Lot line marker

[Madelaine Amee]

I need to find my lot line marker and I am thinking someone with a metal detector would be able to do this. Does anyone have an idea to help me. Thanks.

[DAVES]

I need to find my lot line marker and I am thinking someone with a metal detector would be able to do this. Does anyone have an idea to help me. Thanks.

Perhaps, an easy solution, we have a survey we got it with the purchase of our home.
You can purchase a copy at minimal cost.

[Kenswing]

I need to find my lot line marker and I am thinking someone with a metal detector would be able to do this. Does anyone have an idea to help me. Thanks.
If the survey rod isn't buried too deep you can find it with a magnet. We just moved in so ours wasn't yet buried too deep. I used a stud finder to locate ours. Of course a metal detector is much easier.

[Madelaine Amee]

Thanks for the helpful information. We have a very strong magnet, but has not helped. So stud finder is next, then we will do the survey. :)

[Donegalkid]

If the survey rod isn't buried too deep you can find it with a magnet. We just moved in so ours wasn't yet buried too deep. I used a stud finder to locate ours. Of course a metal detector is much easier.

We live north of 466 — Marion County — up by Mulberry Grove. Does anybody know whether the developer put in 4 metal rods for the corners of the lots as a standard practice? My experience is the rods often get pounded into the ground over time and disappear. Alternatively, I’ve seen markers placed and originally driven into the ground below surface level. It’s pretty apparent the property lines around our yard ard and I’m just wondering what the original system might have been.

[DonH57]

Thanks for the helpful information. We have a very strong magnet, but has not helped. So stud finder is next, then we will do the survey. :)

A copy of your lot survey plan should be in your closing documents. I had to dig thru ours to find it because it was a single page.

[Kenswing]

Thanks for the helpful information. We have a very strong magnet, but has not helped. So stud finder is next, then we will do the survey. :)Actually the strong magnet I used was in the stud finder.

[villagetinker]

There is a metal detector club, and as I recall they can help doing this.

[vintageogauge]

If you don't have to be 100% accurate the two front corner irrigation heads are pretty close to your boundary, at least in Fenney they are.

[Madelaine Amee]

There is a metal detector club, and as I recall they can help doing this.

Village Tinker : This was the information I was hoping to get. I will see if I can find anyone from the club.

[CFrance]

Village Tinker : This was the information I was hoping to get. I will see if I can find anyone from the club.
Someone in a former post mentioned the metal detector club and gave a link to a list of clubs. I can barely read it because it's so small, but it looks like the contact is Larry Miller. I can't seem to make it any bigger. Looks like tvmdc.weebly.com
lamiller105@gmail.com


Larry Miller 608-444-1076 https://www.districtgov.org/images/clubslisting.pdf?b3x=1&ldstok=IrIQg1rWFCwsidCFl2Fw02Jd%2BmFs7%2BokqAwbhgF 4PekhXJmPnNG8e8R6dpmGXvwvcTecKSpaoD0%2FxbVhFiRSyQ% 3D%3D

[pqrstar]

Someone in a former post mentioned the metal detector club and gave a link to a list of clubs. I can barely read it because it's so small, but it looks like the contact is Larry Miller. I can't seem to make it any bigger. Looks like tvmdc.weebly.com
lamiller105@gmail.com


Larry Miller 608-444-1076 https://www.districtgov.org/images/clubslisting.pdf?b3x=1&ldstok=IrIQg1rWFCwsidCFl2Fw02Jd%2BmFs7%2BokqAwbhgF 4PekhXJmPnNG8e8R6dpmGXvwvcTecKSpaoD0%2FxbVhFiRSyQ% 3D%3D






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[thevillages2013]

Perhaps, an easy solution, we have a survey we got it with the purchase of our home.
You can purchase a copy at minimal cost.

Survey will only help if two pins are located

[dewilson58]

If you don't have to be 100% accurate the two front corner irrigation heads are pretty close to your boundary, at least in Fenney they are.

And North of the border too. Clean water in one side, dirty water the other side.

[Queenie504]

Call a Surveyor. There is no physical marker of your property line buried underground.

[RMarkland]

Call a Surveyor. There is no physical marker of your property line buried underground.

If you just want an approximate location, (within inches) check out where your and your neighbors sprinklers. Usually the lot line is between the two of them.

[Chellybean]

call a surveyor. There is no physical marker of your property line buried underground.

wrong !!!!!

[graciegirl]

General information on this subject I just dug up.

Survey Markers | Survey Rebar Caps (https://www.berntsen.com/Surveying/Survey-Markers)

[philoret]

Sumter County site plans for homes older than 10yrs, $50 from
Age Wave Solutions, 340 Heald Way Suite 212, Villages 32162
no website phone 352-391-9669

[villagetinker]

Call a Surveyor. There is no physical marker of your property line buried underground.

Sorry I believe you are wrong in our village, just south of 466a I have personally seen the markers when the house next door was sold. I took pictures with a ruler, so I know exactly where these (2) are if I need the info in the future.

[Jerry Leinsing]

Don't trust the sprinkler head locations; they are meaningless. Don't trust do it yourself metal detecting because I tried and there are so many false positives. The builders bury their trash everywhere. You are supposed to trust your plot plan but then again, the builder can get away with anything as long as it looks close.
Get a real surveyor to tell you where the lot corners are based in the Datum used for your street. Then make sure you see if everyone around you did or will conform to the rules when adding cement molded curbing, the stack wall builders and landscaping guys will tell you anything to get the job and don't contact the villages. That's why they can start in a couple of days. 8:)
If your neighbor's stuff is on your property, take a breath, evaluate how bad is the infraction, and if you can live with it in peace with the person, then let it go.
There are some places in our neighborhood where there is no room for the riding or even push mowers to get through. How did that happen?

[Quixote]

In 2007 we bought our first home, which had been built in 2004. The home inspection revealed poor water pressure in one sprinkler zone. A helpful customer service rep looked at the water bills and said, 'Holy cow!' What did that mean? The property should have used about 4,000 gallons of irrigation water a month—and it was using around 30,000! She also told me that the irrigation water bill was astronomical from day 1. A trust had been paying all the property bills for the very elderly couple we were buying from, so no one realized there was a problem.

When I started asking about property lines, I was met with 'rolling on the floor laughing'.... That was no help. I had visions of the entire front lawn being torn up looking for a leak, and worse, the shortest route from the distribution box to the zone went under the driveway—what a thought!

Eventually I was able to track down the company that had installed the irrigation systems in that area. A manager came and stood in the street in front of the house looking at the property. His first assurance was that they NEVER run the lines under the driveway, even if it's four times longer to go around the entire house. Whew!

He stared for a couple of minutes, grabbed a shovel from his truck, and dug up TWO spadefuls of soil, reached into the ground, and pulled up an irrigation line that simply ended underground, meaning the water ran like a hose. It had NEVER had a sprinkler on it! He installed a sprinkler, turned on the system, returned to the road, and stared some more.

He then went back to the same spot and dug up ONE more spadeful adjacent to the first hole, again reached into the ground, and pulled up another sprinkler line which did have a sprinkler head on it; it had just spent the preceding three years buried! He pulled the sprinkler up and set it level to the lawn, explaining to me that this second sprinkler was for the area immediately around the sprinkler, whereas the first one was an oscillating sprinkler doing one large segment of the lawn. Now the pressure was correct, and the water consumption dropped to what it should have been.

The man explained to me that when these systems are installed, it's done by eye; they don't work from a survey, and he wasn't even sure there was an accurate survey showing on the property itself. From what he had said, I was left with the impression that properties just flow into each other, that it's all approximate, and that finding an exact lot line would be difficult to impossible.

We considered this a builder's defect, authenticated by the very company that had installed the system. The Developer saw it as yet another thing to roll on the floor laughing. Their position was 'It went through your meter, you pay for it.' For us it was a nominal amount; we felt bad for the elderly folks whose trust had been paying that astronomical bill for three years!