What do property markers look like

Read on to learn how to walk the line—and ensure that your house and landscaping stay on your side of it. Examine the lines that are cut in the sidewalk in front of your house. Often, the contractor who poured the sidewalk started and stopped on the property lines, so those cut lines may coincide with the edges of your property. Streetlights, too, are often placed on property lines.

The zoning department is the municipal office that records plats: the maps, drawn to scale, that show land division. Unless your home was built more than a hundred years ago, you can probably obtain a copy of your block and lot plat for a minimal fee. This will give you the exact dimensions of your lot—in other words, the property you legally own—in relationship to other lots on your block. When the surveyors were laying out the original plat, they determined a starting point for all the lots on your block.

It is often the center point of a side street. With a long measuring tape, follow the plat as you would a treasure map, measuring your physical property as you go. Your measurements should correspond with the ones on the plat.

Survey pins are thin iron bars, two to three feet long and sometimes capped with plastic, which the original survey crew inserted on the property lines. If you have access to a metal detector, move the device over the ground along the sidewalk to the curb to locate the survey pin. The wood markers and pin flags that are commonly seen are not the property corner themselves.

They are witness items to help you find the property corner that is located flush with the ground. So if the little boys next door pull the wood stakes to have a sword fight, all is not lost. Information provided should not be considered legal advice and all buyers, agents and title companies should consult their attorneys for legal advice. Now my new neighbor I use that word loosely says it all his property and is giving me all sorts of problems.

I was sure the people I bought my home from told me that the grass strip between our driveways was equally divided between us. What do I do. I love my home. Thank you for reaching out to us and commenting on our blog.

We would like to discuss this with you in more detail. Please email us at inbox cardinalsurveying. Thanks so much, Will with Cardinal Surveying. I came home from work and found that my property had been surveyed. All 4 corners and ribbons nailed into the ground. No one asked permission to be on my land and they left no card or identification at all.

I live in South Mississippi. Why would some one do this? HI Roger, I can not say for sure, but a few of the reasons that I can think of are, they surveyed the property around yours and marked you corners in the process, or if you have your property sale it could have been ordered by the new buyer. We currently service the St. Louis and St. Best of luck!

Will with Cardinal Surveying. Look up the PLS number on the corner monument cap to figure out who the surveyor was then contact their office to figure out why your property was surveyed. In Florida are concrete markers accurate. A surveyer marked my boundaries using the concrete markers.

It is difficult to advise you for a few reasons. First, every state has different laws; our area of expertise is in Missouri state law. We would suggest that you search Professional Land Surveyor in your community and see if they can advise you.

Hello, I live in Albany NY. Knowing how to find property lines are can be extremely useful for your building projects. Whether you are building a new home or simply installing a new landscape bed, knowing the exact location of your property corners is a must to prevent issues with neighbors.

So, how can you find them without going to the expense and hassle of calling a surveyor or engineer? Want to know how to find property lines?

Find your property corners. Most land developers and home builders mark property corners at some point during the development of a piece of land. Many municipalities require builders to relocate the property corners at the time of final inspection. Typically, the corners are marked with a foot long piece of steel rebar rebar comes in different diameters and lengths and is used to reinforce concrete. Why is this done? These steel property corners or property pins as they are sometimes called are installed so they can be found in the future with a metal detector after final grading and landscaping covers them up.