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Alabama Land Surveying Serving Clanton, Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, Hope Hull, Pike Road, Wetumpka & Autauga, Elmore, Chilton, Lowndes, Montgomery and surrounding Counties

Posted on March 27, 2018 by AL_LandApril 5, 2019

Welcome to Alabama Land Surveying, for a Land Surveyor in Clanton, Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, Hope Hull, Pike Road, or Wetumpka. Alabama Land Surveying services in the following couties: Autauga, Elmore, Chilton, Lowndes, Montgomery or surrounding Counties.

Alabama Land Surveying is a web site dedicated to help, you, the Property Owner better understand how an Alabama Land Surveyor performs his work, along with some of the different types of surveys.

Our surveyors have been involved in the Land Surveying Industry for over 30+ years of land surveying. This acquired knowledge, insight and ability isn’t something you learn in a book or class, but gained thru years of experience of dealing with a lot of different, adverse and varied surveying situations.

If you need help with property issues or need a Land Surveyor, hire a competent, licensed Alabama Land Surveyor. Call us at 334-826-9540 or fill out our Contact Form.

Alabama Land Surveying – Easements | Land Surveying | Land Surveyor

Posted on February 8, 2018 by AL_LandApril 5, 2019

Easements

Glen Tanner, PLS

Alabama Land Surveying isn't always as it seems.Land Surveyors and property owner take for granted that the Lawyers and Title Company do their job and they search for easements and right-of-way that may affect the property being bought or sold, that such information is put on the deed or brought to the Surveyors attention This may be true and it may not be. It all has to do with how far back you research for easements and right-of-ways. Do you research back one or two of the most recent deeds recorded or do you go back 10, 15 years, maybe 20 years to look for easements or right-of-ways, some maybe 50 or 60 years old.
I believe it was 1984 a man hired a Land Surveyor to survey his 30 to 35 acres and divide it into 2 parcels. In 1985 the man sold or gave his daughter and her husband one of the parcels, at closing a twenty five foot wide easement for egress and ingress was added, at the bottom of the deed, by the attorney. The easement ran along the north property line from a one acre tract of land to the paved road.
In 1992 the new owner hired the Land Surveyor that originally surveyed the property to cut out a one acre parcel in the NE corner of his property. The Surveyor having being the one that subdivided the property already had all the information necessary to do his job. The Surveyor proceeded to do what his client asked and prepared a survey and description. Property owner knowing of the easement for egress and ingress never mentioned it. It never was added to survey.
About 2000 the Property owner sold the one acre to a Home Builder. The Home builder bought the one acre without a Title Search and was given a copy of the 1992 survey. The Seller never told the Home builder about the TWENTY FIVE FOOT EASEMENT going thru the one acre. Two years later the Home builder secured a loan and built a house on the one acre. A year later the Home builder sold the house and gave the new owner a copy of the 1992 survey. The new deed was prepared with no mention of a twenty five foot easement. Around 2005 a new loan was taken out on the one acre parcel and a new survey made, still no mention of a TWENTY FIVE FOOT EASEMENT on the new deed.
In 2011, I was hired to survey the original parcel that the one acre had been surveyed out of; there was no evidence of a drive or any easement running along the north line. No evidence that it ever existed. The land that the easement is for had their drive going thru the adjacent property and not the dedicated easement, when asked about the easement and if it was vacated. His reply was; “No it wasn’t ever put in and never was vacated, and that the easement was added to the deed at the last minute when he and his wife got the property from her father.” He continued; “We never worried about it since it wasn’t used and no one ever put in a drive.”
The TWENTY FIVE FOOT EASEMENT FOR EGRESS AND INGRESS missed the house located on the one acre by two feet. There is still NO MENTION on the deed of the one acre about ANY easement for egress and ingress located along its north line.
At least three times a mortgage was taken out on this one acre and no one caught the fact that that there is a twenty five foot easement for egress and ingress.

If you need and are looking for help , hire a competent, licensed Alabama Land Surveyor who is willing to give you and your surveying needs the hands on, personal care required, call me, Glen Tanner @ Glen Tanner Land Surveying, I 've been surveying in Montgomery, Autauga, Elmore and srrounding Counties for over 30 years. Let my years of experience work for you. Call us at 334-625-8175 or fill out our Contact Form

Why a Land Surveyor should write Property Descriptions | Alabama Land Surveyors

Posted on October 25, 2017 by AL_LandApril 5, 2019

Why Alabama Land Surveyors Should Write Boundary/Property Descriptions.

Glen Tanner, PLS

In Alabama an Attorney, an Alabama Land Surveyor and to my understanding, a Property Owner, can write Boundary/Property descriptions for Warranty Deeds. This is an example of a Property Owner doing his own property survey and warranty deed and Why Alabama Land Surveyors Should Write Boundary/Property Descriptions.

A man wanted to give his son a parcel of land to put a manufactured home on. The man and his son found out from the Manufactured Home Dealer, where his son was to purchase his manufactured home, everything needed or involved to purchase and setup the manufactured home, along with the amount of land needed.

After finding out what was required the man and his son proceeded to meet these requirements. The requirements were Warranty Deed to approximately one acre of land, a survey and the land to be marked so they could install septic system and set up Manufactured Home.

After the Manufactured Home had been set up, the Manufactured Home Dealer and the Mortgage Company were requiring a new map of survey showing the location of the manufactured home. The Manufactured Home Dealer called me stating they had a copy of an old survey , but needed one showing the manufactured home. After receiving a copy of the deed from the Manufactured Home Dealer, I went to the County Judge Of Probate Office got a copy of the recorded Warranty Deed . The following was four pages recorded at the Judge Of Probate Office.( NAMES, RECORDING INFORMATION REMOVED FROM DEEDS).

Recorded was a survey, but not a survey by an Alabama Land Surveyor. The worst thing is that the Probate Office recorded it and the Manufactured Home Dealer , Mortgage Company, and Title Company accepted it. The Mortgage Company, and Title Company had to be apart of this transaction, the borrowing and lending of money for land and a manufactured home was involved.

I went to the County Engineer’s office next and got a copy of the right-of-way. Next is a copy of a County Right-Of-Way Map. County never acquired right-of-way shown on map.

Notice any thing familiar?

It took me a couple of times looking, before I realized that the recorded survey was the same as the right-of-way map, except that the County’s map doesn’t show the lot found on the survey of the recorded deed. After doing my field work, it was more than obvious what had happen. One thing I can tell you that didn’t happen is: “ What didn’t happen is a Land Surveyor didn’t set the Original Monuments, a Land Surveyor wasn’t the Original Surveyor, it’s legal description wasn’t prepared by an Alabama Land Surveyor, but everyone involved in the buying and selling of the manufactured home and setup didn’t worry about this. “

What would have happen if it was a Cash deal and no NEW Survey had been required?

This is a copy of a portion of final survey made on the Property and why an Alabama Land Surveyor should write Legal/Boundary Descriptions after performing a survey. No Property Owner, nor an Attorney, should write a legal description without a New or Updated Map Of Survey with a Legal/Boundary description by an Alabama Land Surveyor.

Is the Warranty Deed any good ?

Is the Title clear and free?

Who is the Original Land Surveyor, the man and his son?

What about the Original irons ?

When you are buying property, as the new Property Owner, to insure what your getting, to help guarenteeTitle and the proper location of property and property corners, always get a New and updated survey by an Alabama Land Surveyor.

Glen Tanner, PLS–All Copyrights Reserved

If you need and are looking for help , hire a competent, licensed Alabama Land Surveyor who is willing to give you and your surveying needs the hands on, personal care required, call me, Glen Tanner @ Glen Tanner Land Surveying, I 've been surveying in Montgomery, Autauga, Elmore and srrounding Counties for over 30 years. Let my years of experience work for you. Call us at 334-625-8175 or fill out our Contact Form.

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