You should hire a Licensed Land Surveyor to find your property pins.
If you live in a Platted Subdivision, your property pins are likely a rebar and plastic cap that would have been set when your Subdivision was Platted. If you don’t live in a Platted Subdivision then your property was probably “Deeded” out of a bigger Parcel and the Pins may not have ever been set. Either way it is not uncommon for the Pins to be lost to things like grading activities, fence building activities, and landscaping.
You can search for your pins with a metal detector and your phone. The county assessors GIS systems are utilized in Apps like onX. Your phone’s GPS will get you within 10 feet or better. Take note that Survey accuracy is in the magnitude of about a tenth or two of a foot (1 or 2 inches). If you find a rebar in that 10-foot search radius you still don’t know if it’s your property corner (Pin).
What else could it be? It could be a rebar marking a point of curve in the right-of-way, a survey control point, a grounding rod, a random rebar to hold up a dilapidated fence, a random rebar to stake a tree, or something that was put in the ground to trick the inspector in which case you likely have an encroachment and/or clouded title.
You should hire a Licensed Land Surveyor to find your property corners because a surveyor has the equipment, experience, and authority to locate your correct property corners, set any missing corners, and file a Record of Survey with the County.
A boundary survey is a type of land survey that determines the exact location of property lines and corners of a piece of land.
With a Topo survey we are mapping the surface of the site, including all the existing improvements and utilities. A Topo is typically paired with a boundary Survey and is used as the base for a Design project or proposed improvements.
The cost of the Survey is largely dependent on how much time we think it will take to complete the project, the incurred risk and liability of the project, and the difficulty of the Boundary.
The time involved to complete the project is an estimation based on preliminary research, experience, and even location in some cases.
Most Surveys require a Stamped and signed document of some sort. These documents are typically filed with the county recorder and are on file forever. In some cases we are writing a Legal Description that becomes a Deed.
There is no set price, all the projects have their own challenges. Currently, a couple thousand dollars is the ballpark figure for a property boundary survey in the Boise area of Idaho.
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