Lotable field guide
Land Surveys, Title, Easements, and Property Boundaries
Parcel maps are research tools, but a closing decision relies on recorded title evidence and the right survey for the project.
Choose the right survey
A boundary survey locates ownership lines; topographic or ALTA/NSPS work may add elevation, access, easements, and improvements.
Read the title commitment
Review the legal description, ownership, exceptions, easements, restrictions, liens, and access rights.
Compare records to the ground
Resolve gaps, overlaps, encroachments, unrecorded roads, and discrepancies among the map, deed, plat, title, and survey.
Preserve the evidence
Keep final surveys, title documents, recorded instruments, findings, and dates together.