Services

Locally owned and operated in the heart of the Ozarks, Houseman Land Survey is Licensed in Missouri and Arkansas and has an experienced staff of Land Surveyors, to provide our customer a variety of professional land surveying services, from a single lot line adjustment to a major subdivision development, large and small municipalities, some of our services include:

Subdivisions
Condominium Surveys
Boundary Surveys
GPS Control, Mapping and Layout
Topographic Mapping and Land Design
Commercial and Residential Construction Layout
GIS Mapping and Data Collection
ALTA/ACSM Surveys
FEMA Flood Elevation Certificates

Land Surveying

There are many reasons to get a land survey. Here are some of the most common reasons.

Before you sell Buying a new House Legal access to your property Prior to construction Encroachments

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Before you sell

Providing your realtor with a current survey will definitely improve your chances for a quick, trouble-free transaction. Often, buyers make offers contingent on a survey. This not only adds time to the situation but if any problems arise as a result of the survey, you may lose a good, qualified buyer. Knowing the accurate locations of the property boundaries will also make for a much better presentation by your agent when showing the property.

02

Legal access to your property

Legal road access is another area that often arises during a real estate transfer. Our area is integrated with all types of road corridors going in and out of rural parcels. These roads often cross adjoining parcels and may or may not have a legal easement to do so. Easements, when written properly, identify centerline location, width, grantor, grantee, transfer rights, and uses. Attorneys and/or title companies will take a very close look at this when interpreting marketability of title.

03

Buying a new house

Have you ever moved into a house that had a fence already up? Did you assume that the fence was your property line? If so, you may be in error unless you've had a professional land surveyor come out to confirm.

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Prior to construction

The high costs of construction materials and installing septic systems should be reason enough to get a survey before beginning a project. A survey assures you that your new improvements are being built within your property boundaries. Be sure that your structure is in compliance to local government-required building setbacks. Do not depend on your building contractor to determine your building location in relation to your lot lines unless you are very sure where they are. Contractors are not surveyors!

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Encroachments

As people build, remodel and expand, the possibilities of building on your neighbor's property of your neighbor building on your increases. If you suspect the location of your adjoiner's improvements, there is only one way to prove it: get a survey. Suspicion carries no weight in land boundary disputes. A certified survey showing the lactations of the trespass in relation to the boundary is the first step toward resolution.

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