You buy a home with a cozy back yard. You decide to put up a tall wooden fence for privacy. You hire a contractor, buy the materials and dig the post holes. Two weeks later, your neighbor hands you a letter from an attorney. Your new fence stands six inches over their lot line. Now you have to tear down the fence, pay legal fees and rebuild on your own land. This nightmare scenario happens every week across local city neighborhoods and surrounding suburbs. Older residential areas feature narrow property lots with barely enough space between brick bungalows to walk through. When physical space is tight, guessing where your land ends is a risky gamble. That is where a Boundary Survey comes into play. A Boundary Survey is an official measurement and legal mapping of your property lines. A state licensed land surveyor visits your property, locates historical land markers and calculates the exact footprint of your lot. The process gives you a stamped survey drawing and physical markers in ...
You just planned the perfect new fence. You bought the expensive wood. You even scheduled the installer. But you still haven’t found a local surveyor. Now you’re thinking, “Do I really need one? I’m pretty sure I know where the line is.” Honestly, you probably don’t. Property lines are almost never where you think they are. People guess. They guess based on old trees, retaining walls, or "the way it's always been." In a tight, established area like Arlington, those guesses are dangerous. A professional Land Surveyor provides something better: facts. Fences aren't the only issue. Are you planning an addition? A new garage? Even a fancy new patio? If you build your project even six inches over your neighbor’s property line, you might have to tear it down. That’s a costly, stressful headache. As a surveyor, I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen people assume their line was at the edge of the sidewalk it almost never is. I’ve seen fences built that started decades-long neighborhoo...