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No Land Surveyor needed?!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 1089349001

must be different in AZ

There is no need to do anything according to Hoyle, that's just rules for cards games.

Real Estate expert LMAO.
My wife was in RE here, I was amazed at the answers to property questions on the exam - such as turning a lot and block desc into a metes and bounds.
Even more was the little they know about boundaries and lot line info. Most of them would never think of using a tract map. Like the video they rely on the assessors map at the back of the title report.

Breaking news! Hold your fire!
NSPS
Some of our readers may not be aware of an issue that recently arose in reaction to a question posed to a local Arizona newspaper by a landowner who was in a dispute with a neighbor over some landscaping. The newspaper ran a video clip of an interview in which listeners were told they could establish their own property lines using data from the Maricopa County Assessor's Office or they could hire an assessor to mark their property lines, in either case avoiding the expense of hiring a professional surveyor. To say the least, surveyors were upset, and apparently the reaction from the surveying community has been overwhelming, and widespread.

President Kent Groh of the Arizona Land Surveyors Association's Central Chapter has told NSPS News & Views that he has contacted the newspaper reporter who initiated the video and offered to help set things straight. Kent says the reporter is "more than willing to make it right." She is going to post a follow-up video retracting/correcting her statements and is proposing to write an "Ask the Surveyor" type column in the Real Estate section of the newspaper, creating a great opportunity for some positive exposure for the surveying profession.

As important, though, she asked that the letter writing campaign stop, as some of them she has received have taken this to a personal level. Kent urges his fellow surveyors to do this so the reporter's editors won't become "unwilling to work with us."

Let's not miss an opportunity to turn something negative into something positive. So please, HOLD YOUR FIRE!

Unfortunate to hear that some messages were personal in nature. Hopefully that was the minority.

I did send an email as soon as I saw this, glad to hear that it had some effect.