Joshua Putnam wrote:
In article om,
says...
You were certainly entitled to the survey before the closing. You most
likely are the one that paid for it, didn't you?
Common practice varies dramatically from state to state. There are
states where a buyer will usually get a survey before closing as a
matter of course, and states where getting survey for a standard home
purchase is almost unheard-of.
Even if a survey is not routinely given out before closing, you could
ask for it. Someone has to have the survey discription of the property
so that the deed can be correctly recorded. Where did the one come
from that showed that the property was smaller?
Best I can tell, our property was last officially surveyed when the
plat was recorded about a hundred years ago, no recorded surveys
since then, though there have been recorded surveys of two out of
three neighboring properties in the past hundred years.
This doesn;t make any sense. You state this property was a 7000 ft
lot, part of a sub division. It's hard to believe the 7000 foot lot in
a sub divsion, along with the necessary roads, easements, etc were all
created with the last survey being 100 years ago.