Well, you would just know I know how to find the pins. LOL! I never met a survey marker I couldn't find!

There is a property I have listed that has an OLD OLD survey marker from a hundred years ago. It's the most fascinating thing! Huge wood stake with metal plate on it . . . and carved on one side (the wood side). It's on a mining claim. It's really neat.

My next door neighbor is too stupid to know where the property line ends and too rude to clean up the mess left behind on my property.

You can pick a great neighborhood but you can't pick your neighbor.

You can but you need either a water witch or a psychic.  LOL

We learn straight out of the gate in this business not to assume anything. It make sense that your neighbor will not mow any more than what is his so that is a pretty good indicator of property lines. But the house we own, our mailbox sits on the neighbors property 2 feet over from the West side of our driveway and I found out that our line is only to the West side of the driveway.

So my husband goes and tells the neighbor because he wants to plant trees in that little 2 ft area. The neighbor, who is a bonified idiot decides no we can't plant trees there because if a limb falls on his car blar blar blar. He just found out he owned it, never mowed it but now is taking control. Good thing is he moved. The new guys mows only with a full moon I guess, so we mow it and act like its ours. Haven't told the new neighbor, I figured that was his problem. We planted trees to shade our house. Now I told you, I am going to have to kill you. lol

I must say, if I had been the buyer's agent or sellers agent on my neighbors house, I would have told him what I knew, but since I wasn't in that loop, didn't. Still haven't, my husband planted trees. Ya ha ha!

Septics are a big issue here.  On a sale last year, I was the BA and we determined that the neighbor's tank had been installed over the property line.  Thankfully, my Buyer was not a stickler and we were able to get through it.

My own septic which was installed 40 years ago was over the line by about 6 inches to the back woods which happens to be owned by the County.  No one ever realized it because the builder had cleared the lot a full 20 feet back from the property line.  That land can never be used but the Board of Health wasn't going for it.  Had to be moved.