots that may have hidden features in wooded areas or parts of the property you have never visited. It is essential to complete the land survey before any legal transfer of ownership or construction begins to ensure you are not damaging something like wetlands or changing a river's flow through the land, no matter how small it is. 

Identifying Easements Or Roads

If the land has an existing easement or an abandoned road, you need to know where it is. Changing ownership does not automatically change the right of access through an easement, even if it has no longer in use.

The easement or road must remain in place unless the access is renegotiated and the deed changed. The land surveying service can mark out the easement for you and allow you the time necessary to make the legal changes necessary to remove the easement.  

For more information, contact a land surveying service near you.

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